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Alternative, or complementary, health systems are gradually being integrated into American culture and can now be found in many American physicians' offices. This program from The Doctor Is In provides an overview of Chinese and Indian medicine, homeopathy, herbalism, naturopathy, and massage. It also examines osteopathy and chiropractic as practices recognized by traditional doctors. The program observes patients who are using one or more of these...
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"Lack of insurance coverage, astronomical health care costs, and an overall drop in medical consumer confidence have led to a surge of interest in alternative approaches to traditional medicine. The perfect guide for readers looking to take control of their bodies, The Self-Health Handbook profiles 50 self-administering therapies from around the world." "Each entry features a detailed description of the therapy and its applications, a history of the...
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Produced in San Francisco, a city rich in Chinese culture, this program explores the ancient healing techniques of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM. Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow, a registered nurse and one of the foremost experts in TCM, guides students through the philosophy and methods behind various TCM techniques-such as acupuncture, qi gong, and herbal remedies. Viewers will visit a lab that processes medicinal herbs and gain insight into the TCM...
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Age-old tradition or worldwide fashion, massages are a bubble of well-being where one can seclude oneself for a brief moment of time from the whirlwind of the society that we live in today. Stress can cause an increase in tension throughout the body that can lead to anxiety, and massage helps to release this stress and improve balance in the body and mind. As a result, it allows for a more balanced perspective in stressful situations. Whether it be...
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TCM status is rising internationally. People are paying attention to TCM because there is a paradigm shift in medicine today. Traditional Chinese medicine is a science based mainly on natural science and integrated with the social sciences or humanities. Its way of observing diseases and the human body, its idea of treating a disease before it arises, its methods of health preservation, its focus on adjusting the state of the body is catching the...
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In traditional Chinese medicine, organs are classified into three large groups by their functions: the zang, the fu, and the extraordinary. They either store and regulate essence or transform and distribute nutrients in the body. TCM believes that one falls ill if the balance between the zang and fu systems are out of balance but that once harmony is restored, the body is naturally healed.
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In this groundbreaking volume, David Schenck and Larry Churchill present the results of fifty interviews with practitioners identified by their peers as "healers," exploring in depth the things that the best clinicians do. They focus on specific actions that exceptional healers perform to improve their relationships with their patients and, subsequently, improve their patients' overall health. The authors analyze the ritual structure and spiritual...
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Beneath the elaborate system that traditional Chinese medicine uses to understand the body and its matrix of processes is its core concept of balance and harmony. If balances are disrupted, we are subject to becoming ill when pathogenic factors cause the body to react and enter a state of conflict. A concept that is at once simple yet complex.
19) Qi and Qi Blood
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Qi is what marks the difference between a living and a dead person. The ancient Chinese believed that it is the most fundamental entity that makes up the world. Everything in the universe that moves and changes is because of it. Qi, the concept most central to traditional Chinese medicine, is as fundamental to Chinese medical thought as Yin and Yang.
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TCM believes that the foundation of all health and well-being rests on maintaining the body in a balanced state--not just within the individual, but with the environment at large. And if there is any disharmony to this equilibrium, disease sets in. This medical insight is built upon the foundation of ancient Chinese philosophy documented in the I Ching, the Book of Changes.
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