The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness [Paperback]

Misha Ruth Cohen (Author), Kalia Doner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 12, 2006

The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness is an essential guide to achieving total health in mind, body and spirit. By showing you the powerful benefits of Chinese Medicine—particularly acupuncture, massage, nutrition, meditation and herbs—along with other healing arts as adjunct therapies, this book can help you take control of your healing process and maintain or restore wholeness and harmony in all aspects of your life.

This book offers comprehensive healing plans for a wide range of ailments including digestive problems, stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, gynecological problems, PMS, menopause, and more. These plans combine Chinese dietary guidelines with Western medicine, plus various other Eastern and Western healing therapies.

Includes:

• Basics of Chinese medicine
• How to evaluate a Chinese medicine practitioner
• Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Qi Gong: Chinese exercise and meditation
• Case histories: profiles in healing
• Chinese medicine dietary practices
• Chinese herbal therapy

Editorial Reviews

Review

Comprehensive healing plans for a range of ailments are included in a guide which blend Chinese dietary remedies with Western medicine. Included here is a basic overview of Chinese approaches, case histories which detail healing processes, and plenty of self-care techniques. A highly recommended, basic text. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

MISHA RUTH COHEN, OMD, L.Ac., has practiced integrated Chinese medicine for more than 35 years. As clinic director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, founder of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, and  research specialist in integrative medicine at the University of California San Francisco, she is an internationally recognized expert integrating Eastern and Western medicine in comprehensive programs for complex disorders. Her specialties include working with people who have viruses associated with cancer such as HCV, HBV, HIV, HPV; as well as complex gynecological disorders such as endometriosis; and helps people with support through cancer treatment and after cancer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 322 pages
• Publisher: Authors Choice Press (July 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595399509
• ISBN-13: 978-0595399505
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #672,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Acupuncture to Yin/Yang, China's best is here!, January 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to WHoleness (Paperback)

Develop a deeper understanding of healing and harmony as this book explores anatomy and physiology with an Eastern philosophy. Discover how Chinese medicine practitioners evaluate, diagnose, and treat illness. Feel the fluid motion of Qi Gong and the healing touch of massage. Resources, workshops, and healing centers are also listed. This extensive volume of knowledge is an essential guide to many paths of wholeness.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid guide to learning about Chinese Medicine, August 9, 2005

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Naweko San-Joyz "Noixia-ist" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to WHoleness (Paperback)

Are you considering using Chinese Medicine to bring greater healing into your life? Then "The Chinese Way to Healing" will intelligently serve as your guide to understanding what Chinese Medicine involves, how examinations are carried out, treatment methods offered, and how to carefully select your own Chinese Medicine practitioner.

In addition to guiding you to the help you may need, Misha Ruth Cohen offers several chapters on how to benefit from Chinese Medicine right in your own home, using an assortment nutrition, bathing and calming techniques.

This book will make a great addition to your alternative health library; just don't let it collect dust.

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really NOT the Chinese Way, February 28, 2006

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TCM advocate "TCM advocate" (universal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to WHoleness (Paperback)

The title of this book is highly misleading. The author displays a deep misunderstanding of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) philosophy by combining it with Western medicine and other alternative therapies. For instance, vaccinations and synthetic supplaments are completely at odds with TCM principles, and no true TCM practitioner will ever recommend them. The nutritional advice of diet consisting of more than 70% carbohydrate not only does not reflect the Chinese diet, but will certainly lead to obesity, diabetes and related illnesses. The Chinese prize pork and other animal fats, yet the author seems to pander to the fat-phobic public and advocates low fat in most of the dietary advice. Although there are good explanations of TCM principles at the start of the book, the author is yet another in the string of Western doctors showing lack of faith/knowledge in TCM by combining it with contradictory Western therapies. I do not recommend it.