Total Health the Chinese Way: An Essential Guide to Easing Pain, Reducing Stress, Treating Illness, and Restoring the Body through Traditional Chinese Medicine PDF
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Table of Contents Title Page Dedication Prologue Introduction Chapter 1 - Understand How Your Body Works The Five Power Centers Zhang and Fu: The Ultimate Power Centers Your Five Power Centers: A Unique Role The Heart: Your Supreme Ruler What the Heart Feels: Joy The Spleen: Ruler of Nutrition What the Spleen Feels: Worry A Spleen Patient’s Story: Geri The Lungs: Your Rhythmic Center What the Lungs Feel: Sadness The Kidneys: Your Body’s Power Supply What the Kidneys Feel: Fear A Kidney Patient’s Story: Mark The Liver: Your Commander What the Liver Feels: Anger Anger, Qi Stagnation, and Chronic Disease Releasing Emotion to Heal Ovarian Cysts: Susan Managing Your Emotions: Forgive and Forget the Past Understanding How Your Body Works Chapter 2 - Strengthen Your Defenses Yin and Yang Your Kingdom’s Defense System Why We Get Sick The External Causes of Illness: The Five Weather Devils The Internal Causes of Illness: The Five Emotions The Emotional Roots of Illness An Overpowering Joy Your Emotional Weather A Clash of Outer Climate, Inner Climate: Tracy Viruses and Pathogens The Miscellaneous Causes of Illness: Unforeseen Events Accidents to Insights: Brian Tuning in and Taking Charge Chapter 3 - Move and Breathe The Meridians: Your Highways of Qi Building Qi from the Inside Out Esther Ting’s Internal Organ and Meridian Exercises Part One - The Power Centers in Your Hands: Easy Relief for Tension, Insomnia, ... Part Two - The Power Centers in Your Feet: Maximize Your Energy, and Massage ... Part Three - The Power Centers in Your Head: Soothe Headaches, Increase ... Part Four - Strengthening the Meridians in Your Upper Body Part Five - Strengthening the Meridians in Your Lower Body Part Six - Creating Energy Through Breath Create a Consistent Practice The Importance of Touch Chapter 4 - Nourish and Fuel Healing with Food: How Much Is Enough? Healing with Food: Food as Fuel Healing with Food: How Powerful Is Your Engine? What Kind of Engine Do You Have? How Hot Does Your Engine Run? Healing with Food: Food and Food Temperatures Healing with Food: Mix and Match Putting It All Together The Art of Eating: Tuning In to Your Eating Environment Esther’s Eating Guidelines You Are What You Eat Chapter 5 - Relax and Center Between Heaven and Earth Cultivating Shen My Spiritual Journey Getting Started Managing the Pain of Fibromyalgia: Patty The Healing Power of Nature The Five Elements Treatment Using the Five Elements Connecting to the Elements in Nature The Healing Art of Feng Shui A Half Century in Nature: Paul and Margaret The Five Colors: The Art of Visualization A Color Meditation for Your Five Power Centers Other Calming and Soothing Techniques Qigong Emotional Freedom Technique EFT Meridian Sequence Inner Peace and Outer Peace Chapter 6 - Adopt a Positive Lifestyle Your Energy Bank Account Too Much Blood and Qi, or Too Little? Protecting Your Energy Assets Your Energy Bank Account: Maintaining Healthy Levels of Exercise Exercise Consistently and Make It Fun Exercise According to Your Energy Type: Coming Back from Illness and ... Exercise According to Your Energy Type: Taming Excess and Maintaining Normal ... Your Energy Bank Account: Creating Healthy Eating Habits Your Digestive Processing Plant Eating and Emotion Overeating and Undereating Sluggish Organs, Sluggish Digestion Liposuction and Diet Pills: A Chinese Perspective Losing Weight by Strengthening the Power Centers: Corina How to Create Healthy Eating Habits Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Sugar Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Salt Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Caffeine Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Chocolate Know Your Body, Know Yourself Your Energy Bank Account: Balancing Your Social Habits Balancing Your Social Habits: Alcohol Balancing Your Social Habits: Tobacco Balancing Your Social Habits: Drugs Prescription Drugs and Depression: Mary Balancing Your Social Habits: Sex Sex: Too Much or Too Little? Your Energy Bank Account: The Balance Between Work and Rest Simplify Your Life The Art of Balance Rebuilding an Energy Deficit: Marcia Too Much Rest Cutting Out the Extremes Chapter 7 - Maximize Your Energy Nature’s Clock Your Daily Yin and Yang Cycle Your Daily Body Clock The Rhythm of the Seasons Follow Nature’s Rhythms Chapter 8 - Clear Out the Blockages A Doctor’s Role: Considering the Whole A Doctor’s Role: Balancing Yin and Yang Tools of the Trade: Acupuncture What to Expect from Acupuncture Other Forms of Treatment Herbal Formulas Temperature and Direction of Herbs An Herbal Cure for Tuberculosis: Esther Acupuncturist vs. Herbalist How to Take Chinese Herbs, Teas, Pills, and Powders Patented Herbs: Pills and Capsules The Four Examinations First Examination: Looking Eyes Second Examination: Listening and Smelling Third Examination: Asking Fourth Examination: Touching Basic Pulse Types Diagnosis and Treatment From Diagnosis to Perfect Health: Lily Chinese Medicine and Chronic Disease You and Your Doctor Chapter 9 - Following Nature’s Phases The Four Phases of Life Good Health Creates a Lifetime of Opportunity Attracting the Life You Want Maximizing Your Jing, Qi, and Shen Finding Your Purpose Crossing the Bridge: Laura Celebrate Your Life Appendix 1: How to Find a Chinese Practitioner Appendix 2: Acupressure Points Glossary Further Reading Useful Addresses and Web Sites Acknowledgements Index Copyright Page TO ALL OUR READERS: May you have a life full of health, love, and longevity. Prologue “Lie still, Marianne. Relax.” I barely felt the gentle push as the needle entered my toe. “Good. Take a deep breath. Wonderful.” I nodded and steadied my breathing, eyes transfixed on a plastic statue of an odd little man perched on the bookcase. Naked and small in stature, he was covered head to toe in strange little red lines and black points. His lifeless eyes bored into me as the acupuncturist expertly maneuvered a row of needles up and down my body. “Close your eyes. Let go.” The doctor smiled. “I’ll be back in a few minutes.” She dimmed the lights and closed the door. As the darkness settled over me, I asked myself once again, How did I get here? How did I end up so far from the doctors I had always trusted? The whole thing began a few months earlier with a flu that felt like a lot of other flus. Fever. Lack of energy. Surely it would go away with some good nights’ rest. But in a few short days the fever had given way to worse symptoms: acute exhaustion, dehydration, and vertigo. Suddenly, every bone was throbbing, every joint was on fire. My skin felt as if I had belly flopped on a barrel cactus. Some days I lived in a floating mist, unable to complete the simplest task; other days, I couldn’t get out of bed at all. My situation had gone from miserable to desperate. Never could I have imagined being this sick. The mere brush of fabric, the faintest tickle of bedsheet against my skin was excruciating. Driving was nearly impossible, and finally even eating became difficult. In a matter of weeks, the vibrant rosy-cheeked woman in the mirror had transformed into a chalky white shell. And as my body deteriorated, so did my mental state. How could this be? What horrible disease was attacking me? The first doctor I visited recommended more rest; the second, a course of antibiotics. Both were pleasant, concerned, but neither treatment had any effect. A specialist even put me through a battery of blood and hormonal tests. Yet
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