Keepers of the Soul: The Five Guardian Elements of Acupuncture - Softcover

Franglen, Nora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954679318 ISBN 13: 9780954679316

Publisher: The School of Five Element Acupuncture, 2006

Synopsis

The five elements - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water - are fundamental to Chinese medicine and metaphysics, but it can be difficult to get beyond the purely intellectual level of understanding. This rich book gets to the heart of five element theory, and offers passionate reflections on the spirit of each element, and the practice of five element acupuncture. The author provides accessible accounts of each element, explaining what it looks like, how it presents in an individual's characteristics, how it can become unbalanced and how treatment might be approached to restore balance. With profiles of various well-known figures, including David Beckham and Elvis Presley, the author explores what it means to live in harmony as a unique being and how the five elements help shape and cultivate our body and soul. The book explains how Chinese physicians understand and diagnose their patients and offers invaluable insights into how to practise five element acupuncture effectively. A valuable and thoughtful addition to any library, this book will be of particular interest to acupuncturists, practitioners and students of complementary medicine as well as anyone contemplating Chinese medicine as a treatment option or interested more generally in human psychology.

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Review:

Praise for the first edition

'Keepers of the Soul is an important addition to the literature of this area. I would strongly recommend students of acupuncture to read this book, which provides a spiritual context into which they can place the more concrete structures of other aspects of their training. For working acupuncturists too, however long they have been practising and from whatever discipline they may come, the book offers an insight into a subtle and very effective way of working, and demonstrates how much we all can learn from each other.'

(Review by Angela Llewellyn, Vol. 5, No. 4, The European Journal of Oriental Medicine)

Book Description:

Accessible accounts of the five elements that get to the heart of what they look like and how they present in people

About this edition

• Publisher: The School of Five Element Acupuncture
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0954679318
• ISBN 13: 9780954679316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 335