Absolute Beginner's Guide to Alternative Medicine
More than half of these Americans paid for the entire cost of treatment themselves, contributing to the estimated $27 billion sp ...
CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ALL ABOUT? 5 Problem Percentage of Sufferers Sprain/strains 24 Allergies 17 Lung problems ...
6 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ■ They believe conventional medicine treats symptoms, not underlying cause. ■ ...
The line between conventional and alternative medicine is imprecise and frequently changing. For example, is the use of megavita ...
of matter, energy, thoughts, and feelings, it doesn’t do well with long-term systemic illnesses such as arthritis, heart disease ...
When Einstein introduced his theory of relativity in 1905, our way of viewing the uni- verse changed dramatically. Einstein said ...
Origin of Disease. Biomedicine and alternative medicine have widely divergent beliefs about the origin of disease. Biomedicine w ...
The Meaning of Health A healer from the Chinese, Indian, or Native American traditions would give very different opinions about ...
The Nature of Healthy Living Conventional and alternative medical systems have different perspectives on the promotion of health ...
Interactive-integrative research studies the context and meaning of interactive vari- ables as these variables form patterns tha ...
deny the results rather than modify the scientific model. In contrast to the biomed- ical perspective, Buckminster Fuller, an Am ...
CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ALL ABOUT? 15 The Absolute Minimum ■ Western healthcare consumers, finding traditional th ...
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In This Chapter ■What are the central beliefs that underlie all alternative medicine systems and treat- ments? ■A study of the f ...
Balance An expression in the Native American culture, “walking in balance,” describes the philosophy of a peaceful coexistence a ...
use traditional Chinese instruments and are to be listened to or “taken” as an indi- vidual would take an herbal medicine, to he ...
Spirituality Spiritual healing techniques and spiritually based health care systems are among the most ancient healing practices ...
Although no Western scientific evidence supports the existence of angels, one can find phenomeno- logical evidence. Many first-p ...
that integrates the body, mind, and spirit; it is that which connects everything. The Chinese call this life force qi(also spell ...
The concept of chakras may be foreign to the Western scientific mind, but they are not completely unknown to those familiar with ...
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