Asian Way of Wellness is the first interactive guide to herbal medicine, presenting breakthrough guidelines for self-diagnoses that help readers understand how to evaluate their personal health needs and use readily available herbs to treat common maladies, boost the immune system, prevent illness, maintain wellness, and ensure longevity. The author is a herbalist and accupuncturist.
Author & certified weight consultant Linda Yo gained 25 pounds in 3 months when she moved from Asia to the U.S. She failed at every weight-loss method before finally getting results by returning to Asian eating habits. In this book reader will discover - How to enjoy food & stay slim naturally - Appetizers that soothe their hunger - How to enjoy meat and avoid the fat - Why eating salad won't make them slim - Healthy & delicious snack & dessert
A renowned expert in Chinese sports medicine and martial arts reveals ancient Eastern secrets for healing common injuries, including sprains, bruises, deep cuts, and much more. For centuries, Chinese martial arts masters have kept their highly prized remedies as carefully guarded secrets, calling such precious and powerful knowledge "a tooth from the tiger's mouth." Now, for the first time, these deeply effective methods are revealed to Westerners who want alternative ways to treat the acute and chronic injuries experienced by any active person. While many books outline the popular teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, only this one offers step-by-step instructions for treating injuries. Expert practitioner and martial artist Tom Bisio explains the complete range of healing strategies and provides a Chinese first-aid kit to help the reader fully recover from every mishap: cuts, sprains, breaks, dislocations, bruises, muscle tears, tendonitis, and much more. He teaches readers how to: Examine and diagnose injuries Prepare and apply herbal formulas Assemble a portable kit for emergencies Fully recuperate with strengthening exercises and healing dietary advice Comprehensive and easy to follow, with drawings to illustrate both the treatment strategies and the strengthening exercises, this unique guidebook will give readers complete access to the powerful healing secrets of the great Chinese warriors.
Here is the first complete manual of Chinese medicine specifically written for the layperson. Filled with illustrated exercises and recipes, this book offers a unique, integrated system of preventive health care so that now anyone can promote good health, longevity, and spiritual awareness using these traditional techniques. Included are: • Key concepts of Chinese medical theory • Dozens of illustrated T'ai Chi and Chee-gung exercises • The Chinese approach to healing common ailments • Authentic secrets of Taoist sexual yoga • Therapeutic food recipes and herbal tonics • Alternative treatments for diseases such as AIDS and cancer • Resource listings: teachers, schools, centers, stores, and mail-order suppliers
Dr. Jhin shares the secrets of the Far East in maintaining the beauty that comes from young, vibrant skin. She combines modern-day skin care regimens with the natural and spiritual beauty products, trends, and rituals practiced in Korea, Japan, and China.
Asian Longevity Secrets represents the best of all healing worlds modern Western medicine blended with centuries-old Oriental wisdom. This book deserves to be on every health-seeker's bookshelf. Ann Louise Gittleman, author of The Fat Flush Plan.
“Dr. Mao’s brilliant book Second Spring shows women how to restore their power by revitalizing their health with his amazing natural secrets and age-old wisdom.” —Arianna Huffington Bestselling author of The Secrets of Longevity, Chinese medicine expert Dr. Mao completely reenvisions the mind-body changes of perimenopause and menopause for women age thirty-five and up, using completely natural treatments. The Chinese refer to a woman's midlife transition as her Second Spring. Thanks to the simple, natural techniques of traditional Chinese medicine, the second half of a woman's life is a flowering of feminine potential rather than a physical and mental decline. Now, Dr. Mao's revolutionary Second Spring™ program gives you time-tested, completely natural treatments to enhance energy, sexuality, and health—and initiate your own new season of vitality starting at age thirty-five, through premenopause, menopause, and beyond. Dr. Mao—Yahoo!'s favorite natural health expert and author of the bestselling Secrets of Longevity—offers proven natural solutions such as a surgery-free face-lift, Chinese herbs that fight memory loss, traditional remedies that improve libido and sex, and foods that keep your specific body type in peak form (they're not the same for everyone!). His safe, natural practices, outlined in more than 200 tips, can eliminate the need for expensive medicines and artificial hormones. This amazing compendium of traditional wisdom is also enjoyable to read. With chapters on topics like weight, energy, brain power, beauty, and sexual health, Second Spring allows you to target your concerns right away. At the end you'll find handy, at-a-glance lists addressing women's most common ailments. Second Spring, inspired by Dr. Mao's own mother's remarkable transformation in the second half of her life, offers an integrated lifestyle program that will help you live long, live strong, and live happy in ways that you never thought possible.
Karma, neither luck nor fate, is an active choice to do no harm, to improve our self, help others and be gentle with the earth. Karma Herbs written by natural health expert and Media personality, Letha Hadady, D.Ac., and beautifully illustrated by her mother Letha Elizabeth Hadady, engages the reader in a journey of self discovery and natural healing using herbal medicines which are part of Nature's innate balance and bounty. Adapting medical theories originating in China, India and Tibet, we may view the body/mind/spirit as vital energy and life force. In Karma Herbs, self observations and modern medical research elucidate energy patterns that impact our daily health and wellness. Individualized diet and safe, time-tested vegetarian herbal treatments using easily available pills and teas, provide for a wide variety of health issues such as weight loss, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, colds and flu, menstrual and menopausal discomforts, poor immunity to major illnesses, chronic fatigue, memory problems, and sexuality. Guidelines for monitoring health improvements throughout the book help the reader to become an active participant in self-healing. Up to date sources for herbal products are provided: Trusted Internet herbal sources are live links in the eBook. Karma Herbs, based on forty years of work in alternative medicine, replaces Letha's best-selling pre-internet book Asian Health Secrets: the complete guide to Asian herbal medicine. Karma Herbs eBook offers simple home treatments, many entertaining case studies and encyclopedic information on rare and common herbs and spices. It may be a useful tool to facilitate communication with Asian healers who until now have been unable or unwilling to share their knowledge. Karma Herbs translates the ancient, esoteric medical systems of the East making them accessible for modern use. About Letha Hadady:"Hadady is an ambassador between curious North Americans, trying to overcome their ignorance of alternative medicine, and Asian herbalists, who are uneasy about opening their customs to the scrutiny of outsiders."-Newsday, L.A. Times syndicate"The tall, slender herbalist found her calling after a life-threatening illness. . . Her encyclopedic knowledge of health and beauty is evident."-Daily News"Letha unearths the wisdom of the ancients."-New York Post"Letha has all natural ways to change your life. And she looks so young!"-Barbara Walters, "The View" ABC television
