Holistic Medicine category: 2492 books
by Ted J Kaptchuk
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Chinese medicine is a healing art that has survived and continues to thrive in East Asia and is increasingly becoming a global resource. The Web That Has No Weaver is the classic English language introductory text that explains how medicine so rooted the archaic past can be relevant to modern health...
Medical Philosophy
Conceptual Issues in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research...
Acupuncture for Insomnia
Sleep and Dreams in Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Insomnia and related sleep disorders concern 30-40% of the adult population and even up to 25% of children, affecting alertness and memory, causing emotional and physical fatigue, and putting the individual at increased risk for depression, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and other health hazards....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Traditional East Asian healthcare systems have moved rapidly from the fringes of healthcare systems in the West towards the centre over the past 50 years. This change of status for traditional medicines presents their practitioners with both opportunities and challenges as the focus shifts from one...
by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The Best Alternative Medicine is the only book available today that both evaluates the major areas of alternative medicine and addresses how they can be used to treat specific conditions. Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier explains such popular therapies as mind/body medicine, herbal and homeopathic remedies,...
The Theory of Chinese Medicine
A Modern Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This path-breaking book reinterprets Chinese medicine using the approach of the philosophy of science in a manner that strikes common ground with biomedical science. It strips Chinese medical theory of the mystique and metaphysical pretentions that too often plague the discipline, presenting this...
The Spark in the Machine
How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know, that western medicine ignores?
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Approaches to Cancer
Harmony in the Face of the Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Research shows that Chinese medicine can be very effective in supporting the treatment of cancer by orthodox Western methods, and is particularly effective in alleviating many of the side effects of treatment. Henry McGrath draws on his many years as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine...
Faith, Medicine, and Science
A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A perfect introduction to the connection between religious faith and physical and mental health!
Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson is a comprehensive collection of groundbreaking work from one of the principal figures in the establishment, expansion,...
Musculoskeletal Manual Medicine
Diagnosis and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Written by the authors of the popular Manual Medicine: Diagnostics and Manual Medicine: Therapy, this book is a comprehensive guide to integrating manual medicine into the diagnosis and clinical management of musculoskeletal disorders and pain syndromes. Brimming with instructive images and illustrations,...
Chinese Herbal Medicine
The Formulas of Dr. John H. F. Shen
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Chinese Herbal Medicine gathers the herbal formulas of master practitioner Dr. John H. F. Shen in one volume for the very first time. Not only does it incorporate the experience of Dr. Leon Hammer, who studied directly under Dr. Shen for nearly three decades, but it also presents the stimulus, rationale,...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 1: Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), with a history of thousands of years, is the crystallization of the ancient Chinese's experiences in their struggle against diseases. It is also an integral part of the Chinese's splendid culture. Under the influence and direction of classic Chinese philosophies,...
The Tune Up
Hot Medicine™ for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The United States is currently in last place in healthcare out of the fourteen wealthiest nations while spending twice as much money as any other country. This book describes the transformative approach called HOT Medicine™ that is least invasive first. According to the Institute of Medicine, approaching...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 2: Introduction to Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The 21st century is the start of an era where people are beginning to look at health and medical care from a different perspective. Understanding the conventional pattern of medical treatment alone has ceased to meet the ever-growing demands of social development, and hence, the trend of exploiting...