IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) affects approximately 20% of the population and the bad news is there is no cure with medical treatments only moderately effective at treating the symptoms.

If you have ever suffered from IBS then you will know how IBS sufferers feel. They shy away from public places, they stop participating in activities, they feel anxious, sadness and frustration that they are missing out on life. IBS sufferers in order to avoid stressful situations, give up the things that matter most.

Better Living With...IBS provides sufferers with a fully comprehensive program to managing their IBS based on the highly respected psychological approach known as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The ACT approach proposes that most of the suffering experienced by IBS patients comes from the feeling of missing out on valued life activities and from over-focusing or trying to get rid of IBS experiences such as symptoms, negative thoughts or emotions. ACT offers an alternative solution of simply accepting them. If unwanted experiences caused by IBS are accepted and not struggled with, then the person will have more time, energy and willingness to engage in activities that really matter in life.

Better Living With...IBS is structured in a simple, user-friendly workbook format, and includes numerous practical exercises to help the reader implement the approach effectively in their own life.

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Maria Mitchell

This is not your usual run of the mill general interest aromatherapy book you
would find on your local bookstore shelf.

This is a highly professional, specialised book for practitioners of clinical aromatherapy and aromatic medicine.  The author Maria Mitchell, has both practised and taught aromatherapy for over eight years, educating her students on the responsible practice and application of essential oils.

This book is well laid out and easy to use, with a ring binder allowing it to lay flat, and with each of the 100 oils described on the two facing pages.  The oils are in alphabetical order, and the plant names from which the oil is extracted is given in it's common and scientific or botanical form.

The following information is also provided. The type of extraction method, and which part of the plant is used. It's constitutuents with the highest percentage listed first.  Therapeutic properties, with the primary, significant  and notable properties noted (as listed) in order of the importance of their therapeutic properties, by the number of crosses given to each property

eg. Rosemary:
It's main properties are analgesic and expectorant (3 crosses) while it's 'lesser' properties are antispasmodic and rubefacient, indicated by 1 cross.

This is a very good and clear way of seeing at a glance the major and minor properties each plant/oil has, without having to work it out.

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By Charles Chace & Miki Shima

The Eight Extraordinary Vessels are an enigmatic part of Chinese medicine that have long been waiting for serious discussion. Charles Chace and Miki Shima's magnificent translation now, finally, does justice to Li Shi-Zhen's famous Exposition on the subject.

Li Shi-Zhen's Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels (Qi jing ba mai kao) is among the most remarkable texts in the Chinese medical literature. Bringing together writings on acupuncture, herbal medicine, and internal cultivation (nei dan), it argues that aspiring adepts and physicians alike must understand the full scope of the extraordinary vessels if they hope to achieve their respective goals.

Title: 'An Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels: Acupuncture, Alchemy  and Herbal Medicine'
Authors: Charles Chace and Miki Shima
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An Evidence Based Approach to Treatment
By Prof. Daniel Weber PhD MSc

This book includes an ONLINE DATABASE featuring 35 formulas, 180 fully referenced herbs, 52 isolates and numerous research articles and reference file.

Today's "Modern" Chinese Herbal Medicine incorporates not only the use of traditional plant medicines and applications, but also a wide array of newly discovered medicinally active plants. Today we not only use whole plants, but their isolated active constituents. Understanding the molecular biology of plant constituents we can use them precisely, choosing to up-regulate or inhibit a specific cellular pathway with a high degree of precision and confidence.

Dr. Daniel Weber has been a pioneer in the research and clinical applications of herbs and isolates in all phases of oncology treatment and recovery. Daniel Weber is an accomplished international lecturer and author, and visiting Professor at Tianjin University of TCM. Daniel holds the Vice-Chairmanship in Oncology of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies and is a leading expert in Integrative Oriental Medicine.

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Authors: WU Bo-Ping and Jason BLALACK.

