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Abstract
Learn to treat pain naturally using evidence-based therapies with Micozzi’s Common Pain Conditions: A Clinical Guide to Natural Treatments. This groundbreaking title provides in-depth information on current natural pain therapies that utilize the latest 21st scientific ideas, including the role of energy in medicine. Each chapter provides content on the biology and neuroscience, as well as social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of each natural treatment approach along with clinical data and pragmatic information about healing pain using these treatments. Whether your patients are suffering from anxiety, arthritis, back pain, chronic fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel, migraine and tension headaches, phantom pain, post-traumatic stress, ulcers, or just general chronic pain and inflammatory conditions, this book offers the insights and evidence-based guidance you need to successfully treat pain naturally.
- Coverage of safe and effective natural treatments for common pain conditions provides a wide variety of options for treating the conditions that practitioners most encounter in practice.
- Evidence-based approach focuses on natural treatments best supported by clinical trials and scientific evidence.
- Experienced medical educator and author Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD, lends extensive experience researching natural therapies.
- Case studies illustrate specific points and provide clinical applications for added context.
- Sidebars and in-text boxes feature supplementary, brief background and observations in addition to covering specific topics in detail, and to help introduce complex and challenging topics.
- Psychometric Evaluation interactive appendix aids in matching each patient to the right, individualized specific remedies.
- Suggested readings and references for each chapter provide great resources for further research.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Cover | ||
| Common Pain Conditions: A Clinical Guide to Natural Treatment | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Foreword | v | ||
| References | x | ||
| About the Authors | xiii | ||
| Reviewers | xv | ||
| Preface | xvii | ||
| Contents | xix | ||
| Section I: Fundamentals and Basic Sciences | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: The Problem of Pain and Pain Management: Why Natural Alternatives Are Needed | 2 | ||
| The problem of pain and the problems of pain treatments | 2 | ||
| New models and misses | 3 | ||
| Bringing psychometric assessments to natural medicine and pain treatment | 3 | ||
| Choices in healing pain | 4 | ||
| Consciousness of pain and suffering | 4 | ||
| Better ideas | 5 | ||
| References | 5 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 5 | ||
| Chapter 2: Bioenergetic Foundations of Pain and Inflammation | 6 | ||
| Brief overview of energy medicine | 7 | ||
| Healing energy | 7 | ||
| “The Force” That May Be With You | 9 | ||
| Brief timeline of energy | 9 | ||
| How Was Energy Formed? | 9 | ||
| Energy in the Universe | 9 | ||
| Energy in Everyday Experience | 10 | ||
| Bioenergy | 10 | ||
| Earth, heart, and brain: electromagnetic fields | 11 | ||
| McCraty, Heart-Brain Dynamics Study | 14 | ||
| Meditation From the “Heart” | 14 | ||
| Veritable energy therapies | 15 | ||
| Electromagnetic Therapy | 15 | ||
| Electromagnetic Field Therapy and Inflammation | 16 | ||
| Magnetic Therapy | 17 | ||
| Sound Energy Therapy | 18 | ||
| Plants and Sound | 18 | ||
| The Energy of Thought | 19 | ||
| Catch Your Thoughts | 19 | ||
| References | 20 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 22 | ||
| Chapter 3: Geophysical and Biophysical Energy in Pain and Inflammation | 23 | ||
| The sun, solar radiation, and visible light | 23 | ||
