Acupuncture Books

I will get my license in Clinical Massage Therapy next year. I will incorporate this guide into my practice. This book deals with help for a very wide range of negative and defeating emotions. I am learning, unreleased negative energy is often a very real contributor to chronic conditions, pain, tightness and stress.

Informative, easy to understand and put into practice. A must have book for anyone interested in self help via this method.

This is an excellent resource for your library. The descriptions are clear and the categories easy to access. Wonderful.

This book contains very good descriptive pictures to show you how to do the exercises of acupressure. It is a very useful self-help book to release negative blocked patterns and emotional traumas.

This book has many pictures and it is easy to follow. If you are looking to heal your body and emotions this is the book. Each chapter is nice and organized and explains why your body is feeling that way and how to heal it.

The Educated Heart captures the essence of optimizing tableside manner and conduct and should be required reading for every novice and veteran massage/bodyworker. It has the potential to upgrade the professional image of all manual practitioners.

Immensely readable and engaging, it covers every aspect of client-practitioner interaction. An indispensable source for all of my teaching.

Mark W. Dixon, NCTMB, HHP
Newport Beach CA

This book is exceptional!!!! It should be required reading at all massage therapy schools. Setting clear boundaries helps clients to take my profession more seriously. Some of the examples given have actually been experienced by me!!! Transference and countertransference were two words that were defined in my school but not how to deal with different ways in which people experience them.....Very needed and very helpful information covered this ground. The illustrations gave warm humor to each chapter. Thank you Nina McIntosh for this much needed book....one that will be referred to in my business for many years to come! Jeanenne Mace Ms.T.

I tell everyone to read this book. Especially massage therapist I coach. With all the drama's of life not every situation can be preconcieved and given an alternate in how to resolove situtations but this book gives you more than enough to understand and turn things around. Even my cleints who aren't in the field of bodywork asks for this book to be in my waiting room.The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

This is a must read, no matter what level a practitioner
is at- student, beginner, or, like me, in the field for
over a dozen years. A wonderfully, sensitively written
book about relationship dynamics in touch therapies, from someone who truly has walked the path we are all going to walk if we are involved in touch therapies, manual therapies, bodywork,
massage. I was fortunate to have some of this type of
training , in a very good way, when in schools, but I know
very well that it is rare, and getting more rare for schools
to provide these important insights. I know this because I teach the graduates of those schools, and sometimes receive work from those graduates. This, to me, is much more important than simply reading about "ethics", because a deeper understanding of relationship dynamics truly helps us form and understand our ethics in the first place. This is must-have insight for all schools to delve into,and provide ample training in- including the medical profession! If your work involves touch in a therapeutic way, read this book!
5 stars for this contribution to the field!

When I tell people that I'm a massage student, the predictable response is: "Think of me if you need anyone to practice on...". As I observe my desk piled high with books and search my schedule in vain for a free hour to massage my husband, this seems like the dumbest/most insensitive thing anyone could possibly say to me.
The Educated Heart deals with issues such as these: of boundaries as a massage student and how to approach people that are reluctant to pay the full price for massage therapy. In fact, this easy-to-read book is packed with insights and simple explanations of complex concepts (e.g. dual relationships, projection). If I had just one book in my massage collection, it would be this. I recommend it be required reading in every massage school.

This is the best book I have read in a long while. This is exactly whats happening in our world today and people need to know this truth. I was thrilled to see that Ms Gangi could write such an eye opener about holistic health. Connecting the body, mind and spirit in a natural way to heal all three. I found the section about children was even relevant to me today in my later years. It has been such a exciting book packed full of knowledge and insight. This one goes to all my children and grandchildren for Christmas this year!

This book continues where Book One left off and explains in greater detail the whys and hows to self-empowerment. Rayna's writing is concise and poetic and provokes emotional responses that lead you from your mind and body into your heart and soul, and you just feel that what she says is Truth. In a world of medications and operations, depression, sexual dysfunction, degenerative disease and violent children, Forget the Cures, Find the Cause, Book Two - The Circle is an inspiration as well as a workable tool in helping us to reclaim and regain our God given right to health and happiness. A perfect gift for everyone, especially parents and grandparents as we are the keepers of our children and our next generation.

This is an outstanding book that should be required reading for all. Rayna has a deep knowledge that I for one truly appreciate. Anyone that is sick or does not feel all that well will greatly appreciate this book.

If you are concerned with your health, your children, our planet...you owe it to yourself to read this book and incorporate its message into your life and your family.

If you're a firm believer in modern-day medicine and have no interest in taking care of your own body, then this book is not for you. But many people today are beginning to question the ability of their physicians to treat their whole body rather than just a set of symptoms, and they're looking for ways to take their health care into their own hands.

