Find Harmony and Health the Ancient Chinese Way:

For centuries, the Chinese have tapped the five elemental forces of nature – wood, fire, earth, metal, and water- to strengthen their bodies and minds. Not superstition, but rather a discipline rooted in observation and experiment, the Chinese approach to health is finding increased acceptance in the Western world. Acupuncture, homeopathy, and holistic medicine are now widely practiced alternatives or adjuncts to the technological approaches of the West.

Now CHINESE MEDICINE FOR BEGINNERS, makes this time-tested tradition accessible to you.
Whether you are simply seeking the proper yin-yang balance in your own life or are a practitioner seeking alternative treatments for those in your eare, this book can show you the way.
Among the surprising revelations that your intuition and experience will confirm:

* Your gall bladder reflects your upbringing
* Your liver influences your disposition
* The way you breathe affects your personality
* You can strengthen your heart against stress
* Healthy sex balances healthy aggression

These insights and the others in this book will improve your health lf you let them.


Introduction:

In recent years, a notable change has occurred in the medical field. More and more people take the time to educate themselves about health: they pay attention to nutrition, they want to be physically fit, they want to feel at home in their bodies, and they try to understand what it is that makes them ill. People with a chronical illness especially prefer to be treated holistically, making use of such therapies as homeopathy, acupuncture, and the laying on of hands. Parallel to this development, the psychosomatic aspect of illness is again finding more and more resonance in the technically oriented medical field. One sign of this tuming point is a tendency to treat the individual as a whole being; body, mind, and soul are seen as an inseparable unit. This means that every physical illness denotes an underlying imbalance in the psyche or soul and must be treated accordingly.

This book was written from such an encompassing point of view-as a broad look at a world in which nature and humans are not separate, where philosophy and religion, psychology and medicine, and knowledge and wisdom go hand in hand-from a holistic understanding of people and our environment, health and disease, and body and soul.