Alchemy

All three sound good to me.
This is our medicine. The science and magic of the human body. The energetics and creative component of making medicine from herbs and natural elements, these are science in base, but magic in practice. The art of mapping the body in meridians and moving energy within those channels. The beauty of taking into consideration the whole picture, including the macrocosms and the microcosms of the universe. What a wonderful thing we get to study and practice. I am proud to be a alchemist with each of you.

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