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Paperback Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts Book

ISBN: 1953225187

ISBN13: 9781953225184

Essential Anatomy : For the Healing and Martial Arts

The essential text on the human body, as defined by Eastern and Western medicine. Comprehensive, easy to understand, and lavishly illustrated in full color. Specially designed for students, healing professionals, and martial artists.----- 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 An essential text for students, healing professionals, and martial artists

View sample pages, read book reviews, or get more information at marctedeschi.com

-----Frequently used with: ESSENTIAL ACUPOINTS POSTER An exceptionally high-quality, 7-color poster illustrating the 400-plus acupoints and 14 meridians that are the basis of Eastern medicine and martial arts. Also highlights Qi-flow, Yin-Yang, 5 Phases, and martial targets. Designed by Marc Tedeschi as a companion to the book Essential Anatomy for Healing and Martial Arts, this unique and beautiful poster exhibits a level of accuracy, detail, and functionality unobtainable elsewhere. ISBN 0834805103-----


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Excellent Reference on Oriental Meridians

I was really surprised to see so many negative reviews for this excellent book. I can only imagine that the writers were expecting a book teaching them the art of Pressure Point fighting, and while there is a brief section on both healing and martial arts applications in the book, this work is really about the Meridian and acupoint system of the human body, and it succeeds brilliantly as such. Also to be commended is the author's excellent overview of Western Anatomy and explanations of how Eastern and Western concepts mesh. The book is packed with info, mostly in the form of charts with short explanations. Certainly, you aren't going to learn everything there is to know about TCM, but what a great reference! As an Asian style bodyworker, I love this book. It's the best one I've found yet on Oriental Meridians. It is very straightforward and the Meridan charts are first class. The quality of this book is also first rate: nice stiff pages that read well and will hold up to a lot of pawing and page turning. Buy and study this book to learn the "whats" and "wheres" of TCM. Then find a Master to learn how to apply this wealth of information. This book WILL show you where the points are and how the different points and the meridians affect the body as a whole.

Excellent pressure point text.

I stumbled across this book last year before it was released and hed to wait to see if my purchase was a good one. Well, it is. This text has the clearest, most comprehensive and understandable charts of the acupoints that i have ever seen. Tedeschi also covers western theories of health and healing also making this book a good basic resource on human anatomy. The book is structured very well, with the sequence of the charts following the flow of Ki through the meridians. Each of the meridians has a separate chart and a very useful table covering the associated points and other major connections between each meridian.The ying and yang meridians are also cleraly identified.This book is a great text for identification of and theory surrounding the pressure points. Myself, being a martial artist have recommended it to my instructor and he has also purchased a copy. an excellent book. (It must be said though that any reference text also needs an experienced instructor to support the questions and / or problems encountered by the student.)

Excellent Resource for Points and Meridians

This is an excellent reference book, nicely laid out, with clean, clear accurate drawings and charts of the TCM meridians and points. Great for martial arts, massage, shiatsu, or anyone else who wants these charts presented clearly and beautifully.

excellent overview

Mr Tedeschi put together an excellent overview of anatomy designed for the martial artist. Covering both eastern and western philosophies the book is filled with clear concise charts and diagrams. This should be required reference material for all those studying the martial arts.
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