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"Unlike other samurai of his time, Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) 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 Cultivating Ch''i as a guide to sustaining health and stamina from youth to old age. Ekiken''s advice regarding moderation, food and drink, sleep, sexual activity, bathing, and therapeutic practices is still amazingly intuitive and appropriatenearly three hundred years after this book was written"--

Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings

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    A Paperback / softback by Kaibara Ekiken, William Scott Wilson

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      Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/04/2013
      ISBN13: 9781590309889, 978-1590309889
      ISBN10: 159030988X

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      Book Synopsis
      "Unlike other samurai of his time, Kaibara Ekiken (1630-1714) 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 Cultivating Ch''i as a guide to sustaining health and stamina from youth to old age. Ekiken''s advice regarding moderation, food and drink, sleep, sexual activity, bathing, and therapeutic practices is still amazingly intuitive and appropriatenearly three hundred years after this book was written"--

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