Treating Canker Sores with Mind-Body Medicine
... Canker Sores Mind-Body Medicine Canker sores are often brought about by stress. Learn to meditate, do guided-imagery, and visualize yourself as a healthy, relaxed person. Find a relaxation technique t...

Treating Arteriosclerosis with Mind Body Medicine
... Dr. George Jacob Heart Infocenter Alternative and Complementary Remedies for Arteriosclerosis And Atherosclerosis Mind Body Medicine for Arteriosclerosis Mind/body healers use positive affirmations to...

Treating Arthritis with Mind Body Medicine
... Arthritis Mind Body Medicine Mental and emotional factors can play a role in arthritis. Some of the specific mental/ emotional issues related to arthritis are: Sensitivity to criticism-this is probabl...

Treating Depression with Mind Body Medicine
... Depression Mind/Body Medicine Many mind/body practices are helpful with depression. Music and dance can lift the spirits and energize the body. Meditation and relaxation techniques, such as progressiv...

Treating Stroke with Mind/Body Medicine
... Dr. George Jacob Heart Infocenter Stroke Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Stroke Mind/Body Medicine for Stroke Techniques that teach the body to relax and the mind to focus on healing can he...

Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Mind-Body Medicine
... CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Mind-Body Medicine Mind-Body medicine is based on the theory that we can directly influence what goes on in our body. In mind/body medicine, we are deliberately using the ...

Treating Tinnitus with Mind/Body Medicine
... Tinnitus Alternative Medicine for Tinnitus Regular exercise that increases blood circulation to the head may help bring some relief from tinnitus. Try running, fast walking, swimming, biking, or some ...

Treating Heart Disease with Mind/Body Medicine
... Dr. George Jacob Heart Infocenter Alternative and Complementary Remedies Mind/Body Medicine Meditation Prayer/Spirituality Breathing exercises to reduce stress Positive imagery/visualization Caution: ...

Treating Menopause with Mind Body Medicine
... Menopause and HRT Alternative Medicine for Menopause Mind Body Medicine Relaxation – Reframing – Stress Management Invoking relaxation response can reduce the intensity and duration of menop...

Treating Infertility Female with Mind/Body Medicine
... INFERTILITY Alternative Therapies - Female Gerald Epstein, M.D. suggests the following visualization in his book ‘Healing Visualizations,’ to help women overcome infertility. Close your eye...

Treating Infertility Male with Mind/Body Medicine
... INFERTILITY Alternative Therapies - Men Treatments of choice may include: Sepia is useful if the man has a dragging sensation in the genitals and no desire for sex. Cannabis sativa is useful if you h...

Treating Overweight and Obesity with Mind Body Medicine
... Weight Control Infocenter Mind Body Medicine for Obesity Mind-body techniques offer a powerful set of strategies to lose weight easily, and for good. "As a man thinketh, so is he." It has been proven ...

Hay Fever, Allergies, and the Sniffles
... Allergies are widespread in our present culture, and literature indicates that humanity has suffered from them for centuries. Traditional approaches to allergic reactions are the removal of the subst...

Relaxation Techniques for Relief of Anxiety & Stress
... Women with increased levels of anxiety and nervous tension often need to develop more effective ways of dealing with day to day stresses the minor everyday pressures that women with a healthy emotiona...

Dynamics of Visualization and Imagery In Therapy
... In ancient and modern times, in both East and West, visualization has with few exceptions enjoyed an illustrious history. It has been a cornerstone of many healing methods. The earliest visualization ...

Tumors and Cancer
... Some of the most tragic stories one will ever hear in medical practice are those of cancer patients and their families. Unfortunately, the tragedy is often the result of the impact on people''s lives...

Personalized Therapy
... In developing an effective visualization, one must consider a number of qualities, especially a positive image. In Imagery of Cancer, Achterberg and Lawlis state: "The symbols of positive connotation ...

Alternative Medicine and CFIDS
... In a 1993 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine,a team of Harvard researchers reported that Americans actually make more office visits to providers of unconventional health care than ...

