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"Hippocrates and western History Who Is Sovereign? The Oath of Hippocrates is basically western in its premises, although free institutions were only in their infancy in ancient Greece. The worth of individual human beings is axiomatic to western civilization. The replacements for the Oath of Hippocrates deny the sanctity of the individual, which is at the heart of western political philosophy. Thus they set the stage for an entirely different era in history—a non-Western era. In non-Hippocratic medicine, neither physician nor patient is autonomous." - Jane M. Orient, M.D., Your Doctor is Not In: Healthy skepticism about national health care (Get the book.)

"Use in western herbal Papaya was not used in traditional herbal medicine. But in the last 25 years or so, papaya's leaves and latex have become available through speciality herb outlets. Papain is used as an enzyme supplement in the form of enteric-coated tablets so that they pass safely through the stomach into the intestinal tract. After 1982, another papaya enzyme, chymopapain, is used in the treatment of herniated (slipped) vertebral disk in the back. Injected directly into the affected area, the chymopapain helps dissolve cellular debris." - C. P. Khare, Indian Herbal Remedies: Rational western Therapy, Ayurvedic and Other Traditional Usage, Botany (Get the book.) "At present, the principal use of hemp in western herbal is for easing pain, inducing sleep and for soothing influence in nervous disorders. It is given in delirium, migraine, insanity, infantile convulsions, menstrual pain and cramps. Hemp is used as an analgesic for cancer- and AIDS-patients undergoing chemotherapy. It reduces neurological overactivity and muscle spasm in patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other muscular affections." - C. P. Khare, Indian Herbal Remedies: Rational western Therapy, Ayurvedic and Other Traditional Usage, Botany (Get the book.) "Use in western herbal The herb has been used in English domestic practice from early times. Dr Ellingwood wrote of Shepherd's Purse: "This agent has been noted for its influence in haematuria...soothing in irritation of the renal and vesical organs. In cases of uncomplicated menorrhagia, it has accomplished permanent cures. The agent is also useful where uric acid or insoluble phosphates or carbonates produce irritation of the urinary tract." (Cited by M. Grieve.) All over the West, the herb continues as one of the best remedies for preventing or arresting haemorrhage." - C. P. Khare, Indian Herbal Remedies: Rational western Therapy, Ayurvedic and Other Traditional Usage, Botany (Get the book.) "Use in western herbal Capsicum annuum is used mostly in creams for painful muscle spasm. Prophylactically used internally for artherosclerosis, stroke and heart diseases. It is also used as a female orgasm stimulant. German Commission E monograph recognized the drug's efficacy in: ft Muscle tensions ft Rheumatism. For sore throat, a pinch of chilli powder, added to 25 ml lemon juice and honey, diluted with hot water, is used as a gargle. 5-10 drops of tincture in half a tumbler of warm water is also used as a gargle in throat affections." - C. P. Khare, Indian Herbal Remedies: Rational western Therapy, Ayurvedic and Other Traditional Usage, Botany (Get the book.)

"If you're like many people, you view Buddhism as a religion or a spiritual practice emanating from Eastern cultures. Yet western scientists, myself included, have come to see it as much more. With its detailed accounts of how the human mind works, and how we can willfully train our minds to be healthier and happier, Buddhism is also a bona fide psychology.9 Jon Kabat-Zinn was the first western scientist, in the early 1980s, to cull the psychology of mindfulness from age-old Buddhist practices and teach them to his Boston-area medical patients." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"And indeed, this argument is often used to explain why brand-name prescription drugs cost about 70 percent more in the United States than in Canada and western Europe. But at least with respect to pharmaceutical innovation, the facts tell a different story. From 1991 to 1999, pharmaceutical companies in the United States did not develop more than their share of new drugs on a per capita basis compared with western Europe or Japan. Furthermore, according to the U.S." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Studies have consistently shown that rates of heart disease are higher in western cultures, that heart disease rates go up in countries that adopt western diet and lifestyles, and that modifications of diet reduce heart disease. Some of the differences may not be attributable to diet per se but rather to how food is raised and the industrialization of American agriculture (e.g., the effects of corn-fed vs. pasture-fed animals)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"He was moved several times, first into western Tibet, then Xiagatse, and then near Lhasa, the traditional capital of the country. He did not practice medicine for the first eight years of his imprisonment. However, once the Chinese realized his talents they thought he could serve them better as a clinic doctor in jail. He worked there, still a prisoner, until they gave him his own clinic of Tibetan medicine, which he ran for a few years near Lhasa. In 1981, he was given the choice to stay in Lhasa or return to his native village in western Tibet. He chose the latter." