The New Chinese Medicine Handbook is an essential guide to achieving total health in body, mind, and spirit. Explore the powerful benefits of Chinese medicine--particularly acupuncture, massage,nutrition, meditation and herbs--along with other Eastern healing arts. This practical guide totraditional Chinese medicine can help you take control of your healing process and maintain or restore wholeness and harmony in all aspects of your life.
Dr. Misha Ruth Cohen, an internationally-recognized practitioner, lecturer, leader and mentor in the field of Chinese medicine, offers comprehensive healing plans for a wide range of ailmentsincluding digestive problems, stress, anxiety, depression, cancer support, liver health, gynecological problems, PMS, fertilitymenopause, and more.
This comprehensive guidebook combines Chinese dietary guidelines with Western medicine, plus various other Eastern and Western healing therapies including:
-Basics of Chinese medicine
-Acupuncture and moxibustion
-Qi Gong: Chinese exercise and meditation
-Dietary practices
-Chinese herbal therapy
The New Chinese Medicine Handbook keeps esoteric information to "need to know" basics and shows you how to use Chinese medicine for different conditions from pain to infertility to various illnesses like cancer and diabetes. Take the first steps to natural healing remedies and a longer, healthier life.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"The New Chinese Medicine Handbook is an accessible guide to Chinese medicine. Misha Cohen provides a detailed roadmap to help you integrate the wisdom of this ancient medicine into your life and improve your health. I love this book!" - Jill Blakeway M.S. L.Ac. and Founder, The YinOva Center
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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Höhe: 251 mm
Breite: 202 mm
Dicke: 27 mm
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978-1-59233-693-7 (9781592336937)
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Misha Ruth Cohen, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist, has practiced traditional Asian medicine for the past 40 years. She is the Clinical Director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, Executive Director of the Misha Ruth Cohen Education Foundation, and Research Specialist of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, all in San Francisco. She is on the board of directors of the Society for Integrative Oncology and has authored seven books, for both professionals and for consumers, along with numerous professional journal and consumer magazine articles.
Misha is internationally renowned as a senior teacher, mentor, and leading expert in Chinese traditional medicine. She regularly trains Chinese medicine practitioners as well as medical doctors and practitioners in cancer support, gynecology, liver disease, and HIV. She frequently presents at international AIDS, hepatitis, and cancer symposiums, along with Chinese medicine and lay conferences.
She has collaborated with Western university and community-based research teams as a leading researcher in Chinese herbal medicine, acupressure, and acupuncture in the areas of HIV/AIDS, HPV, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and breast cancer.
Contents
Preface
Part One: A Context for Healing
Chapter One: New Chinese Medicine
Chapter Two: Understanding the Mind/Body/Spirit
Chapter Three: Roots of Disharmony
Chapter Four: Disharmony Revealed
Part Two: The Healing Process
Chapter Five: When You Visit a Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Chapter Six: You Are What You Eat
Chapter Seven: Rebuilding Essential Substances and Organ Systems
Chapter Eight: Dancing with Dang Gui and Friends
Chapter Nine: Metal and Fire
Chapter Ten: Qi Gong
Chapter Eleven: The Healing Touch
Part Three: Where the Paths Meet
Chapter Twelve: Introduction to New Chinese Medicine's Comprehensive Programs of Healing
Chapter Thirteen: Strengthening Organ Qi and Protective Qi
Chapter Fourteen: Calming the Shen
Chapter Fifteen: Harmonious Cycles
Chapter Sixteen: Supporting the Center
Chapter Seventeen: Fatty Liver
Chapter Eighteen: Cancer Support
Glossary
Appendix: How to Find Practitioners, Supplements and Herbs, and More
General Resources and References
Endnotes
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Index
