This is the first definitive book to draw on unique, unpublished, professional expertise about the reshaping of herbal medicine in the UK. This book outlines the outcomes of recent examinations, and poses challenging questions about the direction of future herbal medicine policy within the UK.

This practical book offers an extensive examination of how manual therapy (MT) techniques work, and how to match the most suitable techniques to different conditions. Drawing on evidence-based research, it explores the physiological, neurological and psychophysiological responses of the human body to MT techniques. In doing so, it helps MT practitioners deliver a more effective and safer...

The first edition of Grieve's Modern Manual Therapy - The Vertebral Column was quickly recognized as a milestone in the field of non-surgical treatment of back problems. This third edition maintains the objectives of the original editor, Gregory Grieve, to bring together the latest state-of-the-art research, from both clinical practice and the related basic sciences, which is most releva...

A glossary that presents all the Chinese terms (in Chinese characters and in Pinyin script) that are relevant to TCM and provides their English translations. It also provides an explanation of how, for example, the location or the function of an acupuncture point can be concluded from its name.

A major textbook that lays the foundations for a broad understanding of complementary and alternative medicine. Written for all students and practitioners working in medicine, health, and science, it: bridges the gap with conventional medicine, discussing a variety of relevant cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts in which to view complementary and alternative medicine; describ...