Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine
by Letha Hadady
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Book Reviews of Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine
Book Review: We use this book at work
Summary: 5 Stars
I am stationed in Iraq currently home on R&R leave. This book is like a Bible for us guys who need quick answers. We have our folks send the herbs and homeopathic remedies to us. I am bringing back a s--- load of herbal pills from Walmart back with me in my pack. That is the best way to take personal stuff to Iraq.Waiting for packages can take months.
Homeopathic belladonna was given to me by my medic and it brought down my fever. OVer there 100 degrees is a cool day. That is great news to have something that works well, fast and has no side-effects.
Asian Health Secrets should be on everybody's shelf. Yunnan Paiyao, a medicine made in China available anywhere chinese people live can save lives. It stops excess bleeding from wounds, bug bites--we have some incredible spiders in Iraq--and Yunnan Paiyao heals anything fast. It reduces pain and stops hemmorage. That information alone is worth the book. It is a great book. Buy it.
Book Review: A life-saving book
Summary: 5 Stars
I owe a great deal to Asian Health Secrets, a book that I now keep by my bed at home and take with me on trips.
My youngest son was involved in a car accident that would have severly scarred and injured him. Because I had read about a little-known Chinese herb pill Yunnan Paiyao and insisted that my children carry it with them, he healed very quickly. His bruises and pain were reduced and his scars much improved. The pill heals wounds so well that the Chinese army uses it for gunshot wounds and surgery.
A friend fell during a skiing trip and broke his leg in three places. He took the Chinese pill for two months and it reduced his pain and helped him to heal rapidly. He loves the natural remedy. It is not an addictive pain killer. It improves circulation and you can even take it daily.
The book has many such treatments and is a treasury of natural remedies for women of all ages and their family.God Bless the author.
Book Review: An amazing resource for the entire family
Summary: 5 Stars
I was given Asian Health Secrets as a birthday gift and I bless the loved-one who gave me this treasure of practical health knowledge. The book is laid out to answer health questions from the simple use of spices from the kitchen and teas and everyday illnesses such as colds and flu to complicated issues concerning sexuality, fertility, energy, endurance, performance, and mental acuity and memory.
The book contains useful guidelines of self diagnosis and checkpoints along the way to wellness. It is the best source I have found for implementing simple self treatments using Chinese, East Indian and western herbs. This book has been written by a brilliant healer who has used traditional Asian medicines over a lifetime of service to others. I recommend the book to anyone who wants to improve health and happiness.
In our time when medical treatments are expensive, risky, and often ineffective, Asian Health Secrets offers an excellent way to keep the family well.
Book Review: A top pick book for Asian herbal medicine
Summary: 5 Stars
Asian Health Secrets by Letha Hadady, D.Ac., was recommended to me by an elder "kung fu brother" when I attended a very traditional kung fu school in Chinatown, NY. I knew very little of Asian medicinal theory so, I started with a fairly clean slate and couldn't have asked for a better foundation for learning about this rich tradition. The fact that His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote the foreword speaks volumes in and of itself.
The book is written in a conversational manner that serves to gently ease the reader into learning about the Asian health perspective. Hadady, an absolute expert in this field, is also a talented teacher - she effectively conveys the complexities of Asian herbal medicine so that anyone who would read this book would "get it". She describes what an Asian herb is and how everything we consume, in addition to elements in our environment, act upon our energy, or chi (which she clearly explains as well). She addresses foods, herbs, and teas and explains in the text and in easy to read tables their energy and effect on the person and mind.
She explains Asian elements and humors and how they are expressed through our physical and mental health. There is also a fantastic cleansing program that is flexible in the amount of time and degree of dedication you wish to do it with. The program uses foods that are easily obtainable and suggestions for herbal products that are easy to get at a Chinese herb shop or through one of the suppliers listed in the back of the book (if you don't have the fortune of a local Chinatown). She also refers to remedies that are available at most health food stores.
She devotes a chapter to reading the tongue (an Asian method of diagnosis which I have personally found is uncanny in its accuracy). There are also chapters about weight loss, arthritis, headaches and toothaches, circulation, allergies, colds & flu, beauty, women's health (including PMS, menstruation, birth, menopause), energy, insomnia, sexuality, ginseng, depression and mental clarity among others.
Throughout the book, there are questionnaires so that you can find out what state your energy is in as it relates to the topic you're reading about. While the questionnaires are optional, they bring it all together because you can see how the material applies to you personally. You also begin to see how it applies to others - it's eye opening, really.
I have studied/read this book twice and refer to it all the time. I've also gone through all the questionnaires and am not too bad at figuring out which part of me is suffering and treating myself, whether through meals or herbs (including western herbs such as basil or Chinese herbal remedies). You'll understand why it's more than just traditional to eat things like salad in the summer and pumpkin pie with cloves and nutmeg in the fall.
I highly recommend this book because it's helped my family and me so much. They say that Asian doctors are held in high esteem not in the number of patients they treat but because their patients are healthy. Right on. I also recommend Letha Hadady's film, Asian Health Secrets (ISBN: 1-58350-240-8) where she goes to Chinatown, NY and visits vegetable vendors, restaurants and herb shops. She shows the viewer Chinese patent remedies and explains what they do which is a lovely compliment to this book. You can also tell from her beauty and radiant healthy presence that what she's doing works.
Book Review: A great, practical classic in Alternative Medicine
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently, I was sitting in a plush waiting room, biting my nails, waiting to see my uptown doctor for a checkup. A woman, obviously engrossed, was reading a big book she had taken from the doctor's shelf and was taking notes.
The book was Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine by an acupuncturist/herbalist Letha Hadady with a foreword by H. H. the Dali Lama. That alone was enough to make me stand up and salute.
I got involved reading about teas, herbs, spices, Chinese remedies for just about anything you can imagine--health, beauty, immunity, weightloss, women's issues and more. There were nice drawings in the book and an extensive natural products buying guide with access information on many Chinese health foods, teas, practitioners, manufacturers and shops.
It was a hefty book that had very well-fingered pages. I and the people in that office highly recommend reading it to reduce medical expenses and panic attacks.