Mazin Al-Khafaji graduated as ‘Doctor of Chinese Medicine’ from the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1987 and has been in practice in the UK ever since. He is the founder member of the ‘Avicenna Centre for Chinese Medicine’ (www.avicenna.co.uk) based in the South of England, where he is in full time practice, specialising in the treatment of dermatological, allergic and autoimmune disease, as well as treating general conditions. He lectures widely on these subjects at post-graduate level throughout Europe, North America & Australia. He is the co-author of the acupuncture textbook ‘A Manual of Acupuncture’, runs a diploma course on dermatology in Chinese medicine in London and is currently compiling a book on the treatment of skin disease with Chinese herbal medicine.