Books
The Ethnopoetics of Shamanism by
Over the last century, Western portrayals of shamanism have changed radically toward an ethnopoetics of shamanism. While shamanic practices had long been indirectly registered by Westerners, it is only since the late nineteenth century that they have taken on symbolic import within discourses of primitivism and debates over magic and rationality.
Call Number: BF1611 .S26 2014ISBN: 9781137443687Publication Date: 2014
Sacred Plant Medicine by
As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable--food, weapons, baskets, clothes, shelter, and medicine. Indigenous peoples the world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by communicating directly with plants and honoring the sacred relationship between themselves and the plant world. In Sacred Plant Medicine Stephen Harrod Buhner looks at the long-standing relationship between indigenous peoples and plants and examines the techniques and states of mind these cultures use to communicate with the plant world. He explores the sacred dimension of plant and human interactions and the territory where plants are an expression of Spirit. For each healing plant described in the book, Buhner presents medicinal uses, preparatory guidelines, and ceremonial elements such as prayers and medicine songs associated with its use.
Call Number: E98 .B7 B74 2006ISBN: 9781591430582Publication Date: 2006
Red Medicine by
Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and Mexican Indigenous peoples. For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwoman--the guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath--exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma. Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world.
Call Number: E98.R3 G66 2012ISBN: 9780816529568Publication Date: 2012
Plant Spirit Medicine by
Ancient shamanic practice compelled the magician-healer first to make contact with the spirit of the plant to ask for its help before administering the herbal cure. This practice is alive today in Mexico among the traditional Indian shaman healers-principally the elder Huichol Indian shaman and plant spirit healer Don Guadalupe Gonzales Rios. Elliot Cowan reveals these ancient practices and guides the reader in the effective use of the wild herb plants in the area in which he or she lives. The result is a wonderful psychic and spiritual approach to holistic healing.
Call Number: F1221 .H9 C69 2007ISBN: 9781893183117Publication Date: 1996
Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society by
At the turn of the 20th century, African societies witnessed the suppression of indigenous healing specialists as missionary proselytization and colonial rule increased. Governments, medical practitioners and academics focused little attention or resources on the production of "traditional" medicine, despite its potential use for advancing health care delivery to millions of people in rural communities and providing the basis for a medicinal industry. Focusing on the case of Ghana, Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Societyinvestigates the ways in which healers and indigenous archives of cultural knowledge conceptualize and interpret medicine and healing. In order to unearth these prevailing concepts, Konadu utilizes in-depth interviews, plant samples, material culture, linguistics, and other sources. This groundbreaking study of indigenous knowledge has important implications for the study of medical and knowledge systems in Africa and the African Diaspora worldwide. By closely examining a range of multidisciplinary sources and utilizing fieldwork in the Takyiman district of central Ghana, the book contributes a new dimension to the study of health and healing systems in the African context and offers scholars, students, and general readers a vital reference.
Call Number: GN645 .K65 2007ISBN: 9780415956208Publication Date: 2007
The Herbal Year by
An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plants--showing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today From sweet violets in spring to rosemary in winter, via marigolds, sage, elderberries, and hops, every season has its own bounty of herbs and plants. Christina Hart-Davies presents a delightful guide to common plants as they appear throughout the year. Drawing on writers, storytellers, and poets from across the centuries, she examines the long history of herbal remedies. She shows how plants have been used for healing and unearths the stories and beliefs that surround them--including simple recipes for use at home. Fully illustrated with exquisitely detailed watercolours, this is an inspirational guide to exploring our age-old relationship with plants. Readers will discover the hidden secrets of the plants that surround us and, through this, will be able to reconnect with our place in nature. We have relied on plants throughout our history. We still do, and, with luck, we always will.
Call Number: QK99.A1 H388 2024ISBN: 9780300265866Publication Date: 2024
Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies by
Behind the acupuncture, herbal remedies and sophisticated diagnostics of Chinese medicine lies a “congenial system of healing that embodies unification of body and mind, spirit and matter, nature and man, philosophy and reality.” In this comprehensive and ground-breaking presentation, based on long experience as physician, psychiatrist, and practitioner of Chinese medicine, Leon Hammer offers a new model for appreciating the traditional healer’s effective and profound respect for individual integrity and energetic balance. Explaining, and moving beyond, the five phase (element) system, he shows that this Eastern practice is as much a spiritual science as a physical one. Accessible to the layman, yet a resource for the professional in any healing art, this book examines the natural energy functions of the human organism as a key to mental, emotional and spiritual health. It offers new insight into disease, showing how it is not merely an invasion from the outside, but rather a byproduct of a person’s unsuccessful attempt to restore one’s own balance.
