Holistic Healthcare: Possibilities and Challenges Volume 2

by George (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $134.36

  This new volume of Holistic Healthcare: Possibilities and Challenges is a compilation of contributions from scientists, healthcare experts, and doctors working actively to bring about wholesome healing to individuals, looking at cutting-edge holistic therapies. Holistic medicine aims to bring about optimal health by perceiving an individual as a composite of the physical, mental, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects. This branch of medicine involves detailed examination, diagnosis, and treatment of all these elements. Holistic medicine's combinationatorial strategy also help in alleviating the high levels of side effects and allergies brought about by the conventional medication regimes.

  The volume includes chapters that deal with improving the general health of people from various walks of life, to treating some very challenging diseases. Various schools of treatments, exercise regimes, and meditations are discussed. Specific topics include the use of alternative therapy for human health and healing, including yoga, meditation, acupuncture, prayer, herbs, Ayurvedic treatment, and homoeopathy.