Steve Clavey studied classical Chinese language in Taiwan, and learned Chinese medicine in Taiwan and the PROC in the 70s and 80s. He has been practicing Chinese herbal medicine in Melbourne Australia for over 30 years. He is the author of Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the co-author (with Dan Bensky and Erich Stoeger) of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica 3rd Edition. Steve is also an editor of The Lantern, an international hard-copy journal of Chinese medicine, with three issues each year.