Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.
Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Orientalmedicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. Thisaccessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:
- How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacologyand Eastern herbology
- How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reversessymptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer--often without side effects
- How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before anillness
becomes a crisis
- The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases
- Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatmentfor many chronic/recurrent illnesses
- Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems--the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies
- The EightStrategies of Herbal Therapy--how herbs work in your body
Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, as well as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical termsand herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you. "From the Trade Paperback edition."