C. W. Randolph, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In 2005, I became a board-certified Diplomate of the American Board of holistic medicine. It humbles me that after more than two decades of clinical practice, I am internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of bio-identical hormone replacement therapies (BHRT). Bio-identical refers to plant-derived hormone molecules that are identical to the natural human hormones produced by the body. the cure for the "bloated belly" syndrome
For years, women have sought my help as a physician because they knew something wasn't right. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Holistic medicine looks at the body as a whole, not as a collection of organs functioning independently. holistic medicine is interested in understanding how, when one system is not working properly, it causes other problems in the body. There is a myriad of possible interactions within the human body. The physician must consider the "trees" and the "forest" at the same time. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Whether the terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, natural medicine, or holistic medicine are used, they all reflect the transformation that is occurring in health care: a focus on disease prevention, the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits, and the treatment of disease with natural, nontoxic, and less invasive therapies. At the center of this transformation is a distinct system called naturopathic medicine.
The roots of naturopathic medicine are seen in the healing traditions of Egypt, India, China, Greece, Germany, South and Central America, Africa, and native North America. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Khalsa, president of the Alzheimer's Prevention Foundation, was the first physician in the world to formulate a holistic medicine program for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Brain Longevity has been translated into more than twelve languages.
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The Amen Clinics are dedicated to optimizing brain health and using the latest medical advances in the treatment of psychiatric diseases. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |  On the contrary, the speaking body continues to hold considerable power; but it does so in the busy, restless margins of health care, and particularly in the worlds of alternative, feminist, and holistic medicine. There it functions above all as a call to personal empowerment: what we learn from the idea of the speaking body, we are told, is that patients need to trust their bodies and the messages their bodies send, whatever doctors and their fancy machines might say.
To see how this shift has occurred, consider, for example, the recent history of the idea of trauma. | | Only in the 1970s, in the heat of the first holistic medicine movement, do we see a partial blending of the medical and populist versions of this narrative: Norman Cousins laughed his way back to health, and thousands of physicians saluted him. The placebo effect, previously vilified as a product of mere suggestion, was made over into the prime medical mover of positive thinking's power and declared the new faith cure of our time.
Chapter four, "Broken by Modern Life," takes up the narrative of lament of mind-body medicine. | | And people in the United States, then in the grip of the early years of its own alternative and holistic medicine movement, took notice. Reston's story was retold in newspapers across the country.61 Within months, a small commission of prominent American doctors had accepted an invitation by the China Medical Association to come observe for themselves the ways in which these traditional medical techniques were used. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts | | The fundamental difference between these medical practices is the focus. holistic medicine looks at the body as a whole, not as a collection of organs functioning independently. holistic medicine is interested in understanding how, when one system is not working properly, it causes other problems in the body. There is a myriad of possible interactions within the human body. The physician must consider the "trees" and the "forest" at the same time. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts | | In the 1970s, positive thinking was part of the new, patient-empowering holistic medicine. Placebos, whether handed out in a clinic to pacify annoying patients or used in trials to test new drugs, were identified by critics with the most patronizing and ethically fraught face of mainstream medicine.57 A lot would have to change before something that was once seen as disempowering patients could be perceived as the key to treatments that might actually empower them.
In the meantime, the medicalization of positive-thinking ideas proceeded on other fronts. | | Holistic medicine," also coined in the 1970s, functioned above all as a political statement of commitment to healing the whole person in clear opposition to an increasingly vilified reductionistic medicine. The new mind-body medicine sent a different message: one no longer needed to choose a camp.
