Ta-hung Cho

Here are healing methods from the crossroads where anicent Chinese folk wisdom meets modern Western medicine. They may help you avoid costly, frustrating doctor visits and medicines with potentially damaging side effects. Compiled, tested and prescribed by Chinese doctors, they may help you:

Increase energy.
Lower blood pressure.
Relieve headaches and backaches.
Strengthen your immune system.
Get to sleep quickly and soundly.
Cure constipation without drugs.
Prevent gum diseases.

Plus:

Hundreds of other remedies for complaints such as the common cold condition, hemorrhoids, poor postrue, even flat feet.

Official manual of the People's Rebublic of China.

This book is a marvelous collection of exercises from China that can improve your health. The book starts off with an overview of the history of Chines healing exercises, than goes into who should use these exercises. (Of course, with any exercise program, you should check with your doctor first - that's common sense.)
It covers all sorts of health problems, from heart disease to hepatitis as well as hemmorhoids, constipation and colds - they have a massage to prevent the common cold I intend to use this year and see if it works.
Most of the exercises have some stretching, massages and breathing exercises which most folks could probably do without overly exerting themselves. That helps make the exercise part much easier. There are also various illustrations thru out the book that help explain the process of the exercise. There are a few exercises to 'cure' insomnia that are extremely helpful to me - cheaper and easier than taking a drug to help bring sleep and you don't have that nasty foggy feeling the next morning.
I recommend this book highly, if for nothing else, the insomnia prevention exercises tho the other exercises are good, too. So instead of watching QVC all night or tossing and turning, try this book - I think you will be quite happy you did.-Patricia R. Andersen

The book contains therapeutic exercises for different parts
of the body and it helps a lot. It is a good reference when
you want to help yourself.-Mark A. Liston

Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter One An introduction to healing exercise
The development of heaing exercise in China
The forms and methods of healing exercise
Healing exercise is valuable
More reasons for doing healing exercise
Develoop a routine for your healing exercise
No exercise during fever
How to self-monitor your healing exercise program
Healing exercise at school
More ways to healp yourself heal
Chapter Two Healing exercises for everyone
Five animal play
Strengthening with yee chin ching
Pa tuan chin-The eight sets of embroidery
Shih erh tuan chin-The twelve sets of embroidery
The Chinese and waist trainng
The benefits of tai chi chuan
Why tai chi is special
The way of tai chi chuan
Exercise from tai chi
Why Chinese massage is unique
How ch'i kung builds energy and health
How ch'i kung relieves disease
Becoming a ch'i kung master
Ch'i kung step by step
Strange sensations and ch'i kung
Fang sung kung-Relaxation breathing
Ch'iang chuang kung-Invigorating breath
Nei yang kung-Internally nourishing breathing
The up and down gymnastic breathing exercise
Doing tai chi rod
The ancient art of tsa fu pei-Knocking at the gate of life
Li shou-What hand swinging can do for you
Running for health
More reasons to run
How far, how fast and how often to run
Rules for running
Sunbathing the Chinese way
The benefits of cold water bathing
Bathing in the air
Eye exercises can help prevent nearsightedness
Hair loss and therapeutic exercise
Chapter Three Combating heart and circulatory disease
Who should-and shouldn't-exercise
Precautions for exercising heart patients
The pace-determined walking program
Breathing exercises and the heart patient
How healing exercise helps high blood pressure
Cautions for the exercising hypertensive
High blood pressure and the gentle art of ch'i kung
Other exercises to lower blood pressure
Exercise prevents and treats hardening of the arteries
Coronary artery disease and healing exercise
How much exercise for coronary patients?
Exercises that help heal coronary artery disease
Set A: The complete set of therapeutic exercises for patients with coronary artery disease
Set B: Healing exercises for patients recovering form hart attacks
Buerger's disease
Can purpura be prevented with healing exercise?
Warming cold hands and cold feet
Chapter Four Breathe easier with exercise
Preventing the common cold with self-massage
Chronic obstrucive pulmonary disease
Emphysema and exercse
Exercises for those with emphysema
Fitness exrcsiss for emphysema patients
Breathing exrcises
Massaging the chest
Elderly bronchitis patients can be helped by heaing exercise
Exercise and bronchial asthma
Exercises to help silicosis patients
What to do if you have chest pain while exercising
Healing pleurisy
Treating TB ih healing exercise
Points to keep in mind
Chapter Five Improving your digestion wth exercise
Curing constipation
Relieving indigestion with massage
Strengthening the muscles of the abdominal wall
Preventing hemorrhoids
Exercises to help prevent rectal prolapse
Self-massage for stomach and intestinal problems
Healing stomach and intestinal ulcers
How physical exercise can help diabetes
Preventing gallbladder disease with healing exercise
Exercise and the hepatitis patient
Diagnosing and treating acute abdominal pain
Healing exercises for inflammations of the intestine and colon
Ch'i kung and gastroptosis
Obesity
Can fat be reduced by massaging the abdomen?
Chapter Six Healing the nervous system
Depression
Exercise systems for depression
Curing insomnia
Preventing motion sickness
Treating sciatica with exercise
Brain concussion
Help for paralytics
Healing exercises for paraplegics
Physical fitness for paraplegics
Epileptic children and exercise
Paralysis and therapeutic exercise
Chapter Seven Relaxing and toning muscles and bones
Preventing and easing arthiritis
How exercise can help rheumatioid arthritis
Exercises for spinal deterioration
Healing arthritis of the shoulder
Freeing frozen shoulders
Exercises for low back pain
Healing loin strains with exercise
Preventing knee strain
Healing exercises for knee strain
Healing shoulder and neck pain
Correcting rounded shoulders
Exercises for flatfeet
Exercise and spinal curvature
Exercises for sadddle back
Exercises for round back
Pigeon breast and exercise
Chapter Eight Healing the genito-urinary system
Exercise for an easier pregnancy and birth
Exercises for pregnancy
Healing exercises for after the baby
How healing exercise can help painful periods
The muscles of the pelvic floor
Heailing a prolapsed uterus
Pelvic inflammatory disease and therapeutic exercise
Healing cystitis
Exercises for prostatitis and vesiculitis
Exercises for varicocele
Index… (mais)