The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East/West Guide to Living with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions

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The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East-West Guide to Living Well with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions takes on an immense task: blending Chinese and Western medical therapies to manage HIV and restore balance to the mind, body, and spirit. Misha Ruth Cohen, a Chinese medicine researcher and practitioner, gives a compact course in Chinese medicine practices with its perspective on "the disharmonies associated with HIV infection." She describes clearly how Chinese medicine views the body, disease, the immune system (the body's ability to fight disease), and the progression from HIV to AIDS. She explains the basics of the Western view of the immune system, showing how Western and Eastern views both differ and complement each other. The book details how to use diet, herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion (placing warm herbs on the protected skin at acupuncture points), acupressure, Qi Gong (exercises including meditation), and other healing techniques. Targeted treatment plans combine East and West for neurological disorders (such as neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and dementia), protozoal infections (such as Pneumoncystis carinii pneumonia and toxoplasmosis), candidiasis, mycobacterial infections, opportunistic viral infections, and more. The message: "You are in charge of your healing process and you can do a great deal to improve the quality of your daily life." --Joan Price