Bio

Yang-chu Higgins came to Chinese medicine after studying classical Chinese as a master's student at the University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies.

He lived in Beijing for over two years in the early 90s, first as a student of Chinese and teacher of English and later as a gratuate researcher of ethnology.

Yang-chu was named by his African-American father for an ancient Chinese philosopher (325-384 b.c.e.) whose appropriated ideas probably reached their apex in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 c.e.). Of a Catholic mother who practiced and taught Transcendental Meditation since he was three, Yang-chu has been raised in the horribly multi-cultural, relativist, and affirmative action reality of post-modern America.

While a student of Chinese medicine, he volunteered and worked at Santa Monica's primier Chinese apothecary Herb King for three years. Yang-chu shares his love of Chinese Meridian Therapies on his blog Chinese Meridian Theory.