The Healing Power of Acupressure and Acupuncture: A Complete Guide to Accepted Traditions and Modern Practice

By Matthew Bauer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583332162
• ISBN13: 9781583332160
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The mystery of the history revealed.

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

An Excellent Overview of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

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.

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine 101

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.

Healing Power

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!

A must read for anyone interested in Chinese medicine

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.