Chinese Healing Secrets explores one of the world's oldest healing systems and uncovers the ancient remedies that are still being used today to promote health and treat illness. In this easy-to-understand guide, you'll discover-

The tradtional Chinese view of how the body and spirit live in harmony with nature and how imbalance can result in disease.
The basics about the various treatments used in traditional Chinese medicine, such as herbal therapy, acupuncture, qi gong, and massage.
Tips for finding a qualified practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
A catalogue of common heath problems and the typical ways they are treated with Chinese medicine.

Put the healing power of the ages to work for you.

Has it ever occurred to you that your health and emotions seem to reflect the weather? Do you wake up achy and cranky when it's cold and dark outside? Do you feel a burst of vitality when the temperure outside feels just right? If you have, you have discovered one of the secrets of traditional Chinese medicine.

In the traditional Chinese view, the body and spirit are designed to live in harmony with nature. Indeed, what happens in the human body is seen as a mirror of the wider world-a microcosm whithin a macrocosm. And when that natural harmony or balance is disturbed, disease results. Health and healing, then, rely on helping the body recapture that natural balance.

In Chinese Healing Secrets, you'll discover how thousandof years worth of observation and experience created a healing system that is used by milions of people around the world today. You'll explore the fascinating and insightful theories behind traditional Chinese medicine and learn the basics about herbal therapy, acupuncture, qi gong, and other therapies used to restore and maintain health. You'll read about how these therapies are used to treat a variety of common disorders, from the common cold to insomnia.

And to help you take advantage of these healing therapies, you'll find helpful advice on finding a qualified practitioner and descriptions of patent medicines-traditional Chinese medicine's natural version of over-the-counter medications.

Chinese Healing Secrets is your invitation-and your ticket-to putting one of the world's oldest healing systems to work for you.

Contents

Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1 The history of traditional Chinese medicine
Chapter 2 The theory of yin and yang
Chapter 3 The vital substances
Chapter 4 The internal organs
Chapter 5 Patterns of disharmony
Chapter 6 Disorders of the internal organs
Chapter 7 Diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine
Chapter 8 Treatments in traditional Chinese medicine
Chapter 9 Finding a qualified practitioner
Part II
Chapter 10 Treatment of common ailments in traditional Chinese medicine
Chapter 11 Chinese herbal patent medicines
Resources
Index