This highly accessible book introduces the general audience to the theory and practice of a traditional health care system that has prevailed in China for thousands of years, offering a unique, integrated system of preventive health care that anyone can practice at home. Line art.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Complete!:
My acupuncturist Dr. Winston Cardwell uses this book as reference. He suggested it to me and I agree that it's a great tool to answer questions and find information I can hold in my hand instead of browsing the internet hour after hour. I love being able to highlight and make notes on the pages. Thanks Doc!
Owners manual for your body.:
This book gives you all the information you need to take care of your body naturally. It is very insightful to may illnesses and cures that are not common in every day life.
Review of The Complete Book of Chinese Health & Healing:
This is an EXCELLENT health guide! I can't express that enough! What I really like about it is it's written by an American with knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I've found that, often, when a book on TCM is written by Chinese, or Asian practitioners, it's hard to follow and they're not really accustomed to the way Americans eat or practice health, so you wind up not being able to "relate" to what they're talking about, or the terms they use are so esoteric, you can't follow what... more info
An eye opener to the Way through Taoist methods:
This book is nothing short of spectacular, and this is because it motivates to start doing some of what Daniel Reid. explains. Reid, a Westerner living in Asia since the 70's, comes with Western scientific explanations (where possible; modern science isn't yet developed enough to understand and acknowledge nature of some things) of why Taoists do things the way they do.
Books subtitle is "Guarding the three treasure" - and by that he means the body, energy and spirit, he touches all of them. After... more info