In the spring of 2007, Jason Blalack asked his mentor, Wu Bo-Ping, what was the most important Chinese medical text to translate into English. After a few moments of thought, Dr. Wu presented Jason with a tattered paperback copy of the original edition of Qin Bo-Wei’s New Guidelines for Treatment (zhi liao xin lu, c. 1953), a manuscript that for all intents and purposes had been lost during the Cultural Revolution. That is the text that forms the framework of this exciting new book.

Qin Bo-Wei (1901-1970) was among the most important physicians of the modern era. As a prominent clinician, educator, and scholar, he worked to integrate classical schools of thought and created one of the most coherent systems for understanding Chinese medicine during a critical time of intense turbulence in China’s history. Wu Bo-Ping was one of Dr. Qin’s students and is among the few who are still living today.

Translated and presented to a Western audience for the first time, Qin’s original work is enriched by Dr. Wu’s extensive commentary, which transforms it into a hands-on guide on how to effectively practice herbal medicine.

An excellent clinical manual, this book primarily teaches a method of thinking that serves as a foundation for a lifelong approach to herbal medicine. An understanding of how to use the core concepts presented here allows one to effectively treat the majority of diseases seen in the contemporary clinic.

The text itself is unique in its presentation and differs from other clinical manuals in a number of ways:

• Organized by treatment method. Teaches a way of emulating the thought underlying a prescription without being tied to its specified ingredients or original indications, thereby reflecting the thinking of Chinese medicine’s greatest clinicians. Ultimately, this approach opens up treatment possibilities that are often ignored in conventional textbooks.
• Small number of ingredients. Dr. Qin’s prescriptions contain a small number of precisely combined ingredients, administered in small doses.
• Explains how to use processed medicinals. The book provides detailed explanations about how to use processed medicinals (?? 
  páo zhì).
• Based on influential lineage. This text imparts a wealth of clinical knowledge rooted in the tradition of an influential Chinese medicine lineage.

"This book is a major step in the dissemination of Qin Bo-Wei’s ideas. Perhaps more importantly, it represents a highly refined vision of how Chinese medicine can be understood in the West. Here we are presented with much more than a list of signs and symptoms linked to a pattern, which in turn is linked to a fixed formula. 
Instead, this book illustrates the nuances inherent in every step of the diagnostic and treatment process." – Charles Chace, author of A Qin Bowei Anthology

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Author: Daniel Weber, PhD, M.Sc.
First Published: October 2009

‘Introduction to Integrative Oncology’ presents herbs, compounds and supplements, which have research and proven clinical application to support patients in cancer recovery. Many cancer patients seek out complementary treatments, by some estimates up to 80%. In many cases the solutions are either ineffective or dangerous. This Introduction to Integrative Oncology book looks only at those complementary medicines, which have research to show their efficacy as well as their application in treatment.

Daniel Weber gives a comprehensive background to orthodox Western scientific understanding of cancer biology. Studies of CAM in cancer treatment are also described in detail with both positive and negative reports clearly catalogued. The book tables a comprehensive annotated listing of CAM methods and medicinals from both ‘Western’ and Chinese practice for use both with cancer, chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well as for Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy side effects.

What practitioners have said about this book
“In this book, Daniel presents a significant contribution to the use of TCM and CAM in cancer management. It is a book every integrative practitioner would want in his or her reference library”.
Dr. Hilton Lowe, MBBS/MD

“Chinese herbal medicine has a long history of use in oncology. Over the last 50 years it has been successfully integrated into Western oncology protocols in many hospitals and Universities in China. Daniel Weber’s research and translation of much of this literature brings important information to Western practitioners, both orthodox and complementary”.
Daniel Deng, B.TCM, Ma. Acu, O.M.D., MAACMA

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We have a new book out in March 2012 it’s called Growing Yourself Up and its premise would make for great feature stories…

We may be fully grown adults but many of us have room to grow in being emotionally mature in our relationships.

How many times have you blamed the other person for a problem? How many times have you let fly with your emotions? Sometimes you probably find yourself thinking that if only the people around you could grow up then life would be much easier!

