Master Hong's book, written with Paul Perry, tells the remarkable story of
his personal discovery and quest to master the art of qigong healing as a young
man in China.
A Chinese Qi Gong expert joins a bestselling writer to bring a powerful, ancient
healing art to a Western audience. Trained at the most prestigious hospitals
in China and at the mountain cave home of a Qi Gong master, Master Liu is the
first person to fully integrate extensive apprenticeships in both Eastern and
Western medicine. Now, with this ground-breaking book, he tells his extraordinary
story, and shares the energizing, health-enhancing therapies that have been used
in China for over three thousand years with near-miraculous results.
In the first third of this book, Liu tells how he was instructed in one type
of Chinese healing by Master Kwan, who lived in a three-room mountaintop cave
and looked on the difficult climb to it as a test of motivation for patients,
students, and apprentices. Kwan's striking diagnoses--achieved apparently by
using only his eyes--Liu shows to be neither paranormal nor miraculous but
the result of intense study and long experience. Once Liu learned the lesson
of humility, Kwan became teacher rather than taskmaster. Later, when Liu, having
taken his M.D., worked in a Western-style Shanghai hospital, he gradually brought
his bosses around to believing Chinese medicine had much to offer. In the book's
remaining two-thirds, Liu reports on several cases to show how he thinks and
works; relays many herbal recipes; and describes, with illustrations, helpful
exercises for both patients and those desirous of keeping good health. Liu
seems to understand himself and other people, and he urges a close relationship
between Chinese and Western medicines. by William Beatty
