Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Andrew Weil, M.D. Part I: Major Areas of Treatment 1 Think Horses, Not Zebras 2 Sound Mind, Sound Body: MindBody Medicine Comes of Age 3 Food for Thought: Dietary Supplements, Phytonutrients, and Hormones 4 Traditional Chinese Medicine: Three Thousand Years of Evolution 5 Acupuncture: From Yellow Emperor to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 6 Western Herbal Medicine: Nature's Green Pharmacy 7 Naturopathic Medicine: "Do No Harm" 8 Homeopathy: Like Cures Like 9 Chiropractic: Thigh Bone Connected to the Knee Bone 10 Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga: From Buddha to the Millennium 11 Spirituality and Healing: As Above...So Below 12 CAM Insurance: Who Pays How Much to Whom for What 13 We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Toward an Integrative Medicine Part II: CAM Therapies for Specific Conditions General Precautions Acne AIDS Alcoholism Allergies Alzheimer's Disease Anxiety Arthritis Asthma Atherosclerosis Attention Deficit Disorder Bedwetting (see Enuresis) Birth Defects Bronchitis Bruises Buzzing in the Ears (see Tinnitus) Cancer Cardiovascular (Heart) Disease and Cholesterol Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cervical Spondylitis Chronic Fatigue Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Liver Disease Colds/Flu Colic Constipation Dementia and/or Memory Loss Dental Craniomandibular Disorder Depression Diabetes Diarrhea Diverticulitis Dyslexia Ear Infection (see Otitis Media) Eczema Enuresis Epilepsy Eye Disorders Fibromyalgia Gastrointestinal (Stomach and Intestinal Disturbances) Hay Fever Headaches Heart Conditions High Blood Pressure Impotence Infertility Insomnia Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Ischemia Kidney Stones Liver Disease Lupus Memory Disorders Menire's Disease Menstrual Symptoms, Menopause, and PMS Mononucleosis Nausea Obesity Osteoporosis Otitis Media Pain Parkinson's Disease Prostate or Prostatic Hypertrophy (Prostate Enlargement) Psoriasis Respiratory Problems Schizophrenia Sciatica Scleroderma Sexual Dysfunction Sinusitis Sprains Substance Abuse f0 Tendinitis Thyroid Dysfunction Tinnitus Tonsillitis Tuberculosis Ulcers Vaginitis Varicose Veins Vertigo Yeast Infections (see Vaginitis) Bibliography Index
Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier is clinical professor of medicine, Department of Medicine, and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a vice president with Healthtrac, one of the largest providers of disease-management programs to corporations. Dr. Pelletier is director of the NIH-funded Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at Stanford (CAMPS), and director of the Stanford Corporate Health Program, a collaborative effort between Stanford and twenty major corporations including AT&T, American Airlines, Merck, Blue Shield, Bank of America, IBM, Medstat, Levi-Strauss, Motorola, Rite Aid/PCS, United Behavioral Health, and Xerox. Dr. Pelletier has served as president of the American Health Association since 1990; is a member of the Board of Directors with Health Net of Foundation Health Systems, which is the fourth-largest integrated health provider system in the United States; and, in 1997, was appointed a founding board member of the Foundation for Integrative Medicine. He is the author of more than 225 professional journal articles and seven books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, including the classic bestseller Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, first published in 1977 and revised in an updated edition in 1992. At sea, Dr. Pelletier is an avid open-ocean sailor. On land, he is an equestrian and lives on a farm in Alamo, California, with his wife, Elizabeth, and their two thoroughbred horses, Qolcha and Tir Nan Og.
Brian M. Berman, M.D.Associate Professor and Director, University
of Maryland School of MedicineThere are a confusing number of
therapies considered to be "alternative medicine" and an equally
confusing number of claims, as well as disclaimers, about their
effectiveness. In this book, Dr. Pelletier uses a wealth of
clinical and scientific knowledge to steer a level course through
this overwhelming morass of information. "The Best Alternative
Medicine" gives us the facts we need to know -- what are the main
therapies, what is the scientific proof of their safety and
effectiveness, and which conditions are they most likely to
help?
