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Complementary and alternative approaches to biomedicine
- Title
- Complementary and alternative approaches to biomedicine / edited by Edwin L. Cooper and Nobuo Yamaguchi.
- Author
- Congress on Alternative and Complementary Medicine (5th : 2002 : Kanazawa-shi, Japan)
- Publication
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xxi, 480 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 0065-2598 ; v. 546
- Uniform Title
- Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 546.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Congress.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- What happened in Kanazawa? : the birth of eCAM -- National approaches to CAM -- CAM approaches to specific diseases and biomedical conditions -- The urgent need for evidence-based CAM in the world / Nobuo Yamaguchi -- Beginnings / Patty Christiena Willis -- 1. Complementary and alternative medicine in Japan / Nobutaka Suzuki, Satoshi Ohno, Tsutomu Kamei, Yumiko Yoshiki, Yuji Kikuchi, Kazuyoshi Okubo, Tomihisa Ohta, Shoji Shimizu, Saburo Koshimura, Atsufumi Taru and Masaki Inoue -- 2. New scientific approach for natural medicine : examples of Kampo medicine / Haruki Yamada -- 3. The modernization of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan - past, present and future / Chieh Fu Chen, Yau Chik Shum and Sze Piao Yang -- 4. Quality requirements for herbal medicinal products in Europe / G. Franz -- 5. Integrating medical knowledge : old roots and a modern science-based approach at the University of Milan / E. Minelli, F. Marotta and U. Solimene -- 6. Identification of diseases that may be targets for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) / Aristo Vojdani and Edwin L. Cooper -- 7. Complementary and alternative medicine during HIV infection / Milena Nasi, Marcello Pinti, Leonarda Troiano and Andrea Cossarizza -- 8. A polyherbal formulation for a wide spectrum of reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections / G. P. Talwar -- 9. Anticancer therapeutic potential of soy isoflavone, genistein / Mepur H. Ravindranath, Sakunthala Muthugounder, Naftali Presser and Subramanian Viswanathan -- 10. Chinese medicine and immunity / Haruhisa Wago and Hong Deng -- 11. Testing efficacy of natural anxiolytic compounds / A. A. Roberts -- 12. Alternative approaches to pain relief during labor and delivery / Michel Tournaire -- 13. Alternative and comparative medicine in dentistry / Kazuo Komiyama, Kazuyoshi Koike, Masahiro Okaue, Takahiro Kaneko and Mitsuhiko Matsumoto -- 14. Methodological concerns when designing trials for the efficacy of acupuncture for the treatment of pain / P. J. White -- 15. Treatment for atopic dermatitis by acupuncture / M. Fukuda, N. Kawada, H. Kawamura and T. Abo -- 16. Hydrotherapy can modulate peripheral leukocytes : an approach to alternative medicine / N. Yamaguchi, S. Shimizus and H. Izumi -- 17. Music therapy, wellness, and stress reduction / Andrea M. Scheve -- 18. Music therapy, a future alternative intervention against diseases / Haruhisa Wago and Shinji Kasahara -- 19. Diet instruction for Japanese traditional food in therapy for atopic dermatitis / Hiromi Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Mizuno, Hiroyuki Teramae, Haruo Kutsuna, Mika Nanatsue, Kazuko Hirai and Masamitsu Ishii -- 20. Kampo therapy for adult atopic dermatitis by dieting and herbal medications : evaluating the disappearance of disease phases / Masamitsu Ishii, Hiromi Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Mizuno, Hiroyuki Teramae, Takeshi Nakanishi, Haruo Kutsuna and Iwao Yamamoto -- 21. Management of nutritional and health needs of malnourished and vegetarian people in India / H. D. Kumar -- 22. Cultural heritage : porifera (sponges), a taxon successfully progressing paleontology, biology, biochemistry, biotechnology and biomedicine / Werner E. G. Muller, Renato Batel, Isabel M. Muller and Heinz C. Schroder -- 23. Earthworms : sources of antimicrobial and anticancer molecules / Edwin L. Cooper, Binggen Ru and Ning Weng -- 24. What can we learn from marine invertebrates to be used as complementary antibiotics? / Philippe Roch -- 25. Nervous, endocrine, immune systems as a target for complementary and alternative medicine / Shinji Kasahara and Edwin L. Cooper -- 26. Scientific thinking : its history, methods, and advantages / C. S. Wallis -- 27. Glycome : a medical paradigm / Arnold Loel -- Abstracts -- 1. Exploring the scientific basis of complementary and alternative medicine : plenary / Michael Irwin -- 2. Compliments to complementary medicine : plenary / Gerhard G. Uhlenbruck and Edwin L. Cooper -- 3. Effects of Tai Chi Chih on varicella-zoster virus specific : immunity and health functioning in older adults / Michael Irwin, J. L. Pike and M. N. Oxman -- 4. Safety and effectiveness of health strategies to eliminate behaviors detrimental to health / Bruce S. Rabin -- 5. Expression of matrix metalloproteinase in cervical squamous cell carcinoma tissue and its significance / Zhang Shulan, Lin Bei and Cai Wei -- 6. Expression of surviving gene and its relation with the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax protein in epithelial ovarian cancer / Zhang Shulan, Zhao Chang, Qing Lin Pei, Li Yan and Gao Hong.
- ISBN
- 0306482886
- LCCN
- 2003068658
- OCLC
- ocm53801931
- SCSB-5135736
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries