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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Tova Navarra, B.A., R.N. Foreword by Adam Perlman, M.D., M.P.H. Siegl ...

The Encyclopedia of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Copyright © 2004 by Tova Navarra All rights reserved. No part of this ...

For Frederic ...

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CONTENTS Foreword ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Entries A–Z 1 Appendixes 175 Bibliography 251 Index 255 ...

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A t the age of 16 I began training in martial arts. What started as a hobby, a way to get in shape and increase my self-confiden ...

treatment options to include “alternative” meth- ods. One day, during my second year of residency, the chairman of medicine aske ...

to a strong doctor-patient relationship, in this era of managed care and the seven-minute office visit. If the public cannot tur ...

patients. Conventional medicine is going through a transition. A more humane physician who respects patient autonomy is replacin ...

S hortly before I began research for this book on alternative and complementary medicine, I informed a dear friend of the pendin ...

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I could not have written this volume without the precious support and cooperation of my family, especially Yolanda and Guy Flemi ...

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D.H. Lawrence wrote in his poem “Heal- ing,” “I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. And it is not because the m ...

mentary treatments help control symptoms, reduce stress, or improve well-being.” Furthermore the term integrative medicinerefers ...

them, superimposing one upon another in layer after layer of complementary perspectives and techniques, we can arrive at an amal ...