“Scientific Foundation of Ayurveda”, 2004, by H. Palep

“Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery” by Dean Ornish, M.D., 1992

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CONTENTS:

Author’s Note xxi
Introduction—Heart and Soul 1
PART ONE: OPENING YOUR HEART

1. “Why Don’t You Do Something More Conventional?” 11
2. “I Mean, What Could Be Wimpier Than That?” 33
3. “Yes, That’s True, But What Is the Cause?” 49
4. Lifestyle Changes of the Rich and Famous 85
5. “This Is a Weed-Out Course!” 105
6. “A Very Short Fuse” 119
   PART TWO: THE OPENING YOUR HEART PROGRAM
   Introduction to the Opening Your Heart Program 133
7. Opening Your Heart to Your Feelings and to Inner Peace 139
8. Opening Your Heart to Others 199
9. Opening Your Heart to a Higher Self 229
10. The Reversal and Prevention Diets 253
11. How to Quit Smoking 305
12. How to Exercise 323
    PART THREE: OPENING YOUR HEART RECIPES
    Introduction to the Recipes by Shirley
    Elizabeth Brown, M.D., and Martha Rose Shulman 353
    Twenty-One Days of Menus 389
    The Recipes 397
    Epilogue 545
    Appendix. Nutrient Analysis of Common
    Foods 554
    Selected References 583
    Index 605

EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK

Introduction: Heart and Soul
This is a book about healing your heart: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The Opening Your Heart program described in this book can help transform your life.
This program is based on cardiovascular research that I have directed during the past fourteen years, including a recent study my colleagues and I conducted that has proven—for the first time—that many people can begin to reverse their heart disease simply by changing their lifestyle. This is the only program scientifically verified to begin healing heart disease without using cholesterol-lowering drugs or surgical interventions. (At the time this is written, no other controlled studies in this country are even in progress to see if heart disease can be reversed without using drugs or surgery.)
Using medical technology never before available, we found that the coronary arteries of many people with severe heart disease actually began to open when they followed our program. In other words, their arteries became less blocked and blood flow to the heart increased. And unlike with most surgical or medical therapies, the only known side effects from these lifestyle changes are desirable ones.
The participants in our program felt happier and more energetic; their chest pain decreased or went away completely; many were able to cut back on their medications or discontinue them altogether. Also, we measured greater reductions in their blood levels of cholesterol than have ever been reported without using drugs.
Although the incidence of heart attacks has been declining during the past decade, more people die from heart and blood vessel diseases each year than from all other causes of death combined, including cancer, AIDS, other infectious diseases, accidents, and homicides. (This is equally true for men and women.) Yet if heart disease can be reversed, then it may be preventable. We don’t have to wait for a new drug, surgical procedure, or technological breakthrough.
Knowing what we now understand, heart disease may be preventable for the majority of people who are willing to follow the program described in this book. What our medical system can provide is much less important in determining our health than the lifestyle choices we make as individuals on a daily basis. This book can help you tailor a program that is right for you.
This program does not require deprivation, although the diet I describe may represent an entirely different way of eating for those raised on lots of red meat, cream sauces, and rich desserts. However, our program need not be all or nothing. If your doctor determines you have severe heart disease, you may be more interested in following each step of the program very strictly. However, we all have a spectrum of choices, and this book can help you to make intelligent ones. Somehow, many of us believe we must choose between leading an interesting, exciting, productive life that’s filled with stress, great food, and dying young, or sitting under a tree, eating boring food, and watching our longer life go by—or maybe it just seems longer. Fortunately, that isn’t really the choice. This program can help you to increase your productivity and happiness—lasting happiness—while decreasing your anxiety, stress, and the risk of illness. I’ll explain how to make meaningful choices and how to tailor the program to best fit your needs.
While reversing coronary artery blockages is of great importance, I am even more interested in the power of this program to transform our lives in deeper ways. The goal of the program is not just to help you live longer—although you likely will do so. After all, none of us is going to live forever. And who wants to live longer if you’re not enjoying life? My goal is not only to help you live longer but also to feel better. You can begin enjoying life more now, with less stress, more joy, and greater health.
On a deeper level, this book explores the psychological and spiritual dimensions of heart disease. Physical heart disease may be the final manifestation of years of abuse that first begins in the psyche and spirit. Susan Sontag notwithstanding, I am becoming increasingly convinced that heart disease is a metaphor as well as an anatomical illness. In poetry, art, and literature, the heart is often portrayed as the organ most affected by our emotions, and I think there is some truth in that.
Ultimately, the Opening Your Heart program is about learning how to feel freer and happier—a different type of “open-heart” procedure, one based on love, knowledge, and compassion rather than just drugs and surgery. We can learn how to open our hearts on emotional and spiritual levels as well as anatomical ones. While these changes are more difficult to measure scientifically than the improvements in coronary anatomy, I find them to be even more interesting and important for leading a happier, healthier life.
Physically, this program can help you begin to open your heart’s arteries and to feel stronger and more energetic, freer of pain. Emotionally, it can help you open your heart to others and to experience greater happiness, intimacy, and love in your relationships. Spiritually, it can help you open your heart to a higher force (however you experience it) and to rediscover your inner sources of peace and joy.
In short, this is a program about how to enjoy living, not how to avoid dying. How to relax, not how to be lethargic (a difference well known to world-class athletes). How to manage stress, not how to avoid it. How to live in the world more fully, not how to withdraw from it. How to take care of yourself so that you can also give more fully to others.
The implications of this research go beyond treating and helping to prevent heart disease. Heart disease presents a rich model for examining the relationship between lifestyle and health. Lifestyle factors are important in most of the major killers, including the most common forms of cancer (breast, colon, lung, and prostate), arthritis, diabetes, and other degenerative diseases. However, the mechanisms by which lifestyle affects our health are better understood for heart disease than for other illnesses. Also, the diagnostic technology for examining the heart is highly advanced, so it is possible to actually measure if the disease improves, to what degree, and for whom. Finally, the heart is the place where the body, the psyche, and the spirit all converge.
This book is divided into three sections:
Part One begins with an overview of the relevant research and what this program can do for you. In it, I describe new concepts of heart disease and how lifestyle factors such as diet, emotional stress, and exercise affect your heart—for better and for worse. I also explain how substances such as nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, and alcohol can influence your heart’s health. I hope that understanding how the lifestyle choices you make each day affect your heart will make it easier to understand the rationale for this program.
I’ll also clarify some of the more common nutritional half-truths; for example, why olive oil and fish oil can actually raise cholesterol levels and may help cause problems, and why taking aspirin to prevent heart attacks may be ill-advised. I’ll explain why cholesterol isn’t the whole story behind heart disease, and why taking cholesterol-lowering drugs or niacin or eating oat bran isn’t the best choice for most people. Most important, I’ll examine the most common ways the medical community has chosen to treat heart disease, and why these interventions, while expensive and often dangerous, don’t begin to address the root of the problem of why we feel stressed and get sick in the first place.
In later chapters I’ll describe the psychological and spiritual aspects of illness and healing, using coronary heart disease as both example and metaphor. Unfortunately, this is an aspect of health that has until recently been largely ignored by the medical community. Yet through my research and through the studies of others, I am coming to believe that our emotional and spiritual health are exceptionally important to the health of our hearts. I’ll share the latest scientific research in this exciting new field and explain how my own background helped to convince me of its value.
Part Two is a “how-to” section that describes the program in detail. (For an overview of the program, please turn to page 133.) For those interested in preventing heart disease, I’ll present a spectrum of dietary choices, not a long list of “shoulds” and “thou shalt nots.” For people who already have coronary heart disease, our all-you-can-eat Reversal Diet is much lower in fat and cholesterol, but it is not austere, with an emphasis on foods that are tasty, attractive, and familiar. Although you can eat virtually all you want on our program, you’ll never have to count calories, and you’ll probably find yourself losing excess pounds effortlessly. You’ll also receive detailed instruction in how to exercise, how to quit smoking, and how to practice stress management techniques, including stretching, breathing, meditation, visualization, progressive relaxation, and skills to improve communication with your loved ones.
Part Three is a cookbook-within-a-book, with over 150 gourmet recipes by some of the country’s most gifted chefs, including Wolfgang Puck, Deborah Madison, Alice Waters, Mollie Katzen, Mark Hall, and others, as well as some of the research participants who have been preparing and eating this food for years. They show how you can have food that is beautifully presented, delicious—and healthful. Each recipe has been nutritionally analyzed for fat, cholesterol, and protein content by Shirley Brown, M.D., to make it easier for you to customize a diet that works to meet your own individual needs. She and Martha Rose Shulman, author of Mediterranean Light and other best-selling cookbooks, have organized these recipes into twenty-one days of menus, as well as provided some helpful advice on making these meals.
References to all quoted studies are included for health professionals and the especially curious.
I write this book with passion and yet a certain amount of caution. As a physician, I want to share with you the joy that comes from seeing the amazing and powerful differences this program can make in people’s lives. As a scientist, though, I want to take a more cautious position, making sure all of the uncertainties and “yes, but . . statements are included. In this book, I have tried to take a balanced position somewhere in between these points of view.
Also, I will be careful to distinguish what is scientifically proven from my speculations, personal experiences, and clinical observations. Please understand that my goal in writing this book is not to tell you that you have to change but rather to provide you with facts so that you can make informed choices. Whether or not you decide to change your lifestyle is up to you, but at least you will have accurate information upon which to base this decision.
Heart disease is not easy to reverse. Blockages in coronary arteries take decades to build up, and they do not simply melt away overnight. But they can improve, and more quickly than we had previously thought possible.
In short, this book provides a comprehensive personal system—the Opening Your Heart program—to help heal not only the heart, but also the soul. As Conrad Knudsen, one of our research participants, said, “Even if the tests showed my arteries hadn’t opened up, I would still follow this program—because I’ve opened up.”
But don’t just take my word for it. Try it and see. In only seven days, see how much better you feel, whether or not you have a heart problem. In four weeks your cholesterol level will be significantly lower. After a few months, I hope you’ll recognize even more profound and rewarding changes in how you look and feel. Experience the difference for yourself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dean Ornish, M.D., is assistant clinical professor of medicine and an attending physician at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and an attending physician at the Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco. He is president and director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito. A graduate of Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Ornish was a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School and an intern and medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the author of Stress, Diet & Your Heart.

