New medicine : complete family health guide : integrating complementary, alternative, and conventional medicine for the safest and most effective treatment
Baker & Taylor Covering more than one hundred ailments, an innovative, integrated approach to medical treatment brings together conventional treatments with complementary or alternative therapies to help prevent, treat, or alleviate everything from headaches and acne to heart disease and cancer.
Baker & Taylor Discusses causes, prevention, symptoms, and treatment options for more than one hundred health concerns, including motion sickness, gallstones, and head lice, and briefly describes different conventional and alternative therapies.
Penguin Putnam New Medicine is easily the most comprehensive mainstream guide available to this pioneering new approach. In Part 1, a series of essays by distinguished health practitioners covers key issues in integrated medicine, including how to combine herbal and conventional medicines safely, when to treat ailments yourself and when to seek expert help, and how to choose therapies to suit your disposition and needs. It explains the purpose of MRI scans and other types of screening, describes how drugs and herbal and homeopathic medicines work, and shows how simple lifestyle measures, such as improving your diet, can promote health and longevity.