Kategoria BISAC: Health & Fitness >> Alternative Therapies

Wild Feminine invites every woman to journey deep into the heart of her female body, to her root place, and the center of all womanhood. Through stories, visualizations, and creative exercises, the wisdom arising from the female body has been distilled as never before into this guide to nurturing, healing, and exploring the feminine nature.

Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Female Body offers a unique, holistic approach to reclaiming the power, spirit, and joy of the female body and to understanding its connection to creative energy flow. By restoring...

Acclaimed yoga and meditation teacher Sarah Powers is known and loved for her unique approach--Insight Yoga--which combines traditional yoga with the meridians of Chinese medicine, as well as Buddhist meditation. Using Yin (passive) and Yang (dynamic) poses, she demonstrates a series of different yoga sequences that bring benefit to organs, muscles, joints, and tendons--as well as the mind. She also provides a foundational explanation of traditional Chinese medicine theory and mindfulness meditation instruction. Sarah Powers brings us on an inspiring journey inward, and shows the path for...

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Here's a drug-free, side-effect free solution to common stress and mood problems--developed by two physicians. Millions of Americans suffer from mood problems and stress-related issues including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and trauma-induced emotions and behaviors; and most would prefer not to take medication for their conditions due to troublesome side effects, withdrawal symptoms, and disappointing success rates.
Drs. Richard P. Brown and Patricia L. Gerbarg provide a drug-free alternative that works through a range of simple breathing...

This thought-provoking, comprehensive guide to nutritional therapy provides proven methods for combating almost every possible health condition - from asthma and Alzheimer's disease to cancer, depression, allergies and heart disease.

The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology

- Presents the actual words of Avicenna translated directly from the original Arabic, removing the inaccuracies and errors of most translators

- Explains current medical interpretations and ways to apply Avicenna's concepts today, particularly for individualized medicine

- Reveals how Avicenna's understanding of the "humors" corresponds directly with the biomedical classes known today as proteins, lipids, and organic acids

A millennium after his life, Avicenna remains...

This fully updated edition of "The Detox Diet" guides readers through the detoxification process and follow-up cleansing programs developed by Dr. Elson Haas for those struggling with addictions to sugar, caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol.
■ Do you overeat? Or are you overweight without overeating?
■ Are you often tired or fatigued without knowing why?
■ Do you consume caffeine and sugar to get through the day?
■ Do you suffer from sinus headaches or chronic nasal congestion?
■ Do you experience constipation, heartburn, or indigestion?
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A companion toThe Definitive Guide to Cancer, this practical and fully revised guide (formerly titledFive to Thrive) outlines a five-step plan integrating both conventional and alternative therapies for cancer survivors.
You Have the Power to Thrive.If you or someone you love is a cancer survivor, you may be living in fear that one day it will return. But you can protect yourself and build a strong anti-cancer defense system of health and wellness with this practical five-step plan from Dr. Lise Alschuler and Karolyn Gazella. In this companion to The...

A guide to the natural treatment of two of the most common and damaging coinfections of Lyme disease--Bartonella and Mycoplasma

- Reveals how these conditions often go undiagnosed, complicate Lyme treatment, and cause a host of symptoms--from arthritis to severe brain dysfunction

- Outlines natural treatments for both infections, with herbs and supplements for specific symptoms and to combat overreactions of the immune system

- Reviews the latest scientific research on Bartonella and Mycoplasma coinfections and how treatment with antibiotics is often ineffective

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Restoring the use of wild plants in daily life for vibrant physical, mental, and spiritual health

- Explains how 3 classes of wild plants--aromatics, bitters, and tonics--are uniquely adapted to work with our physiology because we coevolved with them

- Provides simple recipes to easily integrate these plants into meals as well as formulas for teas, spirits, and tinctures

- Offers practical examples of plants in each of the 3 classes, from aromatic peppermint to bitter dandelion to tonic chocolate

As people moved into cities and suburbs and embraced modern medicine and...

A guide to restoring men's sexual health and function to maintain a flourishing sex life well into old age

- Includes fully illustrated instructions for exercises to clear energetic blockages of the male reproduction organs, restore function, reduce prostate enlargement, and prevent prostate gland cancer

- Presents a routine of exercises to be practiced daily as well as guidance on supporting your practice with nutritional and herbal supplements

- Explains how these techniques can forestall the need for surgery in early stages of prostate disease

Age need not be a death...

Children do not always have the capacity or need to express themselves through words. They often succeed in saying more about their feelings and experiences by communicating non-verbally through play and other expressive, creative activities. The basic premise of Speaking about the Unspeakable is that life's most pivotal experiences, both good and bad, can be truly expressed via the language of the imagination. Through creativity and play, children are free to articulate their emotions indirectly. The contributors, all experienced child therapists, describe a wide variety of non-verbal...

An essential guide to healing, this book combines medical expertise with unique insights into the human condition. As Dr. Christine Page illuminates the understanding of disease and spiritual growth, she explores the chakras and their relationship to disease, pathology, and soul unfoldment.

Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they are more than a medical and economic sensation. At once spiritual and bodily, medical and recreational, they are an enormously popular cultural practice bound up with the pleasure-seeking drive of consumer culture as well as with spiritual and neo-liberal values.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine critically examines this phenomenon - which some denounce as the triumph of superstition over reason - by asking practitioners themselves what makes these therapies so...

Chi Kung is the best kept secret on the planet. It is a powerful way of becoming fit, healthy and balanced through opening and mobilising the body and joints, breathing techniques, slow movement exercises, standing postures, special walking methods and meditation. It can be done anywhere, any time, in whatever you are wearing. With consistent practice you can transform your health to a high level of vitality. Ged Sumner writes with rich insights into how to begin to think about your body and how to take the steps that will enable you to transform your practice. Completely accessible to those...

Acontroversial drug-free method of treatment for learning disabilities, the Dore program has been hotly debated in themedical community. In this account, the man who began it all shares how dyslexia impacted his life andwhy the program he created works, complete with success stories.One man's quest to help his daughter led to the start of a whole new way of treating learning and attention difficulties, and this is his astounding story. When she was only nine years old, Susie Dore was diagnosed as dyslexic and told that nothing could be done to help her. Her increasing depression eventually...

Le han hecho sentir que es su culpa cuando no puede perder peso? Es probable que usted no fuera un fracaso en la dieta. Su dieta le fallo a usted. El Dr. Cohen explica por que los malos consejos de dieta de perdida de peso, agra- vado por los cambios en la industria alimentaria, son responsables de la epidemia de la obesidad en el mundo. Su respuesta es una dieta natural eficaz, basada en un modelo computarizado moderno, sin embargo, confirmando para la perdida de peso primero descrito a principios de hace mas de 2.400 anos por Hipocrates, el medico considerado el padre de la medicina...

Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book explores how the increasing proliferation of holistic health methods are intimately connected with changing configurations of selfhood, gender and class.