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True Wellness

How to Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Health
Series: True Wellness
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True Wellness is a comprehensive guide to achieving optimal health by integrating the strengths of Western and Eastern medicine. The authors, Dr. Aihan Kuhn and Catherine Kurosu, explain how exercise, nutrition, stress management, acupuncture, and qigong affect the body, providing practical advice, journaling prompts, and worksheets to foster new healthy behaviours.

This book offers strategies to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer, depression, weight issues, and heart disease, while guiding readers in creating a multidisciplinary care team for holistic support. Combining ancient wisdom with modern science, it encourages personal responsibility for healing and well-being in body, mind, and spirit.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for readers interested in health and wellness who want a balanced approach, blending Eastern and Western medical traditions. It suits those seeking practical tools to improve chronic conditions and develop lifelong healthy habits.

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True Wellness is a step-by-step guide to optimal health, blending the best of each medical tradition. The secret is combining the strengths of both Western and Eastern medicine to achieve the unique health goals of each patient.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

True Wellness is a step-by-step guide to optimal health, blending the best of each medical tradition. The secret is combining the strengths of both Western and Eastern medicine to achieve the unique health goals of each patient.

With this book you will:

  • Discover the strengths and benefits of both Eastern and Western medicine.
  • Treat and even overcome chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer, depression, weight loss, and heart disease.
  • Utilise journaling topics, questions, worksheets, checklists, and practical advice to prepare for and begin new, healthy behaviours.
  • Learn to create a multidisciplinary care team for a strong alliance between your Western health-care providers and Eastern practitioners.

The authors explain how exercise, nutritious food, stress management, acupuncture, and qigong affect the body, so you can make healthier choices. To help you move forward on a new path, they provide practical advice and worksheets to start simple daily exercise routines, eat a plant-based diet, and begin qigong practice.

True Wellness encourages individual responsibility and prepares you to take the first step on your healing journey. By combining ancient wisdom, cutting-edge scientific discoveries, and practical advice, this book will lead you through a transformation to true well-being in body, mind, and spirit.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781594396304

Publisher: YMAA Publication Center

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: YMAA Publication Center

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 3 Charts; 20 Halftones, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Catherine Kurosu, MD, LAc, graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1990 and a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology in 1995. In 2006, she became a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. 2009, she was certified as a medical acupuncturist through the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Helms Medical Institute. Dr. Kurosu is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Acupuncture. She has a master of science in Oriental medicine, from the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Honolulu. 2015, she became a licensed acupuncturist. 2018 she became a diplomate in Oriental medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Dr. Kurosu lives on O'ahu with her husband, and daughter, where she practices integrative medicine, blending Western and Eastern approaches to patient care. Aihan Kuhn, CMD, OBT, graduated from Hunan Medical University in China in 1982. Since 1992 has focused on holistic healing. In her practice, she has accumulated much success with holistic medicine patient care and education work. Her patients benefit from self-improvement with physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, as well as special exercises to enable them to participate in their own healing. She incorporates tai chi and qigong into healing methodologies, changing the lives of those who have struggled for many years with little relief from conventional medicine. Dr. Kuhn offers wellness programs, natural healing workshops, and professional training programs. These highly rated programs have produced many quality teachers and therapists. She is president of the Tai Chi and Qi Gong Healing Institute a nonprofit that promotes natural healing and prevention. Dr. Aihan Kuhn lives with her husband in Sarasota, Florida.

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