tiles and Chinese medicine

The Traditional Chinese Medicine Area

We have dedicated a specific practitioner space for the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Specifically designed rooms feature beautiful rosewood-style shelving, cabinets and special drawers which store Chinese medicinal herbs.

The waiting area for the Chinese Medicine rooms is a self-enclosed glass atrium. This was added on as an extension to the passage way and captures the beautiful warming northern light. Waiting in this space will be a pleasure - warm and open with a gorgeous view to a Chinese-inspired garden to the outside and a light atrium garden inside.

Other features include , these hand selected Chinese tiles and some artworks.
taken from the following link some info on the chinese dragon symbol used in the tiles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon

Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore, with mythic counterparts among Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Turkic dragons. In Chinese art, dragons are typically portrayed as long, scaled, serpentine creatures with four legs. In contrast to European dragons that are considered evil, Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, and floods. In yin and yang terminology, a dragon is yang (male) and complements a yin (female) fenghuang "Chinese phoenix".

The dragon is sometimes used in the West as a national emblem of China. However, this usage within both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan as the symbol of nation is not common. Instead, it's generally used as the symbol of culture.

Historically, the dragon was the symbol of the Emperor of China. In the Zhou Dynasty, the 5-clawed dragon was assigned to the Son of Heaven, the 4-clawed dragon to the Zhuhou (seigneur), and the 3-clawed dragon to the Daifu. In the Qing Dynasty, the 5-clawed dragon was assigned to represent the Emperor while the 4-clawed and 3-clawed dragons were assigned to the commoners.

Many Chinese people often use the term "Descendants of the Dragon" (龍的傳人) as a sign of ethnic identity, as part of a trend started in the 1970s when different Asian nationalities were looking for animal symbols for representations.^[1] The wolf was used among the Mongols, the monkey among Tibetans.^[1]

In Chinese culture today, it is mostly used for decorative purposes. It is a taboo to disfigure a depiction of a dragon; for example, an advertisement campaign commissioned by Nike, which featured the American basketball player LeBron James slaying a dragon (as well as beating up an old Kung Fu master), was immediately banned by the Chinese government after public outcry over disrespect.^[4]

In Chinese daily language, excellent and outstanding people are compared to the dragon while incapable people with no achievements are compared with other, disesteemed creatures, such as the worm. A number of Chinese proverbs and idioms feature references to the dragon, for example: "Hoping one's son will become a dragon" (望子成龍, i.e. be as successful and powerful as a dragon).