Čínská medicína pro moderní svět – Kihn Douglas E. (2021)

"Traditional Chinese medicine is at the forefront of the current movement for a healthy lifestyle (Yang Sheng Fa). It is universally applicable and also integrates the mind, body, and environment into a single whole. The book is intended for students and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine as well as patients (and potential patients). The first part of the book will teach you to understand the basic terminology and theory of Chinese medicine well. The second part will introduce you to the subject of pathology – diseases and injuries that are common in the modern world population. Through the language of Chinese medicine, you will learn how unhealthy habits, such as succumbing to fear, worries, haste, and overeating, cause us mental and physical pain, fatigue, overweight, mental illnesses, and other health issues. In the third part, you will find tips and advice that you can undertake based on therapies of traditional Chinese medicine to identify deeply rooted causes of disharmony and the possibility of their removal through effective means (herbs, diet, etc.). At the end of each chapter, there are questions that allow you to test how well you have understood the topic of that particular chapter, and each chapter also offers a short paragraph titled "Into Action" with specific practical recommendations that can be...