Healing ways : an integrative health sourcebook /
Parente, M.(Matilde),author.
Credo Reference (Firm),distributor.
"This book provides a comprehensive review of alternative medicine, and how it can supplement traditional medical approaches to disease"--
In Healing Ways: An Integrative Health Sourcebook, you'll find important information about conventional and alternative therapies, and how they can work together to help you reap maximum benefits. This approach is called Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and it lets you combine the best of both worlds: mainstream medical therapies and alternative solutions that have high-quality scientific evidence for safety and effectiveness.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction -- 2. Integrative health: an overview -- 3. Integrative health: what consumers should know -- 4. Integrative health and you -- 5. Integrative methods and their uses -- 6. Acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine -- 7. Mind-body and energy therapies -- 8. Manual therapies and bodywork -- 9.Herbal products and dietary supplements -- 10. Integrated approaches: from ancient to modern -- 11. Special topics -- 12. Self-care and prevention -- 13. Myths and misconceptions -- 14. Integrative method finder -- Glossary.
"This book provides a comprehensive review of alternative medicine, and how it can supplement traditional medical approaches to disease"--
In Healing Ways: An Integrative Health Sourcebook, you'll find important information about conventional and alternative therapies, and how they can work together to help you reap maximum benefits. This approach is called Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and it lets you combine the best of both worlds: mainstream medical therapies and alternative solutions that have high-quality scientific evidence for safety and effectiveness.
Description based on title page of print version.
Alternative medicine
Self-care, Health.
Complementary Therapies.
Integrative Medicine.
Self Care.

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