The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook or Shelter from the Storm

The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook: Forty Natural Prescriptions for Perfect Health

Author: David Simon MD

People around the world are increasingly working with their own bodies to restore balance. They're using medicinals found in nature to avoid the side effects of antibiotics and turning to traditions that have passed the test of time. The oldest medical system of all is Ayurveda, which dates back 5,000 years to its origins in India. In The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook, Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., draw on the forty most important herbs of Ayurveda, from aloe and amrit to ginger and winter cherry, to create a practical, popular reference book that shows how to strengthen immunity, rejuvenate the body, boost energy, and detoxify the system.

Each listing in The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook contains botanical information, scientific research, instructions on using the herb, a line drawing, precautions, and most important, the specific ailments each herb is best suited to remedy, including those involving digestion, mind and emotions, women's and men's health matters, metabolism, pain, arthritis and inflammation, circulation, and many more.

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Shelter from the Storm: Caring for a Child with a Life-Threatening Condition

Author: Joanne Hilden

critically ill and unlikely to survive. A recent Harvard University study on pediatric end-of-life care has shown that the medical community is failing such children and their families. Indeed, in their effort to be ever-hopeful and cure-oriented in the face of a child's terminal illness, they neglect to advise parents on the basics of emotional support for all family members, pediatric pain medication, and the need for making plans and worst-case preparations.Based on the National Advanced Illness Coordinated Care program and the stories and advice gleaned from co-author Joanne Hilden's years of work as a pediatric oncologist, Shelter from the Storm fills this advice-and-caregiving void. A compassionate road map to what the family may have to face, what they may be asked to decide, and how they might want to involve their child in the decision-making, Shelter from the Storm will help parents and caregivers make informed, loving, and protective choices on behalf of their children in the most trying of times.

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Caring for a dying loved one is always painful, but when the patient is your child, the pain cuts deeper. Too often, there seems to be nowhere for parents to turn for help and advice on dealing with their child's condition. Hilden, a pediatric oncologist, and Tobin, author of Peaceful Dying and director of the National Advanced Illness Coordinated Care program, draw on their years of working with terminally ill patients to address the medical, emotional, spiritual, and even financial questions that parents need to consider. They offer suggestions on how to discuss death with the child and the rest of the family, and they offer narratives from parents who have gone through the experience. With a large list of resources, this compassionate guide "takes your hand and guides you down a path you don't want to walk." Recommended for most collections.-KellyJo Houtz Griffin, Eatonville, WA Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	A Note on Language	xi
	Foreword	xiii
	Preface	xix
	Introduction: Why This Book?	1
1	Facing Your Child's Life-Threatening Condition	17
2	Individuality of Disease, of Child and Family, and of Choice	35
3	Taking Control of Your Life	43
4	Coming to Terms	77
5	Your Spiritual Mindset	127
6	The Turning Point	137
7	Some Needed Preparation	153
8	Finding Peace	173
	Epilogue	193
	Further Resources	199
	Further Reading	201
	Acknowledgments	207
	Index	211
	About The Children's Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic	219
	About the Life Institute	220