| Light Therapy for the Most Common Cause of Pain | 24 | ||
| Shedding Light on Painful Peptic Ulcers | 25 | ||
| Sinking Your Teeth Into Light Therapy | 25 | ||
| Full Spectrum of Benefits: Migraine Headache and Premenstrual Syndrome | 26 | ||
| Infrared light for stroke and epilepsy | 26 | ||
| Microcurrent stimulation | 27 | ||
| Electrical Cells | 27 | ||
| The earth and earthing | 28 | ||
| 19th–20th Century | 29 | ||
| Free electrons: what are free electrons, and how are they absorbed? | 29 | ||
| Conductors, semiconductors, and insulators | 30 | ||
| Microcosm and macrocosm | 30 | ||
| When lightning strikes | 31 | ||
| Cellular reactions | 31 | ||
| Transdifferentiation in Cells | 32 | ||
| Pain and inflammation | 33 | ||
| Wound healing, repair, and recovery | 34 | ||
| Bone and muscle pain, arthritis, and autoimmune conditions | 34 | ||
| Brain and nervous system | 35 | ||
| Earth and body meridians or channels | 35 | ||
| Meridian Point Therapies | 35 | ||
| Acupressure | 35 | ||
| Acupoints and the Brain | 36 | ||
| Energy psychology | 36 | ||
| Energy Blockages and Pain | 36 | ||
| Emotional Freedom Techniques | 37 | ||
| Studies of Energy Psychology | 38 | ||
| Thought Field Therapy | 38 | ||
| Thoughts as energy | 38 | ||
| Applying Thought Field Therapy | 40 | ||
| Healing with the hands, “qigong,” and t’ai chi | 40 | ||
| Qigong Energy and Cells | 41 | ||
| References | 41 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 43 | ||
| Chapter 4: Brain Biology and Neuroscience | 44 | ||
| Biopsychosocial approach to pain | 45 | ||
| Learning pain | 46 | ||
| Congenital analgesia | 47 | ||
| Dark energy and the brain | 47 | ||
| Pain perception | 48 | ||
| Thinking on Pain | 49 | ||
| Amygdala and the fear and anxiety response | 50 | ||
| Bringing Pain to Conscious Awareness | 50 | ||
| Pain pathways | 52 | ||
| Pain and the heart: rhythm and pulse | 52 | ||
| The brain on water | 53 | ||
| Mindfulness mediation and neuroplasticity | 55 | ||
| References | 56 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 58 | ||
| Section II: Mind-Body Medicine | 59 | ||
| Chapter 5: Mind, Meditation, and Mindfulness | 60 | ||
| Anatomy of pain | 61 | ||
| Adapting with pain | 61 | ||
| Adapting to pain | 62 | ||
| The full catastrophe | 62 | ||
| Approaches to treatment | 62 | ||
| Dimensions of pain management | 63 | ||
| Placebo and Nocebo Effects | 64 | ||
| Molecules of Pain | 64 | ||
| Behavioral and Cognitive Counseling Therapies | 65 | ||
| Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and the Brain | 65 | ||
| Mindfulness meditation | 66 | ||
| Origins of Meditation | 66 | ||
| Meditation for Health | 67 | ||
| Asian techniques and transcendental meditation | 67 | ||
| Practicing Transcendental Meditation | 68 | ||
| Health Benefits | 68 | ||
| Western techniques and mindfulness meditation | 68 | ||
| Health benefits | 70 | ||
| Mindfulness Therapy for Pain | 70 | ||
| Mindful Mental Processing of Pain | 71 | ||
| Open and Shut Experiences of Mindfulness | 72 | ||
| What Mindfulness Practice Brings to Pain Treatment | 73 | ||
| What Mindfulness Practitioners Bring to Pain Treatment | 74 | ||
| Dose and schedule | 74 | ||
| Managing Pain and Recovery | 75 | ||
| References | 75 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 77 | ||
| Chapter 6: Stress Management, Relaxation, and Biofeedback Therapies | 78 | ||
| The problem of stress | 78 | ||
| What constitutes stress | 80 | ||
| Measuring Stress | 81 | ||
| Change and controlling stress | 81 | ||
| Subjectivity, personality, and psychometric types | 82 | ||
| Your brain on stress | 83 | ||
| Mirroring Reality | 83 | ||
| Effects of Distress and Treating Pain | 84 | ||
| Stress Management and Relaxation | 85 | ||
| Relaxation Response | 85 | ||
| Treating Pain, Inflammation, and Related Conditions | 88 | ||
| Exercise for Stress Reduction | 88 | ||
| Biofeedback therapies | 89 | ||
