Traditional Chinese Medicine Reference Books

Practical Chinese Qigong for Home Health Care

Summary: When people are afflicted with diseases, and acupuncture and medicines fail to provide ideal treatment results, they often turn to Qigong therapies.  The book, Practical Chinese Qigong for Home Health Care, with 130 illustrations, is compiled specifically for this purpose.  It introduces 13 kinds of practical home health care Qigong and Qigong therapies for 68 common and/or unusual diseases.

Author(s): Jin Ce; Hu Zhanggui; Jin Zhenghua

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Summary: Wushu exercise for life enhancement, also called Wushu Qigong, is a unique system for improving the internal conditions of the human body, thus benefiting the body and the mind leading to a longer life.  This book gives a systematic and concise introduction to Chinese Wushu, describing its basic principles, major schools, as well as providing detailed instructions on how to practice it.

Author(s): Yu Gongbao

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Summary: Long Style Boxing (Chang Quan) is one of the boxing schools of Chinese Wushu, characterized by its hand and leg attacks for a long distance and fully extended movements.  This book gives a full account of the basic movements and the practical exercises of the advanced routines of Chang Quan, and the methods and skills of learning and practicing them.  For the convenience of the readers, the book contains more than 230 pictures and diagrams.

Author(s): Cheng Huikun

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Summary: Qigong is a unique health-promoting system created by the Chinese people to adjust them to the social, historical, and cultural environments in which they live.  What makes Qigong different from other systems of physical training is the use of the mind to regulate performance of the various organs in the body, to bring a high degree of harmony between the mind and the body.

Author(s): Cen Yuefang

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Summary: Tuina is a simple therapy which uses neither medicine nor medical devices, but uses various massage techniques to stimulate the body to regulate the bodily functions and eliminate pathogenic factors.  Originating in China, tuina therapy has now been adopted in many countries around the world.  This book includes thirty tuina manipulations and twenty-nine therapies for common diseases.

Author(s): Wang Fu

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Summary: This book continues the rich tradition of the Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  The reader will find sections on acupuncture and moxibustion techniques, manipulation of the filiform needle and other instruments, as well as micro-acupuncture therapy to be detailed and well documented.  Complementing these sections is an extensive appendix with detailed information on point location and manipulation for specific indications.

Author(s): Lui Gongwang, Liu Changlin. Donald Lauda

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Summary: The book, a unique contribution to the development of TCM, consists of 391 herbal formulae then prescribed to Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu.  The formulae have been classified according to their actions and indications, plus detailed comments.  With reliable sources literature, this book is of high academic value and practicability.  It also serves as a handy reference book for the study of TCM.

Author(s): Professor Chen Keji, M.D.

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Summary: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion incorporates the rich experience of class teaching and clinical practice and the results of acupuncture research, retaining the characteristic features of the traditional theory of acupuncture and stressing the integration of theory and practice.  Hailed as a classic since its first edition in 1987, it has become an authoritative teaching text.

Author(s): Cheng Xinnong

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Summary: Effective Points Therapy is a self contained system which is very effective for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, especially difficult and complicated ones such as nodular goiter, hemiplegia, and pain syndrome.  Stressing integration of the theory with clinical treatment, this book contains diagnosis based on TCM and Western medicine, and many diagrams.

Author(s): Mao Qunhui

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Summary: According to many years' teaching and clinical experience, Dr, Li Ding has combined the meridian theory with Qigong's characteristic of regulating respiration and transmitting the Qi (vital energy in the human body) to create Meridian Theory.  This book gives and in-depth over-view of the theory, the meridians, and the meridian points.

Author(s): Professor Li Ding

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