
What to drink in autumn
About 2300 years ago, a clever chap (or more likely a collection of clever chaps) wrote down some brilliant healthy living advice in a Chinese medical treatise that you can still find in almost every acupuncture clinic around the world today. It is called the Huangdi Neijing. (That’s The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine in English. We’ll call it the Neijing for short.) One nifty piece of advice is about looking after yourself in autumn. The Neijing says that we should “ga