Download or read book Alternative Medicine as Modern Magic written by Karlie King and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do You Believe in Magic written by Paul A. Offit, M.D. and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly. Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health. Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners. An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”
Download or read book Magic Or Medicine written by Rob Buckman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern medicine is one of the most successful branches of science, with a distinguished history of conquering many of the twentieth century's deadliest diseases. Yet today people are turning in record numbers to alternative therapies that have little or no scientific basis. Herbalists, homeopaths, crystal therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and countless other unconventional practitioners are enjoying thriving businesses. What accounts for this flight from reason in the face of hard evidence that medical doctors do a better job of treating disease and alleviating suffering than their alternative counterparts? In Magic or Medicine? Dr. Robert Buckman and Karl Sabbagh offer a response to this question by critically evaluating both alternative and conventional medical approaches to patient care. Drawing on some of the earliest written medical sources as well as their own investigations into current alternative therapies, the authors argue that healing has always been partly the science of clinical treatment (medicine) and partly an art (magic). Medicine may make the patient get well, but often it is magic that makes the patient feel well. With all the pressures under which they work, modern medical doctors often neglect the magic in their dealings with patients. Alternative therapists, however, frequently offer nothing but magic. Buckman and Sabbagh look closely at the claims made for both medical science and alternative treatments and discover a gap between the promises and the reality of each approach. Magic or Medicine? is a fascinating exploration of healing in the late twentieth century and vital reading for anyone concerned about the effective delivery of health care.
Download or read book The Magic Feather Effect written by Melanie Warner and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Pandora’s Lunchbox and former New York Times reporter delivers an “entertaining and highly useful book that gives you the tools to understand how alternative medicine works, so you can confidently make up your own mind” (The Washington Post). We all know someone who has had a seemingly miraculous cure from an alternative form of medicine: a friend whose chronic back pain vanished after sessions with an acupuncturist or chiropractor; a relative with digestive issues who recovered with herbal remedies; a colleague whose autoimmune disorder went into sudden inexplicable remission thanks to an energy healer or healing retreat. The tales are far too common to be complete fabrications, yet too anecdotal and outside the medical mainstream to be taken seriously scientifically. How do we explain them and the growing popularity of alternative medicine more generally? In The Magic Feather Effect, author and journalist Melanie Warner takes us on a vivid, important journey through the world of alternative medicine. Visiting prestigious research clinics and ordinary people’s homes, she investigates the scientific underpinning for the purportedly magical results of these practices and reveals not only the medical power of beliefs and placebo effects, but also the range, limits, and uses of the surprising system of self-healing that resides inside us. Equal parts helpful, illuminating, and compelling, The Magic Feather Effect is a “well-written survey of alternative medicine…fair-minded, thorough, and focused on verifiable scientific research” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Warner’s enlightening, engaging deep dive into the world of alternative medicine and the surprising science that explains why it may work is an essential read.
