In the 1990s Alex Wu worked in Shanghai as a fund manager for a group of investors from Hong Kong. After years of heavy workload and high pressure, his health deteriorated and he faced a multitude of illnesses.
At that time he was fortunate to meet a very skillful Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner. With her help he was able to overcome his illnesses and regain his health in a matter of months. His speedy recovery sparked his interest in TCM and he began studying Chinese medicine. In doing so he compiled a summary of what he had learnt that became the first draft of this book.
He now has a health spa in Taipei where he puts TCM-related equipment that he has helped to design into practice – the Meridian Monitoring System and the Meridian Qi Treatment System, described in the Appendix: Technology and Traditional Chinese Medicine (page 119). The spa opened in late 2014 and provides diagnostics and massage treatments including the massage programme described in Chapter 6 and the related Youtube video.