A cutout from the newspaper: Heze Daily from 23 May 2011. In the picture: Dr Paul Klin during his medical training in acupuncture & tuina ambulance with its chief – Dr. Gao Guan Hua. Heze Hospital of TCM, Dan Yang Rd. No1036, Heze, ShanDong Province, China.

Paul Klin MD PhD (Pharm.Sc.). General Practitioner in Bavaria. Born in 1974 in Wrocław (Poland), where he graduated from the Medical Academy in 2000. Afterwards he did a one-and-a-half-year postgraduate internship in Israel and Poland. He has been practising as a physician in Germany since 2002. He took his family medicine exam in Munich in 2010 and opened his first family medicine clinic in the Bavarian province (west-central Franconia) the following year. He is currently employed at a German GP practice and at a US military clinic located on a US Army base in Bavaria.

In 2015, he opened his doctoral thesis at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, at the Institute for the History of Medicine, under the scientific leadership of Dr Johannes Gottfried Mayer(†) – head of the research team „Klostermedizin” (Monastic Medicine). In 2019, this scientific collaboration was abruptly interrupted due to the death of Dr Johannes Mayer. The research results gained from this four-year collaboration were presented in a book publication written in German (s.pos 142. of the bibliography).

In 2019, the author of the project established contact with Mrs Professor Halina Ekiert, Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University (CMUJ) in Krakόw (Poland), and with Mrs Dr Agnieszka Rzepiela, Director of the Pharmacy Museum at the same university. These contacts resulted in the opening of a doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Pharmacy of CMUJ. The resulting doctoral thesis entitled: „The significance of Artemisia vulgaris L. (Mugwort) in the history of pharmacy and in current therapy” (in Polish) was defended in November 2023. On gathering information for the dissertation, the author travelled for six months through the countries of Central Asia and Russia in 2018. He published the results of his research in the German-language article „Auf der Suche nach Artemisia vulgaris L. Vom Iran bis Kamtschatka – ein Reisbericht” (‘In search of Artemisia vulgaris L. From Iran to Kamchatka – a travel report’) (s.pos 141. of the bibliography).

Dr Paul Klin is also a specialist in TCM – traditional Chinese medicine. His path of gathering qualifications in this field include, among others, three trips to China, where he spent six months and practised in three TCM hospitals. In addition, Dr Klin holds a diploma as an acupuncturist from the Bavarian Medical Chamber (BLÄK). He received his three-year training in TCM herbal medicines at the courses of Mr. Dr. Tadeusz Blaszczyk (†) – author of the 5-volume „I Heal with Chinese Herbs. Chinese Materia Medica” – the most comprehensive inventory of TCM herbal pharmaceutical raw materials that has been published outside of China. Dr Tadeusz Błaszczyk has always emphasised the role of the Polish scholar and missionary Father Michał Boym (1612-1659) in the study of Chinese medicine and its propagation in Europe.

The idea to create a website on the ’Artemisia vulgaris project’ was born towards the end of writing his doctoral dissertation and came out of author’s great desire to bring closer to the international audience both the subject of integrative medicine as well as the results of his scientific research. To achieve these goals the website had been enriched with a multimedia presentation and detailed tables.