Dean Ornish, M.D.Founder and President, Preventive Medicine
Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of
Medicine; author, "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart
Disease" and "Love & Survival"The medicine of the future will
integrate the best of traditional and nontraditional approaches to
health and healing. But why wait? Find it today in "The Best
Alternative Medicine."
Larry Dossey, M.D.author, "Reinventing Medicine" and "Healing
Words;" executive editor, "Alternative Therapies in Health and
Medicine"Based on an enormous body of research, this is a brilliant
synthesis of the emerging field of alternative medicine. Written in
plain language, this book will help anyone find their way in this
exciting, complex area. For many years I've personally looked to
Dr. Pelletier as a guide in this field. This book shows why.
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.Clinical Professor, Family and Community
Medicine, UCSF School of MedicineIf you have ever wondered whether
there is any basis of fact under the bewildering claims and
counterclaims of alternative health care, this is the book for you.
In "The Best Alternative Medicine," Dr. Kenneth Pelletier, one of
the earliest pioneers of mind/body medicine, offers clear,
up-to-the-minute scientific evidence for the most common
alternative approaches. What a gift this is! If you are a patient,
I strongly suggest you read the book before you try an alternative
treatment. It may save your life.
Wayne B. Jonas, M.D.Former Director, National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of
Health (NIH)Dr. Pelletier has done it again! -- taken the massive
literature in alternative medicine, found the science in it and
presented it to the public in a clear and understandable way.
Brian M. Berman, M.D.
Associate Professor and Director, University of Maryland School of MedicineThere are a confusing number of therapies considered to be "alternative medicine" and an equally confusing number of claims, as well as disclaimers, about their effectiveness. In this book, Dr. Pelletier uses a wealth of clinical and scientific knowledge to steer a level course through this overwhelming morass of information. "The Best Alternative Medicine" gives us the facts we need to know -- what are the main therapies, what is the scientific proof of their safety and effectiveness, and which conditions are they most likely to help?
Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine; author, "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease" and "Love & Survival"The medicine of the future will integrate the best of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healing. But why wait? Find it today in "The Best Alternative Medicine."
author, "Reinventing Medicine" and "Healing Words;" executive editor, "Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine"Based on an enormous body of research, this is a brilliant synthesis of the emerging field of alternative medicine. Written in plain language, this book will help anyone find their way in this exciting, complex area. For many years I've personally looked to Dr. Pelletier as a guide in this field. This book shows why.
Clinical Professor, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF School of MedicineIf you have ever wondered whether there is any basis of fact under the bewildering claims and counterclaims of alternative health care, this is the book for you. In "The Best Alternative Medicine," Dr. Kenneth Pelletier, one of the earliest pioneers of mind/body medicine, offers clear, up-to-the-minute scientific evidence for the most common alternative approaches. What a gift this is! If you are a patient, I strongly suggest you read the book before you try an alternative treatment. It may save your life.
Former Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH)Dr. Pelletier has done it again! -- taken the massive literature in alternative medicine, found the science in it and presented it to the public in a clear and understandable way.
Pelletier (Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer) examines the most popular alternative therapies being used today--from homeopathy and Western herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda--with an eye toward integrating them with traditional medicine. A clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program, Pelletier notes that while many forms of complementary alternative medicine (CAM) are not recognized by the medical community, consumer interest in them has risen dramatically. If, as Pelletier concludes, optimal health stems from attention to all aspects of life--physical, psychological, spiritual and environmental--then CAM therapies, which take all of these aspects into account, will become even more common. Far from suggesting that traditional medicine be bypassed, Pelletier emphasizes that CAM can increase its effectiveness at a relatively low cost. He cites numerous studies in which CAM has fostered the healing process, as well as other studies that either have negated certain claims for alternatives or proved inconclusive. In the second section of the book, Pelletier discusses how CAM can be used for specific conditions such as cancer, heart disease, AIDS and depression. This forward-looking book will be useful to those seeking to address all aspects of their well-being. BOMC, QPB, One Spirit alternate. (Feb.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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