When you feels they can’t go on, it usually means you are carrying more pain than you can bear right now. This book stands beside you. Drawing on the Yellow Emperor’s Classic, Chinese tradition and modern medicine, and through six people’s stories, it shows where the pain comes from, what you can do today, where to get help, and how to rebuild your life.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) identifies nine body constitution types. FTL · Nine TCM Constitution Self-Assessment Click the image to complete the self-assessment questionnaire.

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Numb fingers and a stiff neck — is it always cervical spondylosis? Follow five people — an editor with numb fingers, a sales manager with a recurring crick in the neck, a retired engineer who can no longer do up his buttons, a keen baker who feels giddy reaching for the top shelf, and a new mum who feeds with her head down — to understand three different neck problems, how doctors tell them apart, what you can do at home, how Chinese medicine sees it, and which warning signs