| The Patient is in Control | 90 | ||
| How Biofeedback Works for Pain | 90 | ||
| Relaxation therapies | 93 | ||
| Doing” Relaxation | 93 | ||
| Blood Flow and Pain Responses | 94 | ||
| Coping with Mood in Pain Conditions | 95 | ||
| Specific Chronic Pain Conditions | 95 | ||
| Headache | 95 | ||
| Posttraumatic Headache and Headache Due to High Levels of Drug Consumption | 96 | ||
| Musculoskeletal Pain | 96 | ||
| Fibromyalgia-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | 97 | ||
| Temporomandibular Joint Disorders and Neck Pain | 97 | ||
| Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis | 97 | ||
| Anxiety and depression with pain conditions | 98 | ||
| Pain and Sleep Disorders | 99 | ||
| Pain treatment: general and specific | 100 | ||
| Practitioners and practice settings | 101 | ||
| References | 101 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 102 | ||
| Chapter 7: Mental Imagery, Visualization, and Hypnosis | 103 | ||
| Imagery processing | 104 | ||
| Brain, perception, and imagery | 104 | ||
| Imagery Neurons in the Brain | 104 | ||
| Creating Images and the Subconscious | 105 | ||
| Sleep Deprivation and the Brain | 106 | ||
| Communicative Quality of Imagery | 106 | ||
| Imagery as Therapy | 107 | ||
| Language for Healing Pain | 108 | ||
| Treatment Techniques and Settings | 109 | ||
| Healing Images | 110 | ||
| Chronic Pain and Related Conditions | 110 | ||
| Dose Response | 112 | ||
| Interactive Imagery Technique: the healer within | 112 | ||
| Evocative Imagery | 113 | ||
| Interactive Guided Imagery | 114 | ||
| Treatment of Chronic Pain and Related Conditions | 115 | ||
| Finding Practitioners | 116 | ||
| Hypnosis | 117 | ||
| How Hypnosis Works | 118 | ||
| Power of Suggestion for Pain | 120 | ||
| Physiology of Hypnosis | 122 | ||
| Hypnotic Susceptibility | 123 | ||
| The Hypnotic State | 124 | ||
| Practicing Hypnosis | 124 | ||
| Pain and related conditions | 125 | ||
| Anxiety and Phobias | 125 | ||
| Headache and Pain Management | 126 | ||
| Operative Pain and Surgery | 126 | ||
| Labor and Childbirth | 127 | ||
| Dental Pain and Procedures | 127 | ||
| Finding a Practitioner | 128 | ||
| References | 128 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 129 | ||
| Chapter 8: Mental and Spiritual Healing, and Spiritually Based Rapid Healing | 130 | ||
| Mental healing | 130 | ||
| Implications of Nonlocality | 130 | ||
| Spirituality and healing | 132 | ||
| Power of Prayer | 134 | ||
| Distant healing | 136 | ||
| Spiritually Based Rapid Healing | 138 | ||
| A School of Sufism | 139 | ||
| No One Knows | 139 | ||
| Early Research | 139 | ||
| Others-Healing” Phenomenon | 140 | ||
| Suggestibility | 140 | ||
| Laboratory Studies | 142 | ||
| Field Investigations | 142 | ||
| Biomedical Perspectives | 143 | ||
| Experience of Rapid Wound Healing | 145 | ||
| Biophysical Perspectives | 146 | ||
| Current Research | 148 | ||
| Clinical Applications of Sufi Spiritual Healing Without DCBD | 148 | ||
| References | 148 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 150 | ||
| Section III: Energy Healing, Hand-Mediated, and Biophysical Approaches | 151 | ||
| Chapter 9: Energy Medicine and Therapeutic Touch | 152 | ||
| Subtlety of vital energy | 153 | ||
| Inverse Square Law Versus Quantum Enigma and Entanglement | 154 | ||
| Mechanism of Action | 159 | ||
| Responses to pain | 162 | ||
| Standards of research and practice | 162 | ||
| Mind-body therapies | 163 | ||
| Energy, Expectation, Intention, and Placebo | 164 | ||
| Biofields | 165 | ||
| Energy therapies | 166 | ||
| Energetic Treatments of Chronic Pain Syndromes | 169 | ||
| Myofascial Pain | 169 | ||
| Fibromyalgia | 170 | ||
| Complex Regional Pain Syndrome | 171 | ||
| Phantom Limb Pain | 173 | ||
| Therapeutic Touch for Acute and Chronic Pain | 174 | ||
| Burns and Thermal Injuries | 174 | ||
