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This unique book will familiarize healing practitioners and martial artists with basic concepts of the human body, as defined by both Western and Eastern medical traditions, allowing those engaged in healing and martial arts to develop a more complete, holistic, and scientifically forward-looking understanding of the body. Overviews of philosophical and conceptual underpinnings are followed by detailed drawings and diagrams of the body's internal systems, as seen by both traditions. Written in a clear and concise style, this beautiful and informative book presents information previously unavailable in any single text, making it an essential work for students, healing professionals, and martial artists. This lavishly illustrated book includes:
• Over 147 color drawings and 54 duotone photographs
• An easy-to-understand overview of Western anatomical concepts
• A detailed overview of Eastern medical principles, including information previously available only in specialized, costly medical texts
• A comprehensive listing of Oriental pressure points and meridians in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, cross-referenced to nerves, blood vessels, and other anatomical landmarks
• Twenty essential self-massage and revival techniques
• Detailed principles of pressure point fighting, as used in traditional Asian martial arts
• Over 147 color drawings and 54 duotone photographs
• An easy-to-understand overview of Western anatomical concepts
• A detailed overview of Eastern medical principles, including information previously available only in specialized, costly medical texts
• A comprehensive listing of Oriental pressure points and meridians in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, cross-referenced to nerves, blood vessels, and other anatomical landmarks
• Twenty essential self-massage and revival techniques
• Detailed principles of pressure point fighting, as used in traditional Asian martial arts
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For martial artists and healing practitioners, knowledge of human anatomy is vitally important, since it greatly influences the effectiveness of both martial and healing techniques. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
For martial artists and healing practitioners, knowledge of human anatomy is vitally important, since it greatly influences the effectiveness of both martial and healing techniques. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a paperback, quite glossy, 143 pages. and sets out to cover the elements of anatomy that we need in MA and also healing (shiatsu, accupressure, accuncture, etc.).
After a broad introduction, the first main section of the book covers the basic body model in each of the Western and Eastern medical theories - it's clearly all fairly basic, but a reasonable overview, with some very clear diagrams. Unsurprisingly, although the western medical descriptions aren't all that brief, the eastern section is much thicker, covering all of the meridians (both the main and extraordinary - although surprisingly it treats Conception and Governor as extraordinary, adding in a further six to those). It also has a thorough listing of the main extra points. Very usefully, against the description to each point, it shows the location, names in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, as well as the Meridian and number - there is also a clear description in terms of Western medicine.
For example, St9, I now know, is also called Ren Ying, Man's prognosis, In Yong (K), Jin Gei (J), and is simultanously the cutaneous cervical nerve, cervical branch of the facial nerve, a branch of the hypoglossal and vagus nerves, a point where the carotid artery branches, the thyroid artery, and the anterior jugular vein (phew, no wonder it's a good KO point!). It also describes and shows where it is.
That, unsurprisingly is the main bulk of the book, but there are two further main sections. The first, "healing applications", describes the main healing methods used with meridian theory - including a very thorough and clear collection of standard treatments (headache release, neck release, etc.) and a couple of pages on recovery techniques - five different techniques are covered, all clearly valid (and three of them new to me).
Then finally (apart from the index) is a section on martial arts applications. This covers the main principles of PP use in fighting (individual point attacks, multiple grouped points, bilateral, points along a meridian, related meridians, flow timing, destructive cycle - called "conquest cycle" in this book) and also shows diagrams of the main martial arts points.
Throughout the theory is reasonably basic but clear, with pretty much all of the basic principles of meridian therapy and fighting included.
Overall, I think that it was a very worthwhile expenditure of a tenner, the author (who claims a 5th dan in Hapkido according to the back cover) knows his stuff, explains it well, and did some superb drawings to go with it. I can see my using this a lot both as a teaching aid, and a regular source of learning and personal reference
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am a new acupuncture student and practising therapist (reflexology, massage, reiki) who is very glad indeed to have found this supremely useful book. I am not a martial artist and want to let others know that I believe this book is genuinely as useful to healers as martial artists. Those studying level 3 holistic therapies who want to understand energy systems in greater depth should buy this book (it won't break the bank).
The author is clearly a genuinely knowledgeable man and also understands what students need. The book appears to be a distillation of an immense amount of accumulated information and experience and I have a great feeling of gratitude in finding it.
Thank you very much for this most useful book at an extremely reasonable price.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
143 pages in total, 8 pages on martial applications, 10 pages on healing applications, 12 pages on Western views of body systems,4 pages of introduction on eastern concepts of the body, about 80 pages on meridians on meridian points. Theses 80 pages are very detailed. I found the presentation too detailed and lacking much referral back to healing or martial applications. Without this context I found the detail overwhelming. The anatomical references for the various points (and there are 820 of them if you count both sides of the body) requires considerable anatomical knowledge which is not presented in the book. Eg. "medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve, ulnar nerve, ulnar artery, tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris muscle". I think the title is misleading because the bulk of the text is concerned with detailed (as opposed to essential) traditional chinese medical anatomy. Great for students of acupuncture but a waste of money for me.
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Lovely book but who is it for?
This is a lovely book. Beautiful illustrations and lovely layout. The information in it is good but I'm not sure that it matches it's title. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2007 by R. Agar-Hutton
Required reading for any martial artist.
Covering the subject matter in a clear and detailed manner, this book, while not being the first of it's kind is definately among the best. Read more
Published on 18 April 2002
A VERY INFORMATIVE "MAP" OF THE HUMAN BODY
This book is possibly the most informative of its sort available. All major meridans, including 8 extra meridians and descriptions of all acupoints plus various diagrams of nerve... Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2001
Essential Reading for Essential Martial Artists
Presented in a glorious style but maintaining its sole purpose and that is to educate. I did find though some of the diagrams a little confusing but other than that a very clear... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2000
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This book is the most concise and to the point book on meridians and acupoints within Chinese medicine. Read more
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an informed and informative practical guide
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Published on 7 Oct 2000
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