Product Description

Discover The Power Of Ancient Wisdom

For centuries , Traditional Chinese Medicine has helped millions of cancer patients in China, specializing in reducing the risk of breast cancer and healing it by identifying and treating its root cause. Chinese medicine offers a broad range of time-tested, natural, safe, self-healing treating that can complement prevailing Western cancer treatments.

Traditional Chinese Medicine provides a nine-point healing guide that can be individually customized for women diagnosed with breast cancer; those about to undergo surgery, chemotherapy or radiation; breast cancer survivors who want to prevent recurrence, and any woman looking for serious prevention techniques. With his training, Dr. Nan Lu revives the ancient healing wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine --

• Early warning signs from your body
• Ancient self-healing evergy movements
• Healing, strengthening foods and ancient techniques to strengthen you before surgery
• How to manage your health during chemotherapy or radiation
• Why and how to create a new Traditional Chinese Medicine lifestyle that addresses the root cause of breast cancer...
• and much more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #294645 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From Amazon.com
"I am committed to educating all women that there are natural and effective healing actions they can take to help prevent breast cancer, as well as prevent a recurrence," writes Nan Lu, a specialist in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM is a 5,000-year-old medical system based on the concept of internal vital energy (Qi) flow to maintain or restore our organs' normal function and harmony. According to TCM theory, "you absolutely cannot get cancer if your organs work in harmony and Qi flows freely throughout your body's meridian network."

This book explains the philosophy, history, principles, and theories of TCM; how these relate to breast cancer; and how a woman can restore harmony with TCM self-healing practices. The practices include movement, dietary recommendations, herbs, emotional balance, and mental messages. However, the book is more theory than self-help. For example, Lu suggests "a combination of TCM herbs and special herbal teas to help relieve the side effects of breast cancer treatment," but doesn't give any specifics, instead saying to write to the TMC foundation. However, on the next page, he gives a recipe for producing breast milk (is this really what a woman with breast cancer is longing to know?) consisting of peanuts, soybeans, and pork feet. Later in the book he gives some herbal recipes and food recommendations. He recommends gentle exercise only (not even brisk walking), and notes that "too much sex will cause liver and kidney Qi deficiencies" or even eye problems, recommending restricting sex to once or twice a month if you're undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.

From Library Journal
As a doctor trained in traditional Chinese medicine but practicing in a Western country, Lu has witnessed the benefits and limitations of these two different medical practices and believed they could be used to complement each other for the benefit of the patients, especially breast cancer patients. In this book, he systematically explains the principles and theories of traditional Chinese medicine and its successful application in combating mild to serious illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He uses analogies, graphics, and real patients' accounts to demonstrate how Qigong, acupuncture, and Chinese herbs can help women cope with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. The whole presentation is clear and logical, and even the first ten chapters on the theoretical and historical aspect of Chinese medicine is fascinating and thought-provoking. Strongly recommended for consumer health collections.
-ALily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Medical Lib., Little Rock
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Lu's Breast Cancer Preventive Project practices mainly traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), but, also experienced in Western medicine, Lu understands patients whose earlier treatment has been entirely Western. He is flexible enough to incorporate some Western practices and to put Western and Chinese systems together complementarily with striking effectiveness. He begins this book with a brief history of TCM and description of its basic principles, methods, and philosophy. Diagrams help clarify the text. Pointing out that it is impossible to treat or prevent a disease unless the cause is known, Lu discusses the various causes of breast cancer at some length. "Thoughts," he says, "are far more powerful than the body," and the patient is the primary person involved in prevention and treatment, who should learn warning signs of disease and how to draw on the body's self-healing capabilities. Lu also counsels how to find a suitable TCM practitioner. William Beatty