Hakim G. M. Chishti

The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive guide to healing synthesizes the principles and practices of Hippocratic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Persian medicine, and includes the first English translation of one of the handbooks of Avicenna.

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Includes a botanical guide for the 100 most-used healing herbs and recommended treatments for 400 conditions, including diet and nutrition, herbology, and aromatherapy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Healing Arts Press / Inner Traditions International
• Revised Edition of The Traditional Healer
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780892814381
• ISBN-10: 0892814381
• Artikelnr.: 13757040

Autorenporträt

A Fulbright Research Scholar, Hakim G.M. Chishti, N.D. studied traditional healing in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, and has twenty years of practical experience in Unani natural medicine. He is the author of The Book of Sufi Healing (Healing Arts Press, 1991).

Inhaltsangabe

The Traditional Healer's Handbook
A Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna

Introduction
I. The Practice of Traditional Healing
II. The Formulary
III Materia Medica: Unani Tibb Botanicals
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"Hakim Chishti has distilled the essence of healing into this comprehensive text . . . this book is indispensable for anyone interested in traditional medicine." Lee Grotte, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine Case Western Reserve School of Medicine