Healing Systems is a compact guide to holistic health care and complementary medicine. It tells you what different alternative therapies can and cannot do, profiles their limitations and strength, and explains the theory and the science of each therapy. Reassuring and life enhancing. Healing Systems will empower you to discover and support a healthier lifestyle and reach new levels of feeling good.

Alternatives & Choices Acupressure, Acupuncture, Alexander Technique, Allopathy, Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, Biofeedback Training, Chiropractic, Colour Therapy, Emchi, Faith Healing, Flower Remedies, Homoeopathy, Hypnosis, Iridology, Magnetotherapy, Massage, Nature Cure, Osteopathy, Psychoanalysis, Reflexology, Reiki, Rolfing, Siddha Medicine, T’aiChi and Other Martial Arts, Unani Tibb, and Yoga.

The book explores a large number of healing systems which have been successfully practised in different civilisations, across all lands and cultures. The life supporting and life enriching role of these diverse practices has been accepted and acknowledged. Their underlying philosophies are no longer seen as different or separate from modern medicine. These alternative health-care choices are increasingly filling in where medications and surgery may not be appropriate or desirable, specially in chronic diseases.

This book will empower you to take charge of your health and lifestyle. Health and healing are dynamic, living process unique to each individual. The book will encourage and help you to find a healing process or processes best suited to your health-care requirements. It will enable you to find out what works (and what doesn’t work) in improving your overall health. Knowing yourself, and what it takes for you to be well, will help you to live your daily life in a health-enhancing way.