Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook - Softcover - Autographed by Dr. Walt

"Product Description: Easy to use, this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Alternative Medicine keeps pace with the latest findings and developments in alternative medicine. Here is the most comprehensive, current, well-balanced, and trustworthy information available from both a scientific and a biblical perspective. From the Back Cover: The most complete resource of its kind on alternative medicine ? Herbal remedies, dietary supplements, and alternative therapies ? Their specific uses ? Which ones really work (and which ones don't) ? What to watch out for ? Christian versus non-Christian approaches to holistic health ? Clinically proven treatments versus unproven or quack treatments ? Truths and fallacies about supernatural healing ? Ancient medical lore: the historical, cultural, and scientific facts ? And much, much more Alternative Medicine is the first comprehensive guidebook to nontraditional medicine written from a distinctively Christian perspective. Keeping pace with the latest developments and research in alternative medicine, this thoroughly revised edition combines the most current information with an easy-to-use format. University lecturer and researcher Donal O'Mathuna, PhD, and national medical authority Walt Larimore, MD, provide detailed and balanced answers to your most pressing questions about alternative medicine-and to other questions you wouldn't have thought to ask. Also includes: ? Two alphabetical reference sections: ? Alternative therapies ? Herbal remedies, vitamins, and dietary supplements ? A description of each therapy and remedy, an analysis of claims, results of actual studies, cautions, recommendations, and further resources ? Handy cross-references linking health problems with various alternative therapies and herbal remedies reviewed in the book."