Headaches – The CommonSense Approach


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Headaches – The CommonSense Approach is a clear, concise and accessible guide that will empower headache sufferers to become their own 'headache detective'. Ninety per cent of adults have had a headache at some time in their lives. Almost twenty per cent suffer from chronic headaches, with migraines comprising eight per cent of these. Headaches are responsible for more visits to the GP — and for more drugs bought — than any other condition. Where this conventional approach seems not to be working, the world of alternative health has excelled. Thoroughly researched and written in an engaging style, Pat Thomas discusses who gets headaches and why. She helps track down their causes and details a huge variety of solutions, from stress relief and diet to alternative remedies such as herbs, aromatherapy, massage, acupuncture and hypnotherapy. Including helpful charts, useful addresses and further reading, this book itself will be a welcome relief for the many headache sufferers out there. The CommonSense Approach series is a series of self-help guides that provide practical and sound ways to deal with many of life's common complaints. Each book in the series is written for the layperson, and adopts a commonsense approach to the many questions surrounding a particular topic. It explains what the complaint is, how and why it occurs, and what can be done about it. It includes advice on helping ourselves, and information on where to go for further help. It encourages us to take responsibility for our own health, to be sensible and not always to rely on medical intervention for every ill. Other titles in the series include Depression – The CommonSense Approach, Stress – The CommonSense Approach and Sleep – The CommonSense Approach. Headaches – The CommonSense Approach: Table of Contents - What are Headaches? - What Type of Headache? - Tracking Down the Cause - Relief from Stress - The Food Factor - Is Your Home Giving You a Headache? - Herbal Remedies - Homeopathy - Acupuncture - Hypnotherapy - Osteopathy and Chiropractic - Aromatherapy - Children's Headaches




Pregnancy – The CommonSense Approach


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'This book is full of wisdom ... and should be required reading for all women of childbearing age.' Marsden Wagner, M.D., M.S.P.H. Among women there used to be a 'common' sense of what was appropriate, effective and safe in pregnancy and birth. Today, common sense has given way to expert opinion. Pat Thomas's excellent guide hopes to restore a little balance. It will provide women with the resources they need not only to cope with, but to enjoy their pregnancy. Pat Thomas treats pregnancy as a state of health, suggesting practical guidelines for a good diet and gentle exercises while offering sensible advice for common complaints that may occur. She also deals with the mother's emotional wellbeing both during and after pregnancy and looks sympathetically at the role of the man and how it can be enhanced to the benefit of both parents. Written in a supportive and easy style, the book includes helpful nutritional charts, useful addresses and further reading. The CommonSense Approach series is a series of self-help guides that provide practical and sound ways to deal with many of life's common complaints. Each book in the series is written for the layperson, and adopts a commonsense approach to the many questions surrounding a particular topic. It explains what the complaint is, how and why it occurs, and what can be done about it. It includes advice on helping ourselves, and information on where to go for further help. It encourages us to take responsibility for our own health, to be sensible and not always to rely on medical intervention for every ill. Other titles in the series include Depression – The CommonSense Approach, Headaches – The CommonSense Approach and Stress – The CommonSense Approach. Pregnancy – The CommonSense Approach: Table of Contents Foreword by Dr Marsden Wagner - Pregnancy is a State of Health - Diet — Your First Priority - Exercise and Rest — Finding the Balance - Natural Alternatives During Pregnancy - Common Complaints - When a 'Problem' Isn't a Problem - A Word About Your Partner - Looking Ahead to Labour - The BabymoonEssential Vitamins Essential Minerals Further Reading




The History and Physical Examination Workbook: A Common Sense Approach


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During a typical office visit, a provider has approximately fifteen minutes to interview, examine, diagnose, and appropriately treat each patient. The History and Physical Examination Workbook: A Common Sense Approach, is a must-have resource for developing these skills. Providing clinical practice in the art of performing H and Ps through the use of flow models, this workbook encourages students to avoid memorization and develop a logical approach to patients’ chief complaints by allowing them to partner up as patient and