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Still, medicalizing the whole problem of the western diet instead of working to overturn it (whether at the level of the patient or politics) is exactly what you'd expect from a health care community that is sympathetic to nutritionism as a matter of temperament, philosophy, and economics. You would not expect such a medical community to be sensitive to the cultural or ecological dimensions of the food problem—and it isn't. We'll know this has changed when doctors kick the fast-food franchises out of the hospitals." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"WESTERN DIETS The "Western" diet is that of the Westernized cultures (not the cowboy diet), including many European countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the United States. Although the diets of these cultures are all similar, I will first take on the current American diet. Many of the concerns about this North American diet and the problems that arise from its consumption also plague other Westernized countries." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"Over one million square kilometers of central, western, and southern India were affected. A Reuters news agency telegram to London described the fertile farmlands of the Punjab as a "vast, bare, brown, lonely desert." Of the 62 million people who were severely affected by total crop failure, 41.7 million lived not in native states but under British rule. A critical fodder famine killed millions of head of cattle, especially in Gujerat, where more than 70 percent perished." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"However, it is clear that the majority of heart disease is caused by factors associated with western civilization, such as a fat- and sugar-laden diet and a lack of exercise. There are also "nonmedical" factors not directly related to lifestyle that increase the risk of heart disease, like low income, lack of social support, depression, marginalization in society, and stress in childhood. I can't fix all of these social ills with this book, but I just want you to understand that it is not as simple as a "one disease/one pill" kind of thing." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Lee and other researchers have uncovered a largely western phenomenon of estrogen dominance that is affecting women especially, but also men. In simple terms, estrogen dominance is an excess of estrogen over progesterone. In a healthy body, progesterone is produced in sufficient quantities to balance out the effects of estrogen. Progesterone is also needed for many other functions in the body. The often used allopathic treatment for female hormonal problems is to prescribe synthetic estrogen hormone replacement therapy, hrt, which further increases estrogen dominance. The answer that Dr." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Cancer is virtually unknown among people such as the Hunzas of northern Pakistan, the Georgians of western Russia, and the Titikaka Indians of southeastern Peru. They do not have access to the kinds of healthcare resources we have, yet they live to very old ages virtually free of our debilitating diseases. They carry on working until they die or shortly before they die. They do not suffer, nor do they live with pain. Drs. Walker and Bragg, mentioned at the beginning of this book, experienced a similar pattern of healthy longevity. What are these people doing that is different?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Conventional western medicine treats disease conditions or symptoms. It does not treat the basic causes of disease, the reasons why health begins to degenerate in the first place. The "chasing the disease" approach simply doesn't work in the long run because it can't! If you don't address the cause of a problem, it will just surface again later. It may arise in a different form, or it may come back in the same form but be much more serious." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Indeed, Taubes is so single-minded in his demonization of the carbohydrate that he overlooks several other possible explanations for the deleterious effects of the western diet, including deficiencies of omega-3s and micronutrients from plants. He also downplays the risks (to health as well as eating pleasure) of the high-protein Atkins diet that the carbohydrate hypothesis implies is a sound way to eat. As its title suggests, Good Calories, Bad Calories, valuable as it is, does not escape the confines of nutritionism." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"The warm-water pool thickens in the western Pacific as the easterly trades strengthen JS FIGURE 3.2 Typical El Nino conditions for ENSO events in the northern winter. Af "Predicting El Nino Events," Nature 356 (1992): 476-477; redrawn with permission fron 1992 Macmillan Magazines Ltd. again. Upwelling renews, cooling the surface waters in the east, and El Nino becomes La Nina (Spanish: "young girl"), its cool opposite." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"A high priority for western governments fighting imperial wars.) To a considerable extent we still have a food system organized around the promotion of protein as the master nutrient. It has given us, among other things, vast amounts of cheap meat and milk, which have in turn given us much, much bigger people. Whether they are healthier too is another question. It seems to be a rule of nutritionism that for every good nutrient, there must be a bad nutrient to serve as its foil, the latter a focus for our food fears and the former for our enthusiasms." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "Some researchers believe that metabolic syndrome may be at the root of many of the "diseases of civilization" that typically follow a native population's adoption of a western lifestyle and the nutrition transition that typically entails. The ten Aborigines returned to their traditional homeland, an isolated region of northwest Australia more than a day's drive by off-road vehicle from the nearest town." