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About's Healing Site
by Phylameana lila Desy - Weekly features and net links to biofeedback, chakra & energy work, creative healing, eastern practices, meditation, naturopathic, prayer boards, shamanism, and more.

About's Holistic Health Site
by Robert Cox - Weekly features and net links to spiritual, healing & altered states, healthy habits, nutrition, supplements, mental/emotional, social/relationships, environment, ailments,and more.

Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Interview with Marc Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D.
by Daniel Redwood, D.C. - In this interview major issues of concern in the field of alternative medicine, including the fact that the United States lags far behind Europe in the integration of these therapies into mainstream practice are discussed.

Ask Dr. Weil
Ask Dr. Weil your own question here then check out the Archive and Top 10 list to see if your question's been answered. Timely questions which have broad appeal are more likely to be answered on the program.

Ask Dr. Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Each week, Dr. Weil guides you through the program, asking you to make a variety of changes in how you eat, how you exercise, what vitamins you take, and how you use your mind to protect and enhance your body's innate ability to heal itself.

Ask Dr. Weil's Archive
Here is the Archive of the daily Ask Dr. Weil questions organized by date and a search function.

Ask Dr. Weil's Site Search
Search the database for old Q & A's, recipes, etc. Use the alphabetical index of Natural Health, Natural Medicine Online for diseases or remedies you don't know how to spell.

Ask Dr. Weil's Top Ten List
Find the top ten question and answers from Ask Dr. Weil along with a search function.

Ask Dr. Weil's Vitamin Advisor
Click through the screens and answer the questions. By the end, you'll have a personalized formula of Dr. Weil's recommended vitamins, supplements and tonics.

Ask Dr. Weil's Women's Clinic
Q & A's specifically about women's health issues.

Changing How We Define Medicine
By James Gordon, M.D. - "...we are terribly eager to believe in the science that promises to save our lives or relieve our misery, and in the health care professionals who bring us its benefits. On the other hand, when that science and those who serve it fail us, we have the most powerful incentive to look for help from alternatives which may call every aspect of that "conventional medicine" into question.

Eating Safely in a Polluted World: You Don't Have to Choose Between Microbes and Chemicals!
by Leo Galland, M.D.- Several simple, effective measures to protect you from the effects of eating contaminated food and water, avoiding both microbial and chemical contaminants in food and drink and building resistance to them if you are exposed.

Eating Safely in a Polluted World: You Don't Have to Choose Between Microbes and Chemicals!: PART II: Maintain a Safe Supply of Food and Drink
by Leo Galland, M.D. - Guidelines to significantly reduce your exposure to disease-provoking microbes in food and drink.

Evolution or Revolution? Integrating Complementary Approaches into Medical School Training
by Retu Saxeria - Should medical students be taught about complementary practices? And what should they be taught? These questions and many more were addressed at the National Conference on Medical and Nursing Education in Complementary Medicine held by the OAM and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).

Guided Imagery: What Is Imagery, and How Does it Work?
by Martin L. Rossman, M.D. - Imagery and Physiologic Change, Imagery in the Larger Context of Healing, How Does Imagery Work?, What Kinds of Illnesses Can Be Treated With Imagery?

The Limits of Modern Medicine: Frontiers of Healing
by Elliott Dacher, M.D. - Scientific medicine is at its limits when confronting degenerative and stress-related diseases, which are more related to the way we think and live than to bacteria, viruses, and toxins.

Listening to Your Symptoms
by Martin L. Rossman, M.D. - The common meanings and functions of illness, using imagery to explore your symptoms, anxiety and resistance , imagery is not just wishful thinking, how to listen to your symptoms, and more.

Living Safely in a Polluted World: Your Home Should be a Haven
by Leo Galland, M.D. - . Exposure to several types of pollutants that may cause Sick Home Syndrome can be readily controlled by a number of simple, inexpensive and potentially life-saving steps.

Manifesto for a New Medicine: Interview with James Gordon, M.D.
by Daniel Redwood, D.C. - An interview with one of alternative medicine’s foremost spokespersons who has developed the first comprehensive medical school program in mind-body medicine, conducted a private practice in which he utilizes a wide range of approaches including acupuncture, homeopathy, spinal manipulation, nutrition, and various forms of mind-body medicine.

The Meaning of "Natural Medicine"
by Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D. - The meaning of "natural" in Natural Medicine should come from an analysis of the patient, rather than of the medicinal substance used for treatment.

Natural Health, Natural Medicine: Interview with Andrew Weil, M.D.
Daniel Redwood, D.C.- General interview with Dr. Weil, Associate Directory of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine of the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he teaches alternative medicine, mind-body interactions, and medical botany. He has a general practice in Tucson, focusing exclusively on natural and preventive medicine and diagnosis of difficult health problems. He is the President of the Center for Integrative Medicine and the Beneficial Plant Institute.

The Need to Liberate Physicians to Practice Complementary Medicine
by Hugh Pearson, Penelope Crawford, A. Hoffer M.D. Ph.D., N. Phillips and J.D.Campbell Ph.D. - A call to establish freedom of choice for both licensed physicians and consumers, in order to take advantage of the great advances in biochemistry and nutrition made in recent years - or neglected for many years.

Re-Inventing Primary Care
by Elliott Dacher, M.D. - The meaningful integration into our health care system of holistic principles and complementary healing practices will require a fundamental re-orientation of our current approach to primary care.

A Systems Theory Approach to an Expanded Medical Model: A Change for Biomedicine
by Elliott Dacher, M.D.- George Engel's healing model, composed of four healing systems: Homeostasis, Treatment, Mind/Body, and Spiritual, are considered as an integrated comprehensive system.

Towards a Post Modern Medicine
by Elliott Dacher, M.D. - What perspectives do we wish to see expressed in a reconfigured approach to health and healing? Do our current initiatives reflect and support the development of these perspectives?

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