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Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine

Improving Your Health by Combining Chinese Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine

Improving Your Health by Combining Chinese Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine

By Henry Han, O.M.D., Glenn Miller, M.D. and Nancy Deville

By Henry Han, O.M.D., Glenn Miller, M.D. and Nancy Deville

By Henry Han, O.M.D., Glenn Miller, M.D. and Nancy Deville

By Henry Han, O.M.D., Glenn Miller, M.D. and Nancy Deville

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    About Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine

    The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.

    Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:

    • How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and Eastern herbology

    • How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer–often without side effects

    • How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illness
    becomes a crisis

    • The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases

    • Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses

    • Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems–the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies

    • The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy–how herbs work in your body

    Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, as well as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you.

    About Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine

    The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.

    Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:

    • How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and Eastern herbology

    • How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer–often without side effects

    • How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illness
    becomes a crisis

    • The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases

    • Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses

    • Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems–the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies

    • The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy–how herbs work in your body

    Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, as well as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you.

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    About Henry Han, O.M.D.

    Henry Han, OMD, was born in 1958 into a family of doctors in China. His mother was a surgical/oncological gynecologist,… More about Henry Han, O.M.D.

    About Glenn Miller, M.D.

    Glenn Miller, MD, was born, raised, and educated in the Midwest. Raised in a family of pharmacists, Dr. Miller has… More about Glenn Miller, M.D.

    About Nancy Deville

    Nancy Deville is the co-author of numerous health books. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, and Essex, Massachusetts.

    About Henry Han, O.M.D.

    Henry Han, OMD, was born in 1958 into a family of doctors in China. His mother was a surgical/oncological gynecologist,… More about Henry Han, O.M.D.

    About Glenn Miller, M.D.

    Glenn Miller, MD, was born, raised, and educated in the Midwest. Raised in a family of pharmacists, Dr. Miller has… More about Glenn Miller, M.D.

    About Nancy Deville

    Nancy Deville is the co-author of numerous health books. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, and Essex, Massachusetts.

    Product Details

    Category: Alternative Therapies

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Bantam
    Jan 01, 2003 | 496 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780553381184

    Category: Alternative Therapies

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Bantam
    Dec 18, 2008 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9780307481498

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    Praise

    “A valuable alternative perspective on health and illness.”
    –Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine

    “I have personally benefited from Chinese herbal medicine under the care of Dr. Henry Han. This book shows how crucial integrative medicine can be in treating a whole host of illnesses and in getting healthy and staying well.”
    –Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

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