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Atlantic coast to western Russia, from the Alps to southern Scandinavia. Europe's long summers were several degrees warmer than today's, and the seas rose rapidly to near-modern levels. During these warming millennia, Europe was home to sparse populations of hunters and foragers, many living along sea shores, in river valleys, or by freshwater lakes. Most Europeans were constantly on the move, following the seasons of plant foods, exploiting salmon runs, pursuing migrating game. People lived in small bands of a few families that changed almost daily." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Energy vortices that are not physical matter are free to move and are available to be accessed and directed for our use. western medicine has yet to incorporate this concept into its understanding and practice. In a healthy state, life force circulates freely throughout the body. Chinese medicine places a great focus on opening up energy pathways, or meridians, so the body is better able to return to health. In an unhealthy body, our natural energy can be lowered by stress, a buildup of toxins, and illness." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"These changes in rates of diabetes in countries where little or no diabetes previously existed have been directly correlated with the introduction of western diets, specifically with the arrival of American fast-food restaurants like McDonald's and Wendy's. In fact, in 2006 A. Hauber, an economist from Bear Stearns International, and E. Gale, a doctor at the University of Bristol in England (an unusual collaboration between the world of finance and that of medicine and science), wrote: There are two dimensions to each new treatment for diabetes." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Traditional western medical techniques fall under the heading of allopathic medicine, and serve us well as far as they go. But when they fall short, I try treatments some physicians would never think of trying—as long as they're safe. These methods aren't routinely taught to medical students, but they seem to help some people feel better. I view them as complementary to my usual medical approach. But let me be clear: I have a set of rules for trying these treatments. Those rules are relatively simple, but they are still rules." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Chapter Ten I TESTIFY TO THE PARLIAMENT OF western AUSTRALIA On June 2, 2004, I testified to Education and Health Standing Committee of the Parliament of western Australia on the issue of ADHD diagnosis and "treatment," which is 4-5 times more common in their state than in any other state in Australia. I began by describing the failure of both the NIMH [1] and the APA [2] to cite proof, anywhere within the scientific, medical literature that ADHD or any other psychiatric disease, is an actual disease." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.) "Western Australian children are 4 times more likely than other Australian children to be diagnosed ADHD and drugged with amphetamines. In 2002 western Australia per-head prescription rates first exceeded the USA national average. Do Perth children have different brain chemistry from children in Sydney, San Diego, Chicago or London? Of course they don't. The real difference isn't in the brain chemistry or behavior of these children but rather in the clinical practice of the pediatricians and child psychiatrists who treat them. xiii Perth with a population of 1." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"It is an unfortunate fact today that, in western societies, the number of pills, potions and prescriptions being dispensed is spiralling every year as orthodox practitioners worry about being sued for medical malpractice if they do not prescribe something—anything—when a patient visits them. The result is a lot of buttons being pressed! It is also true that asthmatics often rely heavily on their spray or puffer, using it as a psychological crutch rather than as a non-preferred treatment. It is not the use of medication which causes concern, but over-reliance on this form of treatment." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Catechin The Asian native Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed) has displaced native weeds and crops throughout the western United States. Contributing to the invasiveness of this exotic is the secretion of the phytotoxic /ran.v-flavan-i-ol (-)-catechin from its roots (Bais et al., 2002) (Figure 1.1). Both enantiomers of catechin are present in root exudates of C. maculosa; however, only (-)-catechin had allelopathic (phytotoxic) activity." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"Japanese cuisine uses seaweed extensively, but western cooking is not as adventurous. Rather than being served as a vegetable, or in sheets of nori wrapping sushi, we are more likely to encounter seaweed in powdered form or incorporated in prepared foods. The type of seaweed called carrageen is much used as a substitute for gelatine and is added to many convenience foods. Kelp is also used in a diverse collection of foods, including ice cream, salad dressings and desserts." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897) The western world looks after the sick, and doctors are paid for making ill patients better. But is this the most efficient way to keep people healthy? In some eastern countries, the approach is reversed. The focus is on preventive care and healers are paid for keeping people well. When their 'patients' do become ill, it is still their responsibility to care for them and restore them to good health." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

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