Test-driving Complementary Therapies - Softcover

Thompson, Sylvia; Houston, Muiris

 
9780717132829: Test-driving Complementary Therapies

Synopsis

The vast choice of complementary therapies available today can often prove mind-boggling. Sylvia Thompson has compiled a comprehensive but easy-to-follow guide to these therapies that will prove invaluable in the home health library. Arranged in a unique format, 'Test-Driving Complementary Therapies' will show you: * What the therapy is * How it works * The conditions it treats * An advocate's perspective on the therapy * A first-timer's perspective * and finally, the view of a medical doctor. Among the thirty or so therapies covered are Acupuncture, The Bowen Technique; The Buteyko Method; Chiropractic; Colonic Hydrotherapy; Cranio-sacral Therapy; Herbal Medicine; Homeopathy; Manual Lymphatic Drainage; Nutritional Therapy; Osteopathy; Rebirthing and Spiritual Healing. Also included is an overview of the expected qualifications and lists of the international associations of the particular therapy.

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About the Author

Sylvia Thompson is a journalist with 'The Irish Times' specialising in Alternative Health. Dr Muiris Houston, Medical Correspondent with 'The Irish Times', supplies the medical opinion.

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