Prof. Volker Scheid PhD combines interdisciplinary academic research in the field of Chinese medicine with by now forty years of clinical practice. From 2004 to 2018 he was Director of the Eastmedicine research group at the University of Westminster, London, and Professor of East Asian Medicines. Since 2021 he is an affiliated scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He is the main author of Formulas & Strategies, 2nd edition (Eastland Press) and one of the most experienced practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine in Europe.