| Headache | 174 | ||
| Peripheral Neuropathy | 175 | ||
| Postoperative Pain | 175 | ||
| Old Controversies | 176 | ||
| References | 177 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 180 | ||
| Chapter 10: Electromagnetic Therapies: Electricity and Magnetism | 181 | ||
| Attractions of the word and world of magnets | 182 | ||
| Medieval Magnetism | 182 | ||
| Exploration and Enlightenment Ideas | 183 | ||
| Benjamin Franklin (Again) | 183 | ||
| Revolutionary Developments | 183 | ||
| Amping Up Research | 186 | ||
| Magnetic Healing in the Early United States | 186 | ||
| Twentieth-Century Research Worldwide | 187 | ||
| Modern medical magnetism | 188 | ||
| Magnetism Terminology and Principles | 189 | ||
| The Chemistry of Magnetism | 189 | ||
| Field Penetration | 189 | ||
| Penetration of Tissues | 191 | ||
| Biological and Cellular Effects | 192 | ||
| Clinical Observations and Effects | 192 | ||
| Magnetic therapy as energy medicine for pain | 194 | ||
| Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields | 196 | ||
| Bone, Joint and Musculoskeletal Pains | 197 | ||
| Neuropathy and Nerve Injury | 197 | ||
| Selecting a PEMF Device | 197 | ||
| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation | 198 | ||
| Safety | 200 | ||
| Research Directions | 200 | ||
| Electrical and Magnetic Devices Used Conventionally in Biomedicine | 202 | ||
| Conventional Biomedical Devices for Alternative Applications | 203 | ||
| Conventional Devices for Treatment in Both Conventional and Alternative Medicine | 204 | ||
| Superconducting Quantum Interference Device | 204 | ||
| Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Unit | 204 | ||
| Electro-Acuscope | 204 | ||
| Diapulse | 204 | ||
| Unconventional Devices Used in Alternative Medicine | 205 | ||
| Electroacupuncture Devices | 205 | ||
| Dermatron | 205 | ||
| Vega | 205 | ||
| Mora | 205 | ||
| Other Devices | 205 | ||
| Devices Using Light and Sound Energy | 205 | ||
| Cymatic Instruments | 205 | ||
| Sound Probe | 206 | ||
| Light Beam Generator | 206 | ||
| Infratonic Qui Gong Machine | 206 | ||
| Teslar Watch | 206 | ||
| Kirlian Camera | 206 | ||
| References | 206 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 212 | ||
| Chapter 11: Electromagnetic Therapies: Light and Phototherapies | 213 | ||
| Bioenergetics and electromagnetic therapies | 213 | ||
| Western schools of bioenergy | 214 | ||
| Individual Practitioners | 215 | ||
| Empirical assumptions of bioenergetics | 215 | ||
| Electromagnetic radiation: light | 216 | ||
| Identity of Light | 216 | ||
| Measuring Light and its Energy | 216 | ||
| Healing Light | 217 | ||
| Human Photosynthesis: Light and Vitamin D | 217 | ||
| There Goes the Sun | 219 | ||
| Global Dimensions of Deficiency | 220 | ||
| Effects of Light on Tissues | 221 | ||
| Tissue Optical Properties and Pain | 221 | ||
| Biostimulation | 222 | ||
| Tissue Penetration, Pain, and Thresholds | 222 | ||
| Effects on Cellular Functions | 223 | ||
| Animal Models | 224 | ||
| Human Trials | 224 | ||
| Arthritis pain | 225 | ||
| Carpal tunnel syndrome | 225 | ||
| Nerve pain | 226 | ||
| Low back pain | 226 | ||
| Lower limb pain | 227 | ||
| Migraine headache | 227 | ||
| Cerebral Circulation, Auditory and Vestibular Function | 227 | ||
| Neck pain | 228 | ||
| Neuralgia and pain syndromes | 228 | ||
| Sports injuries | 229 | ||
| Safety | 229 | ||
| References | 230 | ||
| Chapter 12: Spinal Manual Therapy and Chiropractic | 233 | ||
| Origins from magnetic healing | 234 | ||
| Putting Down of Hands | 236 | ||
| Breakthroughs for treating pain | 238 | ||
| Theoretical principles | 239 | ||
| Bone-Out-of-Place Theory | 240 | ||
| Segmental Dysfunction | 240 | ||
| Neural Segmental Facilitation and Chronic Inflammation | 243 | ||
| Evaluation and adjustment | 243 | ||
| Proposed Algorithms | 244 | ||
| Approaches to Pain | 245 | ||