Rayna M. Gangi, a holistic healer with native American roots, begins this volume by providing considerable evidence that today's children are suffering much greater health risks than those of several decades ago, with the increase in vaccinations and behavior modification drugs. Chemicals in common household products and in the water they drink expose them to numerable toxins. And their diets are suffering due to soft drinks, sugary products and artificial sweeteners and colors.

She also explores the over-vaccination of pets and the poor quality of most pet foods. While the author doesn't mention the food poisoning which recently devastated many pet owners, that incident certainly does make one question what our pets are really eating.

As the circle implies, our journey begins with childhood, and this book wouldn't be complete unless it traveled the full arc into aging and death. The author touches on the concept of living life in circle, and living in harmony with the earth and its cycles. In a well-written and well-documented book, she shows us where we can make changes in our lives, so we can experience better health and happiness.

Rayna M. Gangi writes with warmth and compassion. She encourages us to ask questions, and to notice how our bodies feel when we bombard them with chemicals and mistreat them. Ultimately, she sees a world where we all respect our bodies, our environment, and each other.

Reviewer: Alice Berger
Bergers Book Reviews

Finally a book that lives up to the title.
Nicely written, stays w/in the scope of the book - clear photographs included.

Good primer on the subject.

An absolutely wonderful book. A complete step by step guide with full pictures and descriptions of the practitioner and client's positions. History and diagrams are informative.
Kam Thai Chow is a Master of great Excellence!
I am signed up to study wherever he goes!

thorough, user-friendly, and helpful.

Kam Thye Chow's book is fantastic. You will not be disappointed.

(I currently have the German version of this book, but I assume that the English one includes the same info.) I have just finished a course in Thai massage, and the traditional technique, as taught by Asokananda (aka Harald Brust), the man who brought Thai massage to the Western world, does NOT begin in the sitting position. Asokananda teaches the importance of beginning a massage at the feet, and then working upwards. From what I understand, this is important because Thai massage balances the energy in a body and the flow must go upwards through the chakras to the head. That said, this book includes some excellent photographs and the rest of its content is extremely helpful to anyone learning Thai massage. I think that Asokananda's book should still be the starting point for everyone, though.

Unlike a pickled trout, "Acupuncture Insanity" just gets better and more fragrant with age. How does Artie Rotello do it?

Upon reading ACUPUNCTURE INSANITY I became laughter-filled and have been ever since. Laughter tends to cramp my stomach, preventing my bowels from moving in a smooth and orderly fashion, causing me to expel an embarrassing amount of gas.

I didn't expect to be so inspired by this book, but I was. It inspired me! After reading it, I did four loads of laundry and it wasn't even Sunday. That means a lot! Read this book and be inspired. Okay?

Multi-layered, wonderfully textured and deliciously nuanced. I enjoyed it with the kiwi-lime sauce.

Soon as Trixie git done readin' it, I gonna rip da pages out an' paper ma cell wid it. Dat way I kin reads it day an night. It make me laff an laff, like when Trixie wrap a towel all up in her hair and balance a pot on her head an sing "Pupusas, papusas!" Trixie move just like a real girl.

This book is just more than understanding what vitamin & mineral supplements do. Basic information as to why we all need to take supplements to enhance ones life.

My sister sent me this book for my birthday. She heard the Tuttle's speak at a book signing and bought at least ten copies to distribute throughout our family. I have to admit,initially I did not think I would enjoy the book. I mean, I'm young, healthy--What do I need with a book like this?
Was I wrong! I do need a book like this. First off, I am a college graduate, gainfully employed but without any healthcare. Not one scrap of it. Every visit to a doctor is strictly out of pocket. So you can probably guess that I do not get to the doc's too often. This book explained to me how to help prevent visits to the doc's--nutrition, nutrition, nutrition!!
This book gave me a simple, complete guide how to protect my health; how to minimize the effects of stress in my life. Let's face it,like too many men and women in my generation, I just cannot afford to get sick! It's as simple as that!
My sister tells me there's a second book by the Tuttle's due out soon. Well, they have at least one advanced order.