More than anything else, it was Bill Moyers's 1993 five-part series Healing and the Mind that served to focus public attention on this new mix-and-match vision of mind-body healing. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  Nowhere do they mention the connection between mind and body, which is the starting point of all holistic medicine. Scant attention is paid to the causes of this epidemic of mental trouble—not only "depressive illness" and addictions, but rising numbers of schizophrenics, children who can't sit still long enough to learn anything in school, and ordinary people unable to focus, sleep, or think clearly. It's taken for granted that our mental capacities weaken as we get older, but that isn't necessarily true. | | Julia Ross, who has worked for years in the field of nutritional psychology, has developed a treatment model that blends nutrition and holistic medicine with traditional methods of counseling and education. In her book The Diet Cure, she outlines the vitamin and mineral deficiencies that can result in anorexia (including vitamin Bl and zinc) and tells how protein malnutrition can cause "brainpower outage." She explains the process by which depletion of the amino acid tryptophan, as is common in dieters, can cause serotonin levels to drop. | | As the holistic medicine community has known for years, nutrition should also be part of this arsenal.
The late Dr. Atkins considered nutritional awareness and support a necessary component of any successful alcoholism program. He explained that alcoholism is so tied in with carbohydrate metabolism that it is fair to say they are "genetically super-imposable." In other words, it is possible to understand alcoholism in terms of carbohydrate metabolism alone. This is an extremely radical assertion, but one that lends important insight into a problem that plagues our society. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts | | When positive thinking first medicalized itself under Norman Cousins, advocates for a new holistic medicine were concerned, above all, with finding ways to empower patients to resist a style of mainstream clinical care that was widely perceived as arrogant and paternalistic. In our own time, in contrast, we want our doctors back. Placebo effects do not work—at least, not usually—without a doctor's personal involvement; and that fact is important to people. No one wants to return to the era where the doctor's authority was unquestioned. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Not for nothing is it called holistic medicine.) That "whole person" sensibility is conspicuously absent in conventional high-tech medicine, where extreme hyper-specialization is now the norm.
For example: Liver specialists rarely talk to skin specialists. Gastroenterologists know little about endocrinology. Orthopedic surgeons are clueless about psychiatry. Add to that the fact that most of today's doctors spend more of their time filling out paperwork and arguing with insurance companies than they do treating patients and you have a perfect storm for information overload. | | University of Washington Medical Center and a great practitioner of integrative, holistic medicine, has written eloquently on the importance of iodine in the diet for a number of different conditions. "There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine," he says.
Miller points out that Japanese consumption of iodine through seaweed is many, many times that of the United States, and that the health comparisons between the two countries are disturbing. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GABRIEL COUSENS, MD
Gabriel Cousens, MD, MD(Homeopathy), DD, Diplomate American Board of holistic medicine, Diplomate in Ayurveda, a holistic medical doctor with thirty years of success in healing diabetes naturally, is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Ayurvedic medicine" is a system of holistic medicine practiced widely in India and throughout Southeast Asia. It is also gaining popularity and recognition in the United States, Europe, Australia and many other areas of the world as people come to recognize the inherent wisdom and innate safety of Ayurvedic medicine. Based on thousands of years of development and use, Ayurvedic medicine is organized around the energy patterns of individuals (the way they use their bodies, what they eat, how they digest, levels of body heat, etc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  H) Diplomate of the American Board of holistic medicine, Diplomate of Ayurveda have come across a major breakthrough in detoxifying the human body of the carcinogens, heavy metals, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and overall acid conditions that promote and cause disease.
Some 70,000 chemicals are being dumped into our environment, 65,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health. We live in a virtual sea of pollutants, and carry many of these toxins within us. They can be found even in unborn children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In the holistic medicine world, curing cancer is an everyday event. Not because we're better technicians than those in organized medicine (we aren't), but because we operate at a deeper level of understanding about the nature of disease, the nature of human beings, and the "big picture" of healing.
If you have cancer and you want a highly technical explanation of the biochemistry of your disease, visit an M.D. or an oncologist. If you want to actually be healed, on the other hand, visit a naturopath.
Don't let organized medicine send you on a fool's errand chasing rainbows. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  By "that system," I mean the system of holistic medicine, of nutrition, of disease prevention, of having a good, healthy, happy, long life without chronic pain. If you want to be part of that system, you have to make a choice, and you're going to have to shell out a little bit of cash for some of these products. Unfortunately, none of these are free.
