Depressed? Want to lose weight? Suffer from insomnia? Annoyed by frequent ailments? Desire improved sexual ability?
Readers can find helpful solutions to these problems in The Chinese Heart: Chinese Medicine and Stress Management, a beautifully illustrated book that introduces the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The author presents TCM theory in the most reader-friendly way "to give maximum access to any reader, assuming no previous knowledge of Chinese whatever." Chinese ideograms and their interesting etymology are illustrated in the book. Believing with Thoreau that "anything living is easily and naturally expressed in popular language," the author communicates scholarship with crisp narrative and sometimes playful spirit.
This book also provides a comparison of TCM theory to modern science and medicine to help modern people understand this theory better. Finally, it offers practical methods of stress management with specific demonstrations. Readers learn how to improve physical and mental health by practicing Chinese Qigong. Several simple and effective techniques to prevent tension and diseases include the Rejuvenating Gong for increased sexual ability, Dragon Dance Gong for losing weight and keeping a fit figure and Sleeping Gong for insomnia.
In a complimentary VCD, the Tianjin TCM University Tai Chi Chuan Championship Team presents a performance of Chinese martial art to illustrate the techniques most vividly.

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In this volume, Miao has undertaken to explain to Westernreaders the concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine, drawingat the same time from ancient Chinese teaching and traditions, modern Western interpreters of these traditions and Westernmedicine specialists. "the text introduces a Western audience to thisancient wisdom and practice and opens the door to understandingthese ancient beliefs and practices.
��DL Donald A.Enarson The International Organization of Anti-TB and Lung Diseases