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Papers On Alternative Medicine & Holistic Approaches
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Empirical Evaluation
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5 pages in length. The capacity to heal involves the interwoven aspects of body, mind and spirit; to remove any part of this equation is to significantly impair the potential for complete restoration of health. By the same token, those who surround the patient in a care-giving role (nurses, family, friends) play an integral part in this holistic approach and must be taken into consideration when measuring levels of distress and risk factors involved with maintaining that holistic outlook. Understanding the distress level and risk factors of patients, family and caregivers serves as a barometer of how successfully patients are able to tap into all three components of holistic healing: mind, body and spirit. This study sought to determine to what extent distress levels and risk factors were exacerbated or mitigated in each of the groups (patient, family, caregiver) with weekly sessions of psychological therapy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCempireval.rtf
Environmental Pollution/Herbal Medicine
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A 3 page research paper that examines herbal and natural food products that can offset the effects of environmental pollution and radiation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: kherbm.rtf
Ephedra and Heat Stroke: A Research Proposal
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This 16 page paper provides an overview of a research proposal on the use of ephedra and the issue of heat stroke. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MHEphedr.rtf
Establishing an Outpatient Pain Management Clinic
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A 15 page paper discussing the establishment of a freestanding pain management clinic attached to a nursing home but also available for adult day care. The paper discusses pain management philosophies; alternative methods of managing pain; past problems of abuse of pain-killing drugs in the elderly; and the business issues of establishing and maintaining the clinic. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
Filename: KSbizPainClin.rtf
Ethnobotany in Belize
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In ten pages this paper considers the study of ethnobotany as it pertains to Belize in an overview of the country, important ethnobotanist pioneers including Dr. Rosita Arvigo and Dr. Michael J. Balick, the influence of Mayan healer Don Elijio Panti; describes various medicinal uses of such plants as amor seco, mutamba, epazote, gervao, and simarouba; and also discusses the ethnobotanical contributions of the Ix Chel Farm, the Terra Nova Reserve, the Belize Association of Traditional Healers, and the Belize Ethnobotany Project. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGethnobel.rtf
Garlic
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An 8 page paper which examines the history and uses of garlic. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAgarlic.rtf
Harvesting the Dead
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A 2 page review of Willard Gaylin's article entitled "Harvesting the Dead" in which the author discusses possibilities concerning the use of living parts in newly/near-dead people to medically assist others. No Bibliography.
Filename: Deadarti.wps
Health Care Infrastructure Questions
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A 7 page paper answering 4 questions about the current health care infrastructure; how managed care came to increase costs rather than reduce them; what alternative measures might be used to effect change; and what obstacles such measures might encounter. Answers to these questions focus on the medical community’s long-standing rejection of any alternative measures in which pharmaceutical companies cannot hope to control (such as using St. John’s wort for mild depression rather than an ethical drug that is still profitable for its pharmaceutical manufacturer). It also discusses the use of chelation therapy. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KShlthCareInfraQue.rtf
Health-Promotion Behaviors that Promote Self-Healing
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A 3 page review of the 2004 article by author Michael O’Donnell. O’Donnell summarizes what is known about the value of self-healing behavior and emphasizes that additional research is needed in regard to its impact on acute and chronic disease. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPmedSelfHealing.rtf
Hemp -- Industrial and Health Applications and Advantages
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This 5 page report discusses hemp (Cannabis sativa, C. indica), part of the same plant family as marijuana. Hemp does not have the narcotic kick that marijuana does. Its value lies in its fibers. Hemp fibers are twice as long and stronger than cotton fibers and
are generally more versatile than the soybean, cotton plant and Douglas fir tree combined together. In addition, there are beneficial and healthy nutritional properties of hemp seed and hemp seed oil. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWhemp.wps
Hepatitis B and Whole Foods vs. Vitamin Supplements
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the use of whole foods in support of liver regeneration for patients with Hepatitis B. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: MHHepBVi.rtf