Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts [Paperback]

Marc Tedeschi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 4, 2000

This unique book will familiarize healing practitioners and martial artists with basic concepts of the human body, as defined by both Western and Eastern medical traditions, allowing those engaged in healing and martial arts to develop a more complete, holistic, and scientifically forward-looking understanding of the body. Overviews of philosophical and conceptual underpinnings are followed by detailed drawings and diagrams of the body's internal systems, as seen by both traditions. Written in a clear and concise style, this beautiful and informative book presents information previously unavailable in any single text, making it an essential work for students, healing professionals, and martial artists. This lavishly illustrated book includes:


   • Over 147 color drawings and 54 duotone photographs

   • An easy-to-understand overview of Western anatomical concepts

   • A detailed overview of Eastern medical principles, including information previously available only in specialized, costly medical texts

   • A comprehensive listing of Oriental pressure points and meridians in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, cross-referenced to nerves, blood vessels, and other anatomical landmarks

   • Twenty essential self-massage and revival techniques

   • Detailed principles of pressure point fighting, as used in traditional Asian martial arts

Editorial Reviews

Review

Excellent book! Beautifully designed and richly illustrated throughout, I highly recommend this book to any internal practitioner. -- emptyflower.com, October 2000

Long-overdue text...a perfect resource for martial artists interested in point location from both a healing and martial perspective. -- Plum Publications, Santa Cruz, CA USA, plumpub.com, October 2000

About the Author

Marc Tedeschi is an internationally respected artist, designer, educator, and martial arts master, who has practiced martial arts for more than 25 years, training extensively in Hapkido, Taekwondo, Jujutsu, Judo, and Karate. Tedeschi's unique ability to blend his skills as a designer, writer, and martial artist has resulted in numerous books, widely acknowledged for their design excellence, outstanding imagery, and clarity of content. He is the author of twelve works, including a unique series of general martial arts books that provide an in-depth look at the core concepts and techniques shared by a broad range of martial arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Weatherhill; Full Color edition (April 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834804433
• ISBN-13: 978-0834804432
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.4 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference on Oriental Meridians, April 21, 2005

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Tibetan A (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts (Paperback)

I was really surprised to see so many negative reviews for this excellent book. I can only imagine that the writers were expecting a book teaching them the art of Pressure Point fighting, and while there is a brief section on both healing and martial arts applications in the book, this work is really about the Meridian and acupoint system of the human body, and it succeeds brilliantly as such. Also to be commended is the author's excellent overview of Western Anatomy and explanations of how Eastern and Western concepts mesh. The book is packed with info, mostly in the form of charts with short explanations. Certainly, you aren't going to learn everything there is to know about TCM, but what a great reference! As an Asian style bodyworker, I love this book. It's the best one I've found yet on Oriental Meridians. It is very straightforward and the Meridan charts are first class. The quality of this book is also first rate: nice stiff pages that read well and will hold up to a lot of pawing and page turning. Buy and study this book to learn the "whats" and "wheres" of TCM. Then find a Master to learn how to apply this wealth of information. This book WILL show you where the points are and how the different points and the meridians affect the body as a whole.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Charts - Poor Text, September 21, 2002

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Corey H. Wiscomb (Orcas Island, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts (Paperback)

Marc Tedeschi has put a great deal of work into this book as far as assembling all the necessary information for a basis to learn pressure point fighting into one text. His charts are excellent and include all the special points off the meridian lines. It is also nice to have the contrasting Feng Shui charts to display color, emotion, and additional data that does come into play during advanced study. However, his written theory explaining martial application is poor, and the photographs of applications are misleading.

After cross referencing the data provided in the charts, they are completely accurate. I do think that this book is an excellent addition to a studying martial artist's library, but do not expect this book to teach you anything in regards to technique. Buy George Dillman for that. It is a supplemental data source...no more. Technique and teaching should be left to real teachers. I think Tedeschi would agree.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pressure point text., January 13, 2002

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M. Scott (Auckland, NZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts (Paperback)

I stumbled across this book last year before it was released and hed to wait to see if my purchase was a good one. Well, it is. This text has the clearest, most comprehensive and understandable charts of the acupoints that i have ever seen. Tedeschi also covers western theories of health and healing also making this book a good basic resource on human anatomy.

The book is structured very well, with the sequence of the charts following the flow of Ki through the meridians. Each of the meridians has a separate chart and a very useful table covering the associated points and other major connections between each meridian.The ying and yang meridians are also cleraly identified.

This book is a great text for identification of and theory surrounding the pressure points. Myself, being a martial artist have recommended it to my instructor and he has also purchased a copy. an excellent book. (It must be said though that any reference text also needs an experienced instructor to support the questions and / or problems encountered by the student.)