| Neurology and Biomechanics | 245 | ||
| Research studies | 246 | ||
| Research Methodology | 246 | ||
| Appropriate Placebo Control | 246 | ||
| Active Pain Controls | 247 | ||
| University of Colorado Project | 248 | ||
| Low Back Pain | 249 | ||
| Research on Criteria for Referral | 249 | ||
| Preventing Acute From Becoming Chronic Pain | 252 | ||
| Low Back Pain With Leg Pain | 253 | ||
| Chronic Pain Management | 254 | ||
| Cost Effectiveness for Low Back Pain | 255 | ||
| Neck Pain | 256 | ||
| World Health Organization Bone and Joint Decade | 256 | ||
| Headache | 258 | ||
| Arm and Leg Pains | 258 | ||
| Shoulder | 259 | ||
| Hip | 260 | ||
| Knee | 260 | ||
| Ankle | 260 | ||
| Somatovisceral Disorders | 261 | ||
| Infantile Colic | 261 | ||
| Otitis Media | 262 | ||
| Menstrual Pain | 262 | ||
| Safety | 262 | ||
| Stroke | 262 | ||
| References | 264 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 269 | ||
| Chapter 13: Massage, Manual Therapies, and Bodywork | 270 | ||
| The matrix of the body | 271 | ||
| Classical massage | 273 | ||
| Essential Theory in Practice | 276 | ||
| Five Basic Techniques | 277 | ||
| Clinical Applications | 280 | ||
| Massaging Channels: Energy Anatomy and Physiology of Pain | 280 | ||
| Manual acupressure and jin shin do | 283 | ||
| Ayurvedic manipulation | 284 | ||
| Craniosacral therapy | 286 | ||
| Manual energy work | 287 | ||
| Hydrotherapy and thermal therapy | 288 | ||
| Lymphatic drainage techniques | 290 | ||
| Muscle energy technique | 292 | ||
| Myofascial release | 292 | ||
| Myofascial–Soft-Tissue Technique | 293 | ||
| Neural mobilization and manipulation | 293 | ||
| Neuromuscular therapy techniques | 294 | ||
| Orthopedic massage | 297 | ||
| Reflexology | 298 | ||
| Sports massage | 299 | ||
| Strain-counterstrain or positional release technique | 300 | ||
| Resort-Spa therapies | 301 | ||
| Visceral manipulation | 301 | ||
| Osseous techniques | 302 | ||
| Articulatory Technique | 302 | ||
| Cranial Osteopathy | 302 | ||
| High-Velocity, Low-Amplitude Technique | 303 | ||
| Special populations | 303 | ||
| Prenatal and Infant | 303 | ||
| Aging | 304 | ||
| Oncology | 305 | ||
| Hospice | 305 | ||
| Massage practice settings and availability | 306 | ||
| Bodywork | 307 | ||
| Feldenkrais Method | 307 | ||
| Awareness Through Movement and Functional Integration | 307 | ||
| Rolfing | 307 | ||
| Structural Integration Methods | 307 | ||
| Trager Approach | 309 | ||
| Psychophysical Integration and Mentastics | 309 | ||
| References | 311 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 313 | ||
| Section IV: Asian Medical Systems | 315 | ||
| Chapter 14: Foundations of Chinese and East Asian Medicine | 316 | ||
| Origins | 316 | ||
| Consistency in diversity | 316 | ||
| Birth of Chinese Medicine | 317 | ||
| Fu Xi, the Ox Tamer (伏羲, c.3000 BCE), Origins of Medicine | 318 | ||
| Shen Nong, the Divine Husbandman (神農, c.2750 BCE), Origins of Chinese Herbal Medicine | 318 | ||
| Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor (黄帝, c.2650 BCE) Origins of Acupuncture and Qi Manipulation | 318 | ||
| Preservation and Transmission | 319 | ||
| Vital Energy | 320 | ||
| The Middle Kingdom and the Body Politic | 320 | ||
| Flood of Knowledge | 321 | ||
| History of chinese medical practice | 322 | ||
| Development of Chinese Medical Theory and Practice | 322 | ||
| Systematic Chinese Medicine | 323 | ||
| Ming and Qing Dynasties | 324 | ||
| Chinese Medicine in the 20th Century and Today | 325 | ||
| Concepts of chinese medicine | 326 | ||
| The Five Elements or Phases: Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire | 328 | ||
| The Five-Phase Theory: Constituents, Organs, and Powers | 328 | ||
| Balancing Vital Energy | 330 | ||
| Qi, Essence, and Spirit | 331 | ||
| Body of chinese medicine | 331 | ||
| Anatomy and Physiology | 331 | ||
