Holistic Medical Practice

Mindfulness is a burgeoning field of study and practice within mental health care and medicine. Yet ethical codes, and the philosophy of the therapist-client relationship, differ greatly between disciplines, and even more between those disciplines and mindfulness-based approaches. The potential for ethical dilemmas is therefore significant.

The book breaks new ground by taking a focused look at an ethics derived from contemporary clinical mindfulness practice itself. What does a secular ethics of mindfulness look like? Who is competent to work therapeutically with mindfulness, and how does one delimit areas and levels of competence? How do clinicians ethically understand the therapist-client relationship from the therapeutic position of mindfulness? And how do clinicians respond when the necessary restraints of their professional role and ethics code come into conflict with the mindfulness-based relationship and therapeutic position?

This book makes a vital contribution to the understanding of ethics as the cornerstone of mindfulness-based practice, and will be of interest to all those involved in delivering mindfulness-based interventions, including psychologists, counselors, spiritual directors, occupational therapists, physicians, nurses, and educators.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a commonly used term for holistic and complementary therapies that have typically not been part of conventional Western medicine. Complementary means treatments that are used along with conventional medicine. Alternative means treatments used in place of conventional medicine (Mayo Clinic). Integrative medicine combines, or integrates, the best of conventional medical care with the best of evidence-based CAM. A whole-person approach is the focus of most CAM therapies to address the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of health. This paper will address the main areas, for example, mind-body medicine (such as meditation, acupuncture, and yoga), manipulative and body-based practices (such as massage therapy and spinal manipulation), and natural products (such as herbs and dietary supplements).

Alternative healing, including spiritual healing, unconventional, traditional/folk, and complementary medical treatments, is an increasingly relevant health-care resource in contemporary health-care systems, and a broad, constantly changing, and heterogeneous field of medical pluralism. Some suggestions for classifying spiritual healing as presented in the academic and gray literature are summarized and discussed. The findings are interpreted in terms of the paradigm of alternative modernities. In the direction of, but also in addition to, this paradigm, magic is introduced as a concept to denote certain highly ambiguous occurrences in the alternative modern. Magic is still very much alive and not easy to identify merely as a counterpart of rational, knowledge generating, disembodying modernity. In this setting, spiritual healing might be seen as a form of magical self-care. Magic is neither modern nor traditional nor irrational per se, but has to be contextualized and described in terms of characteristics like holistic diagnosis, interpersonal congruence, the imaginations of agency, and efficacy.

Intense debates on various treatment modalities like Root canal treatment, Silver amalgam
restorations, Orthodontic teeth repositioning and dental implants are not new. Such debates not only
solidify the loose sand upon which the theories are built, but also help to polish the rough edges of the
argument. However, the discourses will never arrive at a desirable culmination unless handled with
utmost honesty and least amount of dogmatism.

Some birth scholars (Melissa Cheyney, Robbie Davis-Floyd, and Elizabeth Davis) have argued that there are two models of birth that value different kinds of knowledge. They assert that the "technocratic" model has been adopted by "mainstream" culture, which values reason and scientific knowledge. Meanwhile, the "countercultural" birth subculture, which has adopted a "holistic" model, values intuition and "body knowledge" instead. However, my research does not support this argument. Rather, the 119 birth stories I analyzed suggest that, even if the birth subculture rhetoric supports those scholars' dichotomies, their birth experiences do not. Neither group appears to uniformly hold their respective values, thus weakening the original dichotomy between the "mainstream" group and the "countercultural" group. Moreover, I demonstrate how the dichotomy between reason and scientific knowledge on the one hand, and intuition and "body knowledge" on the other, is also inaccurate. Feminist epistemology also warns that this dichotomization undercuts a diversity of thinking styles by limiting them to just two.

Abstrak Latar Belakang : Hyperemesis adalahh keadaan mual-muntah yang berkaitan dengan kehamilan dimulai pada 9-10 minggu. Kehamilan dengan hyperemesis gravidarum menyumbang angka kesakitan dari 252 pasien rawat inap PONED, 16 kasus diantaranya ditemukan dalam 3 bulan terakhir di Puskesmas Bumijawa. Penatalaksanaan yang diberikan hanya perawatan medis tanpa perawatan holistic yang mendampingi. Metode : untuk mengetahui karakteristik responden dan perbedaan kedua therapy holistic da medis. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif dengan pendekatan studi kasus kontrol, pengambilan data primer dan sekunder dengan pengukuran skala likert dan uji statistic dengan Mann witney karena data tidak berdistribusi normal. Hasil : Setelah dilakukan therapy holistic dan medis didapatkan hasil statistic tidak bermakna atau p_value >0,05 yang artinya tidak ada perbedaan antara kedua perlakuan. Kesimpulan : Perawatan holistic titik P6/Nei-guan dan Jaripunture disertai obata-obatan dapat menurunkan gejala mual-muntah pada pasien ibu hamil dengan hyperemesis gravidarum pada kehamilan <12 minggu. Kata Kunci : Kehamilan, Hyperemesis Gravidarum.

This paper examines particular examples of therapeutic and meaning-making responses to the events of September 11 from non-traditional religions and secular bodies, with comparative material from mainstream religions, in the United States of America. The intention is to demonstrate two things: that America’s religious plurality and cultural diversity gave rise to alternative discourses of meaning concerning September 11; and that these non-traditional religious interpretations and pr actices occupy a medial position in a continuum of life-shaping belieef systems that ranges from traditional religion to secularised, therapeutic values. In the USA, and particularly in New York, the attack on the World Trade Centre provoked a 'time of national trauma' (Stevens, 2002). Spiritual assistance, chiefly concerning two issues - creating meaning from the events, and finding solace or comfort for shock and grief - was sought by many people. In the quest for meaning, non-traditional religions such as the EarthLink
Mission (ELM) provided challenging and different interpretations of the events, reinforcing the argument that when studying religion as 'an ordinary form o f human practice ' the scholar encounters 'socio-rhetorical technique[s] used to create, contest and re-create credible worlds' (McCutcheon, 2003: 168). In addition to interpreting the meaning of the events, religious, spiritual and secular organizations provided spiritual and therapeutic comfort to those who were affected by September 11. Such 'therapy' has become an accepted element in contemporary Western society (Rieff, 1966). From the non-traditional religious viewpoint, the Church of Scientology's Volunteer Minister Programme provided hands-on assistance at Ground Zero, counselling the police, firemen, and others engaged in clearing the site. The general and 'secularised' nature of the contribution of these Volunteer Ministers invites comparison both with corporate strategies to provide comfort to workers and to engage .in psychological risk management (Nighswonger, 2001), and the efforts of mainstream religions (especially the monotheisms; Christianity, Judaism and Islam) to comfort and sustain the faithful. There is thus a spectrum of responses to America's 'time of national trauma', from traditionally religious through non-traditionally religious or spiritual, to secular, and this spectrum reflects the greater selectivity and diversity o f belief systems drawn upon by contemporary Americans. Also significant is that the non-traditional religions examined are both holistic in outlook and emphasise reconciliation of apparent opposition through very long time cycles; whereas the traditional monotheisms are firmly located in history, and hold dualistic views of appositional concepts (such as good and evil).

Hirudotherapy – an old treatment approach that becomes new again. Medical Leeches widely used to relieve vascular congestion developed due to poor venous and lymphatic drainage in vascularly suffered tissues. This commentary defines how the medicinal hirudotherapy works and some practical concerns.

Holistic Gynecology means a combination of diagnostic prevention and treatment of women’s diseases using natural approaches. If you’re tired of conventional treatments, Holistic OBGYN provides an alternative approach for women’s health. The difference between a holistic approach and traditional is that holistic gynecologists use only natural and herbal medicines as well as acupuncture treatments and homeopathy that can be personalized to meet the exact requirements of the patient.

The Holistic Gynecology approach takes a slight turn from the approaches of conventional gynecological methods. In this article, let us have a look at the method of Holistic OBGYN, the treatment it offers and how it differs from the conventional method.
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This presentation serves to introduce my book "Substance, Meaning & Consciousness" and how the VOID FIELD (VF) plays an important role in shaping Holistic Thought, Holistic Nutrition, Holistic Medicine which are key determinants of a Holistic Lifestyle. Please read and enjoy.

The paper refers to Professionalism as a management’s term that intends to place an order into the chaos of Medical Practice and the
exercise of gynecology. The investigation points out the vague and uncertain ways that Professionalism is used by many streams of management’s
research stressing the professionalism’s differed semiotics and interpretations. Also, it is underlined the complexity and contradictions that
current research imposes upon Medical practice and Gynecology. In particular, it is examined the ethical and ideological roots of professionalism
as a Medical practice and its effects on women health. The thesis proposes a new paradigm of understanding professionalism permitting a manyvocal and open interpretation of its nuances which consciously will raise the ethical standards and empathy of doctors towards their colleagues
and patients. Thus, it is encouraged professionalism to grow and recreate itself through every day, doctors’ and medical staff’ practicalities. In that
way, it is supported as a personified development of the women health service and care.

Background Reiki is a very popular method of natural healing used for prevention but also for the complementary session of many human disorders and diseases, including depression, anxiety, and various kind of chronic conditions, but also for the relief of pain and to promote relaxation and general well-being. Primary Study Objective The scope of this study has been to evaluate the effect of Reiki in subjects who have never received before a Reiki session and that did not know its effects or its methodological practices excluding the variables responsible for the placebo effect. Methods/Design A heterogeneous group of 70 volunteers, both men and women, was chosen for this study, and the results reported in this paper were obtained by analyzing the responses to questionnaires using a Likert scale. Results From this study demonstrated that a Reiki style of energy practice is capable of bringing people to relax in the presence of environmental disturbances and in the absence of other ad...

The relationship between stomatognathic and postural system has been investigated by many health care professionals. Posture and the mandibular function are strongly influenced by the position of the teeth. We know any missing tooth if not replaced for long period of time may lead to change in the bite, because of the change in the position of the adjacent and/ or opposing teeth, especially in pateints with poor oral hygiene. A successful clinical outcome of any dental restorative work depends on proper occlusal harmony. With advanced digitization, we can measure dynamic occlusal forces and achieve occlusal stability with T-Scan. Here is a case report with treatment of traumatic bite and its influence on posture, before and after achieving the occlusal harmony using T-Scan. Introduction:

The Healing Circle is a 2-hour, deep listening–and- exploring session with a volunteer client and several health practitioners from different medical and health disciplines, at one place, at one time. The client is typi- cally someone with a history of coping with chronic conditions with little relief from conventional means. A circle is used because it is the geometry of ease and resonance, enhancing the collaborative, leader-less, democratized standing among the disciplines, which normally have been beset by long-standing politics of medical ascendancy and dominance. Healing circles provide an opportunity to sidestep the politics of differ- ence while we recognize and gain new multidimen- sional knowledge in coming together.