Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way

Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health

Samurai are best known for taking lifeâ€”but here is a samurai doctorâ€™s prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one. Unlike other samurai of his time, the samurai Kaibara Ekiken (1630â€“1714) was concerned less with swordsmanship than with how to maintain and nurture the healthy mind and body upon which martial techniques and philosophy depended. While serving as the chief medical doctor and healer to the Kuroda clan, he came to a holistic view of how the physical, mental, and spiritual lives of his patients were connected. Drawing from his medical practice, the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, and his life experience, Ekiken created this text as a guide to sustaining health and stamina from youth to old age. Ekikenâ€™s advice regarding moderation, food and drink, sleep, sexual activity, bathing, and therapeutic practices is still amazingly intuitive and appropriate nearly three hundred years after this book was written.
Country USA
Brand Shambhala Publications
Manufacturer Shambhala
Binding Paperback
Color Orange
ReleaseDate 2013-04-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590309889

Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health