What inspires a German scholar to devote 40 years to studying China's Menghe Medical School? From academic research to clinical practice, how has he come to understand TCM?This episode invites you to step into Volker Scheid's “Living Garden.”

The clinical research project on Huangkui Capsules is the only international TCM cooperation project approved by the French government, made possible in part by French nephrologist Isabelle. A TCM book her father bought when she was a child sparked her interest in Chinese medicine, and she has devoted her life to bridging Chinese and Western medicine.

He is the world's first foreign national to earn a PhD in TCM. He came from Mali to China forty years ago, studying and practicing TCM ever since. He took it into the mountains — and now he's bringing it back to Africa.

She was born in a South Korean village between the sea and the mountains — yet she chose to stay in Shanghai, giving thirty-three years of her life to Chinese medicine. What answers did she find on the other side of those mountains?

She is a Western-trained ophthalmologist, yet migraines have plagued her for over thirty years. She has tried everything — but nothing worked. Now, she travels from Romania to Malta searching for a new answer.