Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine
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By: Letha Hadady
Format: Paperback
From: Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date: December 1997
From: Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date: December 1997
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 1998-01-27
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 512
Ean: 9780609801055
Isbn: 0609801058
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 1998-01-27
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 512
Ean: 9780609801055
Isbn: 0609801058
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Asian Way of Wellness is the first interactive guide to herbal medicine, presenting breakthrough guidelines for self-diagnoses that help readers understand how to evaluate their personal health needs and use readily available herbs to treat common maladies, boost the immune system, prevent illness, maintain wellness, and ensure longevity. The author is a herbalist and accupuncturist.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
USER REVIEWS
"What can you say about a classic? This book was given to me by an MD friend who likes herbs. Now I even travel with it. It is heavy - over 500 pages, but I always make room for it in my luggage.
It has chapters on ginsengs and other herbal tonics that are a life saver for active, athletic people. Also lots of chapters on preventing and treating everything from colds and flu to depression. It's like a visit to your naturopath or herbalist, but better because Hadady gives you the tools you need to observe your own health improvements.
I always felt that herb choice and dosage ought to be individualized. The book gives you the traditional tools (like tongue diagnosis) to decide which food/herbs to use, when to use them, and when to stop their use.
I used Yunnan Paiyao (an entire chapter in the book is devoted to this super powerful herbal capsule) and it saved my face. I was robbed and battered. After I took this herbal pill, (also used by the Chinese army for gunshot wounds) my healing was fast and scars minimal.
Everybody should own this book."
~ Written on 2007-06-14
It has chapters on ginsengs and other herbal tonics that are a life saver for active, athletic people. Also lots of chapters on preventing and treating everything from colds and flu to depression. It's like a visit to your naturopath or herbalist, but better because Hadady gives you the tools you need to observe your own health improvements.
I always felt that herb choice and dosage ought to be individualized. The book gives you the traditional tools (like tongue diagnosis) to decide which food/herbs to use, when to use them, and when to stop their use.
I used Yunnan Paiyao (an entire chapter in the book is devoted to this super powerful herbal capsule) and it saved my face. I was robbed and battered. After I took this herbal pill, (also used by the Chinese army for gunshot wounds) my healing was fast and scars minimal.
Everybody should own this book."
~ Written on 2007-06-14
"I haven't gone through the entire book yet, but I'm willing to try some of the herbs mentioned. It's laid out very well, and I wish all doctors had this book so that they could look at this before they prescribed their deadly medicine that they are paid to prescribe from the pharmaceuticals."
~ Written on 2007-06-13
~ Written on 2007-06-13
" I am very interested in Eastern remedies and found this to be very imformative; easy for the lay person to understand and go to Asian stores and find the needed ingrediants for most of the recipes.
I have recommended to this to clients as I am a MT and many people that I encounter are interested in Holistic practices.
WJ, MT"
~ Written on 2007-01-05
I have recommended to this to clients as I am a MT and many people that I encounter are interested in Holistic practices.
WJ, MT"
~ Written on 2007-01-05
"Honestly, to start, I was torn with how to rate this book. I'll begin with the positives: there is a LOT of helpful information here. The facts, picked out, are solid and very informative, and as a whole the book is a great guide to Asian medicine.
The main negative, as I see it, is that the beneficial information is scattered throughout the book in such a way as to frustrate the first-time reader. If you aren't familiar with many of the basic concepts of Chinese medicine, such as warming/cooling herbs, you don't really gain an understanding of these things until about halfway through the book. There is no time spent in early chapters to acquaint the novice with the things that the author takes for granted.
On the whole, it's a great book with a lot of good info, if you've got the patience to read it a few times - which, really, with a good reference book, you want to do anyway. Personally I do say it's worth it, but I wouldn't treat this book as a simple reference to have on the shelves - it's for someone who either has deeper knowledge or is looking for it. "
~ Written on 2007-01-01
The main negative, as I see it, is that the beneficial information is scattered throughout the book in such a way as to frustrate the first-time reader. If you aren't familiar with many of the basic concepts of Chinese medicine, such as warming/cooling herbs, you don't really gain an understanding of these things until about halfway through the book. There is no time spent in early chapters to acquaint the novice with the things that the author takes for granted.
On the whole, it's a great book with a lot of good info, if you've got the patience to read it a few times - which, really, with a good reference book, you want to do anyway. Personally I do say it's worth it, but I wouldn't treat this book as a simple reference to have on the shelves - it's for someone who either has deeper knowledge or is looking for it. "
~ Written on 2007-01-01
"I am stationed in Iraq currently home on R&R leave. This book is like a Bible for us guys who need quick answers. We have our folks send the herbs and homeopathic remedies to us. I am bringing back a s--- load of herbal pills from Walmart back with me in my pack. That is the best way to take personal stuff to Iraq.Waiting for packages can take months.
Homeopathic belladonna was given to me by my medic and it brought down my fever. OVer there 100 degrees is a cool day. That is great news to have something that works well, fast and has no side-effects.
Asian Health Secrets should be on everybody's shelf. Yunnan Paiyao, a medicine made in China available anywhere chinese people live can save lives. It stops excess bleeding from wounds, bug bites--we have some incredible spiders in Iraq--and Yunnan Paiyao heals anything fast. It reduces pain and stops hemmorage. That information alone is worth the book. It is a great book. Buy it."
~ Written on 2006-05-01
Homeopathic belladonna was given to me by my medic and it brought down my fever. OVer there 100 degrees is a cool day. That is great news to have something that works well, fast and has no side-effects.
Asian Health Secrets should be on everybody's shelf. Yunnan Paiyao, a medicine made in China available anywhere chinese people live can save lives. It stops excess bleeding from wounds, bug bites--we have some incredible spiders in Iraq--and Yunnan Paiyao heals anything fast. It reduces pain and stops hemmorage. That information alone is worth the book. It is a great book. Buy it."
~ Written on 2006-05-01