How to Heal and Be Healed - A Guide to Health in Times of Change


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Using his long and successful experience of working with subtle energies, spiritual healer Paul Lambillion shows how to heal mental emotional and physical illnesses. Explaining the powerful effects of emotions and feelings on physical health, he provides a clear and persuasive framework for healing. We live in a time of emotional and mental overload, which is approaching crisis proportions. There is a rapid growth in mental and emotional illnesses and a consequent explosion in the use of psychoactive drugs. There are the new energy diseases such as post-viral syndrome, ME, fatigue, exhaustion, intermittent depression and so on. These have no pathological framework to explain them, and there is usually no specific treatment structure for them. They affect young and old. Throughout the book there are numerous exercises based on such techniques as breathing and visualisation, the use of energy essences, creativity and meditation. There are also many case histories. This is the perfect healing manual: wise, balanced and practical for our fast-changing times. How to Heal and Be Healed: Table of Contents Introduction - A Reluctant Healer — A Background Collapse The Healing Man Feelings and Visions Breathing Through A Deepening Consciousness Thoughts and Fields of Power X-Ray Vision Intelligent Energy Wheels of Fire The Web of Light - Ease and Dis-ease The Human Subtle Anatomy The Etheric or Energy Self The Emotional/Astral Body The Mental Body The Vitality Stream The Vortices The Universal Connection A Study of Centre Meanings and Correspondence A View of Causes The Spiritual Desert - Healing in the Energy Body Mary's Story As Above, So Below — As Within, So Without Energy Banks Waves and Radiations Panic Attacks Managing Changing Situations - The Dynamics of Emotional Healing The Emotional/Astral Body Emotional Pollution Trees Spirituality, Vegetables and Flowers Healing Flowers The Ray Colours and Emotional Dis-Ease What Colour? Identifying Your Emotional Rays Clearing Patches Colour Mixes and Ray Dominance Tears, Rips, Cracks and Cameras Red Mist — Aura Phenomena Sequence Prescribing How Long to Heal? Ray of Incarnation Colourwise A Table of Correspondences - Mind and Mental Healing Mind over Matter Thought Streams New Thought, Magic, Religion Honesty and Openness Now Forgiveness The Karmic Roll or Cycle Mental Chakra Connections Dissolving Patterns - The Soul, the Spirit and Healing Meditation Meditation and Healing Synchronicity, Magnetism and the Portcullis Effect Stages of Meditation Meditation Practice The Soul Journey and Relationships The Higher Circuits Using the Exercises Linking with Destiny Manipulation The Spirit and the Vortex Angels, Souls and Healing The Illusion of Death A Sleeping Beauty - Healing for Others Physical Healing Healing through Death Love The Unlimited Light of Healing Joe's Story The Cranium




Migraine


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A cultural, social, and medical history of migraine. For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migraine since the Middle Ages. Touching on classical theories of humoral disturbance and medieval bloodletting, Foxhall also describes early modern herbal remedies, the emergence of neurology, and evolving practices of therapeutic experimentation. Throughout the book, Foxhall persuasively argues that our current knowledge of migraine's neurobiology is founded on a centuries-long social, cultural, and medical history. This history, she demonstrates, continues to profoundly shape our knowledge of this complicated disease, our attitudes toward people who have migraine, and the sometimes drastic measures that we take to address pain. Migraine is an intimate look at how cultural attitudes and therapeutic practices have changed radically in response to medical and pharmaceutical developments. Foxhall draws on a wealth of previously unexamined sources, including medieval manuscripts, early-modern recipe books, professional medical journals, hospital case notes, newspaper advertisements, private diaries, consultation letters, artworks, poetry, and YouTube videos. Deeply researched and beautifully written, this fascinating and accessible study of one of our most common, disabling—and yet often dismissed—disorders will appeal to physicians, historians, scholars in medical humanities, and people living with migraine alike.




