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What Is Qi? (And Other Concepts)

By Christopher Hafner

Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on a very simple principle: any system that is in harmony tends towards health, wellbeing, and sustainability. A system that is in disharmony tends towards illness, disease, suffering, and collapse.

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Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine

The promise and mystery of Chinese medicine has intrigued and fascinated Westerners ever since the “Bamboo Curtain” was lifted in the early 1970s.

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Harriet Beinfield, Efrem Korngold
1992
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Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life (20th Anniversary Edition)

Uses the five element system of Chinese cosmology--wood, fire, earth, metal, and water--to analyze physical and emotional distress, and recommends therapies to restore health. Does your back pain flare up in the evening? Perhaps your water element is weak.

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Gail Reichstein, Robert Rex (foreword), Jessica DePete (foreword), Florence Patsy Roth (foreword)
2018
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The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine

The Web That Has No Weaver is the classic, comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of Chinese alternative medicine. This accessible and invaluable resource has earned its place as the foremost authority in synthesizing Western and Eastern healing practices.

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Ted Kaptchuk
2000
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Everyday Chinese Medicine: Healing Remedies for Immunity, Vitality, and Optimal Health

This friendly guide to a 2,000-year-old lineage of healing wisdom integrates both the Five Element theory and the practices of traditional Chinese medicine to uncover what your body needs for balance and optimal health.

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Mindi K. Counts
2025
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The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication

This reference explores Qabbalah, Sibyls, Fairies, Poltergeists; phenomena such as intuition and karma; objects useful in the attempt to cross the divide, including tarot cards, flower reading, and runes; and related practices such as Shamanism, transfiguration, meditation, and mesmerism.

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Raymond Buckland
2005
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Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind-Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time

What does it take to make you feel "high"? Do you routinely reach for caffeine, alcohol, cigarettes, or sugary snacks to get you through the day? Unfortunately, the quick fixes we have become accustomed to don't work long-term, and often contribute further to the underlying problems of fatigue,...

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Hyla Cass, Patrick Holford
2003
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Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections

Despite Centers for Disease Control estimates that only 20,000 new Lyme disease infections occur each year, the true figure, as Harvard medical school researchers have found, nearly approaches 200,000. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to incapacitating mental dysfunction.

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Stephen Harrod Buhner
2005
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Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections: Complementary and Holistic Treatments for Bartonella and Mycoplasma

A guide to the natural treatment of two of the most common and damaging coinfections of Lyme disease--Bartonella and Mycoplasma • Reveals how these conditions often go undiagnosed, complicate Lyme treatment, and cause a host of symptoms--from arthritis to severe brain dysfunction • Outlines...

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Stephen Harrod Buhner
2013
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The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature

Reveals the use of direct perception in understanding Nature, medicinal plants, and the healing of human disease • Explores the techniques used by indigenous and Western peoples to learn directly from the plants themselves, including those of Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, and Masanobu Fukuoka,...

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Stephen Harrod Buhner
2004
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Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-resistant Bacteria (2nd Edition)

With antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise, herbal remedies present a naturally effective alternative to standard antibiotics.

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Stephen Harrod Buhner
2012
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