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After you read this little book, you will likely never look at faces in quite the same way again. The down-side is that you will probably find yourself studying obvious lines and characteristics that you see on people, especially if they have a strong influence in your life. You might also be able to help others close to you, if they are willing to listen. The cover states it is an introduction to oriental diagnosis and what your face reveals about you and your health. Do not use it to replace your medical health care professional. The preface explains that oriental diagnosis views the physical and mental aspects of the total person, in addition to the troubled organs or body parts. This 1983 book, originally published in London, is only 77 pages in length plus 5 pages of suggested readings, info about the writers, and an index. The up-side is that you can possibly help yourself by spotting and correcting certain weaknesses before they do permanent damage.
The analysis includes an interpretation of the person's lifestyle, including both environmental and social surroundings.The booklet explains a bit about Yin and Yang, the diet, development of the embryo, sections of the face and the corresponding major body systems (nervous, digestion, and circulation). We look at the structure of the face, where certain lines develop on the face (and their meaning), eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, blinking, the shape and size of the mouth, the relationships of different parts of the lips to the digestive system, the teeth, the ears, the hair, balding in certain areas in relationship to weakness of certain organs, the skin coloration (red, yellow, green, blue, purple, blackness, grey, pallor, transparency, whitedness/white spots, texture, oily, wet) and what each means, lines in the hands, nails, energy meridians in the body, pulses, voice, hearing, handwriting slants, habits, food advice, and giving advice to people.There is a heck of a lot of info in this book. If you are a practitioner of some kind, even in subtle energy therapies, you may be able to provide additional information to your clients.Look to this book to provide you with additional insight/clues to better health, to help you discover or investigate issues before they do damage.
I found this book created more confusion than understanding for me. In my experience that's just not life everything and everyone is so different. This book has some interesting ideas, but neglects to really help you understand them. It seems to me to be way to generalized, each human body is so individual and what effects one may be completely different in another This book seems to make so many rigid rules and finite ideas on the way things are. I am not so sure eastern medicine is not as rigid as western in it's own unique way. This book did put forth some very good and helpful ideas, but was mostly confusing.
I thought the book was very interesting. Instead, there was more about macrobiotics than I expected. I good start. I was expecting it to be a little more in depth on the face reading. It was somewhat of an advertisement for this topic. Otherwise, I found it to be very helpful.
This rudimentary book explicates and interprets lines and configurations of the face, hands, and body areas, as well as voice and handwriting, according to macrobiotic principles of dietary consumption which have their roots in Oriental medicine.
Great book, helps in early detection of disfunctions
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