The Body Owner's Manual : An Acupuncturist's Teachings on Health and Well-Being

by Deborah A. DeGraff, Adelaide Tyrol (Illustrator)

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Western medicine emphasizes treating disease, while traditional Chinese medicine is a healing art, focusing on getting a person's energy, spirit, and well-being in balance. In The Body Owner's Manual, acupuncturist Deborah DeGraff blends West and East with self-care skills that help you improve your health and quality of life. Illnesses, aches, and other physical symptoms are "distress signals" communicating a problem or imbalance. Listening to your body's signals will help you make changes that bring your mind and body into harmony.

Part I of The Body Owner's Manual presents an overview of the basics of Chinese medicine and self-care, including Qi (energy), diet, relaxation, strengthening the immune system, cleansing and detoxification, and emotional health. Part II is a self-care guide for healing specific ailments. If you're recovering from a physical injury, gentle massage helps release the emotional trauma, yoga balances the injured and uninjured sides, and acupuncture helps heal broken bones. Decrease chronic low-back pain by minimizing stress, caffeine, and sugar; strengthening your abdominal muscles; and eating black beans, walnuts, and warm foods. The ideas are clear and practical, with suggestions that can't help but improve your health and well-being. --Joan Price

Book Description
Today, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and other nontraditional ways of healing are gaining newfound acceptance and validity in the Western medical world. In this comprehensive book, acupuncturist Deborah DeGraff presents an all-purpose health care guide based upon preventive care and the balance of energy, or qi.

By keeping your body, mind, and spirit in harmony, you can enjoy good health. The Body Owner's Manual is your personal guide to reaching--and maintaining--that balance. This book outlines the many facets of alternative medicine and helps you form your own individual plan for diet, exercise, relaxation, and detoxification. Included is a self-care dictionary that lists common ailments and how to use preventive and holistic care to remedy them. Finally, real people share inspiring and encouraging stories of how they've used acupuncture and holistic medicine to recover from asthma, cope with grief, quit smoking and more. With The Body Owner's Manual, you'll learn how to use your body's natural energy to achieve the physical and spiritual balance that equals good health.

Synopsis
Introducing a complete self-care guide to prevention, nutrition, detoxification, energy maintenance, stress reduction, herbal remedies, exercise, and more--based on the ancient tradition of Chinese medicine. With THE BODY OWNER'S MANUAL, you'll learn how to use your body's natural energy to achieve the physical and spiritual balance that equals good health.

Acupuncturist Deborah DeGraff outlines many facets of alternative medicine and helps you form your own individual plan for diet, exercise, relaxation, and detoxification. Included is a self-care dictionary that lists common ailments and how to use preventive and holistic care to remedy them. Finally, real people share inspiring and encouraging stories of how they've used acupuncture and holistic medicine to recover from asthma, cope with grief, quit smoking, and more. With The Body Owner's Manual, you'll learn how to use your body's natural energy to achieve the physical and spiritual balance that equals good health.

Easy reading informative view of how to take care of you self October 26, 1999
Reviewer: Laura E. Albers (Streaker10@aol.com) from Maryland
This is an easy reading informative view of caring for yourself and the different aspects of your spiritual and physical side. Lots of comprehensive suggestions of how to take care of everyday problems in a body's life. Open minded to both western and eastern medicine with alternative views for your to maintain a healthy, happy body/home for your inward self. Recommend highly.

Helpful reference book that's easy to read and informative May 31, 1999
Reviewer: A reader from Singapore
DeGraff has simplified the complexities of Chinese healing into words easy to understand. There are categorized topics on helps and cures for various symptoms like cold, cold sores, weight gain with/without overeating, stress. Complete with diagrams to illustrate massage points for the different parts of your body. If you are facing health problems that Western medicine cannot help, this will be the book for you.