Handling Suicidal Feelings in ME/CFS
... There are two distinct sources of emotional disturbance in ME/CFS. One is the "somato-psychic" aspect of ME/CFS--the fact that the disease process affects the neurological system, altering brain chemi...

Take Heart Recovery Happens
... The stress of living with CFS can take a heavy toll on one''s ability to envision a better future. Yet people with CFS must avoid the trap of false despair. Hope for recovery is essential if you are t...

The Most Important Symptom
... The single most important symptom to treat in CFIDS is the sleep disorder.This is because good quality sleep is necessary for healing. Recent scientific evidence indicates that people with CFIDS and f...

The Recovery Phase in CFS
... While CFS researchers seek to describe the disease process and find a medical cure, little attention has been given to describing the recovery process that has occurred in many people. Yet we now have...

Feed Friendships, Starve Colds
... The common wisdom is to avoid a cold, avoid contact with other people. While it may make sense to limit your exposure to the viruses which trigger the sniffling, sneezing and coughing of the common co...

Disorders of the Endocrine System
... Since the turn of the century, we have heard a great deal about a newly discovered system in the body-the endocrine system. This consists of many glands, including the thyroid gland, pituitary gland,...

Stress Reduction for Relief of Fibroids & Endometriosis
... Many of the fibroid and endometriosis patients I see in my medical practice complain of major stress along with their physical symptoms. My personal impression as a physician who has worked with women...

Here''s to Your Heart
... If you''ve been reluctant to give up your martini at the end of a hard day or a glass of your favorite wine with dinner, here''s some good news. According to Richard Doll, one of the pioneering resear...

High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease
... The major cause of death in this country is from diseases of the cardiovascular system, and the most common disease is high blood pressure, which causes inadequate circulation to the heart and overwo...

Yoga for Menopause
... Yoga stretches can benefit both the body and the mind, bringing energy and balance. This is particularly helpful to women who are currently in menopause or in menopause transition because their hormon...

Contacting Your Higher Self
... One of the most important steps in making your creative visualization work effectively and successfully is to have the feeling of being connected with your inner spiritual source. Your spiritual sourc...

Healing Meditations
... Here are some techniques that can be very effective for healing ourselves and others. Healing Ourselves This meditation can help us discover an underlying cause for an ailment and/or begin to release ...

A Simple Exercise in Creative Visualization
... Here is an exercise in the basic technique of creative Visualization: First, think of something you would like. For this exercise choose something simple, that you can easily imagine attaining. It mig...

Shaking, Muscle Tremors, and Parkinson''s Disease
... I have worked with several patients with Parkinson''s disease, a disease that is generally thought to be of unknown origin but that causes a person to have severe shaking of the hands and severe diff...

Self-Applied Health Enhancement Methods and the Future
... Many methods to reduce medical costs have failed. It is amazing that the last remaining strategy is to allow people to heal themselves. Most medical experts remain hesitant to give you permission to h...

Guided Imagery Speeds Surgical Recovery
... Patients undergoing surgery often experience a loss of control, feeling more like victims than participants. Anxiety, fear of the unknown, fear of pain, dependency, uncertainty, and helplessness are c...

Pregnancy and Delivery
... As in surgery, pain often plays a large part in complications of pregnancy and delivery. In our culture deliveries and surgical procedures are carried out in similar settings. Thus the fear associate...

Sex May Prolong Life
... When it comes to medical research on sex, most of the attention is on sexually transmitted disease and sexual disfunction-Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS, impotence and frigidity. From this p...

Skin Problems
... Skin rashes and other problems and disorders of the skin constitute a large portion of diseases seen in general practice. The problems range from simple hives to impetigo to more complicated ones suc...

Rx: Halting Time Pressure
... This article was adapted from The Healthy Mind, Healthy Body Handbook by David S. Sobel and Robert Ornstein. Publisher: Drx, Los Altos, CA, 1996. May not be reproduced without written permission. Kath...

Vision
... Visual disorders also may be linked to negative conditioning. Some people who wear glasses are consciously aware of fluctuations in their vision according to emotional state or time of day. Let''s tak...