The People's Pharmacy Quick & Handy Home Remedies


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"Question-and-answer-based guide to home remedies, healthy diet, and foods that heal"--




Managing Your Migraine


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Managing Your Migraine speaks to your needs as a migraine sufferer. It confirms that you suffer from a genuine physical illness and that others share your frustration, disappointments, and anger. Its goal is to move you beyond "learning to live with it" to a full understanding of its mechanisms, symptoms, and treatments. This book proves that you can take charge of your illness-and shows you how to do so safely, effectively, and with real confidence.




No More Headaches, No More Migraines


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Drawing on clinical and research data, Zuzana Bic shows readers how to fight chronic headaches without enduring the side effects of medications. She describes different types of headaches, outlines their causes, and details her revolutionary approach to quashing them through diet modification, exercise, and stress reduction.




Stress – The CommonSense Approach


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Most people feel that they suffer from stress at some time or another, whether in the home, the workplace, within the family or amongst colleagues or friends. It has almost become part of living in today's fast-paced world. Thoroughly researched and written in an accessible style, Sleep — The CommonSense Approach looks at stress in all its forms. The author Brenda O'Hanlon believes that it is not so much a question of how to rid our lives of stress, but how to harness it, exploit it and control it. She recognises that more often than not, stress can be managed by the individual. She provides a useful checklist to assess your level of stress and goes on to discuss stress management, relaxation techniques, nutrition and diet, medication and other remedies. Lists of useful addresses and further reading are also included. The CommonSense Approach series is a series of self-help guides that provide practical and sound ways to deal with many of life's common complaints. Each book in the series is written for the layperson, and adopts a commonsense approach to the many questions surrounding a particular topic. It explains what the complaint is, how and why it occurs, and what can be done about it. It includes advice on helping ourselves, and information on where to go for further help. It encourages us to take responsibility for our own health, to be sensible and not always to rely on medical intervention for every ill. Other titles in the series include Depression – The CommonSense Approach, Menopause – The CommonSense Approach and Sleep – The CommonSense Approach. Stress – The CommonSense Approach: Table of Contents Foreword by Professor Anthony Clare Did You Know That ... ? - All About Stress - Life Even Crises — the Pecking Order - Behaviour/Personality Types and the Stress Equation - Are You In Trouble? - Stress Management - Stress Busters Round Up - Time Management — Practical Tips - Exercise - Nutrition and Diet - Medication - Alternative Therapies - Stress Management Techniques - Centres of Expertise - Choosing A TherapistUseful Addresses




Menopause – The Commonsense Approach


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The menopause is a natural stage in every woman's life. Now, thanks to Menopause – The CommonSense Approach, a practical and optimistic guide to the menopause experience, you can get through it with grace and confidence. Many women can go through this process naturally and gracefully while retaining their vitality and energy. However, recent over-emphasis on the difficulties of the menopause have led it to be labelled as a 'condition' that needs intervention and treatment. Homeopath Ruth Appleby approaches menopause in a positive and sensible way. She explains what it is, the early signs to watch out for and exactly what changes will occur in the body. From hot flushes to thinning hair, she has menopause covered. She also gives advice on how to improve your overall state of health, believing that women who have general good health should experience fewer problems. For those who do have difficulties she suggests many natural and holistic solutions: diet, exercise, homeopathy, herbal remedies, supplements and Hormone Replacement Therapy. The CommonSense Approach series is a series of self-help guides that provide practical and sound ways to deal with many of life's common complaints. Each book in the series is written for the layperson, and adopts a commonsense approach to the many questions surrounding a particular topic. It explains what the complaint is, how and why it occurs, and what can be done about it. It includes advice on helping ourselves, and information on where to go for further help. It encourages us to take responsibility for our own health, to be sensible and not always to rely on medical intervention for every ill. Other titles in the series include Depression – The CommonSense Approach, Headaches – The CommonSense Approach and Stress – The CommonSense Approach. Menopause – The CommonSense Approach: Table of Contents Preface - What is Health? - Early Symptoms of Menopause - Later Symptoms of Menopause - Menopause - Osteoporosis - Diet and Exercise for Good Health During Menopause - Stress and Relaxation - Hormone Replacement Therapy - Homeopathy – How it Can Help During Menopause - Case HistoriesCharts