Using Traditional Chinese Medicine to Manage Your Emotional Health: How Herbs, Natural Foods, and Acupressure Can Regulate and Harmonize Your Mind and Body
We live in a busy world, where stress, fear, panic, worry and anxiety are commonplace. If you don't know how to manage these emotions, you could begin to feel overwhelmed, withdrawn, or unbalanced, which can have lasting negative effects on your general well-being and your relationships. Using Traditional Chinese Medicine to Manage Your Emotional Health includes sections on using acupressure, adding specific herbs to your diet to facilitate mood changes, listening to music, changing certain lifestyle habits, eating healthy foods, sharing emotions with friends and exercising outdoors with exposure to sunlight. This book brings back an age-old science that provides natural solutions to achieve a satisfying and balanced life. By making a few simple changes, such as utilizing acupressure; adding specific herbs to your diet to facilitate mood changes; eating the right foods; sharing emotions with friends; and exercising outdoors with exposure to sunlight, you can help stop the downward spiral and get your life back on track. TCM is a proven and practical way to get in touch with your inner self and improve your emotional outlook. What are you waiting for? Join the millions of others who rely on Traditional Chinese Medicine, and bring more harmony to your life today!
This is a slim and well structured volume about managing your emotional well-being through traditional Chinese medicinal herbs, natural foods, and acupressure points.
Yifang states “many emotions can be easily managed by increasing intake of specific herbs and being aware of your diet, starting exercise therapies outdoors with exposure to sunlight, and changing certain lifestyle habits.” Having daily routines and habits that involve medicinal herbs can be so impactful to our health and well-being. It was my interest in Chinese plants that led me to this book. I had seen it around and purchased it after a recommendation from some acupuncturists/TCM food nutrition therapists.
There are 7 chapters and each chapter provides a patient case study followed by analysis, and food and herbal remedies that you can try at home. There are appendices that go into yin-yang theory, the five elements theory, different constitutions, helpful acupressure points, and a glossary of Chinese herbs.
The analysis of each case study expands upon balancing yin and yang dualities, our constitutions, which I found the most fascinating parts of the book. For example, in Chapter 2, excessive happiness is something that you can treat!