| Pathology | 333 | ||
| Diagnosis | 334 | ||
| Treatments | 337 | ||
| Choices in chinese medicine | 338 | ||
| The logic of inconsistency | 339 | ||
| Suggested readings | 340 | ||
| Chapter 15: Acupuncture and Moxibustion | 341 | ||
| Sticking to it | 341 | ||
| Moxibustion (jiu fa) | 343 | ||
| Auricular acupuncture | 346 | ||
| Auricular Master Points | 347 | ||
| Musculoskeletal Auricular Points | 348 | ||
| Visceral Disorders | 349 | ||
| Research on acupuncture for pain | 350 | ||
| Research Evidence on Pain Control | 354 | ||
| Acupuncture and Chronic Pain Conditions | 355 | ||
| Low Back Pain | 355 | ||
| Arthritis | 356 | ||
| Headache | 356 | ||
| Mechanism of Actions of Acupuncture in Pain | 356 | ||
| Biomechanical Models | 357 | ||
| Bioelectrical Models | 358 | ||
| Role of Channels and Points | 358 | ||
| Electrical Potential | 359 | ||
| Trigger Points and Pain | 360 | ||
| Splinter Effect Theory | 362 | ||
| Local and Central Nervous System Responses | 362 | ||
| Endogenous Opiates or Endorphins | 363 | ||
| Stimulation of Brain Centers | 364 | ||
| Evaluating Acupuncture Research | 365 | ||
| Outlook for safe and effective treatments | 366 | ||
| References | 366 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 368 | ||
| Chapter 16: East Asian Manual and Movement Therapies Part One: Acupressure, Jin Shin Do, Qigong, Reflexology, T’ai Chi, an ... | 369 | ||
| Tui na: manual point stimulation (chinese massage) | 369 | ||
| Acupressure and jin shin do | 370 | ||
| Reflexology | 371 | ||
| Feedback Control | 372 | ||
| Qigong and t’ai chi (qi cultivation) | 374 | ||
| How Qigong Works | 374 | ||
| Understanding Qigong | 375 | ||
| Forms of Qigong | 375 | ||
| Qigong Practice | 376 | ||
| Qigong Observed | 377 | ||
| Daoist Dialectic | 378 | ||
| Change, Contradiction, and Holism | 380 | ||
| The I Ching: A System for Comprehending Change | 381 | ||
| Back in the Middle | 384 | ||
| Now, Take a Breath | 385 | ||
| Qigong in the 21st Century | 386 | ||
| Qigong as a Bioenergy Modality | 388 | ||
| References | 390 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 390 | ||
| Chapter 17: East Asian Manual and Movement Therapies Part Two: Reiki and Shiatsu | 391 | ||
| Reiki | 391 | ||
| Retrospective Shinto Roots | 391 | ||
| Healing What Is Needed | 393 | ||
| Intentionality in Healing | 394 | ||
| Treatment Styles | 395 | ||
| Three Degrees of Reiki | 395 | ||
| Research | 397 | ||
| Shiatsu | 397 | ||
| Everything Is Energy | 398 | ||
| Acupuncture without Needles? | 400 | ||
| Principles | 400 | ||
| Scope of Practice | 401 | ||
| The Art of Diagnosis | 402 | ||
| Learning Shiatsu | 404 | ||
| Relaxed and Revitalized | 405 | ||
| Five Element Shiatsu | 406 | ||
| Japanese Shiatsu | 406 | ||
| Macrobiotic Shiatsu | 406 | ||
| Shiatsu Anma Therapy | 407 | ||
| Zen Shiatsu | 407 | ||
| Research | 407 | ||
| Finding a Practitioner | 408 | ||
| Reference | 409 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 409 | ||
| Chapter 18: Ayurveda and Traditional Treatments of India | 410 | ||
| Ayurveda: The science of life | 410 | ||
| Five elements | 411 | ||
| Three Doshas | 412 | ||
| Seven Dhatus | 414 | ||
| The Three Malas | 414 | ||
| Importance of Diet and Digestion | 414 | ||
| Three Agnis | 414 | ||
| Ama | 415 | ||
| Thirteen Kinds of Srotas | 415 | ||
| Body constitution | 415 | ||
| Prakriti | 416 | ||
| Mental States | 417 | ||
| Naming disease | 417 | ||
| Diagnosis and treatment | 418 | ||
| Feeling the Pulse: Snake, Frog, and Bird | 419 | ||
| Urine Examination | 419 | ||
| Examining the Body | 419 | ||
| Fivefold Steps | 420 | ||
| Continuous Healing | 421 | ||
| Purification: Five Actions | 421 | ||
| Herbal Remedies | 421 | ||
| Compounding | 423 | ||
| Siddha Medicine of South India | 425 | ||
| Southern Sources | 425 | ||
| Middle Eastern Connections | 426 | ||
| Buddhist Connections | 426 | ||
