Healing Your Eyes with Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Acupressure, & Chinese Herbs

I gave this book 5 star and I need to explain why. This book is exactly what Medical Westerners and there followers abhor. They will admit it is mumbo jumbo but they will accept the fact that you wish to read it and possibly follow it. They will not how ever believe in it. This book explains traditional Chinese medicine basics. This does involve some pretty radical concepts that are not easy to accept. This book touches on nutrition and I am a firm believer in nutrition for healing. It talks strongly on positive thinking. Makes sense, if your mind emanates good surely the butterfly effect will occur through out your body? This book contains words of wisdom and judging by what I see here in Australia most people could do with these words. It really seems to me to go beyond healing your eyes but healing your life with what you do. This books gives very valid advice and I have no doubt in my mind who ever reads this and takes action, their life will be alleviated. What is spoken of in this books goes far beyond swallowing a panadol. This book challenges us to make a change in the way we live. We live once and why not live well? If you have a science mind and bite that biscuit, when you read this you are going to need to let that go. Open your mind to knew ideas!Is Chinese medicine superior to Western? Yes it is and the reason being. Number 1 the entire method is based on nutrients. Nutrients are the key to life. They are the fuel the body needs to heal and be efficient in every way! This book will teach but it will not teach you so much about nutrition. I suggest everyone to buy a book teaching what food are nutritious and which are not. The life style this book urges you to lead is what will allow you to begin a disease free life.One last note, this book does touch on Chinese spirituality, so if you are of a different religion, you are going to need to let that roll off your back and not get offended! This book is worth the read. If you life is hard and you experience much pain, you need to make some serious adjustments to yourself. You can not change those around you but you can change yourself.

I've got an old friend Andy who taught me to play poker years ago. He recently was stricken with age-related macular degeneration. Right when he reached his retirement years and can play a lot of poker - he can't anymore.My "new" friend Andy - the guy who wrote this book - gave me a lot of hope for my old friend. As he said to me in an email:"FYI, no one is too far gone in my experience. I've had some crazy success cases of people whom I thought would not get any results. As long as there is still a pulse, there is still hope..."Acupuncture and Chinese herbs can often help when nothing else will. The reason is that drugs rarely cure anything. Most drugs do one of two things. They kill something (in the case of antibiotics or chemotherapy drugs). Or, they react with receptors on cells (by blocking, interfering or activating the receptor). Cell receptors react to biomolecules such as hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.The problem is this doesn't cause healing - it merely blocks symptoms. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine works by helping the body's natural healing mechanisms take over. Only your body can heal itself - nothing else. Even the greatest surgeon can't heal the smallest cut.Andy just had an article printed about macular degeneration in Acupuncture Today. You can search for it at their site. According to the article, he's had an 80% success rate. If you're interested in treatment for age related macular degeneration, it's an excellent article. It will tell you if this book is for you.If you're interested in treatment for other eye conditions and want to know if this book addresses it, you can search inside this book - click on the book cover, above.

I was recently diagnosed as having macular degeneration at a relatively early stage. My western medicine provider basically told me that I could take vitamins, that my vision would worsen and that I should come back to see him in 6 months. Not very encouraging and very frustrating to think that I could not take some steps to positively effect the progression of the disease. This book has a wealth of information in it! Some of it may be a little overwhelming for readers who do not have an understanding of Chinese medical theory (I do have a background in acupuncture). However, the author does give some background information about the basics of Chinese Medicine, so this would be helpful for people new to Chinese Medicine. Many different treatment modalities are presented to treat various eye diseases (acupressure, qigong, essential oils, herbal treatments). The difficulty may be picking the ones that would work best since trying to do them all would be difficult to do time-wise. At the very least, this book gives hope that one can have an effect on one's health and that you don't just have to sit around and wait for your vision to deteriorate!

Andy says that micro acupuncture is the BEST treatment available for healing the eyes, and then gives ZERO information on how to apply it clinically. Other reviewers said that the book is for laypeople and practitioners, but I think that he is very stingy with the practical clinical information, making it not too helpful for practitioners.

Very readable and easy to understand.. This book, by Dr. Rosenberg, clearly discusses the traditional and some newer TCM approaches to ophthalmology and eye diseases with case studies and clinical applications, including traditional herbs that can be prescribed for different eye conditions. Chapters 5. 6 and 8 walk you through many supportive techniques and lifestyle changes you can do at home.This is , in my opinion, a must have for anyone with eye disease from cataracts to AMD, wet and dry, Glaucoma and many more, who are interested in researching alternative therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as compared to the Western medical approach. I have been successfully treated with TCM for Glaucoma since first diagnosed. This book has given me more insight into the treatments I receive and at home things I can do.

It personally think it is not worth the rather cost of the book in my view. I just don't think that there was anything in this 'book' that was useful, although some parts were vaguely interesting; but I'm sorry I don't understand all the 5 star reviews. I didn't need to learn about Chinese Medicine in general; I wanted specifically to learn about the subject matter, which was rather sketchy and lacking. He has written so many (high priced) books, all professing how to use TCM and Micro Acupuncture to heal a swathe of eye problems, but most are reportedly similar and lacking in useful information and in one instance we can read in a review stating it was just an advertising attempt for his own practice. It's not as if he was the person who founded the Micro Acupuncture system either. This book just didn't go into any real depth of the subject matter for all intents and purposes and that is what I bought the book for. A bit of depth and structure would've been nice.

This is a very good simple way to help and learn about Chinese Medicine.The methods on accupressure points are easy to follow and you can even do them on the bus ride into work, or a quiet few minutes at you desk without looking like you have gone into lala land.Really worth having as additional support to ones health regime

Very interesting and informative book, easy to read and understand I am enjoying learning new things. highly recommend. Joan

Fantastic book so helpful for healing eyes thank you

most helpful book