Qi Energy for Health and Healing: A Practical Guide to the Healing Principles of Life Energy (Avery Health Guides) [Mass Market Paperback]

Mallory Fromm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 2003 | Series: Avery Health Guides

According to traditional Chinese medicine, qi (pronounced "kee") is the energy that keeps us alive-our life force. So, of course, it is essential to good health. In Qi Energy for Health and Healing, Mallory Fromm demystifies the "qi," defining the energy and its properties, and offers techniques that we can incorporate into our lifestyles to effect physical and spiritual change.

In clear, simple language, Dr. Fromm explains how to access and apply qi energy to achieve an optimal level of health. Complete with illustrations, the book provides practical instruction on checking, healing, and maintaining the body's individual systems while promoting the integrity of the body as a whole. The function of each system and its relationship to other systems are outlined in detail, and special attention is given to qi's benefits for the elderly and the very young, and its applications in pregnancy and childbirth, sexuality, and serious illness.

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About the Author

Dr. Mallory Fromm is the director of SIKE Health Institute, a holistic healing and health-maintenance clinic in Los Angeles, California, and is an instructor of aikido, the Japanese martial art based on qi energy.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Avery (July 14, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583331573
• ISBN-13: 978-1583331576
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,702,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Qi Energy for Health and Healing, May 26, 2004

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This review is from: Qi Energy for Health and Healing: A Practical Guide to the Healing Principles of Life Energy (Avery Health Guides) (Mass Market Paperback)

As a retiree on a teacher's pension, I am always alert to ways to maintain my health, and this is one of the best so far.

Dr. Fromm has distilled 20 years' experience in an amazingly simple, hands-on healing and maintenance technique that I am now using on myself and others with great success. With this book as a guide, several friends and I regularly transmit qi to one another. We've experienced immediate pain relief, for example, and we are all energized in the process, whether giving or receiving.

Fromm focuses on women's issues--menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth, and includes invaluable advice for assisting the old and the dying. He includes fascinating and inspiring case histories. Somehow he manages to convey all this in a tone so warm, humorous, and conversational that it's like having him at your elbow. The illustrations and instructions make the whole endeavor crystal clear.

I wish I had had this book years ago, and I hope I can be instrumental in turning others on to it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent and Irresistible, May 5, 2004

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This review is from: Qi Energy for Health and Healing: A Practical Guide to the Healing Principles of Life Energy (Avery Health Guides) (Mass Market Paperback)

Let me say first that the tone of the book is irresistible. It is written for an intelligent audience (actually, I have the feeling Dr.Fromm wrote with intelligent women in mind) and the style is insightful and humorous. He presents a large amount of useful information in a very engaging way. The book covers all aspects of life--sex, reproduction, birth, development, and aging--and concludes with a moving meditation on death.The case histories presented together with the information (for example, dealing with emotional trauma, pre-natal child care, caretaking the elderly, etc.)are themselves fascinating, and kept me turning the pages to learn more. I might also add that the book is very well-produced, and the numerous illustrations give the anatomically-illiterate reader like myself a sure understanding of what-where-how to do the exercises to promote health in oneself and in others. I believe that the curious and intelligent reader will enjoy and benefit from this book, and so I urge people to read it.