Integrative Women's Health (Weil Integrative Medicine Library)

Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women's Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care. Presenting the best evidence in a concise, accessible format, and written exclusively by female clinicians, this text addresses many aspects of women's health, including feminine perspectives on aging, spirituality and sexuality, specific recommendations for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, headaches, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, and cancer, as well as integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, fibroids, and endometriosis. Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners provide insight into the ways in which these systems manage reproductive conditions. As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, but they also go beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing. Doody Review Services Reviewer: Laura Meints, MD(Washington University School of Medicine) Description: This book educates practitioners caring for women about the complementary, alternative, and spiritual aspects of healthcare. Tables, personal anecdotes, and summary points supplement the text. Purpose: As stated in the preface, the purpose is to tie together traditional ways of understanding and treating disease with Western medical practices to provide integrative healthcare to women. In the process, the authors specifically seek to incorporate the art of medicine and gender-specific attention to disease states. The book aims to provide a broad-based approach to women's health through use of both anecdote and evidence. Audience: It is intended for health professionals involved in women's health, although it fills a niche (complementary and alternative medicine) within the larger sphere of women's health. Features: Chapters are separated into thematic subject areas of short length and depth for generalist practitioners. The book, although intended as a guide to women's health, varies between evidence-supported, practical chapters and largely subjective chapters based on the author's opinion. The chapters that use evidence tend to do so to support a particular way of thinking about the chapter's subject, rather than presenting all available evidence. Nonetheless, for practitioner seeking a basic introduction to integrative medicine as it relates to women, this is a good starting guide. The book covers lifestyle contributors to health and wellness (nutrition, dietary supplements, physical activity, mind-body therapies), world systems and philosophies related to disease (traditional Chinese medicine, energy medicine, homeopathy), reproductive health (premenstrual syndrome, the role of stress in infertility, chronic pelvic pain, menopause), and common illnesses in women (urinary tract infections, headaches, anxiety, eating disorders, osteoporosis). Concise sectioning of information in the chapters and good tables are the highlight of this book. There is much innovative information as it relates to the mind-body connection in health. Assessment: This book superficially reaches its goals of educating the reader about integrative medicine. It only briefly describes topics, and the opinion-based chapters offer a single approach to integrative care. That said, I would recommend the book for someone new to integrative medicine as a basic introduction. Cover Page......Page 1 Integrative Medicine Library......Page 3 Title: Integrative Women’s Health......Page 4 ISBN 0195378814......Page 5 FOREWORD......Page 8 PREFACE......Page 12 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14 CONTENTS......Page 16 Contributors......Page 20 I: Lifestyle......Page 26 1. Philosophy of Integrative Women’s Health......Page 28 2. Nutrition......Page 32 3. Dietary Supplements......Page 55 4. Physical Activity......Page 72 5. Mind–Body Therapies......Page 90 6. Women, Soul Wounds, and Integrative Medicine......Page 109 II: Systems and Modalities......Page 124 7. Traditional Chinese Medicine......Page 126 8. Ayurveda......Page 135 9. Energy Medicine......Page 150 10. Homeopathy......Page 161 11. Manual Medicine......Page 176 III: Reproductive Health......Page 188 12. Premenstrual Syndrome......Page 190 13. Vaginitis......Page 213 14. Pregnancy and Lactation......Page 226 15. Perinatal Depression......Page 258 16. The Role of Stress in Infertility......Page 275 17. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome......Page 296 18. Endometriosis......Page 308 19. Chronic Pelvic Pain......Page 327 20. Uterine Fibroids......Page 344 21. Cervical Cancer......Page 360 22. Breast Cancer......Page 373 23. Menopause......Page 391 24. Sexuality......Page 410 IV: Common Illnesses in Women......Page 424 25. Urinary Tract Infections......Page 426 26. Irritable Bowel Syndrome......Page 437 27. Headaches......Page 452 28. Fibromyalgia–Chronic Fatigue......Page 479 29. Rheumatoid Arthritis......Page 499 30. Multiple Sclerosis......Page 530 31. HIV......Page 546 32. Anxiety......Page 560 33. Depression......Page 579 34. Eating Disorders......Page 597 35. Cardiovascular Health......Page 613 36. Osteoporosis......Page 648 37. Healthy Aging: The Whole Woman Approach......Page 671 38. Women’s Health: An Epilogue......Page 685 A......Page 696 B......Page 697 C......Page 698 D......Page 700 E......Page 701 G......Page 702 H......Page 703 I......Page 704 M......Page 705 O......Page 707 P......Page 708 Q......Page 709 S......Page 710 T......Page 711 V......Page 712 Z......Page 713 Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. This book weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care. Presenting the best evidence, and written exclusively by female clinicians, this text addresses many aspects of women's health, including feminine perspectives on aging, spirituality and sexuality, specific recommendations for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, headaches, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, and cancer, as well as integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, fibroids, and endometriosis. Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners provide insight into the ways in which these systems manage reproductive conditions. As educators in integrative medicine, the editors demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, but they also go beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing