Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.

¡La abuela ataca de nuevo! Valeria Edelsztein utiliza todo el arsenal de la ciencia para sugerir y proponer (y cuando corresponde prohibir terminantemente) los remedios caseros que todos llevamos en algún rincón del botiquín. Esta vez la autora recorre el cuerpo, de los pies (y las manos) a la cabeza –con una escala en el ombligo y sus circunstancias–, para adentrarse en sus molestos secretos y en las posibles curas recomendadas por la cultura...

Ayurveda, the science of life, represents the awareness in living. Considered by many the most ancient medicine system in the world, its roots can be seen still in our days. As certified practitioner in Ayurveda Medecine, Satish ​Venkatesan presents in this book a detailed overview of remedies meant to improve and enhance the body functions through prevention. By introducing the theories at the basis of this discipline, he explains the importance...

Healing from the Dilly Bag Bilawaras book offers information to help you get a better understanding of Australian Aboriginal peoples deep connection to Mother Earth and their beliefs about health and wellbeing. She will share with you her wisdoms to help you achieve an increased empathy for the Aboriginal peoples psyche and how they traditionally overcome the effects of illness and injury. The book carries Bilawaras message from her knowledge and...

Do you ever wonder if there is a way to recover from or prevent emotional and behavioral health symptoms (known as disorders)? Current treatments focus on reducing symptomology - not preventing or finding the root cause. By looking at historical and modern-day practices in mental healthcare, we can come together as a community and create change. This is achieved by combining Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM), diet, and functional medicine...

El MMS es un remedio que normalmente se emplea para eliminar los gérmenes del agua, lo que permite transformar el agua insalubre en agua saludable. Impelido por la necesidad, Jim Humble tuvo la idea de emplearlo también en seres vivos, ya que tanto las personas como los animales se componen principalmente de agua: ¡y funcionó! Desde entonces, la noticia de que se había descubierto un remedio barato e inocuo, capaz de liberar de forma extremadamente...

Do you, or someone you know suffer with a brain-based condition? Read about how neurofeedback training can put an end to your symptoms. Whether it`s a loss of focus and concentration due to ADD, or the hyperactivity associated with ADHD, training your brain with neurofeedback can help. The effects of chronic anxiety, depression and insomnia can be devastating. How would you feel, if you could get help for these symptoms, just by watching a movie? Possibly,...

Tao and Dharma: Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda explores the enduring features of humanity's longest and continually practiced systems of medicine. These two indigenous healing arts arising independently in China and India communed and exchanged experience, techniques, and therapeutic substances over the epochs of their development. This books interesting and valuable comparison provides a pioneer effort in examining side-by-side two great systems of...

You might also call a trigger point a knot in your muscle. They're usually found in skelatal muscle. When pressed, a trigger point can cause sharp pain at its location along with pain in related areas of the body. Trigger points can be caused by strain, stress, trauma and even smoking. They are usually located and diagnosed by complaints of pain and manual palpation. A chart of common trigger points would assist the patient in understanding muscle...

After forty years as an electronics engineer, Jim Snell had a stroke that ended his career but not his life. In 2007, Jim suffered the fate of many Americans who do not eat nutritiously and who live a sedentary lifehe had a stroke. Although it nearly took his life, it served as a new beginning. Reeling from the physical challenges presented by the stroke, Jim also had to learn to manage the underlying medical condition that had developedtype 2 diabetes....