Alternative Holistic Medicine category: 2492 books
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 7: Introduction to Tui Na
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Traditional Chinese tui na, one of the earliest medical treatment methods with a long history tracing back to ancient times, is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This book is compiled with the aim of popularizing tui na modality along with allowing readers to understand...
Celestial Healing
Energy, Mind and Spirit in Traditional Medicines of China, and East and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Historically, the influence of Chinese medical traditions, thought to be revealed from divine sources, extended East to Korea and Japan and as far South as Indochina, the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago. As the distinct medical traditions of these regions encountered the ancient medicine...
Complementary and Alternative Medicines in Prostate Cancer
A Comprehensive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Recent global cancer statistical data has clearly indicated that prostate cancer is currently the second most frequently diagnosed cancer (at 15% of all male cancers) and globally the sixth leading cause of cancer death in males. This book is a summary of prostate cancer, covering its incidence,...
Clinical Acupuncture
Scientific Basis
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Acupuncture is rapidly moving out of the arena of "alternative" medicine, in large part because it is grounded more firmly than other alternative treatments in research. This book provides readers with the up-to-date information on the clinical bases of acupuncture.
Medicine
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Understanding man's true nature as a basis for medical practice; The science of knowing; The mission of reverence; The four temperaments; The bridge between universal spirituality and the physical; The constellation of the supersensible bodies; The invisible human within us: the pathology underlying...
Clinical Naturopathy
An evidence-based guide to practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Clinical Naturopathy: an evidence-based guide to practice, 2nd edition, E-book by Jerome Sarris and Jon Wardle, articulates evidence-based clinical practice.
It details the principles, treatment protocols and interventions at the forefront of naturopathic practice in the 21st century. Clinical...
by Martin Ferrier Young, BSc(Hons Phys) BSc(Chiropractic) DC FCC
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
A textbook that covers Physical concepts at a basic level for manual therapists specifically . Clinicians in general and manual therapists in particular have a need tounderstand certain, specific aspects of physics to an advanced level.However, many lack prior education in this area, with chemistry...
Physiology and Healing
Treatment, Therapy and Hygiene - Spiritual Science and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
‘‘The intention is to take a practical subject and show how our spiritual science with anthroposophical orientation truly can play an effective role in everyday life.’ – Rudolf Steiner
Following his first major lecture course for medical practitioners, Rudolf Steiner sought to elaborate...
Illness and Therapy
Spiritual-Scientific Aspects of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
'An external view of states of health and sickness must be augmented by what we can also know about the inner, spiritual reality within the human being.’ – Rudolf Steiner.
In a series of nine lectures to doctors, pharmacists and students, Rudolf Steiner presents a wealth of medical ideas...
by Steven Talbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Have you ever wondered what treatments and cures the old time doctors had for Intestinal diseases? What did they do back in the olden days for illness when there were no drugs?Well actually, IBS and IBD are relatively new diseases on the scale of human ailments, but they are no less an intestinal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book intensively examines the efficacy of plant-derived products that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals. The chapters were written by renowned Chinese medical researchers and are supplemented...
Tu Youyou and the Discovery of Artemisinin
2015 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.
This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure...
Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese Medicine
Integrated Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Emotional trauma can upset the harmony of the body and reduce the body's ability to heal and regulate itself. Once the traumas are identified and treated, the body will function at an optimum level and will respond to treatments for other conditions present. This book integrates the multi-diagnostic...
Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) in Medicine
Volume 3. Clinical Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 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...