Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine: Improving Your Health by Combining Chinese Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine
Author: Henry Han OMD
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 Oriental medicine 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. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:
• How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and 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 reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer--often without side effects
• How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illness
becomes a crisis
• The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases
• Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses
• Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems--the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies
• The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy--how herbs work in your body
Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, aswell as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you.
Library Journal
Since more and more Americans have become interested in Chinese medicine, Han and Miller felt there was a need for a book that would make the subject easy to understand. They have succeeded admirably in creating such a book. The authors are practitioners: Miller is a pharmacist and physician, and Han is a doctor of oriental medicine who started out as a barefoot lay health worker in China's countryside during the Cultural Revolution. The first part of their book focuses on how traditional Chinese and Western medicine converged in modern China and describes the philosophical basis of traditional Chinese medicine. The text makes a complex subject quite clear without being preachy. The second part shows how people can integrate the best of both Western and Eastern medicine in treating common health problems such as arthritis, AIDS, and cancer. The book concludes with recipes for healthy living and ways to determine your individual constitution. Highly recommended for public libraries.-Natalie Kupferberg, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
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The Fasting Diet
Author: Steven Bailey
A medically sound way to relieve common ailments, such as allergies and digestive complaints
Fasting--going for short periods of time without certain types of foods--is gaining more attention for its ability to detoxify the body, strengthen the immune system, promote healing, and lead to heightened emotional awareness and clarity. Presented by an expert in the field, The Fasting Diet is a medically sound and risk-free approach that will allow you to achieve all of the benefits of fasting without endangering health or drastically altering your lifestyle.
Steven Bailey, N.D., is an internationally recognized authority on therapeutic fasting. He lectures worldwide and is the author of more than 150 articles on national health.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ix | |
| Acknowledgments | xi | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| 1 | The Forgotten Secret | 1 |
| The Purpose of This Book | ||
| Why Fast? | ||
| Concepts of Health | ||
| Stress and Disease | ||
| Spiritual Health | ||
| 2 | The Human Body | 9 |
| Normal Anatomy and Physiology of Digestion | ||
| Normal Elimination and Removal of Toxins | ||
| Microflora Out of Balance: Intestinal Dysbiosis | ||
| Intestinal Dysbiosis: Diagnosis and Treatment | ||
| 3 | Healthy Choices, Personal Empowerment | 49 |
| Benefits Associated with Fasting | ||
| Real-Life Experiences with Fasting | ||
| In Their Own Words | ||
| Diseases and Other Conditions That Can Improve with Fasting | ||
| Juice Choices by Conditions | ||
| Supplements | ||
| Herbs | ||
| Fungi | ||
| Keep It Simple | ||
| 4 | The Awakened Spirit | 73 |
| Aligning the Body, Mind, and Spirit | ||
| The Science of Inner Healing | ||
| Visualizations, Affirmations, Meditation, and Prayer | ||
| The Seven Chakras | ||
| Human Relationships Within Charkas | ||
| Journaling | ||
| 5 | Fasts for All Reasons | 87 |
| Juice and Water Fasts: A Comparsion | ||
| The Master Cleanser | ||
| Water Fasts | ||
| Physiologic Changes and Benefits of Fasting | ||
| Fasting from Historical and Cultural Perspectives | ||
| Contemporary Fasting Programs: Their Benefits and Contraindications | ||
| 6 | Dr. Bailey's Five-Day Power Fast | 99 |
| Basic Guidelines | ||
| The Pre-Fast or Bulking Diet | ||
| The Juice Diet | ||
| Why Vegetable Juices? | ||
| The Enema | ||
| The Colonic | ||
| Reintroducing Foods | ||
| Allergies and Food Sensitivities | ||
| The Reintroduction Diet | ||
| Interpreting Allergic Responses | ||
| 7 | Simply Nutritious | 131 |
| Basic Concepts in Nutrition | ||
| Organic Versus Nonorganic Foods | ||
| Genetically Modified Foods | ||
| Micronutrients | ||
| Nutrition and Disease | ||
| Long-Term Goals and Daily Habits | ||
| 8 | Helpful Additions to Your Fast | 163 |
| Massage | ||
| Hydrotherapy | ||
| Yoga | ||
| Exercise | ||
| Homeopathy | ||
| Acupuncture | ||
| Epilogue: Beyond the Fast | 183 | |
| Appendix A | Enemas, Problems, and Options | 187 |
| Liver Tonic and Nausea | ||
| Quantities for the Pre-Fast Diet | ||
| Reactions to the Juice | ||
| First Bowel Movement | ||
| Appendix B | Naturopathic Medicine | 191 |
| Endnotes | 195 | |
| Bibliography | 199 | |
| Index | 201 |
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