Call Number: R602 .H34 1990ISBN: 0882680625Publication Date: 1990
Tibetan Medicine by
The traditional medicine of Tibet, still popular among the local inhabitants and those of the border regions of the neighboring countries, is a conglomeration of science, art, philosophy and religion, one closely depending upon the other. It has its own concepts of composition of the universe and body, physiology, pharmacology and pathology. It has its unique way of diagnosing diseases and treating them. The physician is considered to be an epitome of physical, mental and spiritual virtues. In the present work an effort has been made to give an exposition of important aspects of this health science.
Call Number: R603 .T5 D36 1997ISBN: 9788170305194Publication Date: 1997
Studies in Tibetan Medicine by
This scholarly collection of papers on specialized topics in Tibetan medicine deals with various aspects of the medical system including comparisons with the Chinese system. It presents the Tibetan medical tree and diagrams all its parts.
Call Number: R603 .T5 F57 1988ISBN: 0937938610Publication Date: 1988
Islam and Healing by
Traces the Islamic healing tradition's interaction with Indian society and politics as these evolved in tandem from 1600 to 1900, and demonstrates how an in-house struggle for hegemony can be as potent as external power in defining medical, social and national modernity. A pioneering work on the social and medical history of Indian Islam.
Call Number: R605 .A583 2008ISBN: 9780230554382Publication Date: 2008- Ayurveda-parichaya by Introduction to Ayurveda. Includes an extensive number of excerpts from the Charaka and Sushruta samhitas.Call Number: R606 .R3334 2005Publication Date: 2005
Unani Medicine in the Making by
Unani Medicine in the Makingexamines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing practice based on the humoral theory attributed to Hippocrates and officially recognized as a system of medicine in India. Drawing on diverse materials, including Urdu sources, interviews with practitioners, and observations in clinics, the book explores what Unani medicine is today by attending to its multiplicity, scrutinizing apparent tensions between the understanding of Unani as a system of medicine and its multiple enactments as Islamic medicine, medical science, or alternative medicine. Ethnographic details provide vivid descriptions of the current practice of Unani in India, and invite readers to rethink the idea that humoral medicine is incommensurable with modern medicine and science, and that the modernization of Asian medicines invariably leads to their biomedicalization. Ultimately, the book also discusses the relationship of Unani with Muslim communities, examining the growing practice of Prophetic Medicine in Urban India and increasing representations of Unani as Islamic Medicine.
Call Number: R606 .S75 2020ISBN: 9789463724210Publication Date: 2020
Principles of integrated medicine: Stepping beyond alternative medicine by
"This book... is planned to assist a busy medical practicioner to acquire a scientific and authentic knowledge of some of the very successful and most reliable alternative systems of medicines. Not only can he get acquainted with them, but... can begin to practice these systems, along with his usual practice of modern medicine. The book deals with five alternative systems: acupuncture, ayurveda, homoeopathy, tibetan medicine, and unani medicine."
Call Number: R733 .P75 2003ISBN: 9780074637340Publication Date: 2003
Integrative healthcare: A guide to meet the needs of Africa by
Curricula in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, human nutrition and medicine have to include modules on integrative healthcare in the pre-registration programmes (degree and diploma programmes) in order to educate prospective health professionals with regard to the basic principles of integrative healing (complementary and alternative practices). Modules on alternative healing should be included in pre-registration curricula in order to educate health professionals with regard to the basic principles of traditional healing, herbalism, reflexology and aromatherapy. This is especially so because the integration of alternative allied health professions into the healthcare team is encouraged by healthcare providers. No other textbook on integrative healthcare that includes the principles of traditional healing is currently available to be used in the training of nurses, doctors and allied health professionals at universities and colleges.
