Depressed?Want to lose weight?Suffer from insomnia?Annoyed by frequent ailments?Desire improved sexual ability?You can find helpful solutions to these problems in The Chinese Heart:cbinese Medicine and Stress Management,a beautifu Hy illustrated book that introduces the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM).The author presents TCM theory in the most reader-friendly way “to give maximum access to any readeg assum-ing no previous knowledge of Chinese what-ever".Chinese ideograms and their interesting etymology are illustrated in the book.Believing with"l-horeau that"anything living is easily andnaturally expressed in popular language,"theauthor communicates scholarship with crispnarrative and sometimes playful spirit.

 

The Editor's Comments
Foreword
Preface

Part One Basic Knowledge of Traditional Chinese MediCiRe
Chapter1 The Harmonious Landscape
Chapter2 Yin and Yang
Chapter3 The Three T．reasures
Chapter4 Blood and Body Fluids

Part Two The Chinese Heart
Chapter 5 The Root of Life
Chapter6 The Sun
Chapter7 The Emperor

Part Three East Meets West
Chapter8 The Human Brain
Chapter9 The Energy Field
Chapter10 Holistic Medicine and Mount Sinai

Part Four Practical Methods of Stress Management
Chapter11 Sleeping Gong
Chapter12 Rej uvenating Gong
Chapter13 Dragon D ance Gong
Chapter14 Tai Chi Chuan and Meditation

References
Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters
Acknowledgements
Postscript