Traditional Chinese Health Secrets: The Essential Guide to Harmonious Living

By Xu Xiangcai

Book Overview

Discover and Use the Wisdom of the Sages

There's an old Chinese proverb which states, "Optimism will help you forget sorrow." It is widely believed that an optimistic, stable mood and mental balance calms the body's vital energies and spirit, aiding in the circulation of blood and Qi, thus improving health.

Throughout China's long history, ancient medical texts provided valuable advice on the subject of health: physical, emotional and spiritual. Isn't it time you made use of this wisdom of the sages in your everyday life?

Now you can with this user-friendly guide (a re-edited edition originally published by a university press in China), to maintaining your health through Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Learn to lead a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life - not only for yourself, but for your entire family. Traditional Chinese Health Secrets can show you the way.

Includes Easy-to-Follow Remedies and Herbal Recipes for General Health, and Healing Specific Ailments and Injuries.

Add Years to your Life and Expand your Mental and Physical Capabilities.

Learn to Apply Yin/Yang, Five Flavors and Six Sensations Theory to your Diet.

Simple to Practice and Easy to Learn

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886969892
• ISBN13: 9781886969896
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Traditional Chinese Health Secrets

This book is a follow up in the serie of TCM by Xu Xiangcai.Each topic is carefully designed so that the reader young or old can be excited by the TCM point of view.This particular book deals with the daily applications of TCM.The reader will be pleasantly surprised to discover a multitude of clues that seem at first insignificant but which put together become a road map for personal healthcare.The author presents to us in a bird's eye view,practical applications of the teachings of the former masters of chinese medicine.How to recover from illness and how to maintain our health are the central and the crucial aspects in this book.The means suggested here are so simple and easy that one is amazed to discover those ancient secrets that are revealed through these gems of informations.One learns among other things,how to manage one's life through physical and mental healthcare.Also included are ways to prepare a daily regimen consisting in tonic herbs,liquors,soft extracts,and more.Subjects like personal hygiene,exercices,sleeptime,diet are scrupulously discribed.I truely enjoyed reading this book,and I highly recommend it.