medical or physiological knowledge, fit only for
doctors.... Pathology teaches the harm that dis-
ease has done. But it teaches nothing more. We
know nothing of the principle of health, the posi-
tive of which pathology is the negative, except
from observation and experience. And nothing
but observation and experience will teach us the
ways to maintain or to bring back the state of
health. It is often thought that medicine is the
curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is
the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that
of limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but
remove obstructions; neither can cure; nature
alone cures.”
nonlocal mind The term coined by Larry Dossey,
M.D., author of several books on mind-body medi-
cine and related topics, including Reinventing Medi-
cine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing
(HarperSanFrancisco, 1999), to describe unbounded
consciousness. Nonlocal happenings, Dossey writes
on page 9, are unmediated by a sensory experience
or other intermediate signal or stimulus, and nonlo-
cal events are unmitigated: that is, their magnitude
or power does not diminish as a result of distance.
Nonlocal phenomena are immediate, he says, and
take place outside time and space. His use of the
word nonlocalmaintains the concept of infinitude
and unlimited. Nonlocal medicine, Dossey says,
involves a totally free mind in which to explore all
possibilities for healing.
“Imagine that... a part of your mind is not
present in your body or brain or even in this
moment. Imagine that this aspect of your con-
sciousness spreads everywhere, extending billions
of miles into space, from the beginning of time
into the limitless future, linking us with the minds
of one another and with everyone who has ever
lived or will live. This is the infinite piece of your
consciousness.
“This picture of your mind outside your head
may at first seem foreign. But as we shall see, ‘non-
local’ or ‘infinite’ describes a natural part of who
we are. Its expressions include sharing of thoughts
and feelings at a distance, gaining information and
wisdom through dreams and visions, knowing the
future, radical breakthroughs in creativity and dis-
covery, and many more. And this part of your mind
can be used today in healing illness and disease in
what I call Era III healing.”
See also DOSSEY, LARRY; PRAYER, POWER OF.nosode A homeopathic remedy extracted from
diseased material, such as tuberculinum from tis-
sue infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.nursing, holistic Professional nursing with a
deliberate focus on treating the entire individual—
physical, emotional, and spiritual.
See also Appendix I; NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE.nutritional therapy Any food substance or diet
geared toward the repair or rejuvenation of the
body or prevention of potential illness. It is the
consensus of experts that the general American
diet, which includes saturated fats, refined
starches, white flour, feedlot-fattened beef and
pork, pesticides, preservatives, chemical additives,
excessive sugar, irradiation, genetic engineering,
fish from polluted waters, toxins in the food chain,
and repetition, as opposed to variety, in the daily
foods, has a significant ill effect on our health. A
poor diet can contribute to the risk of heart disease,
stroke, diabetes, certain forms of cancer, and other
problems such as obesity and allergies.
Among common food nutrients used in nutri-
tional therapy are acidophilus culture complexes;
activated charcoal; aloe vera; amaranth; amazake;
arrowroot; astragalus; barley flour; barley grass;
barley malt syrup; basmati rice; bee pollen; bee
propolis; bentonite; black beans; bran; brewer’s
yeast; buckwheat; canola oil; carob powder;
cheese; chlorella; chromium picolinate; coenzyme
Q10; chondroitin sulfate A; cream of tartar; daikon
radish; dashi; date sugar; dulse; egg replacer; ethyl-
enediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA); electrolyte
drinks; essene bread; essential fatty acids; flax seed
oil; fructose; garlic; ginger; ginkgo biloba; ginseng;
glycerine (vegetable); gomashio; green magma;
guar gum; gum guggul; gymnema sylvestre; kashi;
kefir; kuzu; lecithin; millet; miso; mochi; molasses;
mushrooms; Nutrasweet; oats and oat bran; octa-
cosanol; oils (natural vegetable); omega 3-oils;
pasta; psyllium husks; pycnogenol; quercetin;
quinoa; rice; rice syrup; royal jelly; sea vegetables;
soy milk and cheese; spirulina; spelt and kamut;104 nonlocal mind