| Preface |
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| Part I: The Issues of Alternative Medicine |
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Classification of Alternative Medical Practices |
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The Nature of Alternative Medicine |
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Cultural Diversity, Folk Medicine, and Alternative Medicine |
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25 | (6) |
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A Food and Drug Administration Guide to Choosing Alternative Medical Treatments |
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31 | (10) |
| Part II: Alternative Systems of Medical Practice |
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Families of Alternative and Complementary Medicine |
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41 | (6) |
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Traditional Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture |
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47 | (18) |
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65 | (6) |
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71 | (14) |
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Anthroposophically Extended Medicine |
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85 | (6) |
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91 | (4) |
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Community-Based Health Care Practices |
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Healing and the Mind/Body Arts: Massage, Acupuncture, Yoga, T'ai Chi, and Feldenkrais |
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125 | (8) |
| Part III: Bioelectromagnetics |
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Bioelectromagnetics: Applications in Medicine |
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133 | (26) |
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159 | (12) |
| Part IV: Diet, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Changes |
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Diet and Nutrition as Medicine |
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255 | (8) |
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Is Organic More Nutritional? |
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263 | (4) |
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Vitamin and Nutritional Supplements |
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267 | (18) |
| Part V: Herbal Medicine |
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285 | (38) |
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323 | (4) |
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The Efficacy and Politics of Medicinal Plants |
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327 | (12) |
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Review and Critique of Common Herbal Alternative Therapies |
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339 | (20) |
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Drug or Food? Patients Stumble into Gray Area |
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359 | (4) |
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Judging the Value and Effectiveness of Herbal Remedies |
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363 | (8) |
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If You Take Herbs, Tell Your Doctor |
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371 | (4) |
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375 | (6) |
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381 | (18) |
| Part VI: Manual Healing |
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Manual Healing Methods: Osteopathic, Chiropractic, Massage, Pressure Point Therapies, Reflexology, Postural Reduction Therapies, Feldenkrais Method, Structural Integration (Rolfing), Bioenergetical Systems, Biofield, Applied Kinesiology, Quigong, and Craniosacral Therapy |
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399 | (70) |
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469 | (8) |
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Rolfing: Realigning Body and Mind |
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477 | (4) |
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481 | (8) |
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The Gentle Power of Acupressure |
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489 | (6) |
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495 | (8) |
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503 | (14) |
| Part VII: Mind/Body Control |
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Mind-Body Medical Interventions: Psychotherapy, Support Groups, Meditation, Imagery, Hypnosis, Biofeedback, Yoga, Dance Therapy, Music/Sound Therapy, Art Therapy, and Prayer and Faith Healing |
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Chronotherapy Tunes in to the Body's Rhythms |
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587 | (6) |
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Aura (Kirlian) Photography: Mundane Physics or Diagnostic Tool? |
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593 | (6) |
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Music's Surprising Power to Heal |
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599 | (6) |
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605 | (4) |
| Part VIII: Pharmacological and Biological Treatments |
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Pharmacologic and Biologic Interventions: Antineoplastons, Cartilage Products, EDTA Chelation Therapy, Ozone, Immunoaugmentative Therapy, 714-X, Hoxsey Method, Essiac, Coley's Toxins, MTH-68, Neural Therapy, Apitherapy, Iscador/Mistletoe, and Rivici's Guided Chemotherapy |
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| Part IX: Additional Help and Information |
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| Index |
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