Angela Hicks’ 88 Chinese Medicine Secrets enables readers to rediscover in their lives-harmony, happiness, and health. Through a process that combines eighty-eight evergreen secrets, the author creates a formula for longevity and personal satisfaction. Although change doesn’t occur overnight, readers will embark on a journey that involves gradual growth and development. Readers will learn to listen to their bodies and begin to understand their own unique patterns. 88 Chinese Medicine Secrets is all about adjustments to our lifestyles to create equilibrium within our life force-or the qi.
The book is a healthy-living manual that examines “transformation periods” for all ages. From dealing with puberty and college transitions to advice on pregnancy and menopause, Angela Hicks thoroughly and clearly explains how to restore peace in the body that is so often interrupted by changes.
Essentially, illness, including but not limited to anxiety, depression, and high blood pressure, runs rampant during these transitional periods because the body is not at peace and the elements of our lifestyles, which are made up of diet, emotions, work, rest, and exercise-have been altered. For instance, Angela discusses the transition from pregnancy to childbirth, leading-in some cases-to “post-natal” depression.
88 Chinese Medicine Secrets primarily focuses on developing a reservoir of energy by creating a balance between what one eats with work, exercise, and the effects of the environment. Angela’s dietary suggestions include, but are not limited to, eating vegetables and organic foods, while avoiding raw, cold, and “rich” foods, and “know[ing] the temperature of your food.” With respect to work, rest, and exercise, Angela presents a thoroughly unique and fascinating way to balance the three. For example, much of China’s population rises early before work and practices tai ji or qigong, “exercises designed to exercise the mind as well as the body.” Unlike most of us here in the United States, many people in China bicycle to work. Lifestyles in China are the antithesis of the chaotic and stressful ways of the United States. In China, people make a concerted effort to socialize with friends, play with children, take a stroll in the park, and midday naps. “About two-thirds of the day is spent working and one-third relaxing.”
88 Chinese Medicine Secrets has life-changing potential for readers who desire to create for themselves and for their families, a more soothing, less stressful lifestyle, and ultimately achieve equilibrium and longevity.
88 Chinese Medicine Secrets
ISBN 9781845284305
How To Books - distributed in the US and Canada by Parkwest Publications
Paperback
Some b&w photos & illustrations
244 Pages
6 X 9.25
$20
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