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Body Wisdom: Self-Healing Using Chinese and Natural Medicine
A unique book that gives an insight and understanding of the body and it's symptoms according to Chinese Medicine. Includes practical self-help techniques together with a variety of natural therapies such as food cures, flower remedies and herbs that are recommended to help restore harmony and balance to body, mind and spirit.
208 pages, Paperback
First published October 25, 1997
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Jennifer Harper
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March 6, 2024
No one surpasses Donna Eden, who blends meridians and chakras of self-healing energy. As I delve more into Chinese, Indian, and other natural methods; I see that everything is easily shared between animals and humans.
Jennifer Harper does not mix sources as the synopsis suggested. She highlights useful, accessible, Chinese Medicine tools into a very helpful guide for beginners. Flower essences were included briefly. Our organs’ meridian paths only appear in diagrams. These healing spots deemed powerful by Donna and me are not featured.
Acupressure points and food are the focal points, with even herbs receiving uncharacteristically minor mention. I will try the stretches that are beneficial to each organ element group. Their meditations are identical. Knowing the importance of herbs, clearing our meridians, and chakras caused me to question this tutorial’s completeness.
Furthermore, there are numerous warm foods to counter cold conditions and vice versa. Naming the organs’ traditional food healing associations was unnecessary. There was little inclusion for vegetarians. It was disturbing when Jennifer mentioned the beloved “horse” as one organ healing “food”! Since she made a note that she objected to it: better never to perpetuate it! This book was published in 1997: time to leave animals in peace!
Dramatic redundancy of forcing the word “gentle” into already soft things, like meditation and the act of breathing, got grating enough to remove a star. Also needlessly inconvenient, irrelevant to Jennifer being from England, were strange fruit and other names; instead of the food words everyone commonly uses.
Four stars attest that many things were done well in “Body Wisdom: Self-Healing Using Chinese And Natural Medicine”. An introduction explains treatment steps, leaving the book free to present organs, problem symptoms, and cure recommendations in neat, single layouts. This makes them easy for anyone to print and refer to.
Jennifer Harper does not mix sources as the synopsis suggested. She highlights useful, accessible, Chinese Medicine tools into a very helpful guide for beginners. Flower essences were included briefly. Our organs’ meridian paths only appear in diagrams. These healing spots deemed powerful by Donna and me are not featured.
Acupressure points and food are the focal points, with even herbs receiving uncharacteristically minor mention. I will try the stretches that are beneficial to each organ element group. Their meditations are identical. Knowing the importance of herbs, clearing our meridians, and chakras caused me to question this tutorial’s completeness.
Furthermore, there are numerous warm foods to counter cold conditions and vice versa. Naming the organs’ traditional food healing associations was unnecessary. There was little inclusion for vegetarians. It was disturbing when Jennifer mentioned the beloved “horse” as one organ healing “food”! Since she made a note that she objected to it: better never to perpetuate it! This book was published in 1997: time to leave animals in peace!
Dramatic redundancy of forcing the word “gentle” into already soft things, like meditation and the act of breathing, got grating enough to remove a star. Also needlessly inconvenient, irrelevant to Jennifer being from England, were strange fruit and other names; instead of the food words everyone commonly uses.
Four stars attest that many things were done well in “Body Wisdom: Self-Healing Using Chinese And Natural Medicine”. An introduction explains treatment steps, leaving the book free to present organs, problem symptoms, and cure recommendations in neat, single layouts. This makes them easy for anyone to print and refer to.
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