Claudine Mérer

Dr Claudine Mérer is a doctor of Medicine, graduated from the University of Paris Ouest (1979). She also is an acupuncturist (1984) and a phytotherapist (1994). She lived and practised abroad for thirty years: in the UK, Russia, the Middle East and the Far East.

During a stay in China from 2002 to 2006, she had the good fortune to meet Dr Li Xin, with whom she wrote this book. At the same time, in search of the experience and expression of Qi, she worked for three years with the great calligrapher Pr Yu Qi Long.

On her return from China, she worked for eight years at the Centre Prévention et Santé in Colombier (Switzerland) as an acupuncturist doctor and naturopath. She currently devotes her time to the organization of seminars and distance learning courses between China and France with the Tilia association, and to the teaching missions of ASF (Acupuncture Without Borders), of which she is president of the Swiss branch. She has taught in India, Iraqi Kurdistan and Ethiopia. She is a member of the Swiss acupuncture foundation LCC.