Bisong Guo
May 21st, 2008 by admin
Dr. Bisong Guo has treated more than ten thousand patients over the last twenty-five years, using Qigong, acupuncture and herbal remedies to treat a wide range of diseases. She has unique skills in the treatment of insomnia and tension syndromes, depression, M.F., arthritis, tumours, gynaecological and neurological conditions. Dr. Guo was born in China and graduated from Fuzhou Medical School in Western medicine. She then undertook specialist studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine before joining the staff of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese medicine in Beijing. For more than twenty years, she has intensively practiced Qigong, studying with Buddhist Qigong masters and Daoist monks living in remote mountainous regions of China. In 1989, she moved to England, where she has a busy practice in acupuncture and medical Qigong, as well as travelling and teaching widely in Europe. Qigong is a way of life through which the human body and mind can achieve oneness with the cosmos. With regular practice, physical and mental self-healing takes place, the creative potential of the individual is released and a limitless spiritual realization is attained. Read the rest of this entry »
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