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COMPLEMENTARY

THERAPIES FOR

THE CONTEMPORARY

HEALTHCARE

Edited by

Marcelo Saad

Roberta de Medeiros

COMPLEMENTARY

THERAPIES FOR

THE CONTEMPORARY

HEALTHCARE

Edited by Marcelo Saad

and Roberta de Medeiros

Complementary Therapies for the Contemporary Healthcare

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3307

Edited by Marcelo Saad and Roberta de Medeiros

Contributors

Roberta de Medeiros, Marcelo Saad, Trisha Dunning, Vilelmine Carayanni, Anson Chui Yan

Tang, Graham Wilfred Ewing, Vitor Engrácia Valenti, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Heraldo L. Guida,

Luiz Carlos M. Vanderlei, Lucas Lima Ferreira, Celso Ferreira, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros,

Luci de Senna-Valle, Regina Helena Potsch Andreata, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Zuhailah Mohd

Shafawi, Vasudevan Mani, Ho Yin Wan, Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed, Bowirrat Abdalla,

Mustafa Yassin, Menachem Abir, Bishara Bisharat, Zaher Armaly

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Contents

Preface IX

Section 1

Current Scenario

Chapter 1

Complementary Therapies – Considerations

Before Recommend, Tolerate or Proscribe Them

Roberta de Medeiros and Marcelo Saad

Chapter 2

Integrating Complementary and Conventional Care

Using Quality Use of Medicines as a Framework

Trisha Dunning

Chapter 3

Evaluating Homeopathic Therapies

for Contemporary Health Care: An Evident Priority

Vilelmine Carayanni

Section 2

Diagnostic Resources

Chapter 4

Review of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Pulse Diagnosis Quantification

Anson Chui Yan Tang

Chapter 5

Does the Cognitive Top-Down Systems Biology Approach,

Embodied in Virtual Scanning, Provide Us with

a Theoretical Framework to Explain the Function

of Most Complementary and Alternative and

Most Orthodox Biomedical Techniques?

Graham Wilfred Ewing

Chapter 6

Musical Auditory Stimulation

and Cardiac Autonomic Regulation 111

Vitor Engrácia Valenti, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Heraldo L. Guida,

Luiz Carlos M. Vanderlei, Lucas Lima Ferreira and Celso Ferreira

Chapter 7

Spiritual-Religious Coping –

Health Services Empowering Patients’ Resources

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