Product Description

Blended Medicine is the next wave in healthcare. It takes all healing arts available today- from mainstream medicine to yoga-and chooses the best healing strategy for any condition. Over one third of Americans currently use alternative therapies, indicating that they already practice "blended medicine" to a degree. Now they have the ultimate authority on the new holistic healing frontier.

Blended Medicine profiles 21 mainstream and alternative therapies, including nutrition, naturopathy and biofeedback, explaining each in detail and describing what it most successfully treats. An A to Z reference of 106 health conditions describes and prioritizes each ailment's most effective therapies. Blended Medicine introduces a new world of medicine where mainstream doctors and alternative practitioners provide effective and enlightened health care to every individual.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132257 in Books
• Published on: 2000-02-12
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 512 pages

From Library Journal
Castleman, a medical journalist and the author of nine previous books, here offers an integrative approach to healing. He describes over 20 therapeutic traditions and then outlines the most effective Western and alternative treatments for over 100 common health conditions. Although he is careful to encourage consultation with professionals, his emphasis throughout is on self-cure. Yet many of the therapies described demand extensive training and practice, if not precision. For example, he often recommends acupressure, but his description of pressure points is cursory, with no accompanying illustrations. Castleman also allots major diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and hepatitis little more space and coverage than minor conditions such as heartburn and jet lag. Overall, he is striving to do too much in one book, and although the concept of integrating traditional and alternative therapies is an important one, the complexity of such a task--at least for the layperson--is far beyond the scope of one self-help manual. Not recommended.
-Andy Wickens, Univ. of Washington Health Sciences Lib., Seattle
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

From the Publisher
"An important book for anyone interested in overcoming illness and maintaining good health" -Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Former President, American Holistic Medical Association

Customer Reviews

Very informative on the best choices in healing
This book gives a good overview of treatment options (mainstream medicine & alternative) for a multitude of common health problems. I was impressed that the author did not focus on just 1 "right" treatment, but highlighted multiple options. Very informative on the best choices in healing.

This puts it all together.
This is a unique and valuable bible of the current state of healing arts. The author has no political agenda. He does not favor 'alternative' vs 'Western' or 'traditional' medicine. He just objectively tells you what works and what does not work so well given specific health condition.

He allows you to attack any ailment you have with a multi-medicinal approach. For any given condition, this book makes insightful recommendation from ayuverdic, homeopathic, herbal, and traditional medicine.

It is unfortunate that within the medical establishment (the AMA) this 'Blended' approach has not taken hold. It is obviously much more successful than going at it from one limited perspective.

Thanks to this book though, it is like having your own in house doctor.