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Oriental Materia...
From time to time for the past 2000 years. Chinese scholars have compiled botanical registers known as pen tsao, listing the varieties and applications of medicinal herbs in current use. The herbs so listed have grown in number from 365 (Han dynasty, A.D. 25) to 1894 (Ming dynasty, 1590), although the number in relatively common use today is considerably less than 1000. In the true spir...
Structure Activity...
Surveys over 120 species of plants, many of them used in Chinese traditional or folk medicine to treat cancer. Reports on the scientific screening of compounds isolated from plants that have shown cytotoxic and/or antitumor activity. Examines the structures of active compounds and mechanisms of action for sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, triterpenes, steroids, alkaloids, and others. Each yea...
Common Health Complaints
Descriptions of various common complaints and symptoms such as headaches, constipation, obesity, stff shoulders, acne and impotence.
Listings of proven herbal formulas effective against these complaints.
Personnal stories, vividly told, from the author's own experience as a practicing chinese herbal physician.
The Way to Good Health...
A concise and easily understood guidebook to Chinese herbal medicine. The Way to Good Health with Chinese Herbs covers diet therapy for various problems and outlines herbal formulas for specific diseases.
The Yoga of Herbs - An...
For the first time, here is a detailed explanation and classification of herbs, using the ancient system of Ayurveda. More than 250 herbs are listed, with 88 herbs explained in detail. Included are many of the most commonly used western herbs with a profound Ayurvedic perspective. Important Chinese and special Ayurvedic herbs are introduced. Beautiful diagrams and charts, as well as deta...
Shaolin Long Fist Kung...
This 4-hour-long DVD contains the fundamental training sequences of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, instructed by world-renown author and teacher Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming. These sequences have been trained in the Jing Wu Association and Nanking Central Guoshu Institute since the early 1900's and can help the martial artist build a proper foundation in the Long Fist (Chang Chuan) style. This video ...
White Crane: Hard -...
This DVD presents both White Crane Hard and Soft Qigong training. Hard Qigong strengthens muscles, tendons and ligaments and develops strength and flexibility of the torso and spine. Soft Qigong training includes exercises for the hands, fingers, arms, and lungs, and the complete moving set of White Crane Soft Qigong.
Exploring Tai Chi -...
Exploring Tai Chi helps students to understand the intricacies of Tai Chi training, as well as the underlying motives and psychological processes involved in any ongoing practice of this ancient discipline. This book focuses on 'disclosure' and 'empowerment' for the Tai Chi practitioner. What to expect of your training, how to progress in your training, and how to implement the principl...
Taiji Chin Na - The...
Chin Na is the art of seizing and controlling, and is an element of all Chinese martial arts including Taijiquan. Today, most people practice Taijiquan to maintain health or cure sickness. For the last fifty years the martial aspects of Taijiquan have been ignored, and the art is now incomplete. Most practitioners no longer understand the martial applications of Taijiquan, or even that ...
Comprehensive...
Quite a few books have been published on the subject of Chin Na (Qin Na), the proven seizing techniques of Chinese martial arts. However, most books focus on the introduction of techniques themselves, and contain very little or no discussion on application in actual combat situations. This seizing art has thus been confined to stage performances instead of real combat use.