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The Natural Healing Companion: Using Alternative Medicines, What to Buy, How to Take, and When to Combine for Best Results

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And I quote from this book: "ancient healers believed that some type of energy or life force was a necessary component of health. In ayurveda, it's called prana. In Chinese medicine, it's called qi [...] naturopaths like myself call it vis medicatrix naturae, Latin for the healing power of nature. These [vitalistic] concepts remain fundamental tenets of many of the natural practices discussed in this book. The importance of maintaining or realigning this natural energy is one reason holistic practitioners painstakingly construct a complete health profile, including an assessment of your spiritual and emotional well-being, before recommending treatments [p.003...] a homeopathic remedy acts on the vital force of the body, strengthening it or perhaps providing it with the right hints to produce healing [...] the vital force is the inner intelligence that animates each and every person. It has been referred to for thousands of years and by many different names: breath, chi, prana, life force. By stimulating one's vital force, the correct homeopathic remedy can set into motion healing that may continue for days, weeks, or even months [p.321...] qi: the energizing life force. Two major physiological manifestations of yin and yang are your blood and a nebulous concept called qi [...] which represents the life force that energizes you [...] qi inhabits your body and the bodies of all things. People have qi. Birds have qi. All animals have qi. Vegetables have qi. Rocks also possess qi. Each star in the sky has its own qi. Sand on the beach has qi. All thing, animate or inanimate, possess qi [...] as far as the body is concerned, it translates roughly into energy. Qi circulates blood and holds all of your tissues and organs into place [...] your own qi is then responsible for transporting that nourishing, revitalizing energy throughout your body [p.460...] shen means 'spirit' and encompasses emotions as well and mental functions such as memory and mental activity. Treatments are often focused on calming the spirit [p.469]." I'm still trying to figure out how, in this day and age, 2007, an entire profession (naturopathy) can get away with stating that the scientifically-ejected vitalistic and spiritistic (the doctrines of naturopathy) are science-based. The book is an excellent example of naturopathy's HPN=VMN='vital spirit force' woo-woo.