Alternative Medicine

Alternative Medicine

Release Date: 05/11/2010
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Alternative Medicine
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Synopsis:

Easy to use, this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Alternative Medicine keeps pace with the latest findings and developments in alternative medicine. Here is the most comprehensive, current, well-balanced, and trustworthy information available from both a scientific and a biblical perspective.

The most complete resource of its kind on alternative medicine
* Herbal remedies, dietary supplements, and alternative therapies
Their specific uses
Which ones really work (and which ones don’t)
What to watch out for
* Christian versus non-Christian approaches to holistic health
* Clinically proven treatments versus unproven or quack treatments
* Truths and fallacies about supernatural healing
* Ancient medical lore: the historical, cultural, and scientific facts
* And much, much more

Alternative Medicine is the first comprehensive guidebook to nontraditional medicine written from a distinctively Christian perspective. Keeping pace with the latest developments and research in alternative medicine, this thoroughly revised edition combines the most current information with an easy-to-use format. University lecturer and researcher Dónal O’Mathúna, PhD, and national medical authority Walt Larimore, MD, provide detailed and balanced answers to your most pressing questions about alternative medicine---and to other questions you wouldn’t have thought to ask.

Also includes
Two alphabetical reference sections:
Alternative therapies
Herbal remedies, vitamins, and dietary supplements
A description of each therapy and remedy, an analysis of claims, results of actual studies, cautions, recommendations, and further resources
Handy cross-references linking health problems with various alternative therapies and herbal remedies reviewed in the book

Product Details

Format: ePub, Tier 1
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780310861003
UPC: 025986861001
Weight: 0.1 lb
Length: 512 Pages

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