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Beeckler, Diane M. (Fa 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 65. [Folk medicine] Collection contains correspondence, magazine entries, and a book concerning traditional cures and preventions for the common cold, flu and other illnesses. There are several responses from Kentuckians from across the state. These cures were collected by Diane Beeckler for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.

Mason-Jones, Lisa (Fa 38), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 38. [Midwifery] Oral history project by Lisa Mason-Jones with Jean Pence concerning Mrs. Pence’s role as a midwife at the Medical Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Project was completed for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University. Includes index, tape summary, and transcription.

Racial Differences In Symptom Management Approaches Among Persons With Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis, Shibing Yang, Rachel Jawahar, Timothy Mcalindon, Charles B. Eaton, Kate L. Lapane

Family Medicine and Population Health Publications

Background

The extent to which racial differences exist in use of treatments for osteoarthritis (OA) is debatable. The purpose of this study was to describe the differences between African Americans (AA) and Caucasian Americans (CA) in using treatment approaches to manage symptoms among individuals with radiographic-confirmed knee OA.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted. Using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative, we identified 508 AA and 2,075 CA with radiographic tibiofemoral OA in at least one knee. Trained interviewers asked questions relating to current OA treatments including seven CAM therapy categories—alternative medical systems, mind-body interventions, manipulation and body-based methods, energy therapies, …

Effects Of An 8-Week Meditation Program On Mood And Anxiety In Patients With Memory Loss., Aleezé Sattar Moss, Nancy Wintering, Hannah Roggenkamp, Dharma Singh Khalsa, Mark R Waldman, Daniel Monti, Andrew B Newberg

Marcus Institute of Integrative Health Faculty Papers

Abstract Background: This study assesses changes in mood and anxiety in a cohort of subjects with memory loss who participated in an 8-week Kirtan Kriya meditation program. Perceived spirituality also was assessed. Previous reports from this cohort showed changes in cognitive function and cerebral blood flow (CBF). The purpose of this analysis was to assess outcome measures of mood and affect, and also spirituality, and to determine whether or not results correlated with changes in CBF.

Methods: Fifteen (15) subjects (mean age 62±7 years) with memory problems were enrolled in an 8-week meditation program. Before and after the 8-week meditation, …

Encyclopedia Of Wellness: From Açai Berry To Yo-Yo Dieting, Elisabeth Tappeiner

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Fruit Of The Spirit: Next Steps, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

Overall, the chapters provide support for the notion that religious and spiritu al practices, behavior, and engagement are associated with improved psychological, physical, and community functioning and wellbeing. Religion and spirituality can make us better. The fruit of the spirit can result in a better quality of life. However, we must be mindful of the need for future quality research as well as the downside of religious engagement, too. Intolerance, rigidity, and in-group/out-group conflict can be problematic and create a situation in which tills type of religious engagement can lead to fruit that is not healthy but unhealthy. This fruit …

Ginger And Osteoarthritis, Tessa Therkleson

Research outputs 2012

Ginger has been used for 1000s of years as a food and medicine; it is likely one of the most ancient remedies valued by humans. Ancient Indian and Chinese cultures reportedly used ginger for a wide variety of conditions and modern day research has found it effective as an anti-emetic and anti-inflammatory agent, when taken internally. Random controlled trials using ginger extract have been found effective in relieving symptoms of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is the primary cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability in Western cultures. Current management is primarily through the use of anti-inflammatory and analgesic medication, with cortisone injections and …

Dynamic Herbal Monographs For A Digital World, Niamh O'Brien

Theses

Post analysis of a worldwide survey of Medical Herbalists, 93% of respondents were in favour of an online system which could update monographs dynamically. 63% of respondents suggested that some current monographs are out of date and lack certain practicalities in areas such as : Interactions, Dosage and Safety. Research into gaining optimal responses from surveys led to a 78% response rate. Survey analysis resulted in a modem up-to-date monograph template being created and each of the aforementioned information systems tested against same. Testing involved the generation of XML, HTML, PHP and OWL languages for encoding documents to allow for …

Methodological Implications Of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Models For Whole Systems Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine, Iris R. Bell, Mary Koithan, David Pincus

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

This paper focuses on the worldview hypotheses and research design approaches from nonlinear dynamical complex systems (NDS) science that can inform future studies of whole systems of complementary and alternative medicine (WS-CAM), e.g., Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and homeopathy. The worldview hypotheses that underlie NDS and WS-CAM (contextual, organismic, interactive-integrative - Pepper, 1942) overlap with each other, but differ fundamentally from those of biomedicine (formistic, mechanistic). Differing views on the nature of causality itself lead to different types of study designs. Biomedical efficacy studies assume a simple direct mechanistic cause-effect relationship between a specific intervention and a specific bodily outcome, …

A Complex Systems Science Perspective For Whole Systems Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Research, Mary Koithan, Iris R. Bell, Kathryn Niemeyer, David Pincus

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

Whole systems complementary and alternative medicine (WS-CAM) approaches share a basic worldview that embraces interconnectedness; emergent, non-linear outcomes to treatment that include both local and global changes in the human condition; a contextual view of human beings that are inseparable from and responsive to their environments; and interventions that are complex, synergistic, and interdependent. These fundamental beliefs and principles run counter to the assumptions of reductionism and conventional biomedical research methods that presuppose unidimensional simple causes and thus dismantle and individually test various interventions that comprise only single aspects of the WS-CAM system. This paper will demonstrate the superior fit …

Self-Organizing Biopsychosocial Dynamics And The Patient-Healer Relationship, David Pincus

