Main description:

This third edition has been extensively updated and expanded to provide a comprehensive guide to integrative medicine. Taking a balanced and objective approach, this leading text bridges the gap between Western science and Eastern philosophy. It provides doctors and other health practitioners with information on complementary and alternative approaches to health, that is authoritative, evidence based, and epidemiologically substantiated.

Contents:

A Review of Classic Physiological Systems, Systems Integration: Psychoneuroimmunology, The Stress System, The Relaxation System: Theoretical Construct, The Relaxation System: Therapeutic Modalities, Energy Medicine: Cutting-Edge Modalities, Energy Medicine: Focus on Non-thermal Electromagnetic Therapies, Energy Medicine: Focus on Lasers, The Four Pillars and Two Guideposts for the Healing Professions(TM), The Pineal Gland: Energy Transducer, Soul Medicine: Crossing the Boundary, Human Epigenetics in Health and Disease, History and Philosophy of Naturopathic Medicine, Wellbeing, Assessing the Toxic Load and Detoxification Strategies, Precision Nutrition, The Landscape of Integrative Medicine in America with a Shift to Prevention and Health Promotion, Whole Person Caring, Energy Medicine: Focus on Lasers.