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I鈥檓 Doris, I鈥檓 German, and I鈥檓 over 50 - I don鈥檛 use concrete numbers anymore. I鈥檓 a TCM doctor and the founder of . I have been in Shanghai now close to 25 years. I have pictures of my family coming in 1995, pictures in front of the Pearl Tower with no other buildings around whatsoever.

My home is here. I鈥檓 not an expat anymore. For the first five years, you are still comparing. Now, there鈥檚 no comparing. You know, you have bad days in your home country as well. There are too many people who blame their misery on Shanghai and that鈥檚 absolutely not fair. This city is just amazing. Everything is possible, but you need to speak the language. If you cannot sing, don鈥檛 even try to study Chinese. You need to have a feeling for music. That鈥檚 a matter of fact.

People tell me they have been living here for many years and they know Shanghai in and out. Only if they speak Chinese. Shanghai people are different. If you cannot talk to the people, you don鈥檛 know the people. They have humor, they are alert, and they are very, very knowledgeable. They talk to you to learn from you. When they learn that I鈥檓 a TCM doctor, they go 鈥渨ow鈥� because it鈥檚 so hard to study, even for Chinese people. They admire the hardship that you went through to achieve something,



There is no TCM doctor who has never studied western medicine, because we need to identify severe diseases. When I came here, I wanted to learn massage, but then my friend enrolled me in a bachelor course of internal medicine: five years, all in Chinese. She didn鈥檛 tell me. For the first two years, I never thought that I could finish it; it was so hard. Even now, I don鈥檛 think that I know enough. Every day, there are new developments in the medical field. I am constantly reading medical newspapers. My job is never boring. Never. Every patient is a new challenge. My favorite thing is to find a solution.

A lot of patients do not understand TCM. It鈥檚 not necessary, though, because they also don鈥檛 understand Western medicine. They only need to trust the doctor. You wouldn鈥檛 ask a western doctor, why does he give aspirin when you have a headache, would you? So why would they ask me about the herbs I prescribe to treat their headache? I understand that because they have never been confronted with it before, but it鈥檚 about the trust that you build up with your doctor.

People need to understand that medical systems grow out of the philosophy of a country. It鈥檚 difficult for western people to believe in Chinese medicine because they don鈥檛 understand the philosophy. Chinese medicine has, for example, two vital substances that flow in our bodies: one is blood, as in western medicine, and the other one is qi. We only treat the qi. Qi is the life force, like in Star Wars 鈥� or Kung Fu Panda, when shifu talks about the energy. It鈥檚 the qi.

To keep the qi flowing, the only things the patient can do by themselves are eat healthy, control their weight, exercise regularly and sleep regularly. It鈥檚 not about giving them herbs to stay healthy, because western medicine also doesn鈥檛 give you medicine to stay healthy. Medicine is there to cure disease, not to maintain health.



Also, in Shanghai, the spring and the autumn are very short. The body needs time to adjust. People switch on the air conditioning too fast, and it鈥檚 like artificial weather. They make it too cold in summer and too hot in winter. The body needs to fight with the seasons a little by itself so it鈥檚 not good to put the air conditioning on too cold or too hot. It鈥檚 still better to use clothes to regulate.

This year, we have 15th anniversary. I didn鈥檛 even think about celebrating because I used to forget those dates. I nearly forgot my 10th anniversary with the company. You just don鈥檛 realize how time flies.