Secrets of Self-Healing: Harness Nature’s Power to Heal Common Ailments, Boost Your Vitality,and Achieve Optimum Wellness by Maoshing Ni
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Secrets of Self-Healing title is a little bit of a misnomer. This book is not so much a collection of secrets as an overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM.) This is probably not so much an attempt to defraud as it is a sound marketing strategy. In America one can sell something as a “secret” even if it’s been done for 3000 years in the open– if it’s from China.
The book is divided into two parts. The first (between 1/3rd to 1/2 of the book)includes an overview of such topics as yin/yang, the five elements, nutrition, herbs, supplements, exercise [qi gong], and acupressure meridians. It also includes information about how to diagnose problems from external cues (i.e. examining the face, tongue, and hands in particular.)
The second part is an ailment-specific reference section. For 65 of the most common ailments, the book gives six-part advice on diet, home remedies, dietary supplements, herbal remedies, exercise, and acupressure.
It mixes some modern medical science in along the way, where it is useful.
I found this book to be approachable and informative.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 
Alright…gold chain removed. The AMA will be after you now. There will be no self-healing in the wards, only questions in the recovery wing. Prune the bad parts away – it’s body bonsai. (still looking for clean, non-wife beaters)
Later….
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Sounds ominous. Like I’ll end up like McMurphy in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
I’ve go some arthritis in my lower back and one of my ankles, and the best Western medicine had to suggest was to replace the kind of exercises I enjoy and with ones I wouldn’t.
Non-stained wife-beaters are probably fine, as long as you don’t actually beat your wife. A gold chain is also fine, its just if you’ve got like 10 lbs of metal on thick, rope-like chains. Sorry I only have so much room for detail in a post.
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“The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused while nature heals the disease.” – Voltaire
He did more than write Candide
Later….
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he was a clever fellow
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