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Shaolin Secret Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury

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This book lists many formulas to concote pills, poltice and medicinal wine to treat injuries arising from "falls and strikes" typically from martial art training. Some of the formulas however, are also useful to prepare and kept for use in household emergencies. A word of caution though, always see a doctor for serious injuries such as dislocations or broken bones. This is not a self treat book. For a non martial artist, I find that the formulas are especially useful in treating bruises and sprains.

Although the names of the herbs are given in Latin and Pinyin descriptions, it may be difficult to have the formulas filled by your regular chinese herbalist as most of them are literate only in chinese characters.

For the serious reader, it may be a good idea to invest in a good materia medica as a companion book to this one.

This is a reference book and not really a text or descriptive reading. It is mainly a list, with terse but very useful commentary, of recipes for making helpful remedies. The ingredients are not all easily available in most North American towns. Many ingredients will not be easy to get, even at a proper Chinese herbal store. Still, the documentation is sufficiently useful that any resourceful person will be able to produce the described medicines. By making this available to a general audience, the author has given humanity a very great gift. I just hope we will use it properly. It can be a great help for an extremely broad range of medical needs.

There are companies out there who sell formulas made from this book at very high prices. Don't be a fool, cut out the middle man, buy this book and make your own stuff.

For those interested in TCM, and the Shaolin application of such, this is a real treasure.

Great book with a lot of helpful herbal remidies. Some of them are a little silly (we don't see many sword injuries these days). However, there is a GRAT djow recipe.

I m a martial artist and this book is as good as it gets to the real thing. Shaolinn secrets which i have never seen publised before. This book is a must for all types of injuries. Teaching even the beginer a master's technique.

The detail in this book is truly amazing. It has formulas for a wide variety of martial injuries. It is, however, written from a Chinese medicine perspective and contains ingredients that can only be purchased from a Chinese pharmacy. For a Western beginning martial artist with no experience in either herbs or Chinese medicine, it would daunting, perhaps unusable. For someone with access to raw Chinese herbs, who has an intermediate to advanced grounding in Chinese medicine, it's a treasure trove.

Susan Lynn Peterson
author of Western Herbs for Martial Artists and Contact Athletes