Mazin is one of the leading experts in the practice of Chinese Herbal medicine in the West, with particular expertise in dermatology, allergic and auto-immune diseases.

Over the past 30 years he has taught his successful and innovative approach to clinical practice to many thousands of students worldwide.

Originally brought up & educated in the Middle East and later the UK, he began his studies in acupuncture as well as modern & classical Chinese in 1979.

From 1983 onwards he studied in Nanjing, Taiwan and Shanghai, specialising in Herbal Medicine.

His thorough grasp of the Chinese language earned him the first Sino-British scholarship to study Internal medicine at the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine alongside Chinese students, where he graduated as Doctor of Chinese Medicine in 1987.

On his return to the UK he founded the Avicenna Centre of Chinese Medicine, where he has been in practice for the last 30 years. He runs his own traditional herbal dispensary and has developed the Avicenna range of topical products and skin creams available for practitioners to use as supportive treatment in net the of skin disease (www.dermatology-m.co.uk).

He lectures at postgraduate level and at conferences worldwide, and teaches his treatment protocols in a 15-day Diploma course in Chinese Medicine Dermatology (mazin-al-khafaji.com). Successful participants become members of the worldwide Register of Chinese Medicine Dermatologists.

He is co-author of the international textbook “A Manual of Acupuncture”, and is working on his long-awaited book on the treatment of dermatological conditions. Great Britain