The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East/West Guide to Living with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions - Softcover

Cohen, Misha Ruth; Doner, Kalia

9780805051179: The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East/West Guide to Living with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805051171 ISBN 13: 9780805051179

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 1998

Features targeted programs combining Chinese and Western medicine New treatments and therapies allow people with HIV/AIDS to live longer and live better.

Now, the focus is shifting toward improving the quality of their lives and finding new ways to manage the often-debilitating symptoms of the diseases and related conditions.

Misha Ruth Cohen, a noted specialist in the healing arts, here offers programs, combining the best of Chinese medicine and Western science, for treating digestive disorders, respiratory problems, diarrhea, skin problems, fatigue, pain, anemia, depression, and other maladies. She explains how to incorporate herbs, acupuncture, diet, nutritional supplements, stress reduction, and massage into a sensible comprehensive medical plan, which also addresses the spiritual, mental, and emotional needs of people with HIV/AIDS.

The HIV Wellness Sourcebook, the first book featuring such a multi-faceted approach, will empower readers to learn to coexist with HIV/AIDS and take control of their lives.

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Review:

The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East-West Guide to Living Well with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions takes on an immense task: blending Chinese and Western medical therapies to manage HIV and restore balance to the mind, body, and spirit. Misha Ruth Cohen, a Chinese medicine researcher and practitioner, gives a compact course in Chinese medicine practices with its perspective on "the disharmonies associated with HIV infection." She describes clearly how Chinese medicine views the body, disease, the immune system (the body's ability to fight disease), and the progression from HIV to AIDS. She explains the basics of the Western view of the immune system, showing how Western and Eastern views both differ and complement each other.

The book details how to use diet, herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion (placing warm herbs on the protected skin at acupuncture points), acupressure, Qi Gong (exercises including meditation), and other healing techniques. Targeted treatment plans combine East and West for neurological disorders (such as neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and dementia), protozoal infections (such as Pneumoncystis carinii pneumonia and toxoplasmosis), candidiasis, mycobacterial infections, opportunistic viral infections, and more. The message: "You are in charge of your healing process and you can do a great deal to improve the quality of your daily life." --Joan Price

About the Author:

Misha Ruth Cohen, O.M.D., L.Ac., is a doctor of Oriental medicine, and co-founder of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center in San Francisco. She is the author, with New York-based writer and editor Kalia Doner, of The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness.

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