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Chinese traditional herbal medicine vol. 1 diagnosis & treatment

Author(s): Lerner, Michael
 
Publisher: MIT Press 
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Paperback 


Overview:
Choices in Healing offers valuable 
information and guidance for the whole life cycle of cancer -- 
from the initial shock of diagnosis to decisions about choosing 
a physician and conventional therapies, selecting complementary 
therapies, coping with treatment, and the art of living fully 
with the possibility of recurrence. There are detailed 
explanations and evaluations of a wide range of complementary 
therapy programs, including spiritual and psychological 
approaches, nutritional therapies, physical therapies, 
pharmacological therapies, and traditional medicines from around 
the world. There are sections on prayer and other forms of 
spiritual healing; psychotherapy, support groups, visual imagery 
and hypnosis; massage, therapeutic touch, yoga, and Qi Gong; 
macrobiotic diet and other cancer diets; acupuncture and Chinese 
herbal medicines; and numerous other unconventional therapies 
used by American cancer patients. With an unusual combination of 
compassion and objectivity, Michael Lerner describes his 
conclusions following more than a decade of study of 
unconventional cancer treatments in North America, Europe, 
India, and Japan. He also draws extensively on his work with 
hundreds of cancer patients who have participated in the 
Commonweal Cancer Help Programs, the residential support program 
depicted by Bill Moyers in his 1993 PBS documentary "Healing and 
the Mind."