Call Number: RA395 .A53 I68 2009ISBN: 9780702180477Publication Date: 2009
Polynesian Herbal Medicine by
The aim of this book is to present a picture of past and present Polynesian medicinal plants. Although several books have been published on herbal medicine in Polynesia, these are either limited in geographic scope (mostly to Hawai'i) or are unscientific in basis. Restricting the study of herbal medicine to a single Polynesian island or archipelago is a disadvantage because the early accounts of medicinal practices are so sketchy. A more comprehensive approach is rewarding because so much can be learned from the similarities among the various Polynesian cultures. A scientific approach is necessary because of the nature of the subject--medicine and plants. "To establish a comprehensive and scientific basis for this book, three types of research were conducted: (1) an extensive review of the literature on Polynesia; (2) interviews with scores of Polynesian healers in Hawai'i, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti. the Cook Islands, and Tokelau; and (3) botanical collecting work in Polynesia over a twenty-year period, involving over forty research trips to the South Pacific." --from the Preface
Call Number: RM666 .H33 W448 1992ISBN: 9780915809165Publication Date: 1993- National Formulary of Unani Medicine by The First Part of the National Formulary of Unani Medicine, consisting of 441 compound formulations was published in 1984 and the present publication is the outcome of the recommendations made in the first volume of the National formulary of Unani Medicine.Call Number: RS141.68 .I495 1983Publication Date: 1983
Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine by
Get a solid, global foundation of the therapies and evidence-based clinical applications of CAI. Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine, 6th Edition is filled with the most up-to-date information on scientific theory and research of holistic medicine from experts around the world. The 6th edition of this acclaimed text includes all new content on quantum biology and biofields in health and nursing, integrative mental health care, and homeopathic medicine. Its wide range of topics explores therapies most commonly seen in the U.S., such as energy medicine, mind-body therapies, and reflexology along with traditional medicine and practices from around the world. With detailed coverage of historic and contemporary applications, this text is a solid resource for all practitioners in the medical, health, and science fields! Coverage of CAI therapies and systems includes those most commonly encountered or growing in popularity, so you can carefully evaluate each treatment. An evidence-based approach focuses on treatments best supported by clinical trials and scientific evidence. Observations from mechanisms of action to evidence of clinical efficacy answers questions of how, why, and when CAM therapies work. A unique synthesis of information, including historical usage, cultural and social analysis, current basic science theory and research, and a wide range of clinical investigations and observations, makes this text a focused, authoritative resource. Global coverage includes discussions of traditional healing arts from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Clinical guides for selecting therapies, and new advances for matching the appropriate therapy to the individual patient, enables you to offer and/or recommend individualized patient care. Expert contributors include well-known writers such as Kevin Ergil, Patch Adams, Joseph Pizzorno, and Marc Micozzi. A unique history of CAI traces CAM therapies from their beginnings to present day practices. Suggested readings and references on the companion website list the best resources for further research and study. NEW! Added chapters offer fresh perspective on quantum biology and biofields in health and nursing, integrative mental health care, and homeopathic medicine. NEW! Updated chapters feature new content and topics, including: challenges in integrative medicine, legal issues, CAI in the community, psychometric evaluation, placebo effect, stress management, and much more! NEW! Updated guides on common herbal remedies in clinical practice, East and Southeast Asia, and native North and South America deliver the latest information. NEW! Basic science content and new theory and research studies cover a wide range of sciences such as biophysics, biology and ecology, ethnomedicine, psychometrics, neurosciences, and systems theory. NEW! Expanded global ethnomedical systems includes new content on Shamanism and Neo-Shamanism, Central and North Asia, Southeast Asia, Nepal and Tibet, Hawaii and South Pacific, Alaska and Pacific Northwest, and contemporary global healthcare.
Call Number: TCR87ISBN: 9780323510813Publication Date: 2018- The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna by The Canon of Medicine is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Muslim Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna and completed in 1025.Call Number: WZ 54 A9 1984 TPublication Date: 1984
Southern Folk Medicine by
The author "inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike ... [and] shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients."
ISBN: 1643362917Publication Date: 2010
Hot and Cold Theory: The Path Towards Personalized Medicine by
This book is about the theory of Hot and Cold, a mutual fundamental base of traditional medicines all around the world. The theory describes the dynamic balance state of the body on the axis of hot and cold for each individual and proposes the fact that deviation from this equilibrium is a predisposing factor for diseases. Such an approach helps practitioners to provide treatments tailored to the patients condition, not the disease. This book, for the first time, has gathered native descriptions of Hot and Cold theory in different traditional medicines, including traditional Chinese medicine, Persian (Humoral, Unani) medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and Latin American and Caribbean medicines. After defining the common ground, contemporary research - in nutrition, pharmacology, physiology and systems biology - has been explored using scientific methodology. This work is the result of an international collaboration of more than 30 scientists and scholars with high reputations in their fields. Hot and Cold theory, as a holistic individualized approach in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, can be merged into the novel fast-paced concepts in systems biology and precision medicine. Through this bridge, the authors propose that the Hot and Cold theory should be revisited more deeply by medical scientists, who are the main audience of this book, to pave the way towards integrated holistic personalized medicine.
