Author: Bertrand Canavy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782368327296
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 124
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Découvrez les richesses de la naturopathie Africaine ! Depuis la préhistoire, l'être humain recherche dans son environnement (plantes, animaux, pierres, esprits) de quoi soulager ses maux et traiter ses blessures. La médecine moderne occidentale a rejeté la plupart de ces recours pour développer des médicaments chimiques et une technique de soins sophistiquée. Elle continue cependant d'utiliser certains remèdes à base de plantes médicinales. Une tendance récente conduit même à rechercher dans les plantes de nouveaux produits de substitution pour certaines maladies : cancer, paludisme... Plus de 200 000 espèces végétales sur les 300 000 recensées de nos jours sur l'ensemble de notre planète vivent dans les pays tropicaux d'Afrique et d'ailleurs. L'histoire de la médecine montre l'importance de ces espèces dans les thérapies, toutes les sociétés traditionnelles ayant puisé, pour leurs soins de santé, dans cette pharmacopée végétale d'une très grande richesse. L'auteur, Bertrand Canavy, met en valeur les avantages et les inconvénients de cette médecine traditionnelle : il examine par exemple les techniques utilisées et les problèmes de normalisation et de dosage.
Author: Jane Anson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951063231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Author:
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
ISBN: 9780241287286
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Learn more than 6000 French words and phrases with this easy to use dictionary that features illustrations of objects and scenes from everyday life.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789240698345
Category : MEDICAL
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A vocabulary guide that presents color photos of everyday objects and tasks with labels in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, grouping words and phrases in fifteen categories, including health, food, and leisure.
Author: Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439144540
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Hailed by Dr. Andrew Weil as a book “that must be brought to all who seek true health,” Coyote Medicine is an engaging and essential testament to the power of alternative healing and recovery methods that lie beyond the confines of Western medicine. Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine when it's effective, but about finding other answers when medicine fails: for chronic sufferers, patients not responding to medication, or "terminal" cases that doctors have given up on. In the story of one doctor's remarkable initiation into alternative ways to spiritual and physical health, Coyote Medicine provides the key to untapped healing methods available today.
Author: Eduardo Duran
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791423530
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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"This book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Native American community from a perspective that accepts Native knowledge as legitimate. Native American cosmology and metaphor are used extensively in order to deal with specific problems such as alcoholism, suicide, family, and community problems. The authors discuss what it means to present material from the perspective of a people who have legitimate ways of knowing and conceptualizing reality and show that it is imperative to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand the issues facing Native Americans today."--pub. website.
Author: Calvin Morrisseau
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802081629
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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This book is an account of the personal and collective struggles of First Nations people and how the principles which held traditional societies together can be used today to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships by both aboriginals and non-aboriginals. Calvin Morrisseau provides in it the fundamentals for healing that he has learned over twenty years through his training in counselling and addiction studies; his education in traditional practices by aboriginal elders, healers, and teachers; and his personal recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction, abuse, and the effects of assimilation, racism and poverty. The model of healing Morrisseau advocates is simple, insightful, and based on the values that allowed aboriginal people to live in accord with each other in the past. His approach centres on people accepting responsibility and making choices that give them the freedom required to enter into recovery by recapturing their sense of harmony, cooperation, sharing, balance and spirituality. The deepest healing takes place on a spiritual level. Morrisseau describes an interdependent system of individual, family, and community in which needs, desires, values, and purpose are communicated, and the responsibility to ensure everyone has an opportunity to grow to their full potential is shared. The book is unique in that it offers guidance on ways in which communities can heal. While the book was written for people who work with aboriginal people, the wholistic approach Morrisseau uses can benefit anyone. The healing model can be used by an individual seeking to heal himself, by a professional as a tool for assessment and treatment, and by a community in crisis.
Author: Fyre Jean Graveline
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Inspiring educators, philosophers, activists, shamans, artists, and visionaries to take up the challenge of bringing alternative teaching possibilities and strategies to the educational experience, this book creatively combines Aboriginal teachings with feminist and antiracist theory and practice.
Author: Franck Bouysse
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 163542173X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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A thrilling mix of French noir and American Western that charts a family’s struggle for freedom and justice in a hostile mountain community. In the godforsaken valley of the Black Rimstone, four siblings meet by the viaduct, a place of their own away from home and daily life, which hold so little for them: Mark, who reads in secret against his father’s orders; Matthew, who understands the forest, the river, and all their creatures; Mabel, who wields her stunning beauty in pursuit of pleasure and independence; and Luke, so often pitied and dismissed as simpleminded, but whose fantastic dreams reveal an uncommon wisdom. Together they live as one, bound by an unshakable bond. Hanging over them, and the rest of the valley, is the bleak prospect of work in the power plant, constructed and controlled by the fearsome Joyce. Having arrived a stranger, he owned the entire town within ten years, and now keeps a stranglehold on it through money and violence. But after generations are used and spit out in service of one man’s greed, there comes a breaking point. Winner of the Prix Jean Giono, this masterful, parable-like novel bears witness to the power of nature and the promise of rebellion.
