Regulatory Lock-Out: FDA and Herbs in America, 122
Ancient Remedies and Modern Drugs Working Together?
• The Risk of Losing the Healers
Eastern and Western Herbal Traditions, 124
Training Assures Your Safety
Treating Common Ailments With Herbs, 125
Addictions • Aging • Appetite Control • Asthma • Cancer • Colds and Upper Respiratory Infections • Constipation • Diarrhea, the Flu, and Gastrointestinal Problems • Gynecological Problems • High Blood Pressure • Pain Relief— Headache and PMS • Tips for Common Maladies •
Balls and Seeds • The Lincoln Hospital Program Was the Forerunner • Studies on the Efficacy of Acupuncture in Treating Substance Abuse • Acupuncture and Jailed Addicts • The Three-Tiered Protocol for Treating Addicted Convicts • Community Health Initiatives: The Penn North Neighborhood Center
Wellness is a meeting point of many different facets of our life: the scientific, the interpersonal, the way we eat, the way we sleep, the way we deal with our emotions. Healing involves interpersonal relationships between individuals and those whom they invite to be in healing relationships with them.
It is clear that we are moving from a world in which we look to experts in health care to make decisions for us to a world in which we have recovered our ability, as individuals, families, and communities, to heal ourselves and to make the advice and skills of the "experts" supplemental to our reliance on the innate human ability to heal. We are in a period
