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, spiritual healing, and traditional Chinese systems, discussing their effectiveness, the ailments each is most appropriate for, and how they can help prevent illness. In the second part of the book, which is organized alphabetically, he draws on the latest National Institute of Health…mehr
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, spiritual healing, and traditional Chinese systems, discussing their effectiveness, the ailments each is most appropriate for, and how they can help prevent illness. In the second part of the book, which is organized alphabetically, he draws on the latest National Institute of Health (NIH)-sponsored research to present clear recommendations for the prevention and treatment of health concerns ranging from acne to menopause to ulcers. Combining valuable guidance about alternative treatments with definitive health advice, The Best Alternative Medicine will be the standard reference for the increasing number of people integrating alternative medicine into their personal and organizational heath-care programs.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dr. Pelletier is a Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine; Dept. of Family and Community Medicine; and Dept. of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine (UCSF) in San Francisco. At UCSF Med, he is the Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program (CHIP) a collaborative research program between CHIP and fifteen Fortune 500 corporations including Ford, Oracle, Prudential, Dow, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Pepsico, IBM, Cummins, Steelcase, and the Mayo Clinic. He is also Chairman of the AHA and a Vice President with American Specialty Health (ASH).Dr. Pelletier is a medical and business consultant to the USDHHS, the WHO, the NBGH, the Federation of State Medical Boards, and major corporations including Cisco, IBM, American Airlines, Prudential, Dow, Disney, Ford, Mercer, Merck, Pepsico, Ford, Pfizer, Walgreens, NASA, Microsoft ENCARTA, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Health Net, the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France, the Alpha Group of Mexico, and the Singapore Ministry of Health.He has or currently serves serves on the boards of Rancho la Puerta (Mexico), Fries Foundation, American Institute of Stress (AIS), American Journal of Health Promotion (AJHP), is a Founding Board Member of the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABOIM), and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM), Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and webMD.
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Andrew Weil, M.D. Part I: Major Areas of Treatment 1 Think Horses, Not Zebras 2 Sound Mind, Sound Body: MindBody Medicine Comes of Age 3 Food for Thought: Dietary Supplements, Phytonutrients, and Hormones 4 Traditional Chinese Medicine: Three Thousand Years of Evolution 5 Acupuncture: From Yellow Emperor to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 6 Western Herbal Medicine: Nature's Green Pharmacy 7 Naturopathic Medicine: "Do No Harm" 8 Homeopathy: Like Cures Like 9 Chiropractic: Thigh Bone Connected to the Knee Bone 10 Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga: From Buddha to the Millennium 11 Spirituality and Healing: As Above...So Below 12 CAM Insurance: Who Pays How Much to Whom for What 13 We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Toward an Integrative Medicine Part II: CAM Therapies for Specific Conditions General Precautions Acne AIDS Alcoholism Allergies Alzheimer's Disease Anxiety Arthritis Asthma Atherosclerosis Attention Deficit Disorder Bedwetting (see Enuresis) Birth Defects Bronchitis Bruises Buzzing in the Ears (see Tinnitus) Cancer Cardiovascular (Heart) Disease and Cholesterol Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cervical Spondylitis Chronic Fatigue Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Liver Disease Colds/Flu Colic Constipation Dementia and/or Memory Loss Dental Craniomandibular Disorder Depression Diabetes Diarrhea Diverticulitis Dyslexia Ear Infection (see Otitis Media) Eczema Enuresis Epilepsy Eye Disorders Fibromyalgia Gastrointestinal (Stomach and Intestinal Disturbances) Hay Fever Headaches Heart Conditions High Blood Pressure Impotence Infertility Insomnia Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Ischemia Kidney Stones Liver Disease Lupus Memory Disorders Ménire's Disease Menstrual Symptoms, Menopause, and PMS Mononucleosis Nausea Obesity Osteoporosis Otitis Media Pain Parkinson's Disease Prostate or Prostatic Hypertrophy (Prostate Enlargement) Psoriasis Respiratory Problems Schizophrenia Sciatica Scleroderma Sexual Dysfunction Sinusitis Sprains Substance Abuse f0 Tendinitis Thyroid Dysfunction Tinnitus Tonsillitis Tuberculosis Ulcers Vaginitis Varicose Veins Vertigo Yeast Infections (see Vaginitis) Bibliography Index
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Andrew Weil, M.D. Part I: Major Areas of Treatment 1 Think Horses, Not Zebras 2 Sound Mind, Sound Body: MindBody Medicine Comes of Age 3 Food for Thought: Dietary Supplements, Phytonutrients, and Hormones 4 Traditional Chinese Medicine: Three Thousand Years of Evolution 5 Acupuncture: From Yellow Emperor to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 6 Western Herbal Medicine: Nature's Green Pharmacy 7 Naturopathic Medicine: "Do No Harm" 8 Homeopathy: Like Cures Like 9 Chiropractic: Thigh Bone Connected to the Knee Bone 10 Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga: From Buddha to the Millennium 11 Spirituality and Healing: As Above...So Below 12 CAM Insurance: Who Pays How Much to Whom for What 13 We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Toward an Integrative Medicine Part II: CAM Therapies for Specific Conditions General Precautions Acne AIDS Alcoholism Allergies Alzheimer's Disease Anxiety Arthritis Asthma Atherosclerosis Attention Deficit Disorder Bedwetting (see Enuresis) Birth Defects Bronchitis Bruises Buzzing in the Ears (see Tinnitus) Cancer Cardiovascular (Heart) Disease and Cholesterol Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cervical Spondylitis Chronic Fatigue Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Liver Disease Colds/Flu Colic Constipation Dementia and/or Memory Loss Dental Craniomandibular Disorder Depression Diabetes Diarrhea Diverticulitis Dyslexia Ear Infection (see Otitis Media) Eczema Enuresis Epilepsy Eye Disorders Fibromyalgia Gastrointestinal (Stomach and Intestinal Disturbances) Hay Fever Headaches Heart Conditions High Blood Pressure Impotence Infertility Insomnia Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Ischemia Kidney Stones Liver Disease Lupus Memory Disorders Ménire's Disease Menstrual Symptoms, Menopause, and PMS Mononucleosis Nausea Obesity Osteoporosis Otitis Media Pain Parkinson's Disease Prostate or Prostatic Hypertrophy (Prostate Enlargement) Psoriasis Respiratory Problems Schizophrenia Sciatica Scleroderma Sexual Dysfunction Sinusitis Sprains Substance Abuse f0 Tendinitis Thyroid Dysfunction Tinnitus Tonsillitis Tuberculosis Ulcers Vaginitis Varicose Veins Vertigo Yeast Infections (see Vaginitis) Bibliography Index
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