Alternative Medicine Category
Alternative Medicine | By April 24, 2008 | By Sudip Ghosh, MD | 3 Comments
How Yoga Improves Balance in the Elderly
Amongst older adults aged 65 and over, falls are the leading cause of non-fatal injuries and hospital admissions. It is estimated that at least one-third of adults above 65 experience serious falls in their lifetime. The cause of falls in the elderly is often multi-factorial, and no definite cause is ascertainable in the vast majority. Quite often balance system in-coordination is pointed out, but as an integrated system, balance relies on inputs from various sources: vision, cerebellar responses, joint senses and even basic spinal reflexes. Read more →
- Green Tea and the Fight Against Parkinson’s Disease
- Heart Chocolate - Friend or Foe?
- Beat Depression with Brain Food while Eating Junk Food
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Uneasy Alliances - Faith and Health
- The Future of Psychiatry with Alternative Treatments
- A Westerner’s Pilgrimage - Chrysanthemum Tea
Parkinson’s disease is the second commonest neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s, affecting 1% of the over-65 population and 2% of the over-80’s. Recent research (1) published in Biological Psychiatry from the Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica in Beijing indicates that... Read more →
There is a new chocolate bar on the market called “Heart Chocolate” that claims to lower blood sugar and cholesterol. The secret behind this healthy chocolate is said to be a mixture of bitter melon and cinnamon (CM-X). Supposedly if you eat three portions throughout the day it controls... Read more →
Depression sucks, and we have probably all heard that it can be combated with proper diet and adding in missing nutrients. But who are we are fooling? Often, a clinically depressed person would prefer chocolate cake and potato chips for dinner rather than the salmon and salad that would help their condition.... Read more →
Can the mind cure the mind, working on itself? Well, although the entire self-help psychology industry survives on an assumption that it does — with various techniques, young and old, aimed at self-therapy, scientific research on the subject is still in its early stage. Mindfulness meditation,... Read more →
We live in a world in which medical researchers design double-blind trials of prayer, ministers talk about the brain and the immune system from the pulpit, monks meditate inside brain imaging machines, and studies of “the placebo effect” and “positive attitude” frame discussions... Read more →
Mainstream psychiatry is becoming more biology-based in practice and today uses medication as a major form of treatment. The problem with this, say some, is that psychiatric medication is dangerous or over-prescribed. Alternative medicine offers other therapeutic choices for people who are against... Read more →
When last we met I was standing in a Chinese herbal store with plastic bag full of dried chrysanthemum flowers in my hand. The pharmacist instructed me to combine the flowers with something called Wolfberry fruit an herb that resembled a little like a red crystal rock. In typical Western style, I asked... Read more →
Friday, May 16, 2008
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Are You Depressed Because You're Introverted?
- The Difference Between Doctors and Lawyers
- The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider's Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials
- Persistent Vegetative States: Legal and Political Ramifications
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Domestic Violence: Call for Primary Care Screening and Gender Issues - Part I
- How Yoga Improves Balance in the Elderly
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Democracy vs. Domestic Violence
- Cell Transplants for Parkinson’s Disease
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): No Heart for the Meds?
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Drugs and Pharmacology, Seventh Edition
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- Domestic Violence and Executive Dysfunction
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- Great article. I am believe in the mind/body link and the value of understandin...
- You have excellent articles.
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- I'm a physician who carries at all times. No one has a right to inflict death or...
- Doctors need to set up their offices where the patients are. My pediatrician's ...
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