"Complementary Therapies for the Contemporary Healthcare" ed. by Marcelo Saad and Roberta de Medeiros

This book presents some new ideas to be applied and tested in the complementary therapies.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Current Scenario
1 Complementary Therapies - Considerations Before Recommend, Tolerate or Proscribe Them
2 Integrating Complementary and Conventional Care Using Quality Use of Medicines as a Framework
3 Evaluating Homeopathic Therapies for Contemporary Health Care: An Evident Priority
Section 2 Diagnostic Resources
4 Review of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pulse Diagnosis Quantification
5 Does the Cognitive Top-Down Systems Biology Approach, Embodied in Virtual Scanning, Provide Us with a Theoretical Framework to Explain the
Function of Most Complementary and Alternative and Most Orthodox Biomedical Techniques?
6 Musical Auditory Stimulation and Cardiac Autonomic Regulation
7 Spiritual-Religious Coping - Health Services Empowering Patients' Resources
Section 3 Therapeutic Resources
8 Botanical Species as Traditional Therapy: A Quantitative Analisys of the Knowledge Among Ranchers in Southeastern Brazil
9 Hypocholesterolaemic Effects of Probiotics
10 Traditional and Modern Medicine Harmonizing the Two Approaches in the Treatment of Neurodegeneration (Alzheimer's Disease - AD)
11 Distant Healing by the Supposed Vital Energy - Scientific Bases