However, blaming the other person in relationships is fruitless because the only person we can change and control is our own self.

“’My husband doesn’t make any effort to show me he cares.’ ‘I have given everything to my daughter; why can’t she get her life together?’ ‘My parents never encouraged me and now I am suffering for it.’ There’s a common thread to the complaints or concerns that many people bring to a counsellor’s office”, says author Jenny Brown in the book. “The problem is the other person and everything would be better if that person realised this. Many are often surprised to hear me say that the only change effort I think is productive is to figure out what can be changed about ourselves.”

Growing Yourself Up will teach you that genuine maturity for life starts with learning to observe ourselves in our relationships, and appreciating that problems are not just in the individual but also in the interconnections — the relationship systems — with others.

Few of us like to think that as adults we still could benefit from a bit more maturity, but when we are willing to be more real about our relating patterns and work to change ourselves, the benefits for us and our relationships can be profound.
Drawing from Bowen family systems theory, Growing Yourself Up takes you through the relationships we experience in our life time – from being a single young adult to marriage to having children to divorces to midlife crisis and old age – to see the predictable patterns of relationships and to show you how to use this knowledge to make purposeful adjustments in yourself. The result, though certainly not a quick fix, is a sturdier self, sturdier relationships and a refreshing new way of viewing life’s challenges and opportunities.

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By Jennie LONGBOTTOM.

This DVD is intended to augment the clinical training received from the myofascial trigger point training courses and contains: 

• A brief overview of myofascial pain pathology
• Correct trigger point needling technique
• Origins and insertions of muscles covered
• Individual pain referral patterns for each muscle covered
• Safe effective trigger point needling techniques
• Relevance of underlying anatomical structures to ensure safe needling
• Relevant stretching techniques for each muscle covered

Running time: 110 minutes
Language: English Aspect Ratio: 16:9 FHA Format: PAL Region: 0
Classification: E (exempt from classification)

Please note: This DVD is designed to be played on domestic DVD players, and playback on computers may result in picture or sound problems.

RRP $95
CHINA BOOKS Special Price: $80.75

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'Li Shi-zhen’s Pulse Studies - An Illustrated Guide' by Li Shen-Qing and William Morris.

Pulse diagnosis is an essential tool in Chinese Medicine and a serious level of effort is needed to acquire this technique.

To help with this pursuit, authors Li and Morris have created a focused guide to pulses in the style of Li Shi-zhen, with an emphasis on a thorough understanding of the 27 pulse images.

This book offers a clear description of how to distinguish the various pulses and a comprehensive commentary of their clinical significance and allows us to understand the subtleties of not just the main 8 but the full range of pathogenic pulses. This book with its many comparative tables and illustrations could be your key to unlocking pulse secrets. 

Available now! Contact us to purchase your copy or view the attachment for more details.

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The distinguished translators Paul U. UNSCHULD and Hermann TESSENOW have rendered this beautiful body of work which is the first annotated English translation of the ancient Chinese life sciences text based on an application of rigorous philological principles.

A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, 'The Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen' is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as 'Su Wen' or 'The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic', this influential work came into being over a long period reaching from the 2nd century bce to the 8th century ce. Combining the views of different schools, it relies exclusively on natural law as conceptualized in 'yin/yang' and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the length and quality of one’s life.

This two-volume edition includes excerpts from all the major commentaries on 'The Su Wen' and extensive annotation drawn from hundreds of monographs and articles by Chinese and Japanese authors produced over the past 1600 years and into the twentieth century.

This translation of a 2,000 year-old text introduces readers to ideas, and their linguistic expression, developed in Han China in the context of the manipulation of the length and the quality of human life so that it might last as long as possible with minimal physical and mental suffering.

Not for the faint-hearted, this text is for the tenacious practitioner willing to explore these beginnings and compare them to today's realities so that a realistic awareness may emerge.

