I don't teach what I read.
I teach what I do every day.
My name is Michal Richter. I am a doctor. Every morning I walk into my clinic in Katowice, Poland, and treat twenty to thirty patients — exclusively with acupuncture. No pills, no shortcuts. Needles, pulse diagnosis, and 25 years of pattern recognition.
I graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice and completed my TCM education in China, the UK, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands — including a clinical internship at one of the top universities in China.
I trained under some of the most respected classical acupuncture masters, including Rani Ayal and Joan Duveen. From them — and from the Stems & Branches system, which I consider the foundation of individualized treatment — I learned how deep classical diagnosis can go.
And then I learned to question it. If something was written in the fifteenth century, that alone doesn't make it true. Old doesn't mean good. What matters is: does it work — and can you verify it? That one question rebuilt my entire practice.
Today my work is simple to describe. Precise pulse diagnosis. Carefully selected points — a few, not a few dozen. Minimal, targeted stimulation. And a result the patient can feel — verified before they leave the table. Adults and children alike.
Knowing something and teaching it are two different skills.
I learned this outside the clinic. I once took dance lessons from a champion — and after a month I was sure I had no rhythm at all. Then a small woman, nine months pregnant, taught me to dance. The skill was the same. The teaching wasn't.
I've been teaching practitioners since 2009 — acupuncturists, TCM practitioners, physiotherapists. My courses are short on purpose: clear, structured, and cut to the essentials, because my experience is your saved time. Everything I teach ends the same way — with a skill you can use on tomorrow's patient, and a way to verify it worked.
And I teach only the techniques I use on my own patients every day. Students can always tell.
"Knowledge you can't use in practice is just a ball and chain."
— a rule repeated in every course
The knowledge I use daily shouldn't stay locked
in one clinic in Poland.
If you treat patients with acupuncture, this is for you — whether you've been practicing for two years or twenty.
You're invited.