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100 _aRakel, D (ed)
245 0 _aIntegrative medicine
250 _a4th
260 _aAmsterdam
_bElsevier
_c2017
520 _aThis book is written by experts in both traditional and integrative medicine. It will help incorporate complementary and alternative therapies into everyday practice. It is divided into three parts, the first looks at integrative medicine, the philosophy, creating healing environments, encounters and the whole health process. The second part takes an integrative approach to disease, looking at health conditions by body system. Part three covers tools for practice including: nutrition - elimination diets, anti inflammatory diet and others; exercise - writing exercise prescriptions, breathing, low back pain exercises; mind-body - relaxtion, self hypnosis, guided imagery, journalling, forgiveness, meditation, motivational interviewing; biochemical - prescribing botanicals, detox, chelation; biomechanical - acupuncture, prolotherapy, nasal irrigation; bioenergetics - integrating spiritual assessment and care, homeopathy, biofied therapies.
690 _aComplementary Medicine
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