Description
Book SynopsisBody Reshaping through Muscle and Skin Meridian Therapy: An Introduction to 6 Body Types shows you how your weight and body shape can be a direct result of ill health and explains the structures and functions involved. It explores much more than just what your scale and the fit of your clothes might tell you. It looks at skin, fat, muscles, diaphragm, historical illnesses or injuries, body posture, body clock or circadian rhythm, digestion, blood vessels, nutrition, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, and enteric nervous system. By examining the above factors, you will learn how they contribute toward changes in body shape (notice no mention of dieting or exercise).
Muscle meridian therapy refers to the passive application of treatments to muscles not connected to any major organ. The techniques involved improve all the metabolic balances of the body (pressure, temperature, and balance) as well as your overall health. Therapies can bene
Table of Contents
Body Reshaping for Health and Beauty. A First Look at the Meridian System in TCM. Who Can Benefit from This Treatment? Body Posture and Homeostasis. Six Body Types. Anatomical Approach: Types M1, M2, and M3. Muscle Meridian Therapy and Skin Cutaneous Therapy. Treatment Methods. Specific Clinical Cautions and Applications.