Holistic Medicine category: 2492 books
Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Cancer Care and Prevention
Foundations and Evidence-Based Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
Provide whole care to your cancer patients with:
Up-to-date information on the uses of diet, nutrition, and herbs
Elucidations of the use of mind-body therapies such as Guided Imagery, Expressive Therapies, and spirituality
Legal and medical guidance for incorporating Naturopathy, Acupuncture,...
Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) in Medicine
Volume 1. Biology and Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This book reviews research on Dan Shen, compiles data from clinical trials and biological experiments, and summarizes the latest research advances. It covers the medicinal herb, herbal pieces, and new proprietary drugs that contain it; it also covers simple and compound, traditional and contemporary...
Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy - E-Book
Modern Herbal Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
The authoritative and comprehensive modern textbook on western herbal medicine - now in its second edition
This long-awaited second edition of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy covers all major aspects of herbal medicine from fundamental concepts, traditional use and scientific research...
by Clare Stephenson, MA(Cantab), BM
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Unique ready reference for all complementary medicine, massage
therapy and manual therapy practitioners and
students alerting them to ‘red flag’ symptoms
which should be referred for Western medical
investigation or emergency medical treatment.
When can a patient...
Homeopathy - The Undiluted Facts
Including a Comprehensive A-Z Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book traces the genesis, principles and practice of homeopathy, and discusses the reasons for its enduring popularity. Two hundred years ago, medicine had little to offer except blood letting and the administration of violent purgatives – practices which shortened the course of illness by hastening...
by Debra Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Modern medicine has always prided itself on inventing and administering new lifesaving treatments and medications, and on being able to cure severe illnesses and diseases. And since the 1940's – when antibiotics and other medicines began to be mass produced - “folk” remedies have been shunned...
Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats
A Pocket Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Skillfully integrating traditional concepts of Chinese medicine with clinical experience and modern scientific research, Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats brings together all current information in one convenient book. Its atlas-style format, highlighted by hundreds of full-color photographs and supporting...
by Angela Hicks, John Hicks, Peter Mole
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This exciting new edition of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional Five Element acupuncture. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory....
Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies
Principles, Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The use of complementary therapies is exploding, increasing the pressure to establish a rigorous science to support its practice. Clinical Research in Complementary Therapies: Principles, Problems and Solutions provides students with the tools they need to research complementary and integrative medicine...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Knowledge Production and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments. Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits perceptions and experiences, chapters...
Healing in the 21st Century
Complementary Medicine and Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Based on the combined works and extensive knowledge of Jan de Vries, Dr Carl Heede and Marie-Louise Schicht, this book provides guidelines on how to treat diseases associated with modern society. The author suggests that many of the diseases must be addressed in a new way - in treating twenty-first...
by Dr. Sasson Moulavi
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Sasson Moulavi, M.D., is the Medical Director of Smart for Life Weight Management Centers headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Sass is a graduate of the University of Toronto where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He completed his postgraduate training at McGill University in Montreal....
by Sandi Rogers, Anne Wassnig
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Since my first printing of Fruit and Vegetables as Medicine literally thousands of consumers have used the information to assist with their wellbeing recovery. The healing benefits associated with these foods are astounding and impress people with just how good they feel when they start using Fruit...
The Compleat Acupuncturist
A Guide to Constitutional and Conditional Pulse Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In this highly original and authoritative book, Peter Eckman takes pulse diagnosis as a common thread that links and integrates the various disciplines of Oriental medicine, and shows that they are in fact related by a common origin several thousand years ago. The text describes the clinical details...