Healing with Chinese Herbs

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By Richard Hyatt

Publisher : Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

ABOUT Richard Hyatt

Richard Hyatt
Richard Hyatt has been involved in martial arts and Oriental medicine since 1967. He has studied and collaborated with Naburo Muramoto, the father of herbal medicine in America, and Kuo Lien Ying, Kung Fu master and Taoist. He has also taught martial arts at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Description

Herbal medicine has been practiced for thousands of years in China where it is held in equal esteem with acupuncture and Western medicine. Recent evidence suggests that certain drugs taken in their unrefined state, and in accordance with the laws of traditional Chinese medicine, are vastly more effective than synthetic medicines used in the West. This comprehensive guide to the Chinese herbal healing arts includes history, diagnosis, a pharmacopia, and methods of preparation.