Download or read book Magic Myth and Medicine written by Donald Taylor Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic Or Medicine written by Rob Buckman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Magic written by Razaq Adekunle and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know there's a powerful herbal medicine chest in your kitchen? Modern Magic is a powerful method of inviting protection, love, health, and wealth into your life. It can even aid you in finding guidance through divination. Perfect for fresh and seasoned herbalists alike, Herb Magic is your easy-to-digest guide to magical herbalism, introducing you to the spiritual side of herbs and how to use them in folkloric spells and rituals. Imagine being prepared for that next cold, scrape, headache, digestive issue, stressful day, or sleepless night with simple ingredients from your cupboard. Instead of pills, reach for: Cinnamon Tea to soothe your throat This Modern Magic book includes: The Herb Magic of the Greeks and Romans ― A simple-to-navigate intro shows you the history of magical herbalism along with help on prepping and planning, as well as some of the preparations you'll be working with. Herbs: Grow Herbs for Your Health ― Understand and honor your herbs to better your magical results with illustrated profiles for 40 herbs, including their magical qualities and benefits. Hypnotherapy and The Alchemy of Healing ―Embrace the magic of herbalism every day with spells and rituals for protection, love, healing, wealth, and even divination―plus a handy herb glossary. Eight Powerful Reasons to Cook with Herbs and Spices - This section discusses the use of herbs and spices for food, not as a supplement Learning to Identify Plants - Learning to identify plant is a significant step towards anticipating any problems your plants may have and thus helping to protect your plant investments. Here in this book, you will learn how to identify plant, so that your garden can thrive. Empower and enrich yourself with the Modern Magic. Get Your Copy Today
Download or read book Magic Medicine written by Cody Johnson and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cody Johnson beautifully balances historical knowledge with cutting-edge science to produce a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read which paints a holistic picture of the risks and benefits of psychedelic use in modern day medicine and culture.” —Rick Doblin, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Magic Medicine explores the fascinating history of psychedelic substances and provides a contemporary update about their growing inclusion in modern medicine, science, and culture. Each chapter dives into the rich history of a single plant or compound and explores its therapeutic and spiritual uses in cultures near and far. Firsthand quotes allow glimmers of psychedelic light throughout. Learn all about: Classical psychedelics, including 2C-B, ayahuasca, LSD, and peyote The empathogenic psychedelics MDA and MDMA Dissociative psychedelics, including DXM, ketamine, and salvia Unique psychedelics, including cannabis, DiPT, and even fish and sea sponges The history of psychedelic plants and substances is full of colorful facts and stories, and intriguing questions. Did US Army Intelligence really use LSD as an enhanced military interrogation technique? How is DiPT able to make a familiar tune sound utterly foreign? Can MDMA (Ecstasy) help people overcome traumatic experiences? Many psychedelic plants and substances have a long history of being incorporated into various healing traditions—such as cannabis and opium in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Science is beginning to research what traditional cultures have told us for years: psychedelics have transformative healing properties. Anyone who has ever wondered about psychedelics—from complete neophytes to veteran trippers, seekers and sages to skeptics and scientists, therapists and patients to green thumbs and armchair anthropologists—will find something in this engrossing and beautifully designed book.
Download or read book Alternative Medicine Or Magical Healing written by George A. Ulett and published by Warren H Green. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the separate and interlacing paths of magic, religion, and medicine through the centuries as they relate to healing. Alternative Medicine or Magical Healing attempts to give a balanced picture of the new age healing movement, and is on the lookout for supportive data in the great bulk of relevant material. Which treatments should be approached with caution or entirely avoided? Which methods have good supportive studies and might be cautiously accepted as complementary additions to allopathic treatment? The book discusses in greater detail those methods having a scientific basis and suggests how others might benefit from further carefully controlled studies. It also discusses blatant quackery and the methods used to sell pseudo-medicine to an ever-gullible public eagerly searching for magical cures.
Download or read book Herbal and Magical Medicine written by James Kirkland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
Download or read book Healing Logics written by Erika Brady and published by . This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact—in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.
