Titel: Hand Therapy: Traditional Chinese Remedies - 手疗治百病（英文）
Author / Editor: 王胜 Wang Sheng, 王卫东 Wang Weidong
ISBN: 978-7-119-05996-9, 9787119059969
Series: 中国传统养生保健系列 Traditional Chinese Health Care Series
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press-外文出版社
Language: English
Date of Publication: 2009
Second edition
Number of pages: 167
Dimensions: 22 x 15.5 cm
Binding: Paperback


Description:
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 diseases, 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.
This book is compiled by experienced traditional medicine specialists. It 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, gynaecological, pediatric and ENT diseases. It is concise, practical, written with ease and grace and includes 50 illustrations. 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.