| Spiritual Sources | 427 | ||
| Shiva and Shakti | 427 | ||
| Diagnosis: Eight Features | 429 | ||
| Treatment | 431 | ||
| General Medicine | 431 | ||
| Toxicology | 432 | ||
| Ophthalmology | 432 | ||
| Rejuvenation Therapy (Healthy Aging) | 432 | ||
| Pharmacopoeia | 433 | ||
| Plant Products | 436 | ||
| Animal Products | 436 | ||
| Herbs for Pain and Inflammation Used in South and Southeast Asia | 437 | ||
| Boswellia serrata (Frankincense) | 437 | ||
| Capsicum annuum (Chili Pepper) | 439 | ||
| Curcuma longa (Turmeric) | 439 | ||
| Withania somnifera (Winter Cherry) | 439 | ||
| Zingiber officinale (Ginger) | 439 | ||
| Clinical Pain Treatments | 439 | ||
| Allergies and Asthma | 440 | ||
| Arthritis | 441 | ||
| Headache and Fever | 442 | ||
| Peptic Ulcer (Stomach and Duodenum) | 444 | ||
| Individualized Medical Profile According to Ayurveda | 445 | ||
| References | 445 | ||
| Chapter 19: Yoga and Breathing | 446 | ||
| The yoke is on you | 446 | ||
| The Vedas | 447 | ||
| Human Pain, Suffering, and Spirit | 448 | ||
| Karma | 449 | ||
| Bhakti: devotion | 450 | ||
| Kundalini | 452 | ||
| Chakras | 452 | ||
| Nadis | 454 | ||
| Hatha-Yoga | 454 | ||
| Mental Imagery | 456 | ||
| Meditation | 457 | ||
| Mantras | 457 | ||
| Tantra | 457 | ||
| Physiology of yoga practice and breathing | 458 | ||
| Postures (Asanas) | 459 | ||
| Breathing Practices (Pranayama) | 459 | ||
| Long Deep Breathing | 459 | ||
| Individual Nostril Breathing and Alternate Nostril Breathing | 460 | ||
| Fast Breathing | 461 | ||
| Other Breathing Techniques | 462 | ||
| Pain treatment | 462 | ||
| Mechanisms of Action | 463 | ||
| Yoga as Therapy | 464 | ||
| References | 466 | ||
| Section V: Natural and Nutritional Remedies for Pain, Inflammation, and Diseases of Chronic I ... | 469 | ||
| Chapter 20: Nutrition and Hydration Part One: Water, Vitamin, and Mineral Micronutrients: Efficacy of Vitamin Supplementati ... | 470 | ||
| Introduction to vitamin and mineral micronutrients | 470 | ||
| Natural sources of vitamins and nutrients | 471 | ||
| Food and Water | 471 | ||
| Water and hydration | 472 | ||
| Water and Fluoridation | 472 | ||
| Enter the nutritional era | 472 | ||
| Discovery of Vitamins | 473 | ||
| Contemporary Research | 475 | ||
| Factors Contributing to Vitamin Deficiency: “The Death” of Water | 475 | ||
| Natural Salts Found in Water | 475 | ||
| Rain and Water Cycle | 476 | ||
| Global Drinking Water Supply | 477 | ||
| Chemicals and Heavy Metals | 477 | ||
| Many Facets of Fluoride | 478 | ||
| Inflammation | 479 | ||
| Neurotoxic Effects | 480 | ||
| Bone Cancer and Bone Diseases | 480 | ||
| Thyroid Function | 481 | ||
| Inhibition of Enzymes | 481 | ||
| Fluoride Accumulation | 482 | ||
| Fluoride Regulation | 482 | ||
| Sources of Natural and Artificial Fluoride | 483 | ||
| Organically Derived Fluoride—Fluorine | 484 | ||
| References | 485 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 490 | ||
| Chapter 21: Nutrition and Hydration Part Two: Micronutrient Deficiencies and Dietary Supplementation | 491 | ||
| Food production | 492 | ||
| Pain, chronic inflammatory diseases, and micronutrient deficiencies | 493 | ||
| Populations in Chronic Pain | 494 | ||
| Newborns, Toddlers, and Children | 494 | ||
| Growing Problem | 494 | ||
| Quality of vitamin supplements | 495 | ||
| Synthetic Vitamins | 495 | ||
| Vitamin and Herbal Industrial Formulations | 496 | ||
| Vitamin Units of Measurement | 496 | ||
| Recommended Daily Allowances Standards Determination | 498 | ||
| Vitamin D | 499 | ||
| Energetic properties of micronutrients | 500 | ||
| Vitamin Micronutrient Deficiency Tests | 500 | ||
| Intracellular Nutrient Analysis | 501 | ||
| References | 501 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 503 | ||
| Chapter 22: Nutrition and Hydration Part Three: Management of Pain and Inflammation with Micronutrients and Foods | 504 | ||