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

The patient-healer relationship has an increasing area of interest for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) researchers. This focus on the interpersonal context of treatment is not surprising as dismantling studies, clinical trials and other linear research designs continually point toward the critical role of context and the broadband biopsychosocial nature of therapeutic responses to CAM. Unfortunately, the same traditional research models and methods that fail to find simple and specific treatment-outcome relations are similarly failing to find simple and specific mechanisms to explain how interpersonal processes influence patient outcomes. This paper presents an overview of some of the key models …

Neuroimaging During Trance State: A Contribution To The Study Of Dissociation., Julio Fernando Peres, Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Leonardo Caixeta, Frederico Leao, Andrew Newberg

Marcus Institute of Integrative Health Faculty Papers

Despite increasing interest in pathological and non-pathological dissociation, few researchers have focused on the spiritual experiences involving dissociative states such as mediumship, in which an individual (the medium) claims to be in communication with, or under the control of, the mind of a deceased person. Our preliminary study investigated psychography - in which allegedly "the spirit writes through the medium's hand" - for potential associations with specific alterations in cerebral activity. We examined ten healthy psychographers - five less expert mediums and five with substantial experience, ranging from 15 to 47 years of automatic writing and 2 to 18 psychographies …

The Alternative Appeal, Courtney Deroo

Health Sciences Student Scholarship

For decades, Americans expressed dissatisfaction with conventional cancer treatments. I examine the appeal of biological alternatives to surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy for patients with cancer. The limited effectiveness and side effects of many conventional cancer therapies led many patients to pursue a variety of unconventional therapies. To improve the quality of care for cancer patients, "mainstream" providers must better understand, and even collaborate with, alternative practitioners.

Editorial, Alok Kumar

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Study On Scientific Investigations In Homeopathy Using Medical Analyzer, Nirupama Mishra, K Muraleedharan, Akalpita Paranjpe, Devendra Munta, Hari Singh, Chaturbhuja Nayak

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Background: The action of homeopathic medicines, in ultra-high dilution, is not directly observable. An attempt was made to explore autonomic response of selective homeopathic medicines, in healthy persons, using Medical Analyzer System (Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India). Objective: The objective of the study was to observe the action of homeopathic medicines on physiologic variability of heart rate and blood flow. Material and methods: Pre- and postinterventional variability spectra of heart rate and blood flow of 77 subjects were recorded with the Medical Analyzer System, administering homeopathic preparations of Aconitum napellus (6c, 10M), Arsenicum album (200c, 1M), Gelsemium …

Evaluation Of Anti-Leukemic Activity Of Potentised Catharanthus Roseus: An In-Vitro Study, R Kushwaha, U Nagargoje

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Alcoholic extract of potentised Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don. was evaluated for its anti-leukemic activity in in-vitro model. For this in- vitro study two cell lines namely, jurkat and K562 for promyelocytic leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia were used. The cell lines were grown in Roswell Park Memorial Institute Medium (RPMI 1640 medium) containing 10% fetal bovine serum and 2mM L-glutamine. Doxorubicin (Adriamycin, ADR) was used as positive control drug. Growth inhibition of 50 % (GI50) was calculated from [(test growth in the presence of drug at the four concentration levels Ti - time zero Tz)/( control growth C-Tz)] x …

Pharmacognostic And Physico-Chemical Evaluation Of Lactuca Sativa L., P Subramanian, P Rao, P Reddy, H Gupta

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Lactuca sativa L. is an erect, annual herb belonging to the family Asteraceae. The leaves are useful in angina pectoris, ascitis, asthma, constipation, cough, diarrhea, hysteria, gonorrhoea, affections of liver and spleen and pain in pylorus and spinal cord. Leaves are long, thin, orbicular or oblong, obovate, crisp and radical. The trichomes are uniseriate filiform capitate, uniseriate macroform conical and biseriate filiform capitate types; mesophyll is undifferentiated; laticiferous ducts and prismatic crystals are present in ground tissue; midvein bundle is bicollateral. The powder microscopic and organoleptic characters are provided. Physico-chemical parameters of raw drug viz., extractive values, ash values, formulation, …

Bacopa Monnieri - A Multicentric, Randomized, Double-Blind Homoeopathic Pathogenetic Trial, Rajpal Rajpal, Vinay Singh, V Siddiqui, C Nayak, P Mal, D Sarkar

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Objective: To elicit the pathogenetic response of the drug Bacopa monnieri in homoeopathic potencies on healthy human beings. Methodology: Drug Bacopa monnieri was proved by the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy through randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled method. The study was conducted at two centers. The drug was proved in three potencies (6C, 30C and 200C) on 32 apparently healthy volunteers who were selected after conducting pre-trial medical examination by the medical specialists and routine laboratory investigations. In the first phase volunteers were given 56 doses (04 doses per day for 14 days) of placebo. In the next three phases 56 …

Homoeopathic Materia Medica Of Indian Drugs, L Nanda

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

No abstract provided.

A Case Of Multiple Urinary Calculi Treated With Homoeopathy, P Sumithran

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

A case of multiple urinary calculi, with size varying from five to seven millimeters in the left kidney and four to six millimeters in the right kidney, a thirteen millimeter stone in the left lower part of the ureter and a 20 x 13 millimeter stone in the base of the urinary bladder presenting complaints of burning micturition and pain in the lumbar region reported at the O.P.D of the Central Research Institute for Homoeopathy at Kottayam, Kerala. Patient was having urolithiasis complaints since four years and had undergone both allopathic and ayurvedic treatment, but the response was not satisfactory. …