"This new volume book, Holistic Healthcare: Possibilities and Challenges, Volume 2, is a compilation of contributions from scientists, healthcare experts, and doctors working actively to bring about wholesome healing to individuals, looking at cutting-edge holistic therapies. Holistic medicine aims to bring about optimal health by perceiving an individual as a composite of the physical, mental, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual aspects. This branch of medicine involves detailed examination, diagnosis, and treatment of all these elements. Holistic medicine's combinationatorial strategy also helps in alleviating the high levels of side effects and allergies brought about by the conventional medication regimes. The volume includes chapters that deal with improving the general health of people from various walks of life, to treating some very challenging diseases. Various schools of treatments, exercise regimes, and meditations are discussed. Specific topics include the use of alternative therapy for human health and healing, including yoga, meditation, acupuncture, prayer, herbs, Ayurvedic treatment, and homoeopathy. The volume showcases some recent trends in treating various diseases that plague mankind, including superbugs, drug side-effects, drug abuse, and myriad lifestyle-related diseases and syndromes that are wrecking our lifestyle. The book brings together chapters from many practitioners who pay attention to overall well-being of individuals. The chapters will shed light and hopefully help in spreading awareness of this wonderful and wholesome branch of medicine. The volume will be highly useful for medical practitioners and health and healing specialists who wants to gain insight into new trends occurring in holistic medicine."-- Read more...
