Reading the Body: Ohashi's Book of Oriental Diagnosis

by Wataru Ohashi, Tom Monte

“People are always asking me, how can I be happy? Or, how can I find the thing I really want to do in life? I tell you are standing on your answer. The secrets of your life are written on your body” —Ohashi
 
Ohashi helps you learn these secrets by showing you how to “read your body” to determine both your physical and spiritual condition as revealed in the physical self. Because, as Ohashi notes, “the body is the physical manifestation of the soul,” your posture, your features, and the texture of your skin can tell you who you are.
 
This is not just a book about health and shiatsu; it is a guide to living well. The goal is to find unity of body, mind, and spirit, emphasizing that everyone has strengths and weaknesses and that accommodating one’s weaknesses is as important as utilizing one’s strengths.
 
Filled with diagrams, drawings, and sample diagnoses, this is not only a practical guidebook—by “reading the body” one can tell what shiatsu techniques apply to the various energy meridians of the body—but also a fascinating meditation on how to live.

Genres: Nonfiction, Health, Medicine

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1991

Reviews

[Misbah]

I loved reading this book! It was so interesting learning about different ways of diagnosing illnesses based on facial features.
Would really recommend this to those interested in learning about traditional eastern medicine.

[Hannah Stalvey]

Obviously this is not my normal read- but a friend gifted it and I’m SO glad she did!!! It’s helped me both assess my patients in the clinical field and also assess myself and pursue healthful changes. Definitely a lesson in not judging a book by its cover

[Sudarshan Bindal]

Extremely interesting read!

[Maria]

I loved it! It made want to fond out more and research about the meridians, the elements etc

It is written in a nice, smooth, explicit way.

[Aliana Valtadorou]

Καλογραμμένο και κατανοητό! Εξηγεί τον τρόπο με τον οποίο τα οργανα συνδέονται μεταξύ τους δίνει συμβουλές διατροφής και προτείνει ασκήσεις για κάθε πρόβλημα.

[Fiona]

Interesting premise but poorly supported. This is an easy read though and Yohashi is engaging.

[Leifer]

I say skip it.

[Voldemort]

Some theories here are just plain wrong. Or maybe that's me being an unimaginative ordinary medical student. Although some of the ideas were fun and logical and I really hope I found the cure for my eternal constipated gut (massaging the GO KO KU)

[Drakoh]

interesting but not very systematic
this subject seems to be very fuzzy