| Iron | 505 | ||
| Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, and B12 | 505 | ||
| Vitamin C | 506 | ||
| Vitamin D | 507 | ||
| Versatility | 507 | ||
| New Kinds of Cancer | 509 | ||
| Foods That Reduce Chronic Inflammation and Cancer | 510 | ||
| Broccoli | 510 | ||
| Olive Oil | 511 | ||
| Salmon | 511 | ||
| Coping With Pain and Stress: Vitamins B and D | 511 | ||
| Vitamin E | 513 | ||
| Treatment of pain and pain-related conditions | 514 | ||
| Inflammation and Inflammatory Conditions | 514 | ||
| Migraine Headache, Premenstrual Syndrome, and Menstrual Cramps | 514 | ||
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | 516 | ||
| Diabetic Neuropathy and Pain | 516 | ||
| Nerve and Neuropathic Pain | 516 | ||
| Restless Legs Syndrome | 517 | ||
| Cerebral Stroke | 517 | ||
| Neurological disorders, depression, dementia, and demyelinating myelopathy | 518 | ||
| Foods and phytochemicals | 519 | ||
| Probiotics | 520 | ||
| Digestive Enzymes | 521 | ||
| Coffee, Type 2 Diabetes, and Inflammation | 521 | ||
| References | 522 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 523 | ||
| Chapter 23: Plant-Based Treatments Part One: Herbal Remedies for Pain, Inflammation, and Diseases of Chronic Inflammation | 524 | ||
| Introduction: herbal remedies | 524 | ||
| Herbal Authenticity | 525 | ||
| Contemporary herbalism | 526 | ||
| Herbs for Pain Relief | 527 | ||
| Inflammation: A Root Cause of Physical Pain | 527 | ||
| Immune System in Action: Acute Inflammation After Injury | 527 | ||
| Testing for Presence of Chronic Inflammation | 528 | ||
| Diseases of Chronic Inflammation | 528 | ||
| Treating Pain, Inflammation, and Diseases of Chronic Inflammation | 528 | ||
| Aloe Vera | 529 | ||
| Black Cohosh: Cimicifuga racemosa | 529 | ||
| Boswellia: Boswellia sacra | 529 | ||
| Capsaicin: Capsicum annum | 530 | ||
| Perception of Pain | 531 | ||
| Cloves: Syzygium aromaticum | 532 | ||
| Cranberry: Vaccinium macrocarpon | 532 | ||
| Curcumin: Curcuma longa | 533 | ||
| Osteoarthritis Remedy | 535 | ||
| Elderberry: Sambucus nigra | 535 | ||
| Evening Primrose Oil: Oenothera biennis | 535 | ||
| Garlic: Allium sativum | 535 | ||
| Ginkgo: Ginkgo biloba | 536 | ||
| Hearing and Tinnitus | 539 | ||
| Kava: Piper methysticum | 539 | ||
| Red Wine: Resveratrol | 541 | ||
| Rooibos (Aspal): Aspalathus linearis | 542 | ||
| Thunder God Vine: Tripterygium wilfordii | 543 | ||
| Valerian: Valeriana officinalis | 544 | ||
| Winter Cherry: Withania somnifera | 545 | ||
| Wolfberry: Lycium barbarum | 546 | ||
| Diseases of Chronic Inflammation | 546 | ||
| Latest research on practical pain supplements and synergies | 547 | ||
| References | 554 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 557 | ||
| Chapter 24 Plant-Based Treatments Part Two: Aromatherapy and Plant Essential Oils | 558 | ||
| Aromatherapy and breathing in the 21st century | 560 | ||
| Extraction of Oils From Plants | 561 | ||
| Vibrational Frequency Influences From Plants | 563 | ||
| Aerosol therapies | 566 | ||
| Aromas in the Brain and Central Nervous System | 566 | ||
| Treatment of Pain, Inflammation, and Related Conditions | 567 | ||
| References | 570 | ||
| Suggested Readings | 571 | ||
| Appendix I: Psychometrics of Pain I nteractive T ools for I ndividualized P atient P ain M anagement | 572 | ||
| The Boundary Questionnaire | 573 | ||
| Obtaining Your Score | 574 | ||
| Finding the Right Treatments for Each Patient | 575 | ||
| Appropriate Treatments for Each Psychometric Type | 575 | ||
| Pain Relief | 576 | ||
| Pain Treatment Profile | 578 | ||
| Hypnosis: A 250-Year-Old Mystery Investigated | 578 | ||
| Individualized Medicine: Guide to Managing Pain | 579 | ||
| References | 579 | ||
| Appendix II Patient Monitoring Pain and Related Symptoms | 580 | ||
| Illustration Credits | 582 | ||
| Index | 583 |