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Healing Power Of Acupressure and Acupuncture (Avery Health Guides)

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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.

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.

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.

This book is a really good book. It tells you more then just medicine, it also speaks about its orgen of the art of eastern medicine. It explanes the hard to explane, and gives you information to carry with you even after you close the book. Exelent book!

In summary, I certainly have a better understanding then I did before reading the book, but not nearly as much as I had hoped for. I was not expecting to be able to treat myself, but I wanted to be able to have a much more informed discussion with my TCM treatment team and to explain better to my western doctor (who was very supportive of giving TCM a try). This book gave me some appreciation for what my TCM folks were doing, but not the knowledge to communicate I was hoping for.

I started acupuncture and picked this book up in an attempt to build up a better understanding. It did help me get a little better sense of the "theory", but much of the book seemed to talk around the subject.

For example, at the beginning of the book there is a lot of space spent discussing the difference between western science and the eastern view. Most of the verbiage was really focused on complaining about western science . I was a little concerned that many of the criticisms were very simplistic views of the western approach. Basically, the way western was explained was set up to make it look really bad. That was not helpful to me since I know what I like and dislike about western medicine.

Similarly, most of the discussion of TCM kept stressing how every case is different so there is not one answer. Thus, it really comes down to a skilled practitioner. Plus, it cannot be tested since it is so different person by person. But you should trust it as it has been around a long time.

Matthew did an excellent job in this book turning the complicated subjects of yin/yang and five-phase theory into clearly understood topics as they are applied to Chinese medicine. His theory is the best I have seen to uncover the mystical roots of acupuncture....it's very plausable that it happened just the way he describes.

This is a wonderful book for anyone with an interest in the history of acupuncture and acupressure, the Daoist philosophy surrounding Chinese medicine in general, and for detailed information and explanations on basic self-healing acupressure practices

I read this book to learn about acupuncture and am so impressed. Now that I have a better understanding of Chinese medicine I am very excited to give some of the methods a try. In addition, although the book is very detailed, it is still easy to read and comprehend. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a basic understanding of various Chinese medicines, especially Acupuncture and Acupressure.