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A concise and practical guide to the range of different ways of
prescribing using homeopathy. Suitable for homeopathic students and
practitioners at all levels, this revised edition has been updated
with the addition of several new chapters. The material is
illustrated with case histories throughout and contains many
suggestions and ideas not found in any other homeopathic book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Natural remedies for physical ailments are well known; now hitting
the scene are supplements-made from berries, mushrooms, herbs and
other plants-that can help the body and mind adapt to stress. These
"adaptogens" work towards restoring balance, enhancing focus and
stamina, boosting energy and improving mood. In Super Powders
Katrine van Wyk takes 20 adaptogens and describes what they are and
how to use them. Then Van Wkyk shares the recipes she's developed.
Adaptogens should be part of every healthy person's routine. Super
Powders reveals everything you need to know to get started.
Wildcraft your way to wellness! In Southwest Medicinal Plants, John
Slattery is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting,
and using 112 of the region's most powerful wild plants. You'll
learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild
plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves.
Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification
tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting
suggestions. Lists of what to forage for each season makes the
guide useful year-round. Thorough, comprehensive, and safe, this is
a must-have for foragers, naturalists, and herbalists in Arizona,
southern California, southern Colorado, southern Nevada, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, western and central Texas, and southern Utah.
Thomas Wernicke's authoritative book is one of the first resources
in English on Shonishin, a non-invasive form of acupuncture
developed specifically to respond to the needs of children. With
its safe, quick and effective treatments, Shonishin is increasingly
catching the attention of therapists world-wide. Covering the
history, theory and clinical practice, Wernicke explores how
Shonishin is used with young children, from babies and toddlers to
school-age children, to treat a range of behavioural issues and
physical conditions such as KISS syndrome, allergies and asthma. He
also examines how the techniques can be adapted for use with adults
and older people to provide an alternative, non-invasive treatment.
With access to downloadable handouts that can be used with
patients, and international case studies that demonstrate its
effectiveness, his book provides a complete and practical handbook
on Shonishin for existing practitioners. Written in an accessible
style, it will also be of value to any therapist interested in
learning more about the treatment, including practitioners of
Chinese and Japanese medicine, traditional acupuncture and shiatsu,
craniosacral and occupational therapists, and physiotherapists.
Full-colour laminated poster. Five illustrations of the foot: views
of the right and left soles, the top of the foot, the internal side
and the external side where all the reflex zones can be localised.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners need to have an
understanding of Western medical testing to recognize when
laboratory tests are required and to interpret test results that
are brought to them by patients. This book is an essential
reference for the TCM classroom and clinic that teaches how to use
and understand conventional lab testing in the treatment and
referral of patients. Focusing on symptoms that commonly present in
TCM practices, the book groups the lab tests by diseases or
systems. Within each chapter are TCM case studies and perspectives,
as well as multiple choice quizzes that test the reader's
knowledge. Co-written by a doctor of Western medicine and an
acupuncture physician, the book aims to familiarize TCM
practitioners with the terminology and methodology of lab tests,
bridging the gap between Eastern and Western schools of medicine
and promoting an integrative approach to improve the overall care
of the patient.
Despite thousands of years of medical use and an impressive record
of safety, versatility, and efficacy, Cannabis sativa has existed
outside the modern pharmacopeia since the 1940s. Primarily driven
by popular demand, this botanical has returned to health care, but
most clinicians lack the knowledge essential for identifying
candidates for treatment, guiding patients, maximizing benefit, and
minimizing harm. Dustin Sulak provides health care
professionals-including physicians, psychologists, pharmacists, and
nurses-with an accessible and evidence-based reference that
empowers them to intelligently discuss cannabis with their patients
and implement cannabis and cannabinoid therapies with confidence.
Based on over a decade of clinical experience and an extensive
review of the literature, this detailed and scientifically accurate
guide includes the history of cannabis in medicine, the foundations
of endocannabinoid physiology, the pharmacological effects of
cannabis' myriad active constituents, the clinical utility of its
various preparations, and specific strategies and cautions for
treating the most common conditions presenting to a cannabis
clinician. This guide is an essential resource for practitioners of
any specialty field or experience level who wish to improve their
patients' outcomes, harness the healing potential of the
endocannabinoid system, and wield a powerful solution to many of
healthcare's challenges.
Translational Ayurveda is the implementation of translational
medicine ideas taking into account Ayuraveda's unique health care
principles and their application in patient care. This book
addresses various domains of Ayurveda, discussing its fundamentals
and clinical practice in terms of the various modalities available,
and offering deep insights into what is actually described in the
classical Ayurveda texts. It also explores the public health
impacts of such classical thoughts from a completely new angle. In
Ayurveda, there are huge gaps between knowledge and its practical
application. The book identifies these gaps to provide a new
perspective on Ayurvedic wisdom in light of contemporary scientific
advances.
