Alternative Healing texts

This is an excellent book for the health care professional who is interested in learning about different Complementary and Alternative systems. Each chapter is written by a leader in the reviewed field and is quite comprehensive. I am an Osteopathic Pediatrician, and I found the description of Osteopathic Medicine one of the best that I have ever read.

Of the 1.2 million people diagnosed with cancer each year, at least half seek out alternative and/or complementary care in addition to or in place of conventional treatments. As a result, health-care approaches ranging from traditional Chinese medicine to dietary regimens to the use of supplements such as shark cartilage and coenzyme Q10 are capturing the attention of the medical establishment and gaining momentum as viable--if not lifesaving--cancer-fighting strategies. On the forefront of this widening acceptance in the medical community is James S. Gordon, M.D., Georgetown University medical professor, director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., and creator of the Comprehensive Cancer Care conferences, which in recent years have provided an important forum for sharing and evaluating both conventional and alternative cancer research.

The book was developed after working with over 500 cancer patients and organizing 3 international symposiums on the subject. The information contained in BCN is both scientifically backed with references and clinically proven in the hospital with patients. This information helps cancer patients to improve quality and quantity of life. BCN had been translated into Japanese and Chinese and is being translated into Korean. BCN had become a home study continuing education course for registered nurses. BCN 2001 version will contain a 72-minute audio CD version.

A text for students and practitioners working in medicine, health, and science, offering a broad understanding of complementary and alternative medicine. Describes the development and key ideas and approaches of systems and therapies including chiropractic, homeopathy, herbalism, healing touch, ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and curanderismo, reviewing the status of scientific research in each field and discussing the relevant cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts in which to view complementary and alternative systems. Includes a CD-ROM.

Current Review of Complementary Medicine offers an up-to-date review of the most dynamic and controversial aspects of alternative medicine. Dr. Marc Micozzi, Executive Director of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, has assembled 19 of this country's leading authorities-mostly MDs and some top chiropractors and acupuncturists-to review the state of each therapy and provide pro and con opinions. The publication is intended for physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and medical students and is updated annually.

Discusses how legal authority, like medical authority is slowly becoming more tolerant of patients' autonomy and more supportive of freedom of access to nonbiomedical providers and treatments. The author describes this shift by analyzing the present legal status of complementary and alternative medicine. He also suggests ways in which regulatory structures might evolve further to support a comprehensive, holistic, and balanced approach to health. Paperback edition.

Now updated, this bestselling combination of ancient wisdom and new physics is a definitive introduction to traditional and alternative health care for modern times. Dr. Gerber presents an encyclopedic treatment of energy fields, accupuncture, Bach flower remedies, crystals, radionics, chakras, meditation, and particle physics. The author is the Bernie Siegel of alternative medicine. Gerber documents all the new diagnostic and healing techniques now available and explains why they work.

Dr. Gerber builds on his pioneering work with a wealth of new and rare insights into the most promising energetic healing therapies. Through study after study, listeners hear about new findings on unique frequencies emitted by the human body, compelling evidence that proves we are composed of pure energy, how chakra points and acupuncture meridians draw energy from outside systems, and much more. 3 cassettes.

The Definitive Guide is known as the Bible of alternative medicine. You may very well want to use a dictionary stand for this hefty tome; it weighs in at more than 1,000 pages. Nearly 400 doctors (M.D.s, Ph.D.s, naturopaths, Doctors of Oriental Medicine, and osteopaths) contribute their cutting-edge knowledge, and the list of names is impressive. You'll find words of advice from Joseph Pizzorno, the president of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington; C. Norman Shealy, the cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association; Nobel laureate Linus Pauling; Deepak Chopra; and Joan Borysenko, author and director of the Mind-Body Health Sciences in Boulder, Colorado.

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day--patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery. "Run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore and get this amazing book that explains how you can 'think' yourself sick or well...Every family should have a copy. It can be a lifesaver." --Ann Landers

You can live to be a hundred and enjoy each of those years as a fully functioning person--or so says Chopra (Unconditional Life, 1991, etc.) in this challenging work. An intriguing set of Census Bureau statistics cited here notes that the number of centenarians is twice what it was ten years ago- -and is expected to double again by the millennium. Prolonging fruitful lives is not a question of mind over matter, Chopra contends, but, rather, of mind and matter--mind and body--together at one with the universe. It's often hard for pragmatic Westerners to deal with this kind of mind/spirit/body talk, but Chopra has a talent for anchoring the ephemeral in what's generally considered reality, and for leading spiritual novices through the swamps of such concepts as awareness, detachment, and self without resorting overly to New Age slang.

The only book written for the dying person, this life-enhancing guide helps one resolve the physical, emotional, and spiritual concerns unique to this "end time." Includes a Foreword by Bernie Siegel, M.D. "Speaks to modern readers with refreshing frankness and wit."

Brennan instructs on how to work with the "human energy field," which involves the seven chakras and the aura, to cure various physical and emotional problems. Readers searching for ways of healing that go beyond the orthodox will be best able to use this book and because Brennan's discussion is long and involved, at once fascinating and confusing, it may well attract the most devoted anyway. Despite a nod from Bernie Siegel, and evidence throughout that Brennan's methods can be effective, discussions of how people "grow cords" that obstruct relationships or why you should soak used jewelry in saltwater to destroy negative energy are sure to have skeptics shaking their heads. Brennan is not only a therapist and healer, but also a former research scientist for NASA, which would seem to lend her credibility.