As a talk radio host, I had the pleasure to meet Meredith and George Tuttle when they were my guests on Thenewtalkofthetown.com A.M. 1570 WANR "Life with Lori!" (airs 3 -4 p.m. weekdays. ) I had read my copy of Adaptagenics prior to the show, and found it to be a wonderful guide to staying well and fending off free radicals and toxins, which cause most cancers. The wellness model is a preventative guide to fight diseases, which we should all live by instead of waiting to live with the sickness model, and deal with how to correct or try to cure an illness or disease once it has invaded our system. I highly recommend Adaptagenics for everyone to read and follow the ten nutritional supplements suggested to obtain the full benefits thereof. I have purchased 5 books thus far and given them as gifts. Christmas is coming and this would make a fantastic gift for those you care about, especially if they are taking a statin drug for cholesterol. I thank the Tuttles for their time and expertise in writing this book and I am looking forward to their next 2 books in the making!
Lori DePaul

I'm a Vietnam Vet and like a lot of my fellow vets, my health is not so good. I depend on the VA Hospital system for all of my health care, including my prescriptions. Over the years I've come to trust my VA pharmacist (my VA MAN) MUCH MORE than the docs. MY VA MAN, it just so happens, is the co-author of this book! And on more than one occasion he has helped me out. In all my years going to the PITT VA, this man has never failed to tell me the truth about the meds I take--side effects, drug interactions, you name it and he knows it! SO you can pretty much guess that when I found out that him and his daughter wrote a book I was the first in line to buy it! And boy am I glad I did! Mr. Tuttle is always warning me that the meds I take remove vitamins from my body and in this book he explains HOW, WHY AND WHAT I CAN DO ABOUT IT.

No doctor has ever told me that I needed to take CO-Q beacuse I also take Zocor. And no doctor has ever told my wife about flaxseed for degenerative joint disease. And no doctor has ever asked me about my Agent Orange exposure. It wasn't until I read ADAPTAGENICS and found out my IF number that I finally understood the toll Agent Orange, etc. has had on my health. My wife used to be a hairdresser and until we did her IF number we had no idea about what her chemical exposure has been and how it has affected her health. This book has made believers out of me and my wife--the day I finished reading this book is the day we started buying vitamins and herbals.We haven't looked back since!
EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S IN THIS BOOK! (including the VA docs)

As an avid health nut and concerned father I found this book to be of invaluable use to me and my family. Not only does it set forth an easy to understand nutritional gameplan for heathly living it provides insight into the environmental dangers challenging us as consumers everyday. While there are a lot of nutritional supplement books on the market today, (I should know-I've read a ton), I am unable to name another that so succintly communicates the totality of healthy living like Adaptagenics. This book also reassured me about my decisions concerning my children's health, like my hesitance to allow them to buy their lunches in the school's cafeteria. Adaptagenics is a must for any concerned parent or conscientious consumer.

Wonderful book that delivers more usefull information than any other I've seen. Terrific illustrations throughout to make learning easy. Outstanding!

The Book delivers almost exactly what it promises ,so I will not mention its good points .One thing I didnt like much was the lack of clear photos for the points ,inside the chambers section of the book .Although you get a rough idea on where each point is ,I had to use my older bibliography in order to pinpoint the exact location of most points .
Also I find unacceptable that the authors did not give extensive information on Governing Vessel and Conception Vessel .Although they mention the points at the last section of the book where they present a sum of combinations and points ,there is no analysis of GV and CV .That was a disappointment .

This book is a must have for all Martial Artist or anyone wanting to study and learn more about Traditional Chinese Medicine and the points used for both Acupunture and Presure Point Control or Striking.

The book of Walker and Bauer is a welcome futher information besides the works of Erle Montaigue. The authors have deep insights into the art of acupuncture. For this reason it was easier for them to go into the secrets of DIM Mac. Nevertheless without medical knowledge it remains difficult to understand all details of this theme. There are some mistakes in the book, but it not so important. For example the paintings and the text of the bladder meridian use different systems. Therefore some acupuncture points do not correspond between figures and text. A lot of fighting combinations in Dim Mac remain hypotheses, because a scintific analysis is not possible or mandatory. Such combinations may result in damage of individual health, experiments have to be forbidden. Nevertheless this book is an exellent work of ancient chinese martial art.
Helmut Kogel M.D. Professor of surgery
regional director IMAF ( international Martial Art Kokusai Budoin)
5.DAN Karate Renshi, 5.Dan Kobudo, 2.Dan Nihon Jujutsu, 1.Antas Arnis

I am proud to call Rick Bauer a friend and his prescence in my martial art life has always been positive, informative and influential. His long tireless work to bring this superlative book to fruition, on a deeply intricate and little known art, Dim Mak, is commendable. This collaborative effort with Master Flane Walker has long been needed and I am now able to clearly state that this is the book the internal martial arts community has been missing.

The subject matter, contents and layout of this work have been given keen attention which benefits the overall aesthetic. It is both easy on the readers eye and informative without alienating the layman. It does not play down the depth of these arts for those who frequent it's heights but rather strikes a perfect balance which comfortably caters to all; no mean feat!

In refering to my University manuals on Chinese Accupuncture Point Locations, I made a comparison with this book which did not leave me wanting. My University manuals were a largely dry affair which
catered to the medical TCM fraternity while the Book of Dim Mak covers all bases and then some. Among some of the most delightful aspects of the book is the martial applications of the points as an adjunct to the medical; very important in my view.

