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This book, an authoritative text on musculoskeletal and physical medicine that integrates Eastern and Western approaches, covers every aspect of musculoskeletal medicine, starting with an in depth introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) principles as they relate to the subject. Author Alon Marcus surveys the science of pain from both modern biomedical and TCM perspectives, examines the foundations of integrative musculoskeletal medicine, explores biomedical and osteopathic clinical assessment, and outlines treatment options such as acupuncture, blood-letting, and meridian therapy. Other chapters analyze herbal medicine, integrative electrotherapeutics, manual therapy, and much more.
A combination of Oriental medicine, traditional biomedical orthopaedics, Western osteopathic therapy, and an updated Cyriax style of Orthopaedic medicine, the book presents precise methodology for the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.
This book is a laywoman's guide to using Chinese medicine to maintain breast health. In it, the author presents the Chinese medical theories about breast disease. Then based on these theories, the authors go on to explain how professional Chinese medicine diagnoses & treats breast complaints. Following this, the authors give the reader a number of low or no cost Chinese self-help techniques for a wide variety of breast problems. These include diet, exercise & deep relaxation, Chinese herbal patent medicines, Chinese aroma therapy, self-massage, magneto therapy, moxibustion & light & flower therapies. In addition, the author explains the Chinese medical view on beast cancer. She finishes up by presenting advice on & resources for finding a local professional Chinese medical practitioner as well as giving an annotated bibliography for learning more about Chinese medicine. A glossary of all technical Chinese medical terms makes this book even easier to read & use, & there is a good general index.
"Recently, the traditional Chinese diet has been proven scientifically to be healthier than the modern Western diet. This book explains the theory behind the traditional Chinese diet and how to apply two thousand years of Eastern dietary wisdom to our modern Western eating habits. Learn what Chinese medicine has to say about: Raw vs. cooked foods, Food & phlegm production, Sugar & dairy products, Candidiasis, Food allergies, Cholesterol, And more..." -- Back cover.
Safe, simple, low or no cost home therapies to prevent and heal potentially crippling conditions.
This book explains the Chinese theory on the cause of allergic conditions. It offers many low-or no-cost home therapies to prevent and heal this widespread disease, including self-massage, Chinese patent medicines, and herbal teas.
The author, Dr. Liu Zheng-cai, helps clarify what the specifically Daoist contributions to the practice of acupuncture actually are. Included in this book are numerous short biographies of Daoist physicians, detailed explanations on the clinical use of such chrono-acupuncture techniques as midday/midnight point selection and the magic turtle eight methods, moxibustion techniques for longevity and emergencies, and other secret Daoist acupuncture lore. 260 pages.
These eight families are the great-grandparents of the author. Yigal Moshe Rechtman was born in Jerusalem, Israel, August 30, 1967. He married Hara Elizabeth Person (b. 1964) in Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn, New York, August 19, 1990.
This book represents the state-of-the-art in the field through a unique collection of papers from the world's leading researchers in the area of computational modelling in behavioural neuroscience.