Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons. A Report to the National Institutes of Health on Alternative Medical Systems and Practices in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 - 372 pages |
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... person's ability to ward off the effects of pathogens . With this knowledge , biomedical investigators and clini- cians began to conquer devastating infections and to perfect effective surgical procedures . Thus biomedicine became the ...
... person's ability to ward off the effects of pathogens . With this knowledge , biomedical investigators and clini- cians began to conquer devastating infections and to perfect effective surgical procedures . Thus biomedicine became the ...
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... person's emotional and mental health , which is , in turn , closely interwoven with his or her physical health . It encompasses a wide range of specific treatments from combining medication with dis- cussion , to simply listening to the ...
... person's emotional and mental health , which is , in turn , closely interwoven with his or her physical health . It encompasses a wide range of specific treatments from combining medication with dis- cussion , to simply listening to the ...
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... person's ability to modulate them . During the past 80 years , health professionals in India and the West have begun to investigate the thera- peutic potential of yoga . To date , thousands of research studies have been undertaken and ...
... person's ability to modulate them . During the past 80 years , health professionals in India and the West have begun to investigate the thera- peutic potential of yoga . To date , thousands of research studies have been undertaken and ...
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... person in need , only the desire to unite and " become one " with him or her and with the Universe , God , or Cosmos ... persons were able to influence a variety of cellular and other biological systems through mental means . The target ...
... person in need , only the desire to unite and " become one " with him or her and with the Universe , God , or Cosmos ... persons were able to influence a variety of cellular and other biological systems through mental means . The target ...
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... person with a hot disease must be given cold remedies and vice versa . Again , a person who is exposed to cold when excessively hot may " take cold " and become ill . The second component , the folk illnesses , is actively in use in ...
... person with a hot disease must be given cold remedies and vice versa . Again , a person who is exposed to cold when excessively hot may " take cold " and become ill . The second component , the folk illnesses , is actively in use in ...
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Page 130 - As used in this subsection and subsection (e), the term "substantial evidence" means evidence consisting of adequate and well-controlled investigations, including clinical investigations, by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the effectiveness of the drug involved, on the basis of which it could fairly and responsibly be, concluded by such experts that the drug will have the effect it purports or is represented to have under the conditions of use prescribed, recommended,...
Page xxxvii - The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom.... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are unAmerican and despotic. They are fragments of monarchy and have no place in a Republic.
Page 226 - Nutrition intervention trials in Linxian, China: Supplementation with specific vitamin/mineral combinations, cancer incidence, and disease-specific mortality in the general population.
Page 197 - Relationship between substances in diets low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables and cancer risk. ( 1 ) Cancer is a constellation of more than 100 different diseases, each characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer has many causes and stages in its development. Both genetic and environmental risk factors may affect the risk of cancer. Risk factors include a family history of a specific type of cancer, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight and obesity,...
Page xxxv - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, DC 20012 1 Director Walter Reed Army Institute of Res.
Page 238 - Knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to obesity and dieting in Mexican Americans and Anglos. The San Antonio Heart Study.
Page 230 - Folate, methionine, and alcohol intake and risk of colorectal adenoma, J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 85 (11), 875-884, 1993.
Page 295 - Herbal medicines may contain excipients in addition to the active ingredients. Medicines containing plant material combined with chemically defined active substances, including chemically defined, isolated constituents of plants, are not considered to be herbal medicines.
Page 215 - The goals of the programs are to provide needy persons with access to a more nutritious diet, to improve the eating habits of the Nation's children, and to help America's farmers by providing an outlet for distributing foods purchased under farmer assistance authorities.
Page 33 - RJ, 1990, Marked rapid alterations in nocturnal pineal serotonin metabolism in mice and rats exposed to weak intermittent magnetic fields, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 169:102-104. Lerchl, A., Nonaka, KD, and Reiter, RJ, 1991, Pineal gland "magnetosensitivity" to static magnetic fields is a consequence of induced electric currents (eddy currents), J.