Absolute Beginner's Guide to Alternative Medicine
Traditional Chinese Treatments: Restoring Balance and Flow. Since an individual’s combinations of yin and yang are unique, TCM p ...
Herbs Herbal medicine (ahong yao) is an integral part of TCM. In terms of the complexity of diagnosis and treatment, it resemble ...
Massage Traditional Chinese massage methods were described in texts as early as 200 BC. Both energizing and sedating massage tec ...
Qigong Qigong, pronounced chee-gong, is the art and science of using breath, movement, self-massage, and meditation to cleanse, ...
Table 3.4 Studies Funded by the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health Medical Condition TCM Treatm ...
CHAPTER 3 TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE 49 yam, celery, onion, peach, and mustard greens. The hot type of back pain that includes ...
50 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Resources ■ Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine http:// ...
In This Chapter ■The history and philosophy of Ayurveda ■Theories of illness and health in Ayurveda ■Diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Ayurveda is an intricate system with a tradition of integrating useful concepts and practices from other systems. This ancient s ...
People are a composite of these five elements, which combine in various ways to govern mind, body, and spirit. Ayurveda sees the ...
Body Types Vata, Pitta, and Kapha are present in every cell, tissue, and organ, but each person is made up of unique ratios of t ...
Few people are single-dosha types. Most are two-dosha types, with one dosha pre- dominant but not extreme. The dominant dosha gi ...
Balancing the Doshas: The Ayurvedic View of Health and Illness Ayurvedic practitioners regard the balance of the doshas as their ...
Imbalanced Vata shows up as rough skin, weight loss, anxiety, restlessness, insom- nia, decreased strength, constipation, arthri ...
cloudy appearance, Pitta imbalance imparts a dark yellow color, and pale yellow and oily urine indicates a Vata imbalance. The p ...
It is not necessary to memorize which foods carry which tastes or reduce which doshas, as there are any number of books offering ...
moderately heavy textures and bitter, sweet, and astringent tastes. For an excess of Kapha, diet recommendations include warm, l ...
hiking, swimming, and skiing are appropriate. People with a Vata dosha might enjoy jogging, but exercises like stretching, yoga, ...
Simple breathing involves closing the eyes and observing the breath, becoming more aware of its pattern and changes. Slow, easy ...
which is conducive to a state of health and peace. Further information about medi- tation can be found in Chapter 16. Massage. M ...
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