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Wellness East & West

Achieving Optimum Health through Integrative Medicine

By: Kathleen F. Phalen

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Wellness East & West

Achieving Optimum Health through Integrative Medicine

By: Kathleen F. Phalen

In Wellness East & West: Achieving Optimum Health through Integrative Medicine, Kathleen F. Phalen explores the blending of the most effective aspects of medical practices from both sides of the globe. And it is not in curing but rather in healing discovered through integrating these polar medical practices that leads those suffering to a more peaceful place, a place where the heart is healed. Phalen gives us case studies on survivors of AIDS and ovarian cancer. Yoga, guided imagery, and meditation are combined with a daily dose of medication or a weekly session of chemotherapy to provide healing beyond what western medicine alone can offer. Kathleen masterfully joins the hemispheres by revealing the herbs and diet to easy everything from the common cold to cancer. Practical as well as informative, Phalen urges us to be active participants in our own health care. Here you can learn how to take your superficial and deep pulse to discover the efficiency of your organs. To gain further insight into your condition, read the color of your tongue. Most importantly, return to the basics of looking, listening and feeling to lead you and your physician to diagnosis and treatment.

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1462907466

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Integrative Medicine

Acheiving Wellness Through the Best of Eastern and Western Medical Practices

By: Kathleen Phalen

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Integrative Medicine

Acheiving Wellness Through the Best of Eastern and Western Medical Practices

By: Kathleen Phalen

Integrative Medicine seamlessly blends Eastern and Western medical traditions into an informative and readable resource. Author, Kathleen Phelan brings her skills as an investigative reporter and her experience as a medical writer to bear in a tour de force-part history. part story. part resource- for any reader seriously interested in his or her own well-being and in the future of medicine and medical treatment in this country Once considered "alternative; Eastern medicine has gained widespread acceptance by the general public, but it is the blending (or integration) of Eastern healing with Western medicine that is now commanding the attention of the medical community. Dating the birth of integrative medicine to 1971, when James Reston brought the concept of acupuncture and Chinese herbs to America's shores, Phelan traces a movement that's grown into a $15 billion dollar industry in a generation . Through interviews with Eastern and Western practitioners and their clients, she puts a human face on the "crisis" of medical care in our time. With extensive detail, she recounts the history of both Eastern and Western medicine, presenting the best-and sometimes exposing the myths-of both ancient cures and current high-tech methods.

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1462904513

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Wellness East and West

Achieving Optimum Health Through Integrative Medicine

By: Kathleen F. Phalen

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Wellness East and West

Achieving Optimum Health Through Integrative Medicine

By: Kathleen F. Phalen

An investigation of integrative medicine, a blend of eastern and western medicine. It discusses the history, problems and promises inherent in both practices. Through interviews with western physicians, Oriental practitioners, and their patients, it explores the future of integrated healthcare.

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Journey Editions (VT)

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1885203969

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9781885203960

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