Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Healing

Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo.

Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on...

Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo.

Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on...

In thirty-seven original essays written for this book, some of the world's leaders in healing explore their personal and professional experiences in order to uncover the underlying principles on which all healing rests. Rather than focusing on diverse techniques, the writers seek the "golden thread" that ties together the wide range of approaches to healing.

In simple, direct language, the contributors explore the complex nature of healing from many viewpoints. We hear from physicians, psychologists, nurses, metaphysical healers, and shamans.

Their topics include:

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This form of Qi Gong was developed by Shaolin priests and brought to the West from Beijing in the mid-1980s. It is an ancient Chinese discipline with links to Martial Arts and Chinese medicine.

Topics in this volume include: integrative psychopharmacology - a practical approach to herbs and nutrients in psychiatry; acupuncture for mental health; and of yoga in mediation and psychiatry; and mediation and psychotherapy.

Experience God's MiraclesWhy am I (or my loved ones) still sick and suffering when God says He wants us to have good health?You can walk in divine health and healing. The secrets to God's words for healing and recovery are in this comprehensive, easy-to-follow guidebook containing powerful healing prayers that cover everything from abuse to yeast infections and everything in between.Truly anointed with the gifts of healing, Joan Hunter has over thirty years of experience praying for the sick and brokenhearted and seeing them healed and set free. This book will show you how to: Understand the...

How can tiny single-celled organisms in the body become such a problem?
Explore your body's defenses as it battles for balance. In this concise, easy-to-ready booklet you'll learn how to keep the yeast syndrome in check as you build your immune system. With these biblical secrets on health and the latest medical research, you can be free from Candida/Candidiasis and yeast infections.
This book contains findings that your doctor may never have told you
Depression and stress are two of the worst things for your immune system. Eating yogurt provides the body with good bacteria....

A clear and comprehensive reference on the full range of healing herbs and remedies

- An indispensable guide to the herbal remedies most used in the Anglo-American and European traditions

- Defines each remedy in terms of its main pharmacological actions and usual therapeutic applications

- A useful reference to the application of traditional medicines for modern health problems for the professional and lay use.

This seminal work made its debut in 1977, and it has since remained the most important reference for Rolfers around the world. In this new edition, the late Dr. Rolf illustrates her theory and practice of Structural Integration, which brings the body into alignment and balance by manipulation of the connective tissue. Rolfing has helped thousands of people to stand taller, look better, move with greater ease, and have a greater sense of vitality and well-being.

This is the original and classic text, with more than 600 illustrations and photographs

This seminal work made its debut in 1977, and it has since remained the most important reference for Rolfers around the world. In this new edition, th...

Newly revised to include the latest developments in the field of herbal medicine, this classic bestseller presents a fascinating account of the ideas, personalities, advances, and vicissitudes that have shaped the course of medicine and pharmacology in the Western world. The author provides an eloquent and engaging account of the use of herbal medicine from prehistoric times to the present, reaffirming the incalculable value of medicinal plants in the healing arts. She presents a strong case for the cyclical emergence of alternative medicine at times (such as our own) when allopathic methods...

Well-respected herbalist David Hoffmann's comprehensive and practical guide to herbal medicine.

- Discusses the history and modern practice of herbalism, including Chinese, Native American, and Welsh influences.

- Includes a practical reference section listing the effects of various herbs, with prescriptions on how to use them for a wide range of illnesses.

- Covers the fundamentals of growing, drying, storing, and cooking with herbs.

- Over 45,000 copies of previous edition sold.

This compendium of medical herbalism by one of the most eminent herbalists practicing today...

- Proves that the majority of cases of stroke, heart attack, and hypertension can easily be prevented by maintaining the proper ratio of potassium to sodium in the diet.

- Updated with scientific evidence from a recent Finnish study showing a 60 percent decline in deaths attributed to strokes and heart attacks.

- Provides a comprehensive program for balancing body chemistry at the cellular level.

High blood pressure is entirely preventable, without reliance on synthetic drugs. Dr. Moore's approach is simple: by maintaining the proper ratio of potassium to sodium in the diet, blood...

Eating fresh fruits and vegetables can boost your energy level, supercharge your immune system, and maximize your body's healing power. Convenient and inexpensive, juicing allows you to obtain the most concentrated from of nutrition available from whole foods.

This A-Z guide shows you how to use nature's bounty in the prevention and treatment of our most common health disorders. This accessible book gives complete nutritional programs for over 75 health problems, telling you which fruits and vegetables have been shown effective in combatting specific illnesses and why. Along with hundreds...

An essential reference to herbal remedies for the most common ailments.

Sharing twenty-five years of clinical expertise, Dr. Asa Hershoff has written a highly accessible and useful guide to hundreds of herbs and their uses for specific conditions. The book's unique format helps readers quickly assess health conditions. Margins on each page depict icons of body parts for very easy reference. An alphabetical listing of ailments provides information on each herb's source, dosage, and possible contraindications.

Integrating the best of herbal tradition and science, this authoritative...

An Extraordinary Power to Heal, by Bruce Semon, M.D., Ph.D., and Lori Kornblum, the authors of Feast Without Yeast: 4 Stages to Better Health (1999), was written for people suffering from medical problems that traditional medical treatment can't solve, . These problems include Autism, ADHD and ADD, Tourette's Syndrome, depression, headaches, seizures, eczema and psoriasis, allergies, food addiction, fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and even more medical problems. This book explains why the yeast chemicals...

While many countries have long utilized herbal medicine as their primary healing tools, the western world has been reluctant to examine the benefits of ???natural??? remedies over ???traditional??? medicine. Yet many of our ???traditional??? medicines prescribed today owe their creation to various isolations and extractions from natural plant derivatives. Aspirin is derived from White Willow bark, Digitalis is derived from the Foxglove plant, and one of our major cancer drugs, Taxol, is derived from the pacific yew tree.

Common Disorders, Natural Remedies is a...

"Jungle Medicine" is a story of medicine and magic. The author, Connie Grauds, is a pharmacist and a shamana. She stands with her feet firmly planted in two very different worlds...the world of the rational and the world of the irrational. "Jungle Medicine" is a memoir of the author's decade of shamanic apprenticeship in the jungles of Peru. This book takes the reader on a vivid personal journey into deep jungle medicine and magic.

What if you just finished the most exciting day of your life -- a thirty-year dream exploding into a spectacular reality -- then the next day you found out you were going to die? How would you feel? What would you do?

Lt. Commander Bill Goss, USN (Ret), lived the American Dream. Ever since he was a boy and heard about Chuck Yeager's historic flight, this hard-working man had dreams of breaking the sound barrier. Many things happened that could have defused his dream (including working as a garbage man), but Goss persevered...and twenty years after slinging his last trash can was...