Description
Health remedies old and new
While life expectancy has risen sharply in affluent countries, years of good health have remained almost static. People suffer far more poor health than ever before-and western medicine seems powerless to prevent this. As a result, more and more people have been turning to alternative approaches to health and illness, especially those that have been tried and tested over many centuries.
Here are some original texts, rendered into modern idiom.
They include;
Yin and Yang as applied to human health, developed in China The two main systems of Yoga from India The advice of the Greek physician Hippocrates on self-treatment The Tantra on health from Tibet
The origins of T'ai Chi
The dietary advice of Muhammad, the founder of Islam
The psychological insights of the Persian physician, Razi The medical views of the German mystic, Hildegard
With introductions to each, they form a summary of ancient
wisdom on human wholeness. ISBN:9781905047154
