Hand Therapy: Traditional Chinese Remedies

Hand Therapy: Traditional Chinese Remedies
Compiled by Wang Sheng, Wang Weidong
Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1998
Paperback, 138mm x 200mm, 145 pages
ISBN 7119019015 more info

In traditional Chinese medicine, the hand can be used to diagnose diseases because pathological information is reflected on the hand. This method can also be used to prevent and treat disease, improve life quality, and maintain health by applying various types of stimulation to specific areas of the hand. This is not a fantasy. The hand as a part of the body lies in a common environment with other structures and has a close relationship with the body's internal organs. Hand therapy is simple and easy to practice and safe and reliable for obtaining good therapeutic effects for a wide variety of diseases. Hand Therapy: Traditional Chinese Remedies in the Traditional Chinese Medical Therapy is compiled by experienced traditional medicine specialists. This book discusses the origins, development, characteristics, and indications of hand therapy as well as common methods of hand massage, hand acupuncture, hand bath, and hand qigong used to treat various medical, surgical, gynecological, pediatric and ENT diseases. This book is meant to satisfy the needs of medical workers and average readers alike to understand, learn, and practice this unique hand therapy, created and developed over many years in China.

Handbook to Chinese Auricular Therapy

Handbook to Chinese Auricular Therapy
Written by Dr. Chen Ken, Dr. Cui Yongqiang
English translation
Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1997
Paperback, 113mm x 183mm, 238 pages
ISBN 711901224x more info

This handbook is written for Western learners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who wish to master the unique manipulation methods of Chinese auricular therapy and the current Chinese charts. It is suitable for learners of intermediate level and above, and can be used either as a teacher or as a teach-yourself textbook.

Chinese auricular therapy is the use of the auricle for preventive and therapeutic purposes. Specific acupuncture points on the external ear were used for the relief of various disorders of the body over 4,000 years ago. As a unique "teach yourself" reference book, this handbook deals with Chinese auricular therapy in the practical sense only. It is written in two main parts. Part I introduces the basic theories of Chinese auricular therapy including the characteristics of Chinese auricular therapy, locations, functions and indications of Chinese auricular acu-points, auricular diagnosis, principles of selections of acu-points, techniques of manipulation and auricular analgesia. Part II is devoted to a detailed description of the treatment of common diseases and disorders, which are minutely discussed as to etiology, pathological differentiations, principles and methods of treatment and prescriptions of auricular points, complete with clear illustrations.

Included in this handbook are special techniques that have been greatly developed from simple needling to manipulations of delicate skill. Various new types of auricular stimulations are also introduced, such as filiform needling, embedded needling, electro-needling, hydro-needling, laser needling, bloodletting therapy, magnetotherapy, seed-pressure therapy, auricular moxibustion and massage.

"I am sure that acupuncture practitioners in the western world will find from this book all the technical details often missing in other English-language texts of the same subject." -- Professor Yang Jiasan, Chair of Acupuncture Department, Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Related Links

• Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Acupuncture, Meridian Theory and Acupoints - the definitive book on the subject of acupuncture and will also be of use for those who practice acupressure and pressure points in martial arts.
• The Location of Acupoints - State Standard of China - The State Standard for the Location of Acupoints presents a thorough and accurate location of the points of the 14 meridians and a part of the extra points.
• Skill with Illustrations of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion - a monograph of acupuncture-moxibustion techniques.
• The Miracle of Acupuncture - Introduces etiology and pathology, differentiation of common diseases, treatment with acupuncture and moxibustion.
• Charts: Standard Meridian Points of Acupuncture (in English)
• English-Chinese Applied Anatomical Atlas of Acupoints
• 100 Diseases Treated by Single Point of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Handbook to Chinese Auricular Therapy (in English) - For Western learners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who wish to master the unique manipulation methods of Chinese auricular therapy and the current Chinese charts.
• English-Chinese Practical Anatomical Charts of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture (English)