Download or read book Celestial Treatments for Terrestrial Diseases written by and published by Lan Di Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shotokan Kata 1 Heian Shodan in Daoist Eyes written by Adam Dobrzynski and published by Adam's Shotokan Karate Books. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book contains grammatical mistakes, and for that I am deeply sorry. This is the first book in a series, which is intented to examine the links between Shotokan Karate and the three teachings - Daoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The book deals with Heian Shodan (aka Pinan Shodan) and the rest of Heian katas. We can learn a lot from the Chinese origins of Karate. Daoism (Taoism) in particular has been forgotten in modern times, as a tool for understanding Karate and improving it. There are very practical conclusions that we can come to, using Daoism. In order to achieve that, we must develop a deep understanding of the Heian katas using Chinese philosophy. The book explains how Yin and Yang and the Five Elements (Wuxing) theories are connected to the Heians. We especially concentrate on the Wood Element, which is the element of Heian Shodan, and has profound implications on the kata. Topics from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are brought up, including the relations between the basic katas and the organs and meridians. Then we turn to Emotional Karate, and observe the psychological benefit, that one could derive from Karate. Karate can contribute to our mental well-being. And our state of mind, as proven, effects our body - including chronic pains. After understanding the distinguishing qualities of Heian Shodan, we can understand why it is a particularly good kata for releasing a repressed anger. As for other issues: Some techniques are presented, in order to improve the kata and our benefit from it. We also learn how other katas may recuperate Heian Shodan. A mathematical formula of the five Heians is suggested, with an application to Heian Shodan's movements. Other Shotokan katas are also mentioned - as well as specific Karate moves and stances. Finally, we warn about excessiveness, and explain how to prevent it. By the way, several interesting topics are discussed: the far and the relatively modern history of Karate and of other martial arts, our Karate ancestors and even Chinese and Japanese characters and words. In conclusion, although the book deals with Chines philosophy, it has many very applicable sides.
Download or read book Poison Medicine and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by Frederick W Gibbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200–1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease. Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to light premodern physicians' debates about the potential existence, nature, and properties of a category of substance theoretically harmful to the human body in even the smallest amount. Focusing on the category of poison (venenum) rather than on specific drugs reframes and remixes the standard histories of toxicology, pharmacology, and etiology, as well as shows how these aspects of medicine (although not yet formalized as independent disciplines) interacted with and shaped one another. Physicians argued, for instance, about what properties might distinguish poison from other substances, how poison injured the human body, the nature of poisonous bodies, and the role of poison in spreading, and to some extent defining, disease. The way physicians debated these questions shows that poison was far from an obvious and uncontested category of substance, and their effort to understand it sheds new light on the relationship between natural philosophy and medicine in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Yoruba written by Toyin Falola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource.” —Yoruba Studies Review The Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies of prominent Yoruba figures, artists, and authors; the histories of political institutions; and the impact of technology and media, urban living, and contemporary culture on Yoruba people worldwide. Written by Yoruba experts on all continents, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive background to the global Yoruba and their distinctive and vibrant history and culture. “Readers unfamiliar with the Yoruba will find the introduction a concise and valuable overview of their language and its dialects, recent history, mythology and religion, and diaspora movements . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Download or read book Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period written by Siam Bhayro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period explores the relationship between demons and illness from the ancient world to the early modern period. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to seventeenth-century England and Spain, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Download or read book Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 1820 written by Richard J. Kahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted from historical to scientific methods. He performed experiments and autopsies, became interested in the new chemistry of Lavoisier, risked scorn in his use of alkaline remedies, studied epidemic fever and approaches to bloodletting, and struggled to understand epidemic fever, childbed fever, cancer, public health, consumption, mental illness, and the "dangers of spirituous liquors." Dr. Barker intended to publish his Diseases in the District of Maine 1772-1820 by subscription - advance pledges to purchase the published volume - but for reasons that remain uncertain, that never happened. For the first time, Barker's never before published work has been transcribed and presented in its entirety with extensive annotations, a five-chapter introduction to contextualize the work, and a glossary to make it accessible to 21st century general readers, genealogists, students, and historians. This engaging and insightful new publication allows modern readers to reimagine medicine as practiced by a rural physician in New England. We know much about how elite physicians practiced 200 years ago, but very little about the daily practice of an ordinary rural doctor, attending the ordinary rural patient. Barker's manuscript is written in a clear and engaging style, easily enjoyed by general readers as well as historians, with extensive footnotes and a glossary of terms. Barker himself intended his book to be "understood by those destitute of medical science."