If you don't want to be part of that system, then you have the default system. That's the system of organized medicine, of medical bankruptcy, and lack of power and control. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  All this is extremely frustrating for practitioners of alternative medicine, holistic medicine, herbalists, nutritionists, etc. Because they want to help patients, but most patients really aren't looking for long-term solutions: they're looking for short-term masking of their symptoms, using products that they can call "natural." Frankly, this isn't natural medicine at all. This is just using herbs in a strictly allopathic manner to shift the responsibility of the patient's health outcome. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Journal of holistic medicine 3:167-72.
Virno, M., et al. 1967. "Oral treatment of glaucoma with vitamin C." Eye Ear Nose Throat Monthly 46:1502-8.
Gout
Gout is an intensely painful disorder caused by the buildup of uric acid. Although it affects both sexes, men are much more likely—by a factor of ten—to suffer from gout. The condition was once known as the "rich man's disease," and hi fact, it often strikes people who eat heavy, fatty foods and who overindulge in alcohol. Although this kind of diet was once solely the province of the wealthy, one no longer has to be rich to eat poorly. | | Currently, millions of North Americans and countless others around the world are incorporating holistic medicine into their health-care regimens, in an attempt to avoid surgery or stop using pharmaceutical medications. This wise plan may be attainable, but it should be attempted only under the supervision of a qualified doctor. You should not regard the advice in this book as a replacement for proper medical attention.
Let us also focus on the concept of prevention. | | The field of holistic medicine is vast. The "Other Recommendations" section briefly describes potentially helpful holistic therapies for each condition that were not mentioned in previous sections.
REFERENCES
For the scientifically minded, there is a summarization of the studies that we quoted for each condition.
Part Two, The Essentials of Natural Medicine, gives detailed, user-friendly information on the natural healing tools and methods we recommend throughout the book. | | I would like to thank the Lord for the blessing of being able to help others with holistic medicine. To my wife, Angela, who is a fine doctor and, more important, an outstanding mother and wife. To my three children, who amaze and inspire me. Also, my thanks to Barb Wallace, for her assistance in the review and the preparation of the manuscript.
—Mark A. Stengler, N.D.
Our thanks to Jeff Herman for representing this book as our agent and to Tom Miller and the staff at John Wiley & Sons for their enthusiasm in publishing Prescription for Natural Cures. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | H),
Diplomate American Board of holistic medicine, Diplomate Ayurveda,
Director and Workshops Facilitator of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, Host of “Physician of the Soul” and “Creating Peace by Being Peace” Internet Radio Programs, and Author of Spiritual Nutrition, Conscious Eating, Depression-Free for Life, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, and Sevenfold Peace. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |  Taken together, all of this clearly shows why holistic medicine transforms its practitioners as well as its patients. What, then, is the contribution of medical herbalism within this healing framework and the emerging holistic paradigm? As a healing technique, medical herbalism is inherently in tune with nature. Because herbalism works within the context of humanity's shared ecological and evolutionary heritage with the plant kingdom, it has been described as ecological healing. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts |  However, holistic medicine, following in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century Nature Cure movement, aims higher. Here, health is regarded not just as a temporary absence of disease symptoms, but as a state of profound physical, emotional, and mental well-being so that we cannot develop a disease.
Animals living in an unspoiled natural habitat commonly display this kind of health. If we want to come close to such outstanding health, we have to work for it by consciously minimizing the multitude of negative influences on our health and by maximizing the positive factors instead. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Opponents of the laetrile movement sometimes make the mistake of regarding the concept of holistic medicine as a clever ruse being used to fool a gullible public that simply doesn't want to take some very bitter medicine. Such an attitude is contradicted by the observations of two sociologists, neither of whom is connected to this movement, who view holistic medicine as a radical challenge to orthodoxy.
In these revolutionary periods, nothing less than the very definition of the discipline is at stake. |
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