Katsusuke serizawa biography sample

by Lynn Kirk.
Former Instructor, Canadian Acupressure Institute

Although Shiatsu is a form of therapy uniquely Japanese, its roots date back to ancient Chinese philosophical ideas.

Katsusuke serizawa biography sample pdf

The oldest text available – The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Han Dynasty 206 BC – AD 25) gives us an inkling of how medicine and philosophy were tied together at that time. The text is a series of dialogues between Emperor Huang Ti, and his physician/minister, Ch’i Po.

The emphasis is on how the environment and geography effect one’s health.

Four Classical approaches to medicine were developed in specific geographical regions:

In the South, where it was warmer, lots of vegetation grew, making herbal remedies readily available.
The coldness of the North fostered moxibustion , which is the burning of mugwort on acupuncture points.
In the East where the diet was based on fish and salt, stomach ulcers were a problem.

This condition