Download or read book Beyond Reason written by Gonzalo Munévar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting philosophers of science of this century. For me the truth does not lie somewhere in between, for I am decidedly of the second opinion, an opinion that is becoming general around the world as this century comes to an end and history begins to cast its appraising eye upon the intellectual harvest of our era. A good example of this opinion may be found in the admiration for Feyerabend's philosophy of science expressed by Grover Maxwell in his contribution to this volume. Maxwell, recalling his own intellectual transformation, says also that it was Feyerabend who "confirmed my then incipient suspicions that most of the foundations of currently fashionable philosophy and even a great deal of the methodology to which many scientists pay enthusiastic lip service are based on simple mistake- assumptions whose absurdity becomes obvious once attention is directed at them". And lest the reader thinks, as many still do, that however sharp Feyerabend's attacks upon the philosophical establishment may have been, he does not offer a positive philosophy (a complain made by C.A. Hooker and some of the other contributors), Paul Churchland argues otherwise.
Download or read book Rosicrucian Alchemy written by Peter Gruenewald and published by Peter Gruenewald. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rosicrucian Alchemy” invites us to embark on a meditative path, where the alembic becomes our heart, and the Philosopher’s Stone our spiritualised physical resurrection body, and our initiated consciousness. Whether you’re an alchemical enthusiast, a seeker of inner truths, or simply curious, this book promises a transformative journey. The Spiritual Alchemical Journey: When Nature is embraced with wise, loving, and benevolent understanding, Nature becomes transparent: on the one hand, it is transfigured under the lightning flashes of divine forces, and on the other hand, it temporarily lifts the Soul into "angelic" states of consciousness, which fallen man can only glimpse for brief moments, when listening to music, when artistically creating or when contemplating the beauty of art; or when man considers spiritual science, like in Goethe's natural science studies, in Johannes Keppler's cosmogony, in Paracelus' natural science and theological writings or in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, to name a few. In nature processes and in their representation through spiritual symbols, God's wisdom, beauty, and power are present. They can be deciphered, and they can also be the starting point of a striving for all-inclusiveness, wholeness, and perfection of the individual human and humanity in God. Rosicrucian alchemy acknowledges the unity of man, Nature, and Macrocosm, and its task is to research and utilize the diversity and unity of forces through spiritual science and spiritual technology. And in doing so, inspired by the deeds of Christ, Nature becomes the body of the 'Creative Word' and, as it were, the bride of God. The physical human body as a creation of Nature can become a matrix of perfection through purification and spiritualization as we create the resurrection body of Christ within ourselves. In spiritualizing our human constitution and deciphering Nature as a condensed spirit, we also redeem Nature and lift it permanently into a higher state of evolution. This is the true meaning of the preparing of the Philosopher’s Stone, which is also as stage of spiritual development that can be achieved on a meditative path, that is inspired by the research and practice of Christian Rosenkreuz and Rudolf Steiner.
Download or read book International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics written by Edward Swift Dunster and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A System of Practical Medicine written by William Pepper and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alchemical Medicine for the 21st Century written by Clare Goodrick-Clarke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the ancient art of spagyrics for treatment of today’s health problems • Contains detailed indications for using alchemical preparations therapeutically • Shows how the essences work holistically to heal the mind, body, and spirit with the energetic qualities of the plant • Provides effective therapy for a wide range of physical and mental disorders Spagyrics is a branch of medicinal alchemy that enhances the healing properties already existing in plants. Developed by Paracelsus, the magus and alchemist of the early 16th century, spagyrics is a holistic therapy that promotes healing at all levels of the human being--body, soul, and spirit. Spagyric essences harness the dynamic life force in plants that triggers recovery from the energetic imbalance of illness. The harmonizing and balancing qualities of spagyric essences differ from other plant remedies and aromatherapy oils because they not only include the plant’s energetic information but also incorporate the salt of the plant, from which all toxic matter has been purged. The preparation of this alchemical medicine makes it possible to capture the full therapeutic spectrum of plants, including the cosmic energies they have absorbed. Alchemical Medicine for the 21st Century contains detailed indications for using these alchemical preparations to treat both physical and mental disorders. The author shows, for example, that the tincture made from dandelion is especially potent on liver-related ailments and also raises the spirit and frees the patient from anger and bitterness. The immune system is also boosted by this essence, providing tonic effects for allergy sufferers. The author, a homeopath since 2000, also shows how these spagyric essences can be potentized homeopathically.
Download or read book Paracelsus His Archidoxis Or Chief Teachings Comprised in Ten Books Etc With a Portrait written by Paracelsus and published by . This book was released on 1663 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Tropical Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes supplements.
Download or read book Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death written by Luis García Ballester and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
Download or read book A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors Volume 1 Pathology and General Diseases written by Various Artists and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 2233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occult Science in Medicine written by Franz Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
