Giving a fresh perspective on medicine in relation to dentistry, this is a guide to the basics of medicine, providing the essential medical grounding required for both clinical practice and finals examinations. It features management and treatment of common conditions which you may come across throughout your dental career.

This 2nd edition gives every health professional and pharmacist the broad information they need to dispense and counter-prescribe homeopathic methods with confidence. Designed as both a complete source of initial information and an everyday reference, Homeopathic Pharmacy provides detailed information on the procedures, principals, and applications that are essential in the practice of homoeopathic medicine. It describes the application of homeopathy for both general situations, such as first aid, dentistry, sportscare, and petcare, and for specific situations, such as allergies, infections, and teenagers' problems. - Details procedures relevant to pharmacists and other health professionals - including manufacturing, dispensing, and counter-prescribing. - Outlines the theoretical principles of homoeopathic prescribing. - Describes the application of homeopathy for both general and specific situations. - Provides easy-to-use reference tables for 60 common remedies and the symptoms related to their prescription. - Critically reviews important research papers and provides a guide to designing research tools. - Discusses the legal status of homoeopathic remedies. - Gives an account of the historical development of homeopathy in Europe and beyond. - Contains practical information such as homeopathic pharmacopoeias, methods of preparation of homeopathic medicines, nomenclature for potencies, dosage forms, and interpreting, dispencing, and pricing prescriptions.Covers new developments in pharmacy. - Section on research expanded and improved, taking a more evidence-based approach. - Fully updated legal section incorporates legal status in the USA, Canada, and Europe.

This book presents attitudes, information, and tools for a holistic approach to medicine, health, and mental health. In our discussions among ourselves and with the contributing authors we defined three aspects of a holistic approach. First, such an approach involves expanding our focus to include the many personal, familial, social, and environmental factors that promote health, prevent illness, and encourage healing. Second, a holistic approach views the patient as an individual person, not as a symptom-bearing organism. This attitude emphasizes the self-responsibility of the person for his or her health and the importance of mobilizing the person's own health capacities, rather than treating illness only from the outside. Third, the holistic approach tries to make wise use of the many diagnostic, treatment, and health modalities that are available in addition to the standard materia medica- including alternative medical and healing systems as well as psychological techniques and physical modalities. Some of these methods of treatment and health practices are already accepted, others are accepted but not applied in practice, and still others need further research to explore the range of their uses.