Balancing the Humors: Healing Traditions and Medical Practice in World Medicine


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  1. Balancing the Humors: Healing Traditions and Medical Practice in World Medicine
  2. Balance
  3. Hippocratic diagnosis and treatment- wounds
  4. Hippocratic diagnosis and treatment
  5. Chinese diagnosis and treatment- yin or yang
  6. Diagnosis and treatment?
  7. Ayurvedic diagnosis and treatment
  8. Tibetan diagnosis and treatment
  9. Cancer treatment I
  10. Cancer treatment II
  11. Body balance and society
  12. Body balance and definitions of illness
  13. Contrast with biomedicine
  14. Religions and medicine
  15. Complete overlap: Animistic healing
  16. Complete separation: Scientific healing
  17. Medicine in a pluralistic society
  18. Medicine in a pluralistic society
  19. Synthetic medical traditions:
  20. Balancing the body- medical traditions
  21. Hippocratic medicine- history
  22. Bodies in balance: Hippocratic medicine
  23. Table of Hippocratic humors
  24. Bodies out of Balance: causes
  25. Bodies out of Balance: Treatments
  26. Chinese- history
  27. Bodies in balance: Chinese medicine
  28. Bodies in Balance: daily flow of Qi
  29. Bodies in Balance: Yin and yang generally
  30. Bodies in balance- yin and yang in the body
  31. Characteristics of yin and yang
  32. Bodies in Balance: Five elements or phases
  33. Five phases and corresponding organs, emotions, tastes
  34. Bodies out of balance: causes
  35. Bodies out of Balance: treatment methods
  36. Bodies out of Balance- Treatments: Acupuncture and energy flow
  37. Bodies out of Balance- Treatments: Moxibustion
  38. Bodies out of Balance- Treatments: Herbal medicines
  39. Ayurvedic- history
  40. Bodies in Balance: Ayurvedic medicine
  41. Bodies in Balance
  42. Bodies in balance- dominance of dosas
  43. Bodies out of balance: causes and effects
  44. Bodies out of Balance: Marmas
  45. Bodies out of balance: treatments
  46. Tibetan-history
  47. Bodies in Balance: Tibetan medicine
  48. Bodies in Balance: Bodily constituents and excrements
  49. Bodies in balance
  50. Humors or Nyipa sum
  51. Bodies out of balance- karma
  52. Bodies out of Balance:Treatments
  53. Chinese diagnosis- five phases
  54. Chinese diagnosis and treatment- 5 phases
  55. Ayurvedic diagnosis and treatment
  56. Tibetan diagnosis and treatment
  57. Cancer treatment I
  58. Cancer treatment II
  59. Body balance- congruences

   Author: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
  Contact: Dr. Michael Okun M.D. / msokun@pol.net
  Version: Produced by the Office of Medical Informatics
Copyright: 2002 by the University of Florida
 Location: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/other/histmed/stoyan/index.html
  Created: February 14, 2002   Modified: October 15, 2002