is a sinologist, vice president of the International Society of Chinese medicine (Societas Medicinae Sinensis, SMS), chief editor of the journal Chinesische Medizin, and lecturer of Chinese Medicine at the Technical University Munich and at the Department of Asian Studies at the Ludwig MaximiliansUniversity, Munich. She has published widely in the field of Chinese Medicine, Yangsheng (Taiji, Qigong and dietetics) and Daoism. Germany