The 20th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking women's health classic by Xiaolan Zhao, one of the world's leading practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, revised and updated with new chapters on living and thriving into old age.
In Reflections of the Moon on Water, world-renowned doctor Xiaolan Zhao explains the unique philosophy behind the healing practice of TCM, a way of living that is especially liberating and empowering for women. TCM has influenced today's wellness culture, with mind-body knowledge at its core. "Women birth the world," as Dr. Zhao writes, and "the cultural and healing wisdom in Chinese medicine has so much to offer them."
Through stories from her life and the lives of her patients, Dr. Zhao shows how to deepen the relationships with our bodies and our emotions. The first edition focused on the challenges of a female body's reproductive life (HEAVENLY WATER), puberty, problems with menstruation, pregnancy and infertility (RIPENING THE FRUIT and GOLDEN MONTH), post-partum depression, menopausal transition (SECOND SPRING) symptoms and cancers of the reproductive organs.
In this essential new edition, Dr. Zhao extends our self-understanding with two new chapters:
• THE GOLDEN HOURS, devoted to ways that women in their seventies and older can redefine vitality and continue to live healthy and fulfilled lives, while developing a positive relationship with aging, and
• SUNSET, offering new ways to think about the approaching final chapter of one's life.
Dr. Zhao shows how preventative self-care can help women of all ages better their health as well as prevent illness. By making simple changes in diet, lifestyle and the way we deal with stress and our emotions-time-tested by Chinese medicine and life-tested by the more than 30,000 patients treated-we can profoundly improve our health no matter our age.
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XIAOLAN ZHAO trained as a surgeon and a doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China before she moved to Canada in 1988, where she earned master's degrees in pharmacology and cancer research. Inspired by the growing interest in complementary therapies, she opened a small Canadian practice in the early 1990s, which led to her founding the Xiaolan Health Centre in Toronto, where she and her staff care for more than 20,000 patients from North America and Europe. Xiaolan is dedicated to helping people achieve the harmony between body, mind and spirit that maintains physical and mental well-being. Her writing is designed to bring her approach to TCM to the mainstream; her first book, Reflections of the Moon on Water, was published in Canada, the U.S. and the UK, and translated into fifteen languages.