The placebo elicits more passionate debate, scepticism and personal
belief than almostany other aspect of medicine. As yet there are no
concrete answers - but many challenging observations and powerful
effects occur daily in healthcare which need to be examined. This
book will stimulate and inform every reader from the experienced
practitioner to the new student who has ever asked, What is the
placebo really, and why should it matter to me?Written in an
accessible and engaging style with contributions from leading
figures in healthcare, it tackles issues of the placebo effect in
complementary medicine.A clear and engaging exploration of a highly
topical subject A clinicians route map through the visible
territory and the known research in this areaA fair and even
analysis of the possibilities and implications of the topic in
clinical practice
A step-by-step naturopathic guide to using the hands-on natural
healing method of compresses and poultices Valued by herbalists,
midwives, and mothers throughout history, compresses and poultices
are gentle yet highly effective natural remedies you can safely use
at home. Easily made from materials you already have in your
kitchen, such as ice cubes, herbs, cabbage leaves, lemon slices,
clay, or beeswax, these simple preparations can quickly ease pain
and inflammation, relieve congestion and edema, lower fever, drain
abscesses, activate circulation, calm muscle spasms, and trigger
the body's natural self-healing abilities. In this step-by-step
naturopathic guide to compresses and poultices, Christopher Vasey,
N.D., shows how to use these time-tested folk remedies to treat 70
common ailments and conditions, including headache, asthma, acne,
sinusitis, earache, arthritis, sprains, hives, shingles, anxiety,
insomnia, mastitis, constipation, diarrhea, muscle pains,
bronchitis, and more. He explains that a compress is a cloth soaked
in hot or cold infused water and applied to a specific part of the
body. A poultice works similarly, but instead of a liquid extract,
the healing material is made into a paste and applied directly to
the body. He details what type of compress or poultice to use for
each ailment, whether to use it hot or cold, where on the body to
apply it, and for how long. Vasey also explores the physiological
reasons these simple remedies can be so effective, such as how some
treatments trigger healing through the nerves, others cause the
skin to absorb or expel substances, and others have beneficial
effects on the body's internal chemistry. He reveals how compresses
and poultices not only can alleviate acute symptoms, but are
equally effective for dealing with chronic conditions. Offering an
indispensable complement to your home first aid kit, this book
provides you with a hands-on way to bring relief and healing to
yourself and your loved ones.
A classic, practical guide to the history, science, and art of
aromatherapy, updated throughout with recent research and
developments * Details more than 70 essential oils classified by
botanical family, with discussions of their specific actions and
energetic and spiritual properties * Provides specific formulas for
common disorders such as digestive and circulatory ailments,
headaches, insomnia, and menstrual and sexual problems * Explains
techniques for using plant essences for beautifying, cleansing, and
healing and addresses the controversy surrounding some methods of
application Updated throughout with recent research and the latest
developments in the use of essential oils, this 30th-anniversary
edition of Marcel Lavabre's classic Aromatherapy Workbook provides
the most comprehensive practical guide to the history, folklore,
science, and art of aromatherapy available today. Examining the
origins and applications of aromatics, from the mythical Queen of
Sheba to Rene-Maurice Gatefosse, the author traces the medical,
alchemical, and spiritual development of this healing art from
classical civilizations up to the present. He explains the
mysteries of the olfactory system and how this most ancient sensory
system affects our moods, our emotions, and our sexuality.
Illustrating the biochemistry of essential oils and how they work
on the physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual
levels, he explores more than 70 essential oils classified by
botanical family, with detailed discussions of their specific
actions. He shows how to use appropriate plant essences for
beautifying, cleansing, and healing the body, as well as in
massage, aromatic baths, ritual, and spiritual practice. He also
addresses the controversy surrounding different methods of
administration and explores in depth the risks, benefits, and
safety guidelines for each technique. Addressing the fundamental
issues of purity and quality, the author discusses the various
methods of extraction in detail and includes a special section
devoted to the art of blending. He offers specific formulas for
common disorders such as digestive and circulatory ailments,
headaches, insomnia, and menstrual and sexual problems. Lavabre
also includes extensive reference tables to provide the reader with
concise information on each essential oil and its therapeutic uses.
This revised edition offers a perfect step-by-step guide for
beginners as well as an ongoing reference for practicing
aromatherapists.
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 explore the forms that CAM
takes in different settings, how global social transformations
elicit varieties of CAM, and how CAM philosophies and practices are
co-produced in the context of social change. Through engagement
with frameworks from Science and Technology Studies (STS), CAM is
reconceptualised as a set of practices and knowledge-making
processes, and opened up to new forms of analysis. Part 1 of the
book explores how and why boundaries within CAM and between CAM and
other health practices, are being constructed, challenged and
changed. Part 2 asks how CAM as material practice is shaped by
politics and regulation in a range of national settings. Part 3
examines how evidence is being produced and used in CAM research
and practice. Including studies of CAM in Eastern and Western
Europe, Asia, and North and South America, the volume will appeal
to postgraduate students, researchers and health practitioners.
