How daily TCM techniques can boost your health – here are 5 easy ones to try, from a popular influencer

Katie Brindle has been promoting the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine for 20 years since a 10-minute massage cleared her long-standing shoulder pain

Her mission, she says, is to demystify a healing system of preventive self-care that’s been used for thousands of years

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Katie Brindle, a popular TCM influencer, says there is more to traditional Chinese medicine than gua sha, like using a bamboo wand. Photo: courtesy of Katie Brindle

Published: 7:15am, 20 May 2022

TikTok influencers claim gua sha is the latest viral beauty hack for glowing skin, but there is so much more to ancient Chinese health and beauty treatments.

That is the view of Katie Brindle, a UK-based traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner of 20 years who wrote Yang Sheng: The Art of Chinese Self-Healing.

Brindle graduated from the UK’s College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading in 2002 and trained with the founder of the Universal Healing Tao System, Mantak Chia. Now, she hopes to inspire a self-treatment method that seeks to address the cause of most modern-day illness: stress.

Brindle believes that almost everything, from bad skin and poor digestion to adrenal fatigue, menopausal symptoms, depression and anxiety, can be treated with TCM techniques.

“I want people to recognise that the answers to many of their health problems are here in Chinese medicine,” says Brindle over Zoom. Her mission, she says, is to demystify a healing system of preventive self-care that has been used by millions of people for thousands of years.

Its core theory is that in eliminating smaller health niggles, the body is able to stay in balance to stay healthy, rather than waiting until it becomes really unwell to treat the root problem.

How daily TCM techniques can boost your health – here are 5 easy ones to try, from a popular influencer

Katie Brindle has been promoting the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine for 20 years since a 10-minute massage cleared her long-standing shoulder pain Her mission, she says, is to demystify a healing system of preventive self-care that’s been used for thousands of years

Katie Brindle has been promoting the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine for 20 years since a 10-minute massage cleared her long-standing shoulder pain

Her mission, she says, is to demystify a healing system of preventive self-care that’s been used for thousands of years