Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 144 pages
• Published by: Weatherhill; Full Color edition April 4, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0834804433
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0834804432
• Book Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Review
Excellent book! gorgeously designed and richly illustrated throughout, I highly recommend this book to any internal practitioner. -- emptyflower.com, October 2000

Long-overdue texta perfect resource for martial artists interested in point location from both a healing and martial perspective. -- Plum Publications, Santa Cruz, CA USA, plumpub.com, October 2000

Product Description
This unique book will familiarize healing practitioners and martial artists with basic concepts of the human body, as defined by both Western and Eastern medical traditions, allowing those engaged in healing and martial arts to develop a more complete, holistic, and scientifically forward-looking understanding of the body. Overviews of philosophical and conceptual underpinnings are followed by detailed drawings and diagrams of the body's internal systems, as seen by both traditions. Written in a clear and concise style, this gorgeous and informative book presents information previously unavailable in any single text, making it an essential work for students, healing professionals, and martial artists. This lavishly illustrated book includes: Over 147 color drawings and 54 duotone photographs
An easy-to-understand overview of Western anatomical concepts
A detailed overview of Eastern medical principles, including information previously available only in specialized, costly medical texts
A comprehensive listing of Oriental pressure points and meridians in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, cross-referenced to nerves, blood vessels, and other anatomical landmarks
Twenty essential self-massage and revival techniques
Detailed principles of pressure point fighting, as used in traditional Asian martial arts

Reader Reviews
Marc Tedeschi has put a great deal of work into this book as far as assembling all the necessary information for a basis to learn pressure point fighting into one text. His charts are excellent and include all the special points off the meridian lines. It is also nice to have the contrasting Feng Shui charts to display color, emotion, and additional data that does come into play during advanced study. However, his written theory explaining martial application is poor, and the photographs of applications are misleading. After cross referencing the data provided in the charts, they are completely accurate. I do think that this book is an excellent addition to a studying martial artist's library, but do not expect this book to teach you anything in regards to technique. Buy George Dillman for that. It is a supplemental data source...no more. Technique and teaching should be left to real teachers. I think Tedeschi would agree.