Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health

Kaibara Ekiken

Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc
Country
United States
Published
15 April 2013
Pages
256
ISBN
9781590309889

Cultivating Ch'i: A Samurai Physician’s Teachings on the Way of Health

Kaibara Ekiken

Samurai are best known for taking life-but here is a samurai doctor’s prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one.

Discover a different side of Japanese swordsmanship through this fascinating treatise by a samurai doctor on how to maintain a healthy mind, body, and spiritual life

Samurai are best known for taking life-but here is a samurai doctor’s prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one. Unlike other samurai of his time, the samurai 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 this text 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 appropriate nearly three hundred years after this book was written.

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