Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Alternative & Complementary Medicine

This second edition of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) discusses what is happening with marijuana policy, describing both the risks and the benefits of using marijuana, without taking sides in the...

This presentation uses anatomically precise, computer-generated reconstructed images of the human body for three-dimensional presentation of acupuncture points and channels. The CD component is fully interactive and allows the user to see through tissue layers, remove tissue layers, and rotate structures so that specific acupuncture points can be visualized in relation to their surrounding nerves, organs, and vessels. The accompanying book provides full color anatomic drawings and detailed information regarding the physiologic basis for acupuncture, which will be useful in conjunction with...

This readable overview offers a public health framework for integrating medical and alternative care to improve health outcomes in patients with chronic illnesses. It details the promise, potential, and challenges of holistic services as patients seek diverse treatment options and health care systems address the demand for more affordable, accessible, and effective care. The book's integrative model describes the process in theory and practice, from cost and reimbursement issues and turf wars between providers to expanding on traditional concepts of illness and wellness. Learning...

Dr. Robert Keith Wallace is internationally recognized as a pioneer researcher in the study of consciousness and the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. He worked closely for over 40 years with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, who offered this remarkable technology as a new approach to solving the age-old problems of the individual and society. In this book, Dr. Wallace provides an easy to understand and comprehensive survey of research on the Transcendental Meditation technique in terms of his personal experience as a scientist and...

Das Buch beschreibt Ursachen und Methoden zur Vorbeugung von Erschopfungszustanden im beruflichen Kontext. Dabei spannt es den Bogen von den humanen Ressourcen in wirtschaftlichen Unternehmen bis hin zur Pravention von Erschopfung und Erhalt der Lebensenergie des einzelnen arbeitenden Menschen mit einem Ausblick auf neueste Anwendungen aus Biofeedback-, Mess- und Trainingsmethoden. Der erste Teil widmet sich der Perspektive von Unternehmen als soziale, lebende Systeme. Pravention wird als Fuhrungselement, in der Unternehmenskultur und als strategische Managemententscheidung diskutiert. Im...

A comprehensive and fully accessible guide to understanding and managing asthma through yoga, encouraging sufferers away from exclusive reliance on drugs in favour of using the ancient wisdom of yoga to control the condition themselves through the powers of breathing and of the mind.

The number of asthma sufferers has risen sharply since the mid 1980s, with 10 million sufferers in the US and 3.7 million in the UK. Although many people are able to control their condition with drugs, it is still a serious condition- every six hours somebody dies from asthma in the UK.

In Yoga...