With its practical and immensely readable introduction to the nature and self-help uses of a key acupoint for each week of the year, this book is a gateway to the mysterious world of Chinese medical thought.
The author journeys through the seasons of the year, and the five elements that make up the Chinese ......
A guide to living the seasons in harmony, the Chinese wisdom tradition way, the book deeply explores the connections between the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual levels of human experience.
Here is a comprehensive and practical guide to using the Five Element model in your daily life in ways that can ......
Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know, that western medicine ignores?Dan Keown's highly accessible, witty, and original book shows ......
Supporting the Incarnating Soul's Development through Pregnancy orRebirthing
This Taoist approach to pregnancy provides practitioners with comprehensive theory whilst also offering guidance on the practical application of Taoist embryology in the modern world via suggestions on diet, lifestyle, acupuncture and herbal remedies.
Interpreting Laboratory Tests Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine
Translating Western biomedicine into Chinese medicine patterns and physiology, this seminal text guides readers in using lab tests alongside their traditional diagnostic tools. It allows practitioners to enhance their treatment plans whilst focussing on how pathophysiologic states develop in the body.
A clear and accessible two-part resource to learn the location and function of the acupuncture points. Part I of the book comprises a series of 27 charts covering the primary meridians plus the extraordinary meridians and the known extra points. These charts show the location of the meridians and acupuncture points within the body, while ......
The first book to fully explore the range of treatment options available for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome using Chinese Medicine. A must have for practitioners who wish to employ a creative and flexible integrative practice.
Recovery, renewal and transformation - a guide for practitioners
Acupuncture and Cancer Survivorship - Recovery, Renewal and Transformation is the first book to focus on the subject of using acupuncture in cancer survivorship. As a guide for practitioners it aims to help acupuncturists to: Understand the challenges faced by cancer survivors Relate their cancer experience to the principles of ......
Tackling mental-emotional health problems in young people from a Chinese medicine perspective, this book shows how a child's mental-emotional health is intrinsically connected with core elements of their everyday life. It suggest an approach to preventing and healing anxiety and depression that involves neither medication nor costs anything. ......