Modern Medicine

For those interested in traditional Chinese medicine, relaxation techniques, and chi (qi) healing methods - don't pass up the chance to get the chi flowing and to enjoy a long list of health benefits. Sifu William Lee explains how very simple self-massage methods can maximize your energy and reduce symptoms of ill health - from arthritis to allergies, back pain to weight loss.

In African Herbal Medicine: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Healing, discover the powerful healing properties of 8 essential African herbs used for generations to treat ailments and restore balance. This comprehensive guide reveals the art of preparing tinctures, poultices, infusions, and more to promote physical, mental, and spiritual health. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or a beginner, you'll find everything you need to integrate these remedies into your daily life.

In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: To cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease.

Medicines are arguably the most highly regulated - and cost-inflated - products in the United States. The discovery, development, manufacturing, and distribution of medicines is carried out by an ever more complex and crowded set of industries, each playing a part in a larger “pharmaceutical enterprise” seeking to maximize profits. But this was not always the case. The Price of Health is the reveals the story of how the pharmaceutical enterprise took shape and led to the present crisis.

Believed to hold restorative powers over our health, crystals have served humanity for millennia. With Crystal Healing for Women, you can unlock the ancient secrets of healing and wisdom held within these stones. Crystal healer and Reiki Master Mariah K. Lyons shares her knowledge in this practical guide that helps women awaken to their feminine divinity and healing powers and rekindle their instinctual relationship with nature. She also shows you how to select and care for crystals and incorporate them in rituals.

Daily life can feel like a fast-paced treadmill, leaving little time to unwind, recharge and do what brings us joy. Meditation is a powerful way to hit the pause button, increase your energy and start to enjoy life more. The Effortless Mind is renowned meditation teacher Will Williams’ must-have guide for modern-day meditators. Suffering from chronic stress and insomnia, Will undertook years of research and training with leading experts from around the world, which led him to find the cure he was looking for in Vedic meditation.

Thanks to the popularity of personal genetic testing services, it's now easier than ever to get information about our own unique DNA - but who does this information really benefit? And, as genome editing and gene therapy transform the healthcare landscape, what do we gain - and what might we give up in return?

We each create so much unnecessary suffering for ourselves. We may not be able to prevent the feeling, but we do have the power to control our reaction to it. We will all experience heartbreak at some point in our lives. People leave when we want them to stay. We feel rejected, abandoned. Broken Hearted is a practical guide to help you better understand your emotions and to take that first step to a more aware and abundant life. This isn’t an audiobook only for those following the path of Buddhism, but rather one for the spiritually inclined.

Step into the captivating world of healthcare innovation and scientific breakthroughs with Medical Marvels: Amazing Discoveries in Health. This meticulously crafted journey takes you on a 30-day exploration of the most remarkable milestones in the field of medicine and healthcare. Each day unveils a new chapter in the story of humanity's quest for better health, offering a glimpse into the groundbreaking discoveries, cutting-edge technologies, and revolutionary advancements that have shaped the way we understand and approach healthcare.

This is a historical, nonfiction, true story and addresses necessary changes that must be implemented, maintained, and enforced in worldwide healthcare provider professional training programs and hospitals. The book exposes abuses and enslavement policies and attitudes in health care training programs and hospital administrations worldwide and offers simple and genius remedies to eradicate these deleterious policies and slave owner attitudes of hospital administrators.

Go behind the scenes to meet the trailblazing executives and visionaries who have reshaped the health and wellness landscape. Discover how they've challenged the status quo and are ushering in a new era of wellness, where prevention and alternative therapies are at the forefront. Gone are the days of reactive sick care! In this new age, the universal pursuit isn't merely about managing sickness, it's a quest for optimized health; the shift from "sick care" to "well care" is now more evident than ever.

Dr. Melody Glenn didn’t expect to find herself working with addiction patients when she started out in medicine. Like most physicians she’s encountered, she harbored a set of conscious and unconscious beliefs about addicts—she even sometimes resented them. Once she realized how effective harm reduction treatments like methadone could be, she set out to discover why these treatments weren’t used more broadly. This led her to Dr. Marie Nyswander.

This book is a spiritual memoir on the life and explorations of Anthony “Prem” Carlisi, as well as a source of practical, applicable information about the practices of Ashtanga Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra. The synergy of these three sciences are what Prem believes to be the key to living a healthy, rooted, and ecstatic life!

I have recently completed an educational book entitled Modern Nursing: How We Got There. The nursing profession has undergone an enormous transformation over the past four decades, and I observed every change as it unfolded during my 41-year career as a registered nurse. In this short work, I explore the ancient origins of nursing and explain how what began as a mysterious art steeped in myth and folklore grew into the modern profession that it is today.

Jeremy Colledge has embarked on a tour de force of all the major healing modalities and spiritual practices, finally settling on a reboot of an ancient Chinese exercise system called Zhineng Qigong. Dr. Pang Ming built this system from ancient understandings and launched it into the 20th century. Jeremy has taken this Eastern teaching and presented it here, along with many other ideas and exercises, giving them Western relevance.

Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Yet, many Americans don't realize that these choices are illusory at best. The available options in food, healthcare, education, transportation, and even online presence are largely constructed by corporations. At What Cost confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have enhanced the ability of corporations and their allies to overwhelm influences of government, family, community, and faith.

"The Modern Meditation Technique (MMT)" introduces a contemporary approach to meditation, designed to cater to the fast-paced lives of modern individuals. Meditation is an age-old practice that promotes mental clarity, relaxation, and emotional stability. Traditional forms of meditation like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism often require specific setups and long sessions. In contrast, MMT offers a simplified and flexible approach, suitable even for those with busy schedules.

In the fugue of deep meditation, Jaya Devi tumbles outdoors into a muggy south Florida dawn. Sliding on a pair of orange flip-flops, she cuts across a dirt path skirting the ashram lawn. She glances down as a fat black snake slithers up her bare leg, wrapping itself tight. Astonished, she pauses, exemplifying the yogi’s art of non-reaction, breathing and assessing. Here, we enter into the wild wisdom-experience of a modern yogi who uses each moment as fuel for personal transformation.

Ayurveda: Mit der ältesten Gesundheitslehre der Welt im 21. Jahrhundert zu umfassendem Wohlbefinden und perfekter Ausgeglichenheit Sie wollen für Ihren Körper und Geist beste Bedingungen schaffen, aber vor lauter Ernährungstrends, Fitnesstipps & Co. verlieren Sie den Überblick? Sie suchen ein ganzheitliches System, das alle Ihre Bedürfnisse erkennt und abdeckt? Und ohnehin wollen Sie nicht bei allen Beschwerden sofort zur Tablette greifen? Dann gestalten Sie ab jetzt Ihr Leben nach den Richtlinien des Ayurveda und dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen den Weg.

When thinking about the acupressure, most of us think about the procedures that are somewhat complicated to learn. Therefore many people never try using it, or if they do, they give up quickly. However, the acupressure (ancient art of healing by simple use of hands and fingers) in this book is a well-proven self-healing processes that anyone can learn fast.