Biography
Giovanni Maciocia
Giovanni Maciocia, whose Chinese name Ma Wan Li means “horse of ten-thousand miles”, has been teaching acupuncture and Chinese medicine internationally since
1974 and is one of the most highly respected practitioners of acupuncture and
Chinese herbal medicine in Europe.
Originally from a medical family in Italy, he trained in England at the International College of Oriental medicine graduating in acupuncture. He attended postgraduate acupuncture courses in China at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese
Medicine where he gained both valuable knowledge and clinical experience. In 1996, Giovanni Maciocia was appointed Visiting Professor of the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a foremost teaching institution in China.
Because Giovanni reads Chinese, he has unique access to both old as well as modern Chinese medicine textbooks. While firmly rooted in traditional Chinese medicine, he innovatively adapts Eastern theories to Western conditions including the aetiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of M.E. (Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome) a new disease, not documented in Chinese literature.
Giovanni has also studied Western herbalism and graduated from the National
Institute of Medical Herbalists as well as having received Chinese herbal medicine instruction by Dr. Ted Kaptchuk in England.
He has been published in a Chinese medical journal, an honour rarely bestowed on foreign writers in China and has authored many books including Tongue Diagnosis
in Chinese Medicine, The Foundations of Chinese Medicine, The Practice of Chinese Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Chinese Medicine, Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine and The Channels of Acupuncture which have become textbooks for all
major acupuncture colleges in the world.
Giovanni has been practicing Tai Ji Chuan, Ba Gua and Xing Yi and currently lives and
works in Santa Barbara, California.
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