"Alternative Medicine" - Natural Health Care? - Reform?
Non-commercial, purely-educational facts you need for freedom of informed CHOICE -- not merely informed CONSENT.

Note -- If you're FOR one choice and against another, just remember: It may be FOR you, but it isn't FOR everybody; so don't "make a religion of it" (or a "crusade" or an "inquisition", either) by ASSUMING we all need the same things and have the same personal values. WE DON'T! Grant everyone else the same freedom of choice you cherish.
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The Truth About "Natural Healing"
- Ten Things You Should Know

10. -- How You Can Learn More

Continue to examine ALL "scientific" observations, conclusions and theories IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER, and you'll see how little we really know for sure. In contrast to the changeable, often-contradictory, sometimes-near-whimsical theories of humans, you'll find a remarkably stable, dependable kind of "wisdom" in the natural world. ( Some credit "Mother Nature" --- whatever became of "Father Nature"? )

The precious few doctors (Medical OR Non-Medical) I've ever known who valued that "wisdom" above all else, not-likely-by-coincidence grew up on the farm and understood how life works in the real world, not just in the laboratory (and were often labeled "quacks" by "technological medicine").

If you desire truly natural health, you need to read your anatomy-physiology textbook from the perspective of life as a CO-OPERATIVE effort, not as a COMPETITIVE one; even if it WAS written from the second perspective, as most are. ( A quick scan of the parts on the lymphatic system and the surely-misnamed immune system will tell.)

Keep reading, observing, thinking and reasoning --- "outside the box". Take nothing for granted; make no assumptions; question the "unquestionable". Always remember that truth, like life, is interdependent. All the pieces or elements must fit together and work together, or nothing fits and works. Even when we don't "have all the pieces", we can be sure that genuine truths will never contradict other genuine truths ---- nor that rare UNcommon quality we so glibly refer to as "common sense".

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Other Reading Suggestions

*****

Gray's Anatomy
--- Probably not for beginners. Listed first because, to all accounts, it WAS the first
--- well over a hundred years ago.
(Not TV's Grey's Anatomy --- watch spelling.)
Unabridged editions around 1200 pgs.
(eg.1974 ISBN-10: 0914294083; ISBN-13: 978-0914294085)

*****

Human Anatomy and Physiology by Elaine Nicpon Marieb.
Written for first semester nursing students.
Also around 1200 pgs.
Easier reading; more explanation. Almost pure anatomy-physiology with simple, clear information & very little medical theory .
(8th edition 2010; ISBN-10: 0805395911; ISBN-13: 978- 0805395914)

*****

"On Disease" --- essay by Dr. Lewis Thomas [1913-1993] (former Dean of Yale Medical School and former President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
In the collection "The Medusa and the Snail"
ISBN: 0-670-46568-2

*****

Own Your Own Body by Dr. Stan Malstrom, @ 400pgs.
Entry-level anatomy-physiology w/natural living/healing info.
Paperback, 1984 Keats Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0879832150 ; ISBN-13: 9780879832155
Hardcover, 1992 Woodland Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0913923230 ; ISBN-13: 9780913923238

*****

New Choices in Natural Healing - Rodale Press
No anatomy-physiology, but excellent overview of most alternative healing professions & concepts with numerous self-help remedies
(Exercise discernment along with your values & priorities here.)
ISBN 0-87596-364-1 (paperback) 0-87596-257-2 (hardback)

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Incredible Voyage : Exploring the Human Body ; National Geographic Society,
352 p. c1998. ISBN: 0792271483
Very little "how's and why's" but
OUTSTANDING pictures of your "innards"
-- great WITH another textbook
(or conversation piece for the coffee table? :)

(If at all possible, check them out in your Public Library first; then you can make better decisions on which one(s) you want to buy for reference. Some are quite expensive; others may be out of print. Most can be found used at some of the online bookstores. Local retailers can probably find other editions from ISBN's shown here. ( Latest editions are hardly necessary for beginning home use, and will most likely cost much more.) If you're not seeing them in person (as with online shopping) be sure it's the original textbook and not a "laboratory edition" with only lab experiments or a "study guide" with only sample exam questions.)

When you stop learning, you stop living --- and begin merely existing.
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Student Reading - "Outside the Box"?
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You are reading --- The Truth About "Natural" Healing --- Ten Things You Should Know

Copyright 2007 Low Tech Concepts

1. What IS It --- REALLY? --- Scientific "Alternative Medicine"? OR Psychosomatic Occult Superstition?

2. The Issues --- Widespread Claims & Misconceptions

3. Is It Safe?

4. Is It Scientific?

5. Is It Legal?

6. What's the REAL Problem?

7. Is It Enough? --- Growing Up REALLY Drug Free --- A True Story

8. Is It For YOU?

9. How Does It Work? --- Unconventional Concepts of Illness & Health --- You May or May Not Have Considered

10. How You Can Learn More
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Appendix --- Other Observations and Questions You May or May Not Have Wondered About

Appendix 2 --- A Natural-Healing Perspective on Coronavirus and others that are blamed for various illnesses

Living Wills, Advance Medical Directives, and Serious Considerations
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- King Solomon.
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