The Healing Power of Acupressure and Acupuncture: A Complete Guide to Accepted Traditions and Modern Practice

This accessible, up-to-date resource guide leads you through the foundations and techniques of acupressure and acupuncture.

 

Acupressure and acupuncture can relieve painful conditions such as migraine headaches, lower back pain, joint disorders, carpal tunnel syndrome, asthma, allergies, stress, nausea, heart problems, and many others. Today, most health-care plans cover these treatments, making them more popular than ever.

 

Filled with insights into the history of these two age-old therapies, The Healing Power of Acupressure and Acupuncture helps readers choose when to see a licensed therapist, and even provides information about doing certain treatments at home. Matthew D. Bauer delves deeply into the traditions and remarkable benefits of acupressure and acupuncture, explains the many benefits of both, describes techniques for self-treatment, and illustrates how Chinese healing can augment modern Western medicine.

 

Matthew D. Bauer, a Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, and qi-gong healer, studied Taoist philosophy with a 74th generation Taoist master. In investigating the roots of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, he also explores profound questions regarding issues of spirituality and the evolution of the human condition. Bauer has been in private practice for 19 years and writes a regular column for Acupuncture Today. He received an honorary Ph.D. in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Yuin University. Bauer maintains a practice at La Verne Acupuncture in La Verne California.