This first textbook (Chapters 1-10, 710 pages) includes comprehensive instruction pertaining to the mastery of different healing skills and clinical techniques that are required in China to become proficient as a doctor of Chinese energetic medicine. Written by an internationally recognized professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a grandmaster of Daoist internal martial arts, and a senior abbot of the Tian Yun Gong Daoist Temple, this five textbook series (often referred to as the “Medical Qigong Encyclopedia”) provides the first complete explanation of esoteric Chinese healing theories that have for centuries eluded and confounded the West. <br> <br>In this text, the addition of many charts, graphs, and ancient illustrations provides a deeper, more comprehensive visual model for the reader. The key features of this first book include the following: the foundations and evolution of Chinese Energetic Medicine; the history of ancient Chinese shaman-doctors metaphysical teachings and energetic healing theory; the energetic formation of the universe and the human body; energetic embryological development; the different energies and channel systems of the human body and their therapeutic significance, and much more. <br>