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Healing Your Eyes with Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Acupressure, & Chinese Herbs by Andy Rosenfarb2007 | ISBN: 1556436629 | English | 200 pages | EPUB | 5 MBFor the past ten years, Andy Rosenfarb has successfully used acupuncture and Chinese medicine to treat a wide range of eye conditions. His treatments include moxibustion techniques, tuina (massage), microcurrent stimulation, Chinese herbs, and qigong exercises, along with “essential acupuncture” where essential oils are placed on acupuncture points. The culmination of his work—which includes a recent pioneering study involving metabolic testing–is this handbook for healing the kinds of conditions too often considered almost impossibly challenging or irreversible.The first half of Healing Your Eyes with Chinese Medicine explains Traditional Chinese Medicine and its perspective on the eyes, which is based on the idea that the eyes and the brain work in tandem, not isolation. The second half focuses on proven methods derived from Rosenfarb’s practice, including nutritional, supplemental, and lifestyle adjustments. Individual chapters cover eye disorders such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and many more. This book is intended as a practical manual to help readers understand their eyes and vision more comprehensively, and to learn new, affordable ways for retaining the precious gift of sight. Editorial Reviews“As an optometrist for more than twenty-five years, I see Andy Rosenfarb as one of the emerging leaders in complementary and innovative approaches to vision care. His zest for integrating the ancient traditions of eye care with modern scientific knowledge of the body is a great contribution to the paradigm of twenty-first-century vision care.”—Marc Grossman, OD, LAc, from the foreword“Andy Rosenfarb’s inquiring mind and tenacity in refining his techniques come together in this incredible book to provide a service both to patients and the medical profession. A summary of current research and new clinical techniques, Healing Your Eyes with Chinese Medicine emphasizes the practical and useful—what helps people of all ages see better. This is an important book.”—Greg Bantick, Senior lecturer, Australian College of Natural Medicine, Brisbane, AustraliaAbout the AuthorAndy Rosenfarb has been working in this field of Hoistic Ophthalmology for over 18 years. He studied Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, California, earning his Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine, and then continuing his post-graduate studies at Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hangzhou, China. Dr. Rosenfarb earned his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine from Canyon College in Carmichael, California. He integrates Traditional Chinese Medicine and cutting edge approaches of Naturopathic Medicine to maximize results for his patients.Amazon reviews:5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I had read this book in acupuncture school….By Ken Andes on July 22, 2007Another reviewer wrote that this book is not geared towards practitioners, I disagree as I was able to immediately use much of the information in my clinic.I graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2002 and have been fortunate to operate an extremely busy Chinese Medicine practice since early 2003. I also participate in NIH funded research on Chinese Medicine through UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry, NJ). Over 90% of my patients are “medical throw-aways” who come to Chinese Medicine as a last resort after conventional medicine has failed. A significant percentage of these patients have been those with degenerative eye disorders.After reading Andy’s book on eye and vision disorders, I feel that this book should be a required text in modern acupuncture schools. When I was in school there were no books devoted to the exclusive practice of Chinese opthamology within a modern clinical setting. What little material I read on Chinese opthamology was isolated to theory and pattern discrimination…and of limited help in real world practice. If I had read this book four years ago when I started my practice, I would have had a greater success rate with my opthamology patients.The information in this book reveals why Andy is considered by other acupuncturists to be a leading authority on traditional Chinese opthamology. This book is clearly a labor of love as he gives away many of the “secrets” that he has learned from specializing in eye disorders for the past 10 years. Any acupuncturist looking to specialize in eye disorders needs to read this book.Read more ›5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for patients and practitioners alikeBy Amazon Customer on July 11, 2007This book is written in a way that both patients and practitioners alike will be able to get a lot out of it. The layout is clear, and it is very readable.I was drawn into the book from the beginning. Even though I am very well acquainted with the basics of Chinese medicine and the organ functions, they are presented an a different context in this book. Everything is given within the context of the eyes and eye diseases. This allowed me to take the knowledge that I had on treatment principles in general, and apply it to eye patterns.Perhaps the most outstanding aspect of the book is the holistic approach presented to working on eye diseases. There is information on lifestyle, eye exercises, qigong, herbs, acupressure, acupuncture, essential oils, magnets, and moxibustion. All of this information can be used by practitioners to improve their ability to treat eye problems. More importantly, it is written in a way that the patient can go home and do eye exercises, qigong, acupressure, or any of the other home treatment modalities presented in this book to further their eye health.Overall an excellent book.5.0 out of 5 stars Not so much for laypeople, but gives a LOT of hope.By Burton Kent on March 6, 2008I’ve got an old friend Andy who taught me to play poker years ago. He recently was stricken with age-related macular degeneration. Right when he reached his retirement years and can play a lot of poker – he can’t anymore.My “new” friend Andy – the guy who wrote this book – gave me a lot of hope for my old friend. As he said to me in an email:”FYI, no one is too far gone in my experience. I’ve had some crazy success cases of people whom I thought would not get any results. As long as there is still a pulse, there is still hope…”Acupuncture and Chinese herbs can often help when nothing else will. The reason is that drugs rarely cure anything. Most drugs do one of two things. They kill something (in the case of antibiotics or chemotherapy drugs). Or, they react with receptors on cells (by blocking, interfering or activating the receptor). Cell receptors react to biomolecules such as hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.The problem is this doesn’t cause healing – it merely blocks symptoms. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine works by helping the body’s natural healing mechanisms take over. Only your body can heal itself – nothing else. Even the greatest surgeon can’t heal the smallest cut.Andy just had an article printed about macular degeneration in Acupuncture Today. You can search for it at their site. According to the article, he’s had an 80% success rate. If you’re interested in treatment for age related macular degeneration, it’s an excellent article. It will tell you if this book is for you.If you’re interested in treatment for other eye conditions and want to know if this book addresses it, you can search inside this book – click on the book cover, above.5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have Book for PractitionersBy E. G. on July 10, 2007This book helped to fill the gap of this specialty. Andy gave descriptions of terms I have never heard of before that allowed me to appreciate it even more instead of hearing all the same ‘ole boring descriptions/definitions that many others use or copy from other books.The chapters were well organized and well suited for the beginner who wants to understand the organ functions pertaining to Chinese medicine and how a practitioner will treat eye disorders.I now know what “snail-shell moxa” is by the pictures in the book.Relating the western diagnosis to Chinese medical terms make this book useful and important to the practitioner as well as the authors own clinical experience he shares in this book.I think anyone interested in vision health whether you are a practitioner or layperson will greatly benefit from this book.