This practical and comprehensive title provides illuminating,
evidence-based approaches in headache medicine for using
traditional medical therapies in conjunction with alternative
approaches to care. In all, the book details how multidisciplinary
management and the combination of conventional and complementary
medical services - integrative medicine - leads to superior patient
outcomes: improved patient satisfaction, reduced stress, and more
readily treatable, less serious illness. State-of-the-art and
developed by experts in their fields, these 12 chapters present
research and analysis of a wide range of non-pharmacologic
interventions in headache care, seeking to inspire clinicians to
formulate personalized headache treatment plans, and to work
together by integrating their expertise in a multidisciplinary
context to address patients' unique conditions, needs,
circumstances, and treatment. Chapter one provides an overview of
integrative medicine and proposes a step-wise approach for
incorporating integrative modalities into a headache practice.
Chapter two focuses on the attention to be paid to relevant aspects
of a patient's medical history. The next four chapters discuss
lifestyle factors that play a role in headache, including trigger
identification, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. The scope of
mind-body therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, and mindfulness is
explored in chapter seven, and the psychology of pain is the
subject of chapter eight. Chapter nine investigates the safety and
efficacy of nutraceuticals, or pharmaceutical alternatives. The
final three chapters review neuromodulation and interventional
approaches to headache management. An invaluable and timely
contribution to the clinical literature, Integrative Headache
Medicine - An Evidence-Based Guide for Clinicians will be of great
interest to neurologists, pain physicians, primary care clinicians,
behavioral psychologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists,
social workers, nutritionists and any other health professionals
interested in delivering the highest quality care for headache
patients.
Live greener and find magic in the world around you with this
comprehensive sourcebook to living the hearth witch way. Featuring
homemade recipes, instructions for making everything from wine to
soaps, and a variety of potions and spells, The Hearth Witch's
Compendium helps you incorporate spiritual practice into everyday
life. The contemporary hearth witch inherits the mantle of the
village wise woman; she is part shaman, part seer, part herbalist,
part spiritual healer, and entirely witch. Anna Franklin guides you
through each project, from growing your own herbs and making
remedies for simple ailments to creating natural household products
and mixing oils. By following the hearth witch life, you'll save
money, reduce waste and exposure to potentially toxic chemicals,
and have a lot of fun along the way.
Further management strategies including clinimetry, cranio-cervical
posture and 'psychological' management of chronic facial pain are
described and discussed in relation to their integration in daily
practice. Difficult clinical problems such as cervical headache,
chronic ear pain in children, KISS syndrome, facial paralysis,
tinnitus, craniomandibular dysfunction amongst others are described
and discussed. A clinical reasoning approach to problem solving is
emphasized throughout. This book is recommended for those
interested in manual assessment and management of the craniofacial
region including clinicians, physiotherapists, dentists,
orthodontics, ENT-specialists, neurologists, maxillofacial
surgeons, chiropractors and osteopaths. Foreword by Professor
Mariano Racobado, Santiago, Chile. Contributors: HAJ Oudhof: Skull
Growth in relation to mechanical stimulation Dr H Biedermann:
Features of cranial tissue as a basis for clinical pattern
recognition on management Dr med H Biederman: Primary and secondary
cranial asymmetry in Kiss-children R Spermon-Marijne: Manual
Therapy of the craniofacial region as therapeutic Dr J R Spermon:
approach in children with long term ear disease P Westerhuis:
Cervicogenic headache: a clinician's perspective and Cervicogenic
Headache, physical examination and management David Butler:
Experience of pain and the craniofacial region D Fitzgerald and
Lynn Bryden: The influence of posture and alteration of function
upon the cranio-cervical and craniofacial region M Jones: Clinical
reasoning. A basis for examination and treatment in the cranial
region F Winters: Pain management by patients with chronic
craniofacial pain G Aufdemkampe: The relevance of clinimetrie by
patients with cranial facial pain * Prestigious text with expert
international contributors including acclaimed anatomists and
cranial morphologists * Highly practical text with a page of text
facing a page of high quality black and white photographs * Geoff
Maitland has endorsed this text
Optimize your health with these 175+ quick, actionable ways to
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Chiropractic Peripheral Joint Technique is an essential and
accessible text for all students and practitioners of chiropractic,
osteopaths, physiotherapists and other manual therapists. Edited by
a leading author in the field, Chiropractic Peripheral Joint
Technique includes much new work and innovations for treating
peripheral joint problems in addition to a catalogue of the
traditional chiropractic techniques. This new book concentrates on
the peripheral joints (e.g. shoulder, knee etc.) and will be a
useful ready reference on chiropractic technique for both the
student beginning clinical work and the busy practitioner. A
chapter is also included on the temporo-mandibular joint.An
essential and accessible text for all students and practitioners
Extensively illustrated with over 400 illustrations Highly
practical approach, ideal for speedy reference when a problem is
encountered
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