The subject of Dim Mak has been given lavish treatment in a most concise fashion, would it were that all books were so accessable when dealing with obscure subjects such as these. I have already found this to be the number one go-to book when requiring detailed information on Dim Mak, and while Erle Montaigue has had his own excellent works out for some years now, I can safely say that this work is an important addition to the study.

I couldn't recommend this work more highly for those with a vested interest in truly understanding the intracies of Dim Mak from tip to toe.

Great sci-fi book (even for those who aren't normally into sci-fi). I stayed up all night to finish the book. Cannot wait to read the next installment!!

Loved it. 5 stars!!!

I recommend to everyone. A fantasy novel that keeps the attention of those who are not fans of the fantasy genre. Like me!

Just wanted to say that this is one of the most unique sci-fi/fantasy books I've read in a while...totally worth checking out!

I found this book fascinating and exciting! I couldn't put it down! I highly recommend this e-book to everyone who is interested in either fantasy, sci-fi or a really good love story. You really should read this one. It's a taker homer!!!!

Wade of Aquitaine will satisfy any Fantasy reader. Through time and space Wade's adventure transports him into history. Fantasy twines through history, while scientific lore adds interest to this wonderful story that gives the reader everything they could want.
Characters are colourful, feel authentic and are beautifully sculpted with historic relevance. The landscape of ancient Europe is used skilfully. While remaining true to Fantasy, the factual side of the story is riveting and just adds another element to a great yarn. The writing flows, the tension mounts and every page must be turned until the last.
I highly recommend this book to all Fantasy readers.

This is a great read for both the beginner and experienced. I am a licensed massage therapist who has been practicing for two years. I love doing foot reflexology and find this book very detailed and informative. This will give anyone more confidence in what they are doing.

This book arrived in great condition. Very impressed with the way it was wrapped and well taken care of. Thank you so much!

This is THE book to buy on reflexology! There are a lot of other books and methods out there but this book is the original. Dwight Byers has perfected the art of reflexology, first developed by his aunt, Eunice Ingham. Not only is the information in the book presented in a clear, concise manner but it is the most accurate information on reflexology available. If you want to do reflexology either professionally or just on family and friends, this book contains what you need to be the best at what you do.

i have read many articles and books reflecting on reflexology...but this is for myself, one of the best references in which i have been thoroughly pleased with. the descriptions and the photos really illustrate and bring light to this wonderful therapy....i highly recommend this book...i think you will not be disappointed...its rich in details and very concise.

This is an excellent resource for those setting out to study reflexology. The text is easily understood,the pictures self-explanatory and a full size colour reflexology chart is included. It's a book that I will keep and refer to constantly.

If you are interested in your own health, this is a great book. It is an easy to understand book om Taoist Chi Self-massage to keep the energy in the internal organs cirkulating. The beginner can use it right away, and there is still some avanced things for the avanced student.

Pierre Maegaard Knudsen
(Massage Therapist)

The Western concept of massage concerns itself with muscle manipulation, but Chi Self-Massage focuses on both internal and sense organs and employs Taoist techniques which until recently have been closely guarded secrets. Master Mantak Chia pieces this system into a logical routine any can duplicate, using methods used by these masters to explore the theory and purposes behind Chi Self-Massage. Spirituality blends with practical application in an easily-followed guide.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Master Chia and his wife have a collection of books based on Chinese healing, specifically dealing with massage, Chi energy or both. This book is an easy-to-use guide even for someone without any background knowledge on the subject and provides a good introduction that is brief and easy enough to understand so the healing can start nearly immediately.

Broken into chapters according to anatomy, there are simple drawings showing location and technique accompanied by step-by-step instructions that guide your hands and explanations that detail the benefit. Be aware these are not necessarily 'cures' or immediate fix-its for everything that ails you, but rather a way of healing and prevention to promote overall health. By massaging the body's organs, which work flawlessly for decades without much attention (and we often take for granted), we can expel toxins, help them work more efficiently and bolster our immune system without drugs, side effects or expensive doctor visits.

Also, by empowering ourselves, we take more control of our health and our lives.

This is definitely one of his easiest books to use, since it is mostly just simple directions of where to rub for what purpose, and what to visualize as you do it. One night I'd eaten a 2-day old bean soup and was up for hours with nightmarish gas. Finally I remembered I had this book and sat up, rubbing my eyelids and ears and large intestine just the way he recommended. The gas went away and I was totally rejuvenated. Since then I never question anything he suggests! Also, these massages really help me deal with the effects of air travel.

I have been looking for the information found in this book for a while. I learned these techniques from a teacher but always wanted something written to refer back to or to share with others. The information and pictures are invaluable and the results are incredible.