Healing Power Of Acupressure and Acupuncture (Avery Health Guides) [Paperback]

Matthew Bauer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 3, 2005 | Series: Avery Health Guides

This accessible, up-to-date resource guide leads you through the foundations and techniques of acupressure and acupuncture.

 

Acupressure and acupuncture can relieve painful conditions such as migraine headaches, lower back pain, joint disorders, carpal tunnel syndrome, asthma, allergies, stress, nausea, heart problems, and many others. Today, most health-care plans cover these treatments, making them more popular than ever.

 

Filled with insights into the history of these two age-old therapies, The Healing Power of Acupressure and Acupuncture helps readers choose when to see a licensed therapist, and even provides information about doing certain treatments at home. Matthew D. Bauer delves deeply into the traditions and remarkable benefits of acupressure and acupuncture, explains the many benefits of both, describes techniques for self-treatment, and illustrates how Chinese healing can augment modern Western medicine.

 

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About the Author

Matthew D. Bauer, a Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, and qi-gong healer, studied Taoist philosophy with a 74th generation Taoist master. In investigating the roots of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, he also explores profound questions regarding issues of spirituality and the evolution of the human condition. Bauer has been in private practice for 19 years and writes a regular column for Acupuncture Today. He received an honorary Ph.D. in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Yuin University. Bauer maintains a practice at La Verne Acupuncture in La Verne California.

"I wrote this book out of frustration that millions of people who could be helped by this simple, cost-effective healing system were not taking advantage of it because they knew so little about and it seems so bizarre. Acupuncture is a safe, simple, method of healing that can ease pain and suffering and literally save lives." Bauer states, "I am convinced that the more we learn about the roots of acupuncture and acupressure, the better we will understand how to help ease pain and suffering today and in the future."

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Avery Trade (March 3, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583332162
• ISBN-13: 978-1583332160
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #717,873 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Overview of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, January 21, 2006

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L. Stomel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Power Of Acupressure and Acupuncture (Avery Health Guides) (Paperback)

The author begins with a clear and unbiased explanation of the underlying differences between Western and Eastern Medicine. Within this context, he explains how and why acupuncture works using non-technical terms that any layman can understand.

The book includes clear examples of types of illness that are best treated within the Western biomedical model and those that are more effectively treated using Chinese Medicine (rather than opinion, his information rests on the NIH Consensus study of Acupuncture Effectiveness)

Part Three of the book gives many helpful Self Care instructions and explains the points that one can safely use acupressure on oneself and others to treat a variety of conditions.

An excellent resource for anybody interested in Acupuncture or the Oriental Healing Arts.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine 101, July 26, 2005

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J. Williams "J. E. Williams, OMD" (Sarasota, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Power Of Acupressure and Acupuncture (Avery Health Guides) (Paperback)

This easy to understand, unbiased explanation of acupuncture, acupressure, and Chinese medical philosophy helps fill one of the missing links in our understanding of health and disease. It not only offers the reader a fascinating view of Chinese medicine, but provides self-help acupressure techniques from a practitioner who obviously knows his stuff. I enjoyed reading it and think every one interested in this field of medicine and self care can greatly benefit from reading it as well.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone interested in Chinese medicine, March 3, 2005

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Attilio D'Alberto (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Power Of Acupressure and Acupuncture (Avery Health Guides) (Paperback)

Matt Bauer's `Healing Power of Acupressure and Acupuncture', is wonderfully well written book. It traces the roots of Chinese medicine in a simplistic and natural way from ancient China through to the modern Western mechanical world. The core theories of Chinese medicine are excellently explained in a rich simplistic detail that opens up these powerful universal concepts to all that are willing to read and understand them. These powerful insights come from a very experienced healer and have been passed down through millennium by oral tradition and now become available, at long last, in printed form.

Honest advice is given about the differences between Western biomedical medicine and Chinese medicine, allowing the reader the power of knowledge to make up their own minds about what's right for them. It also goes on to explain what's involved in a typical Chinese medicine treatment and how you can go about finding the right practitioner for you.

A real must read for all, from beginners through to Chinese medicine practitioners. It will have anyone that's every wondered about Chinese medicine entranced.