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The User’s Manual for the Human Body is a Traditional Chinese Medicine healthy living book written by Alex Wu. The Chinese version of the book was published in Taiwan in 2005 and in China in 2006. Since its release, the book has been translated and published in Korean, Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai, and English (E-book format). The Chinese version of the book has sold more than 3 million copies in China and Taiwan.

Overview
The User’s Manual or the Human Body introduces the concept of body energy. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, body energy is defined as a combination of blood and Qi. Blood is the total quantity of blood that is in circulation within a body system, and Qi is the vitality of a person. TCM believes that the two values are connected. Blood is the container for Qi or the amount of Qi that a person can carry depends on the amount of blood that the person has. Thus, healthy living in TCM revolves around the idea of increasing blood. The central focus of The User’s Manual for the Human Body is what a person can do to increase body energy.

Author
Alex Wu was born in 1951. From 1979~1983, Mr. Wu worked in the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute as an engineer. During his time in the ITRI, Mr. Wu worked on projects that focused on the developing robotics. From 1984~1990, Mr. Wu worked in the China Productivity Center, a government funded organization which focuses in increasing productivity of Taiwanese businesses. From 1990~1993, Mr. Wu joined The Boston Consulting Group’s Chinese department and from 1994~1997, Mr. Wu joined Morningside China, a venture capital investment group working as an investment consultant.

Due to the stressful nature of Mr. Wu’s profession, in 1997, Mr. Wu started encountering various chronic health problems such as amnesia and periodontal disease. After seeking help from conventional western medicine, these problems still persisted. It is at that time Mr. Wu developed a keen interest in Chinese Medicine and with the help of several Chinese Medicine teachers, Mr. Wu was able to relieve himself of his various illnesses.

The User’s Manual for the Human Body started as a collection of notes that Mr. Wu took during his path of learning Chinese Medicine. In early 2001, these notes started circulating on the internet in the form of E-books. By 2005, The User’s Manual for the Human Body became one of the most downloaded healthy living E-books in Asia.

Since the publishing of The User’s Manual for the Human Body, Mr. Wu has focused his work on the modernization of Chinese Medicine. As a replacement for pulse diagnosis, Mr. Wu and a group of engineers in Taiwan developed a Meridian monitoring system that can electronically measure a person’s meridian condition. The Meridian Qi Treatment developed by Mr. Wu uses specially produced wafers to simulate the effects of Qi Gong. The goal of Mr. Wu is to make Chinese Medicine diagnosis more objective and make Chinese Medicine treatments more repeatable. With the Meridian Monitoring System and the Meridian Qi Treatment, Mr. Wu hopes to produce a diagnosis and treatment system that can become the future trend in Chinese Medicine.