Download or read book What Will Influence the Future of Alternative Medicine written by Daniel Eskinazi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of factors that have influenced and will continue to influence the development of OC alternativeOCO (traditional) medicine in the world. Traditionally, the lack of relevant good quality scientific research is often the reason why a large number of healthcare practices are labeled OC alternativeOCO. However, nonscientific factors may be at least as important as the scientific ones. Among such factors are cultural, political, administrative, and economic considerations. The articles in this volume provide an international perspective on how such pervasive factors impact on the development, research, and practice of alternative medicine in the world. Sample Chapter(s). foreword (48 KB). Chapter 1.1: Indroduction (78 KB). Chapter 1.2: Background: Alternative Medicine in the United States (65 KB). Chapter 1.3: Current Definition of Alternative Medicine (70 KB). Chapter 1.4: Proposed Definition of Alternative Medicine (68 KB). Chapter 1.5: Factors Posing Challenges to Integration of Alternative Medicine (68 KB). Chapter 1.5.1: Cultural Factors (73 KB). Chapter 1.5.2: Sociological Factors (77 KB). Chapter 1.5.3: Economic Factors (70 KB). Chapter 1.5.4: Scientific and Medical Factors (68 KB). Chapter 1.6: Implications for a Program in Alternative Medicine (68 KB). Chapter 1.7: Conclusions (126 KB). Contents: Factors That Will Shape the Future of Alternative Medicine: An Overview (D Eskinazi); On the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 21st Century China (C Meng); A Cultural Perspective OCo Factors That Guide the Choice Between Local Health Traditions and Modern Medicine in India (U G Geetha); A Cultural Perspective: Conceptual Similarities and Differences Between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Japanese Medicine (K Horiguchi & K Tsutani); Some Political Aspects of Non-Conventional Medical Practices in Europe (J Bossy); Harmonization of Traditional Oriental (Chinese) Medicine and Modern Medicine OCo A Step Forward with the TradiMed Database 2000 (l-M Chang & J G Chi); An Information Perspective: The Role of the British Library in Supporting Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Britain (B Madge); World Health and International Collaboration in Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Research (G B Mahady); Academic and Funding Perspective in Developing Alternative Medicine Research in the US: Experience of the Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (F Kronenberg). Readership: Professionals and lay people interested in understanding the non-scientific factors that influence science and medicine."
Download or read book Ancient Magic and Modern Therapeutics written by W. J. Colville and published by . This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Baptizing Alternative Medicine written by W. Westbrook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are alternative medicine and Christianity natural allies or rivals? They share a surprising number of basic features, yet it is frequently assumed that they are automatically in conflict. Many thoughtful Christians are intrigued by alternative medicine but wonder if there are sound theological reasons to avoid it. Does one risk Hell by receiving acupuncture for tennis elbow? Baptizing Alternative Medicine addresses these concerns. It examines alternative medicine while avoiding the polarized positions which have frequently marked the debate. When one evaluates complementary and alternative therapies with careful attention to both spirituality and science, it becomes clear that though there are real dangers in some therapies, there are also real benefits which are worth pursuing. The book covers the major alternative therapies, analyzing the available scientific evidence and any theological concerns.
Download or read book Magic and Medicine of Plants written by Reader's Digest Association and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book that brings together: an authoritative, stunningly illustrated field guide; a how-to book for identifying, collecting, and reserving plants; the fascinating story of the legends and lore of medicinal plants; and a do-it-yourself guide to planting and using herbs in cooking, cosmetics, and health. Illustrated.
Download or read book Alternative Medicine 2 books in 1 written by Iren Soulevar and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alternative Medicine (2 books in 1) : Herbal Antivirals: The Ultimate Guide to Herbal Healing, Magic, Medicine, and Antibiotics + Herbal Remedies: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Antibiotics and Antivirals" by Iren Soulevar. The easy guide that will allow you to enhance health but also prevent illness and cure diseases thanks to the antiviral power of leaves, seeds and plant roots! Alternative Medicine is one of the most ancient practices that exist and is worldwide known. It is based on using herbs and seeds as antivirals or remedies against illness. However the word "natural" doesn't always mean "safe". So, if you are tired of using the nasty chemicals in medicine to fight your and your family's illnesses and you want to learn how to use herbs in a safe way, you can now discover it thanks to "Alternative Medicine" by Iren Soulevar. Here's what you'll find inside: modern Herbal Medicine and Herbal Medicine in history traditional African medicine and its relationships with modern medicine keys fact about emerging viruses (warning signs, viral diseases, types of viruses) challenges associated with monitoring safety of Herbal Medicines what viral encephalitis and respiratory infections are how to use Herbal Remedies safely the 17 best herbs with antiviral activities tips when growing herbs Herbal Remedy recipes ...and much more!
Download or read book Herbal and Magical Medicine written by James Kirkland and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
