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Facing East: Ancient Health and Beauty Secrets for the Modern Ageby Jingduan Yang, Norma Kamali2016 | ISBN: 0062363468 | English | 272 pages | EPUB | 4 MBIn Facing East, Dr. Jingduan Yang, a fifth-generation practitioner of Chinese medicine and a respected authority in integrative medicine, joins forces with style icon and wellness advocate Norma Kamali to reveal the ancient healing secrets, adapted for the modern age, that will help preserve, maintain, and restore vitality, health, and beauty in all its forms.style icon Norma Kamali, having felt deeply and noticeably rested and rejuvenated by Dr. Jingduan Yang’s unique acupuncture treatments, encouraged her remarkable physician to share his mastery of both traditional Chinese and Modern medicines with the world. The result is Facing East, a book filled with practical day-to-day health, beauty, wellness and lifestyle practices that can radically enhance the way you look, feel, and interact with everything and everyone around you!Drawing from 2,500 years of wisdom adapted to today’s lifestyles, Facing East teaches you how to restore your qi—the vital energy at the root of every function in the human body—to become both internally healthy and externally radiant. Inside you’ll discover:• The ways each of the primary emotions—joy, sadness, anger, fear and worry—impact a different organ and, in turn, how the health of that organ can influence emotion• Tips to help revitalize the hair, skin, eyes, lips, teeth and nails• Self-assessments to help determine your unique general energy constitution• Personal checklists for preventative care• A year-round Wellness Plan including advice on sleep, sex, exercise, and nutrition . . . and much more!By exploring the mind-body-spirit connection from a truly integrative perspective, Facing East helps you maintain wellness in every aspect of your life.Editorial ReviewsFrom the Back CoverDrawing from 2,500 years of wisdom that has been adapted to today’s lifestyles, Facing East teaches you how to restore your Qi—the vital energy at the root of every function in the human body—to become both internally healthy and externally radiant.In Facing East, Dr. Jingduan Yang, a fifth-generation practitioner of Chinese medicine and a respected authority in integrative medicine, joins forces with wellness advocate Norma Kamali to reveal ancient healing secrets, adapted for the modern age, that will help preserve, maintain, and restore vitality, health, and beauty in all its forms.style icon Norma Kamali, having felt deeply and noticeably rested and rejuvenated after Dr. Jingduan Yang’s unique acupuncture treatments, encouraged her remarkable physician to share his mastery of both traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine with the world. The result is Facing East, a book filled with practical day-to-day health, beauty, wellness, and lifestyle practices that can radically enhance the way you look, feel, and interact with everything and everyone around you!Inside you’ll discover:    The ways each of the primary organs can affect every aspect of your life—from your physical health to your mental well-being—and how to keep them in balance    Tips to help revitalize the hair, skin, eyes, lips, teeth, and nails    Self-assessments to help determine your unique general energy constitution    Personal checklists for preventative care    A year-round wellness plan that includes advice on sleep, sex, exercise, and nutrition    And much more!By exploring the mind-body-spirit connection from a truly integrative perspective, Facing East helps you maintain wellness in every aspect of your life.“Dr. Yang and Norma Kamali share ancient wisdom in a friendly, modern, and engaging dialogue, making timeless Eastern health practices relevant to the present and easy for everyone to apply in their lives.If you want to design happy, vibrant wellness for yourself, read Facing East!”—VINCENT PEDRE, M.D., author of Happy Gut: The Cleansing Program to Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Eliminate PainHarness the power of the East to feel better, look younger, and live healthier, no matter your age!Are you easily fatigued?Is there too much fat around your belly?Are you often unhappy?Do you have chronic nasal congestion?Do you have black circles under your eyes?Does your skin often feel dry?Do your hands and feet feel cold?Is your skin prone to acne?If you answered yes to any of these questions, your Qi—the vital energy essential to your body’s every function—is probably out of balance.Filled with ancient health and beauty secrets, Facing East can help you rebalance your body and turn back the hands of time.“Facing East looks to the past for a vision of the future, drawing on ancient knowledge to devise simple strategies to allow you to stay young, vibrant, and healthy. This book by Dr. Yang, a foremost expert on Chinese medicine, and his patient, Norma Kamali, will help you to correct imbalances with techniques so simple anyone can use them with success.”