Folk Remedies That Work or Healing Art of QI Gong

Folk Remedies That Work: By Joan and Lydia Wilen, Authors of Chicken Soup and Other Folk Remedies

Author: Joan Wilen

From the popular authors of Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies, this updated and revised edition of Live and Be Well features a range of remedies to cure whatever ails you, including a new section on the popular kombucha tea mushroom. Folk Remedies That Work offer a wide variety of helpful solutions for everything from arthritis to headaches to wrinkles -- with an emphasis on natural medicine that is practical, time-test, and doctor approved.

Inside you'll find remedies that will help you to:

• Lose weight safely
• Give up smoking
• Get a better night's sleep
• Get rid of a canker sore in 48 hours
• Ease the pain of arthritis
• Improve your sex life

New interesting textbook: 21st Century Cook or Keep Cooking the Maine Way

Healing Art of QI Gong: Ancient Wisdom from a Modern Master

Author: Hong Liu

In Mastering Miracles, Dr. Hong Liu tells us his extraordinary story and reveals the awesome mysteries of Qi Gong. Starting with his medical practice in China, Dr. Liu describes how he risked his life under the Communist regime to study Qi Gong and meet secretly with a master who lived in a mountain cave above Shanghai. Then he brings us true-life case studies of the people he has treated - "miracle" cures based on the exercises, mind/body therapy, nutrition, and lifestyle changes that he shares here in detail. Used for cancer, AIDS, hypertension, arthritis, headaches, allergies, weight loss, stress, depression, and other ailments, Dr. Liu's program of Qi Gong is a healing approach that, much like acupuncture, unblocks and revitalizes the energy meridians of the body. Along with a complete Qi Gong program readers can practice on their own, Dr. Liu includes the "Golden Eight Exercises" recommended for clearing the body's energy meridians as well as herbal remedies for specific ailments.

Library Journal

Liu is a Chinese physician and Qi Gong master who believes that he was chosen to bring Eastern and Western systems of medicine together into a complementary whole. Now practicing traditional therapies in California, Liu tells his story with the help of Perry, who coauthored the best-selling Saved by the Light (Wheeler, 1991; Random, 1994. reprint) with Dannion Brinkley. Partly biological, partly philosophical, and partly prescriptive, the book is written in the first person, which gives it a casual feel. The somewhat overly long first half describes Liu's quest to become a Qi Gong master. The second half is a more clinical description of the Qi Gong process, which uses a patient's own energy fields to achieve a state of "radiant health," or wellness, with a regimen of diet, exercise, and herbal remedies assisting in the process. Liu illustrates his method with case studies and includes recipes for healing foods. Qi Gong may seem odd to Western sensibilities, but Liu is careful to point out that it should be undertaken in conjunction with standard medical treatments and with the knowledge of a physician. Recommended for libraries with a large alternative medicine collection or where demand is high.-Betty Braaksma, Thunder Bay P.L., Ontario

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
Pt. I	Becoming a Master	1
1	The Master	3
2	The Pinnacle of Qi	19
3	Gong Fu	37
4	The Chosen	55
5	Qi Gong, M. D.	71
6	The Mission	85
Pt. II	Studies in Healing	101
7	The Practice of Qi Gong	103
8	The Golden Eight Exercises	121
9	AIDS	149
10	Allergies	165
11	Arthritis	177
12	Prostate Cancer	193
13	Headaches	213
14	Hypertension	225
15	Stress and Depression	241
16	Stroke	255
17	Weight Loss	267
	Afterword	281
	Resources	285
	References	287