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Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465577412
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721253408
Kung Fu or, Tauist Medical Gymnastics John Dudgeon This is an historical text which includes accounts of 19th century Chinese medical practices. Please do not attempt any of the exercises or treatments described in this document without consulting your physician first. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 136069529X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Herbs
ISBN : 1440491593
This is a rare reproduction of a very old manuscript, presenting the ancient art of medical Kung Fu, an essential book for any student of the Eastern Arts. There are detailed instructions for various excercises, illustrated by the original wood cut prints, for specific ailments and general health. There is also information on massage, and dozens of Traditional Chinese Medicine recipes.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295799383
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1528164466
Excerpt from The Beverages of the Chinese; Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics: The Population of China; A Modern Chinese Anatomist and a Chapter in Chinese Surgery The Chinese mode of infusion is perhaps not so well suited for our teas, as in their preparation they are already Spoiled to delicate palates accustomed to the less highly cured, sun-dried teas of China and Japan. Tea which requires milk and sugar has been spoilt by repeated firing and fermentation. The infusion made from such tea is coarse and bitter, and so we find it necessary to disguise its bitterness with srrgar and neutralize its astringency by milk, a thin alburninorrs fluid, which forms in the stomach an insoluble albuminate of tannin. We thus rnollify and sweeten the black drarrglrt we are so fond of imbibing. In this way, we first make our tea unpalatable and semi-poisonous, and then minimize its nauseous and bad qrralities by additions which destroy the delicate flavour. Tea should not be infused and left to draw, so as to take the strength out of it, as it is termed, but the leaves should be subjected to a rapid percolation with hot water. This object is attained by using a cup with a perforated bottom, held over or fitting into the teapot while the hot water is poured upon the leaves. The leaves do not come into contact with the infusion after it has passed the strainer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1295979810
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783748112709
The first mention in Chinese history of a system of movements, proper to maintain health and cure disease, dates back to pre-historic times, the time of the Great Yü, when the country was inundated, and the atmosphere was nearly always wet and unhealthy, and disease overflowed, so to speak, the earth. The Emperor ordered his subjects each day to take military exercise. The movements, which they were thus obliged to make, contributed not a little to the cure of those who were languishing, and to maintain the health of those who were well. In this book are presented two exercises for each month, making 24 in all, arranged according to the 24 solar terms or periods (breaths) of the year, corresponding to the day on which the sun enters the first and fifteenth degree of one of the zodiacal signs. To each of these an appropriate name is given, which we have retained, as they are in popular use. The exercises are arranged according to the four seasons, and each season is prefixed and suffixed with some animal representing the correlated viscera. These we have also retained from their quaintness, excellency of design, and with the view of conveying an idea of the Chinese correspondencies.
Author : Michael DeMarco, M.A.
Publisher : Via Media Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781893765177
T’ai Chi and qigong are popular because of their great reputations as exercises with numerous health-related benefits. Can these benefits simply be results of placebo effects? Chapters in this e-book not only provide an interesting historical backdrop in which taiji and qigong developed, but also provide scientific support for the efficacy and effects of both modalities. Breslow’s chapter focuses on Daoist practices associated with their quest for immortality and longevity. Rhoads, Crider, and Hayduk looks at taiji and qigong with the tools of modern science. DeMarco compares Yang-style taiji practice of with guidelines provided by the National Institue of Health. Kachur, Carleton, and Asmundson provide an excellent chapter that gives insight into aspects of taiji practice that improve balance. The final chapter by Kenneth Cohen offers a history of the taiji ruler as a tool conducive to vitalizing the qi. Included are aspects of design, lineage, and some illustrated exercises, plus details on qi circulation. For anyone who questions the validity of taiji and qigong as exercise modalities, the collected writings in this book will provide information not available elsewhere. In addition to finding the historical and scientific foundation of these practices, the contents in this book will help improve taiji and qigong practice, bringing the many benefits as claimed for these gems of Chinese culture.