—Andrew Weil, M.D., #1 New York Times bestselling authorextract:Norma Kamali talks with Dr. Jingduan YangNorma Kamali (NK): We all want our lips to look pleasing, full, and lively. Dr. Yang, what can you tell us about the care and well-being of our lips according to Chinese medicine?Dr. Jingduan Yang (JY): The lips are actually a muscle; therefore, they are supported by and reflect the health of the spleen and stomach. Some of the important functions of the spleen include cleansing bacteria from our blood, boosting our immune system, and containing our blood within its vessels. If you want healthy lips and good health in general, you must care for your Spleen and your Stomach. Look closely at your lips—do you see any of the following signs?*Pale lips indicate a lack of Qi, blood, and nutrients. Have you been eating well enough?*Deep-red, dry lips indicate excess heat. Is the thermostat in your home or office set too high? Are you properly protecting your lips from the sun when you are outdoors?*When your lips are cracked, your spleen and stomach are telling you they need more fluids to cool them down. Are you drinking enough room-temperature water?*Too much heat in the spleen can cause painful sores to appear on the lips. Are you eating enough cooling or Yin-generating foods?*Bluish-purple lips indicate blood stasis. Are you moving around enough? Try to get up from your desk and stretch at different intervals throughout the day. You should also include some form of exercise in your daily routine.*Sore, chapped, or cut lips can mean you have an infection in your body. Have you been under the weather recently? Are you running a fever?NK: Dr. Yang, you’ve taught us that our external features have unexpected relationships with internal organs that really do impact our overall health and appearance. So what can you tell us about the role of our nose in maintaining health and beauty?JY: The nose provides clues about possible energy imbalances. For instance, widespread redness on the entire nose indicates excessive heat in the lungs. Redness concentrated on the upper third and the bridge of the nose may indicate excessive heat in your heart. If your nose is dark blue or marked by broken capillaries, it may mean that your liver energy is too stagnated. Also, when nose hairs turn gray, it is a sign of kidney deficiency. A frequent bloody nose means your surroundings are too dry.The nose is one of the most prominent features of the face. Ensuring its health means ensuring the healthy image you put forward to the world. In the animal kingdom, signs of health are what attract potential mates. The same is true with humans, so don’t take the allure of a clear, healthy nose for granted.NK: Dr. Yang, would you please tell us more about how our emotions actually relate to our health and ultimately to our appearance?JY: I will gladly talk about this connection because recognizing that emotional distress is often the underlying cause of illness and disease is one of the great distinctions of classical Chinese medicine. Since Qi circulates throughout our entire body, leaving nothing untouched from the deepest inner recesses to the surface of our skin, you can understand how traces of emotional Qi can be detected in the eyes, mouth, complexion, hair, weight, and posture of a person, in addition to affecting our internal health. When people are happy, they have a glow about them. When they are worried, their brows furrow, their foreheads wrinkle, their lips tighten, and their jaws clench. When we don’t attend to our feelings, the signs of aging become much more pronounced and noticeable. About the AuthorJingduan Yang, M.D., F.A.P.A., is the founder and medical director of the Tao Institute of Mind and Body Medicine. He also practices medicine and serves as director of the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Program at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. In addition, Dr. Yang is on the faculty of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and teaches traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture for its Integrative Medicine Fellowship program. He is also a board member of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Norma Kamali is a prolific American fashion designer who attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and received an honorary doctorate from the institution in 2010. She is the recipient of several Coty and CFDA Awards—including the CFDA Board of Directors’ Special Tribute Award—and a plaque on the Fashion Walk of Fame. Pieces from her collections have been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Norma promotes and supports fitness, health, beauty, and personal empowerment through various endeavors and the WELLNESS CAFÉ she established in 2002. She lives in New York City.