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People's Medical Publishing House has published a little gem for us in English. It is called 'Huang Huang's Guide to Clinical Applications of Classical Formulas' by Professor Huang Huang. I am sure many of you have heard of this book but have thus far been unable to read it due to the fact it was only available in Mandarin and Japanese until now!

In the past two decades, Dr Huang has focused his clinical practice on applying the valuable knowledge of the classical formulas and researching the classical medical texts.

This is a quick reference guide to apply the knowledge of over 65 ancient Chinese formulas from the Treatise on Cold Damage and the Essentials from the Golden Cabinet as well as 10 personalized formulas from Dr. Huang Huang’s clinical experience.

It is essentially a condensed summary of the Professor’s lifetime of clinical experience on applying the knowledge of the classical herbal texts to treat modern illness. The original formula composition, as well as the one Dr. Huang now uses in his practice, are referenced.

This hardback guide book is as condense and clear as possible with the idea of reviving the understanding and applicability of classical formula for use in the clinic today. With just over 300 pages it is sure to enlighten many readers.

RRP: $57.95  Discount Price: $49.25

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"Atlas of Blood and Qi Disorders in Chinese Medicine" is an excellent new book on Blood and Qi disorders in Chinese Medicine.

Author: Zhao Ziyang and Xuemei Li.
Publisher: Eastland Press

In Chinese medicine, qi and blood are the most fundamental elements of the human body, and disorders affecting either of them can give rise to a variety of conditions. Dysfunctions or abnormalities of the channels, collaterals, and the various tissues and organs of the body are all related to changes in the qi and blood.  Understanding and treating these disorders is therefore very important in clinical practice.

Atlas of Blood and Qi Disorders in Chinese Medicine provides over a hundred vivid photographic examples of blood and qi disorders drawn from actual clinical practice along with a discussion of associated clinical manifestations, diagnostic procedures, and treatment principles and methods.

Individual chapters are devoted to patterns of qi deficiency, blood deficiency, hot and cold blood, blood statis, and bleeding as well as the tongue signs related to these disorders. The book also discusses associated eight parameter and organ theory, with many helpful summary tables at the end of each chapter.

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By David Kuoch

From the author who brought you the very popular 'Acupuncture Desk Reference' series, now comes the 'Massage Desk Reference'!

David Kuoch's 'Massage Desk Reference' is a collection of information assembled to help practitioners to become highly effective in treatment and successful in practice. Extremely popular with students and practitioners, this 458-page clinic reference book is essential for all massage therapists. MDR includes chapters on:

• Acupressure / Shiatsu
• Swedish and Deep Tissue
• Thai Massage
• Tuina
• Reflexology
• Lymphatic
• Energy Work
• Anatomy
• Pain Patterns
• Qi Gong
• Botanicals
• Exercises
• Food as Medicine
• Drugs
• Western Medicine
• Clinical Practice Aids
• Resources

One third of this book is devoted to Western and Complementary Medicine, which allows the massage therapist to check for drugs, labs, interactions, botanicals, nutrients and supplements. A resource section provides the most up-to-date information for your everyday clinical practice, including insurance providers, suppliers and general health forms for your massage practice.

In practice, a massage therapist already knows the information, but needs a comprehensive but concise reference to refresh his/her memory. Therapists are expected to have clinical knowledge and skills across many fields, and 'Massage Desk Reference' provides the essentials for clinical practice. As a pocket reference, its size makes it streamlined and durable. It fits in the palm of your hand that is easy to navigate in a clinical or home setting.

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By Sun Si Miao, translated by Sabine Wilms.

These 3 volumes are part of a 30 volume set that represent Sun Si Miao's extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine during the Tang dynasty. It covers pathological mechanisms, diagnostic protocols, acupuncture and moxibustion treatment strategies, and pharmacology.

These 3 volumes are the OBGYN and Gynecological works, and covers in depth topics such as:

• Infertility
• Menstrual Difficulties
• Fetal Education
• Labor
• Child Birth
• Postpartum Care
• Birth Control
• Herbal Abortions.

Student/practitioner Price $255  (RRP$300)

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