Chinese Medical Qigong Paperback - 2013 - 1st Edition

Editor in Chief: Tianjun Liu, O.M.D., is Director of the Qigong research laboratory at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine where he has taught Qigong for more than twenty years. He is also secretary general of the National Qigong Education and Study Association, secretary general of China Academic Society of Medical Qigong, and the first government approved academic mentor for Ph.D. candidates in the field of medical Qigong in China. For the past decade, Dr. Liu has been Editor in Chief of Qigong Study in Chinese Medicine, the only official Qigong textbook used in universities and colleges of traditional Chinese medicine in China. Associate Editor in Chief: Xiao Mei Qiang is a New York State licensed acupuncturist and a Board Certified herbalist. In 1975, she started traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) study in her apprenticeship with Dr. Zhichun Zhang, a retired doctor and professor from Beijing Chinese Medical College. At the same time, she began acupuncture training in an apprenticeship with Dr. Ciguang Sun and Dr. Yuying Sun, who inherited Chinese medicine knowledge and special acupuncture skills from their older generation and who were the principal acupuncture doctors in the Beijing Police Hospital. Qiang moved to the United States in 1990. She started out studying physical therapy, working in rehabilitation medicine for more than thirteen years. She completed further training in acupuncture and herbology at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York where she earned her master's degree in TCM. She has also trained in Tung's Acupuncture and in Japanese-style acupuncture, and received certification from Harvard Medical School. Qiang currently practices Chinese medicine in her private office in Manhattan. She is an expert in treating pain, all kinds of headaches, post-stroke conditions, and neurologic disorders. Two Chinese journals, HOW2USA and CHINA FORTUNE, reported her successful treatment of post-stroke and neurologic patients, and she received the Contribution Award of 2008 from the All Chinese Who's Who Awards.