Complementary medicine systems : comparison and integration / Karl W. Kratky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kratky, Karl W.

Series:

Health and human development series.

Standardized Title:

Komplementare Medizinsysteme. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine.

Medicine, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For almost all of us the question of health and illness is essential but although a considerable amount of relevant literature is available, the confusion concerning this subject matter still seems to grow. In general people tend to trust no less than their own personal approach, while alternate positions find themselves either ignored or opposed. This book chooses a different path as it investigates not only the potentiality of communication among the various disciplines but also considers four basic views or perspectives as interpretations of reality. In the process it becomes apparent that classical science and more recent developments, like chaos theory, no longer speak the same language. Furthermore, several well-known modes of healing are compared (like orthodox medicine and homoeopathy from the West, as well as Indian, Tibetan and Chinese medicine from the East). Apart from the expected differences, surprising parallels are emerging, above all the assertions concerning fundamental reactions of the human organism. This comparison leads to an integration of common results regarding the various medicine systems, which can be illustrated using a geometrical model (health disc, life spiral). Thus, the basis for the translation of insights and findings from one medicine system to another has successfully been established; therefore the utilisation of the (ancient) knowledge of one method of healing in other therapeutic systems proves to be possible

Contents:

Field of tension between orthodox and complementary medicine

Understanding between ages and cultures

Systemic view I: chaos and fractals

Systemic view II: self-organisation and chaos control

Homoeopathy and related methods

Feedback diagnoses and feedback therapies

Traditional Chinese medicine and its roots

Ayurveda and Tibetan medicine

Advancement of the cross-cultural model

Western type assignments

Chronobiology and chronomedicine

Recent developments around homoeopathy

A deeper understanding of falling ill and recovering

Unity in diversity: ethnological and spiritual aspects.

Notes:

Originally published in German as: Komplementare Medizinsysteme / Karl W. Kratky. c2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.

ISBN:

1-61122-433-0

OCLC:

839304951