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Papers On Alternative Medicine & Holistic Approaches
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Ethnobotany in Belize
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In ten pages this paper considers the study of ethnobotany as it pertains to Belize in an overview of the country, important ethnobotanist pioneers including Dr. Rosita Arvigo and Dr. Michael J. Balick, the influence of Mayan healer Don Elijio Panti; describes various medicinal uses of such plants as amor seco, mutamba, epazote, gervao, and simarouba; and also discusses the ethnobotanical contributions of the Ix Chel Farm, the Terra Nova Reserve, the Belize Association of Traditional Healers, and the Belize Ethnobotany Project. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGethnobel.rtf
Garlic
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An 8 page paper which examines the history and uses of garlic. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAgarlic.rtf
Harvesting the Dead
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A 2 page review of Willard Gaylin's article entitled "Harvesting the Dead" in which the author discusses possibilities concerning the use of living parts in newly/near-dead people to medically assist others. No Bibliography.
Filename: Deadarti.wps
Health Care Infrastructure Questions
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A 7 page paper answering 4 questions about the current health care infrastructure; how managed care came to increase costs rather than reduce them; what alternative measures might be used to effect change; and what obstacles such measures might encounter. Answers to these questions focus on the medical community’s long-standing rejection of any alternative measures in which pharmaceutical companies cannot hope to control (such as using St. John’s wort for mild depression rather than an ethical drug that is still profitable for its pharmaceutical manufacturer). It also discusses the use of chelation therapy. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KShlthCareInfraQue.rtf
Health-Promotion Behaviors that Promote Self-Healing
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A 3 page review of the 2004 article by author Michael O’Donnell. O’Donnell summarizes what is known about the value of self-healing behavior and emphasizes that additional research is needed in regard to its impact on acute and chronic disease. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPmedSelfHealing.rtf
Hemp -- Industrial and Health Applications and Advantages
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This 5 page report discusses hemp (Cannabis sativa, C. indica), part of the same plant family as marijuana. Hemp does not have the narcotic kick that marijuana does. Its value lies in its fibers. Hemp fibers are twice as long and stronger than cotton fibers and
are generally more versatile than the soybean, cotton plant and Douglas fir tree combined together. In addition, there are beneficial and healthy nutritional properties of hemp seed and hemp seed oil. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWhemp.wps
Hepatitis B and Whole Foods vs. Vitamin Supplements
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the use of whole foods in support of liver regeneration for patients with Hepatitis B. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: MHHepBVi.rtf
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