Healing Ways: An Integrative Health Sourcebook

Parente, Matilde, M.d.

ISBN 10: 1438006373 / ISBN 13: 9781438006376

Verlag: B E S Pub Co, 2015

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000590090

Inhaltsangabe:

When it comes to your health, it's important to know and understand all the options available to you. Should you stick with Western medicine alone? What are the benefits and dangers of alternative medicine? Can acupuncture, massage therapy, or meditation really help? In Healing Ways: An Integrative Health Sourcebook, you'll find important information about conventional and alternative therapies, and how they can work together to help you reap maximum benefits. This approach is called Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and it lets you combine the best of both worlds: mainstream medical therapies and alternative solutions that have high-quality scientific evidence for safety and effectiveness. In the pages of this guide, you will find:

How traditional Western medicine can work with CAM

Expectations, cautions, and myths

Talking to your doctor about CAM

How to be a better health consumer

How to decide which CAM methods are right for you

Integrated Approaches--from ancient to modern

Mind-Body Approaches, including mediation, yoga, relaxation techniques and more

Chiropractic, massage therapy, reflexology, and other body work

Herbal Medicine and Supplements

CAM Method Finder, and more
Take charge of your life--and your health--with this new approach to treatment that grows in popularity every day.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Healing Ways: An Integrative Health ...
Verlag: B E S Pub Co
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good