ISBN: 9783030809836Publication Date: 2021
The Ayurveda Encyclopedia by
The theories and practices of Ayurvedic medicine--including the therapeutic benefits of aromas, foods, herbs, meditation, yoga, and more--are featured in this comprehensive handbook. With a section dedicated to health disorders, this guide clarifies the simplicity of healing naturally and offers counsel towards an improved sense of well-being, reduced stress, and mental peace. Photographs of more than 80 herbs and yoga postures round out this home reference and teaching tool.
ISBN: 0965804283Publication Date: 2007
Translational Ayurveda by
Translational Ayurveda is the implementation of translational medicine ideas taking into account Ayuraveda’s unique health care principles and their application in patient care. This book addresses various domains of Ayurveda, discussing its fundamentals and clinical practice in terms of the various modalities available, and offering deep insights into what is actually described in the classical Ayurveda texts. It also explores the public health impacts of such classical thoughts from a completely new angle. In Ayurveda, there are huge gaps between knowledge and its practical application. The book identifies these gaps to provide a new perspective on Ayurvedic wisdom in light of contemporary scientific advances.
ISBN: 9811320624Publication Date: 2019
Placebos by
How the underlying biology of the "placebo effect" works and how could this change the way we think about modern and future medicine.
ISBN: 9780262371025Publication Date: 2022
Journals
- African Journal of Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicines
- The African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines (AJTCAM) is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, international, scientific Open Access Journal that provides publication of articles on phytomedicines, ethnomedicines and veterinary ethnomedicines. The journal is published by a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) known as “African Traditional Herbal Medicine Supporters Initiative (ATHMSI)”.
- Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine
- The Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine (AJP) is an international journal devoted to publish original research papers in the field of “Phytomedicine” involving both basic and clinical research. The term "Phytomedicine" is used in its broadest sense in medicinal plants including basic (Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology), clinical applications of herbs and natural products (case reports to full clinical trials), and effects of common food ingredients and standardized plant extracts.
- BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
- BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles on interventions and resources that complement or replace conventional therapies, with a specific emphasis on research that explores the biological mechanisms of action, as well as their efficacy, safety, costs, patterns of use and/or implementation.
- Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines
- The Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines (CJNM), founded and sponsored in May 2003 by China Pharmaceutical University and the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, is devoted to communication among pharmaceutical and medical scientists interested in the advancement of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM).
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
- Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice is an internationally refereed journal published to meet the broad ranging needs of the healthcare profession in the effective and professional integration of complementary therapies within clinical practice.
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering complementary and alternative medicine.
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal covering complementary and alternative medicine published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
- Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
- As a trans-disciplinary platform for integrative health sciences, J-AIM aims to explore the relationships between Ayurveda, traditional medicine, biomedicine and other contemporary health sciences, encouraging meaningful collaboration to promote effective, safe and affordable global health.
- Journal of Ethnopharmacology
- The Journal of Ethnopharmacology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering the traditional medicinal use of plants and other substances. It is the official journal of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology.
- Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
- The Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine (JEBIM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on hypothesis-driven and evidence-based research in all fields of integrative medicine.
- Previously the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
- Journal of Herbal Medicine
- The Journal of Herbal Medicine is a peer reviewed journal which aims to serve its readers as an authoritative resource on the profession and practice of herbal medicine. The content areas of the journal reflect the interests of Medical Herbalists and other health professionals interested in the clinical and professional application of botanical medicines.
- Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
- The leading peer-reviewed journal providing scientific research for the evaluation and integration of complementary medicine into mainstream medical practice, published by Mary Ann Liebert.
- Journal of Integrative Medicine
- JIM is an interdisciplinary journal sponsored by Shanghai Association of Integrative Medicine and Shanghai Changhai Hospital, China, focusing on academic research and clinical studies in the field of integrative medicine. It aims to be a leading journal for studies in integrative medicine, and to promote communication and integration among traditional medicinal systems, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and conventional western medicine.
- Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine
- eJTCM is committed to publish research providing the biological and clinical grounds for using Traditional and Complementary Medical treatments as well as studies that demonstrate the pathophysiological and molecular/biochemical bases supporting the effectiveness of such treatments.
- Planta Medica
- Planta Medica is a peer-reviewed journal published by Thieme Medical Publishers and covers medicinal plants and bioactive natural products of natural origin.