£13.99
The User’s Manual is a transformative guide to the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the 21st century, showing how these differ from those underlying Western medicine, what that means in practice and how we can help our bodies to heal themselves and thereby achieve a longer, healthier life. Books about TCM tend to be thousands of years old, very detailed and without reference to contemporary scientific knowledge. As a former computer engineer, Alex Wu draws parallels between the way a computer functions and the functioning of the human body in order to interpret the key concepts within Chinese medicine so that they become significantly easier to understand for today’s readers. As he explains, Chinese medicine provides a dramatically different point of view to that of Western medicine, in particular its foundation belief that the body has a powerful self-healing system that must be nurtured and encouraged, not stifled with symptom-suppressing treatments. Taking the simple examples of gout, psoriasis, the common cold and today’s obesity epidemic, the author explores the TCM and conventional medical approaches, showing how promoting body energy and self-healing can resolve the ‘incurable’.
‘Many readers have used the simple methods described in this book to achieve a healthy lifestyle and thereby improve their health within a short time… Modern medicine has not made significant advances in many chronic conditions for many years. It may be that the problem stems from its basic philosophy.’ Here is an opportunity to look at health and medicine from a completely different point of view.
Contents
TCM – the past and present; The point of view of a product designer; Body energy; TCM’s understanding of how the human body functions; Enabling the self-healing system to cure psoriasis and stop hair loss; Applying the principles of TCM to treating obesity; Daily massages; The future of TCM and its concept of self-healing; Appendix: Technology and TCM.
| Weight | 30 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 2 × 26 cm |
Iidamaria van der Byl-Knoefel is an online proponent of plant-based whole-food eating successfully and sustainably. She developed the symptoms of inflammatory arthritis – so badly she could hardly walk down stairs – while following what she had been told was a healthy diet and lifestyle. Appalled by the side effects she suffered with the main drug for rheumatoid arthritis and determined to be drug-free for the pregnancy she was planning, she moved to the plant-based whole-foods diet that has left her completely free of inflammation. During her health journey she discovered the Paddison Program for Rheumatoid Arthritis which gave her a more systematic and research-based approach; her recipes support the Program and are used worldwide to make following it simple, enjoyable and hopeful. Iida is an invited speaker at conferences on plant-based eating taking place in 2019.
