Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Focusing on a holistic approach, this book explores applying both classical and modern approaches to the management of diabetes. It highlights global trends in diabetes, epidemiology of diabetes, inhibitors in diabetes and diabetes therapy, vitamins and diabetes, and the role of dietary fats in diab..

This book was first published in 1987. Comprehensive overview of enzyme peptide synthesis...

This critically acclaimed work iswinner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award, presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Lauded for its thoroughness and creativity, Florida Ethnobotany combines locally gathered information with a study of early literature to fully document the names employed by the dif..

This book aims to offer satisfactory reading for those who wish to update their understanding of what freeze-fracture electron microscopy has, and continues to contribute, to the understanding of membrane structure...

This volume is divided into five sections. Section I deals with preparative methodology for isolation and purification of the components of the oxy radical experimental systems use most frequently, including all three forms of SOD and several other important scavengers...

Designed to enable fast access to important information, this handbook presents information in both catalog and tabular forms. For each species the following is presented: chemical content, applications, processing, distribution, and economic potential, toxicological agents, poison symptoms in human..

This book takes a holistic approach to the prevention and control of infectious diseases from enteric pathogens, covering different concepts and approaches to address these challenging diseases, with special emphasis on HIV and AIDS. It examines several different approaches, such as ayurvedic, bioin..

This new book focuses on recent trends in holistic medicine, the art of maintaining proper balance between one’s physical health and mental well-being...

Holistic Science: The Evolution of the Georgia Institute of Ecology (1940-2000) assists the reader in understanding not only the challenges, opportunities, and personalities that are bound with the history of the Georgia Institute of Ecology, but also the challenges and obstacles that are involved i..

Integrating mainstream pharmacological medicine with more innovative treatments, this book offers an alternative approach to treating hypertension. The book explains mechanisms of blood pressure and hypertension, describes common causes of hypertension, and reviews standard medications and their sid..

Interactions Between Chinese Herbal Medicinal Products and Orthodox Drugs provides basic biomedical principles on adverse and beneficial interactions between Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) products and orthodox drugs. The book includes concise accounts of the development and progress in Chinese medic..

This book will explain the colossal potential of life to cope with different living environments is possible owing to the exceptionally well developed mechanisms of adaptation to environmental conditions. 1. Evolutional or genotypic adaptation. 2. Phenotypic adaptation. 3. Rapid adaptation...