Alternative and Herbal Medicines and Remedies.

Interest in alternative medicine.

Hippocrates.

“The man not the disease.”

Pharmaceuticals.

Herbal Preventative medicine-the basic ideas.

• Nutrition• Structural Factors

• A conscious and free flowing emotional life.

• Mental factors• Some openness to spirituality.

Chinese medicine.

The Placebo effect.

The Poetry Cure.

“Poetry uses images to help us see things in a fresh way.”-Julia Darling.