Author : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774824354
Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the past, and individuals saw in the Western system the potential for new wealth and power. This book examines the dichotomy between “Western” and “Chinese” medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more “scientific” by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how “traditional” Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.
Author : Anya P. Foxen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190082758
Recent scholarship has shown that modern postural yoga is the outcome of a complex process of transcultural exchange and syncretism. This book doubles down on those claims and digs even deeper, looking to uncover the disparate but entangled roots of modern yoga practice. Anya Foxen shows that some of what we call yoga, especially in North America and Europe, is genealogically only slightly related to pre-modern Indian yoga traditions. Rather, it is equally, if not more so, grounded in Hellenistic theories of the subtle body, Western esotericism and magic, pre-modern European medicine, and late-nineteenth-century women's wellness programs. The book begins by examining concepts arising out of Greek philosophy and religion, including Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Neo-Platonism, Galenic medicine, theurgy, and other cultural currents that have traditionally been categorized as "Western esotericism," as well as the more recent examples which scholars of American traditions have labeled "metaphysical religion." Marshaling these under the umbrella category of "harmonialism," Foxen argues that they represent a history of practices that were gradually subsumed into the language of yoga. Orientalism and gender become important categories of analysis as this narrative moves into the nineteenth century. Women considerably outnumber men in all studies of yoga except those conducted in India, and modern anglophone yoga exhibits important continuities with women's physical culture, feminist reform, and white women's engagement with Orientalism. Foxen's study allows us to recontextualize the peculiarities of American yoga--its focus on aesthetic representation, its privileging of bodily posture and unsystematic incorporation of breathwork, and above all its overwhelmingly white female demographic. In this context it addresses the ongoing conversation about cultural appropriation within the yoga community.
Author : Louis Komjathy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004694897
Traces of a Daoist Immortal is a Daoist-infused tour de force on the Daoist mountain hermit Chén Tuán 陳摶 (Xīyí 希夷 [Infinitesimal Subtlety]; d. 989) and his fellow “hidden immortals.” Breaking various academic taboos, including hyper-historicism, social constructivism, and conformist mentalities, here Komjathy, in an aspirational gesture towards unbridled inquiry, offers annotated translations and scholarly introductions to ten major works associated with the Daoist immortal. The book also contains a cutting-edge, mythopoetic introduction that addresses the life and legend of Chén Tuán, his connection to the Western Marchmount of Huàshān 華山 (Mount Hua; Huàyīn, Shǎnxī), Daoist views about sleeping, dreaming, waking, as well as Daoist time-being.
Author : John Dudgeon
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1507541066
The first mention in Chinese history of a system of movements, proper to maintain health and cure disease, dates back to pre-historic times, the time of the Great Yu, when the country was inundated, and the atmosphere was nearly always wet and unhealthy, and disease overflowed, so to speak, the earth. The Emperor ordered his subjects each day to take military exercise. The movements, which they were thus obliged to make, contributed not a little to the cure of those who were languishing, and to maintain the health of those who were well. In this book are presented two exercises for each month, making 24 in all, arranged according to the 24 solar terms or periods (breaths) of the year, corresponding to the day on which the sun enters the first and fifteenth degree of one of the zodiacal signs. To each of these an appropriate name is given, which we have retained, as they are in popular use. The exercises are arranged according to the four seasons, and each season is prefixed and suffixed with some animal representing the correlated viscera. These we have also retained from their quaintness, excellency of design, and with the view of conveying an idea of the Chinese correspondencies.
Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B52523
Author : Li Jung Yuen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359867615
In ancient China, there were those who were called Immortals. Not surprisingly, most of these men and women were practitioners of Kung Fu and lived up to one hundred and fifty years old. What secrets does Kung Fu contain that allows its practitioners to live longer, healthier lives? In this book Sifu Li examines the effects and benefits of Kung Fu training and how it just might allow even us to become Immortal.