Medicine At Your Feet

A Hawaii-based practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, David Bruce Leonard, has just released the new book Medicine at Your Feet: Healing Plants of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Taking ten years to complete, this first volume is one of the most authoritative sources of information on Hawaiian medicinal plants. Exhaustively researched, Medicine at Your Feet contains cross-cultural uses for 49 different Hawaiian plant medicines, many of which are easy to find. Included is information on medicinal properties, food uses, chemical constituents, herbal combinations, plant gathering protocols, possible drug interactions, scientific research and much more. Here is what the experts have to say about Medicine at Your Feet: "This book is exactly what I want with me on my next trip to Hawaii . . . or even if I stay home." - - Jim Duke, author of The Green Pharmacy."David is a thorough scholar who really knows his plants. This is an excellent resource." - - Dennis McKenna, Senior Lecturer and Research Associate, Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota.David Bruce Leonard is a practitioner and teacher of traditional Chinese medicine with a working knowledge of more than 400 traditional Hawaiian, Chinese, and Western plants. A deep ecologist and Hawaiian native plant specialist, he has been a student of Hawaiian medicine under Kahu Kawika Ka'alakea, Kaipo Kaneakua and Na Kupuna 'O Hawai'i since 1992.

Beautifully illustrated, this informative book describes the plants integral to Hawaiian medicine and healing, and discusses their uses past and present.

This guide helps train outdoor leaders to prevent, recognize, and treat common medical problems and to stabilize a severely ill or injured patient for evacuation.

Instructions for Sports Medicine Patients provides step-by-step guidance for your patients to save time and eliminate the risk of miscommunication. Marc Safran and James E. Zachazewski present the combined perspectives of both an orthopaedic sports medicine physician and a physical therapist for a balanced approach to therapeutic practices. The updated second edition covers additional topics so that you stay current and have the best treatment options at your fingertips. You'll have over 300 rehabilitation exercises with detailed drawings and descriptions, all downloadable from www.expertconsult.com. Ensure that your patients comply with therapeutic instructions and recover more quickly from chronic ankle instability, tennis elbow, and more. Access the fully searchable contents on CD, along with all topics printable as PDFs for fast and easy access to the instructions you need. Provide over 300 rehabilitation exercises with detailed drawings and descriptions that are easy for the patient to follow at home. Customize patient handouts with special instructions through an adaptable notes area. Benefit from the perspectives of an orthopedic sports medicine physician and a physical therapist for balanced guidelines for the patient to follow. Stay at the forefront of therapy and practice with coverage of additional new topics-flexor hallucis longus tendonitis, hip labral tear, femoroacetabular impingement, ligamentum teres tear, hip instability, stiff (frozen) shoulder, hip arthroscopy SLAP lesion, Bennett lesion, thrower's shoulder, exercise with a joint replacement (arthroplasty), trochanteric bursitis, and viscosupplementation. Save time in finding the right treatment using an expanded table of contents that references both the common and scientific names of each condition. Help your patients understand instructions thanks to material at a 6th grade reading level for easy comprehension.

This book succinctly introduces the benefits of foot reflexology and acupressure, the required tools and the theory behind the science. With 77 reflex zones and 66 acupressure points, the soles of the feet are essentially a map to the human body—each one corresponds to an organ, muscle or other potential problem area. By implementing reflexology and acupressure techniques, you may be able to alleviate pain and discomfort, fatigue, stress and symptoms of chronic disease. These techniques can be done anytime and anywhere, and require just a few minutes a day. With easy-to-understand language and more than 200 color photos and diagrams—including computer-generated maps to help you locate the points on your own feet—this book is a comprehensive introduction to reflexology and acupressure for beginners (or for those who don't have time to go to reflexology or acupuncture appointments). Can be used in conjunction with Hand Reflexology & Acupressure.

Ottawa Book Award 2022 — Shortlisted Imagine a medicine that could make you live longer, healthier, happier, and stronger. What if that medicine was already right at your feet? Running is the miracle drug that can do all this and more — it is the perfect medicine. Throughout his career, Dr. Brodie Ramin has seen cases of diabetes, hypertension, and anxiety, which he has traced back to inactivity. Now more than ever, people are looking for inspiration and motivation to get fit, change their lives, and improve their overall wellness. In The Perfect Medicine, Dr. Ramin shares with us his discovery that we already have the perfect medicine to treat and prevent these common illnesses and improve our health: running. However, too few people are taking the right dose or using it at all. The Perfect Medicine explores the science of running and exercise and provides advice on how to maximize its benefits and be your best self. After rediscovering the joy of running in his early thirties, Dr. Ramin became fascinated by the activity. This book takes the reader on a personal journey of discovery, traces the evolution of running, shares strategies to get fit and run faster, and shows how exercise can even help people recover from addiction and mental health conditions.