Total Health the Chinese Way: An Essential Guide to Easing Pain, Reducing Stress, Treating Illness, and Restoring the Body through Traditional Chinese Medicine
By (Author) Esther Ting
By (author) Marianne Jas
Hachette Books
Da Capo Press Inc
3rd November 2009
United States
General
Non Fiction
610.951
Paperback
368
Width 154mm, Height 228mm, Spine 23mm
520g
A fourth-generation Chinese doctor, Esther Ting has treated more than 140,000 patients on two continents. Total Health the Chinese Way is based on Tings core belief that we can achieve lasting health without surgery or drugs the moment we start listening to our bodies. She and Marianne Jas, a former patient, describe the concept of the bodys five primary power centers and their roles in strengthening our physical and emotional defenses. Total Health the Chinese Way presents the timeless fundamentals of Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and herbs, their uses, and their extraordinary benefits. It identifies cost-effective remediesfrom simple recipes to physical and mental exercisesto ease pain, maximize energy, and strengthen the body. Ting and Jas make the wisdom of this 4,000-year-old tradition accessible and useful as never before.
Esther Ting, Ph.D., has practiced Chinese medicine for over forty years her healing centre is Los Angeles's preeminent acupuncture clinic. Writer and consultant Marianne Jas has worked in partnership with Ting for several years. They both live in Southern California.