Simple Steps: The Chinese Way to Better Health - Softcover

Jaffee, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439218366 ISBN 13: 9781439218365

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Sound and essential, Simple Steps: The Chinese Way to Better Health by Lynn Jaffee is a fully enlightening health text that has the ability to change lives. In layman’s terms, Jaffee presents methods to treat the whole person, mind, body and soul. Written as a primer and an interactive workbook, this text is designed to help readers understand and improve their health using Chinese medicine. In thirteen chapters, the author dissects Eastern ways of dealing with common ailments. With titles such as “Balancing Yin and Yang,” “The Organ Systems” and “Tongue and Pulse Diagnosis,” a well-paced progression evolves that helps the reader understand this dynamic and ancient approach to health and wellbeing. There is a reason Chinese medicine has been around for so long; the modalities observe the whole body and can be very effective avenues of fighting chronic illnesses. As many Westerners have learned, one ailment often leads to another. This is the alternative—and it really is that simple.

About this title

About the Author

Professionally, Lynn Jaffee has promoted good health for over two decades. She is a nationally certified and state licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist. She received a master's degree in Eastern medicine from the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Bloomington, Minnesota. She maintained an acupuncture practice in Minnesota for twenty years. As a public speaker, Lynn has presented to groups of all sizes on topics related to acupuncture and Chinese medicine. She is widely published in trade publications and periodicals, and is the co-author of The Bodywise Woman. Lynn works as a free-lance writer and author, and lives and works from her home in Edina, Minnesota.

From the Back Cover

Acupuncturist and herbalist Lynn Jaffee makes a number of bold moves in Simple Steps: The Chinese Way to Better Health, a learned and savvy treatise on how to tackle Western health issues with Eastern Medicine.

Jaffee does something altogether unique in this book by taking a fascinating "whole body" approach that enables and empowers readers to do exactly the same. All too often we find ourselves at the doctor's office and are offered symptom relief in the form of drugs or surgery without much explanation as to the cause of the problem. Chinese medicine treats the underlying source of your illness, and in doing so treats the symptoms. In thirteen chapters, the author defines Chinese medicine, shares its modalities, and then goes through the entire organ system and the imperative balance of yin and yang.

Edition details

• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439218366
• ISBN 13: 9781439218365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168