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“The Effects of Yoga on Hypertension” by Dr. Swami Shakardevananda
MBBS (Sydney), Under the Guidance of Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Published by Bihar School of Yoga: First edition 1978, Second edition 1984, Reprinted 1998
Published by Yoga Publications Trust: Reprinted 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014

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CONTENTS:

Foreword vii
Preface xiii
Preface to the Second Edition xiv
Introduction xvii
Cause
Circulatory System 3
Hypertension 17
The Medical View 26
The Yogic View 32
Mental Cause 35
The Pranic Cause 40
Stress and the Personality 45
Lifestyle 53
Heredity and Ageing 57
The Total View 61
Cure
Yogic Cure 65
Eliminating Mental Problems 71
Asana and Pranayama 79
Yogic Way of Life 94
Relaxation and Awareness 101
Meditation 110
Holistic Healing 123
Practices
Complete Training Program 135
Asana 141
Surya Namaskara 148
Pawanmuktasana 159
Pranayama 170
Meditation Practice 179
Yoga Nidra 185
Appendices
Low Blood Pressure 195
Suggestions for Diet 199
The Pillars of Life 203
Glossary 207
References 215

Introduction
Our body-mind complex is a marvel of creation both intricate and subtle in design. Man, who inhabits it, is finding out new and astounding facts about his inner workings, facts which are helping to open up his awareness, understanding and knowledge of himself. This knowledge is leading him out of the mire of disease and suffering to a state of better health and longevity.
Why is this apparent marvel of creation so prone to illnesses such as high blood pressure? What is the ultimate cause of disease? These are questions which modern science, despite its great technological advances, is still unable to answer. Yoga, however, can give an insight into these problems helping us to reach our own conclusion through meditative experience of the higher reaches of awareness.
The science of yoga offers a theoretical construct for the workings of body and mind and their malfunction in disease, as well as the practices to correct imbalance and help us gain better health and realization. Yoga provides a path to the cure of high blood pressure but it is you, the seeker of health, who must tread it. With increased knowledge of the body, its energy systems, the mind, the soul, and their interrelationships, we can learn to live more harmonious, better integrated lives, and health is a natural consequence of this.
To be healthy, mentally and physically, one must know the body-mind complex, its needs and requirements, just as a car requires a good driver as well as servicing, oiling, petrol, grease, tyre adjustment and so on. People are sick because they do not know their bodies and minds, what they need and how to keep them properly. Yoga is designed to help us maintain this body-mind vehicle in top running condition for as long as possible so that life can be joyful, free and fulfilling.
Yoga offers a sublime philosophy and a practical means to realize it, and doctors are now finding within the broad scope of yogic philosophy many solutions to existing dilemmas facing both doctor and patient. Modern medicine has discovered the jewel of yoga and is combining methods of yoga with medical treatment. The courtship of medicine and yoga is complete; now each will have to realize the other’s greatness.
Yoga is union, and in terms of healing, yoga implies the coming together of all systems and pathies; allopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic, ayurveda, polypathy, and so on. The doctor or healer should have all these systems at his disposal, selecting the relevant points from each, and distilling from this mixture the pure essence, the renowned philosopher’s stone. Yoga is, therefore, a matrix, or framework on which to unravel the old and weave the new, building up a more ideal system to cope with the problems of our modern world, of which hypertension is only one.
Through the combination of medicine and yoga, both doctor and patient can come to a better understanding of the disease process involved in hypertension and so learn from experience, growing and maturing within. In this way we become not only physically healthy, but gain a dynamic personality, mental and emotional stability, and deeper wisdom and insight. This is real healing which fulfils the function of the doctor (from the Latin docere, ‘to teach’) and lifts the patient into the higher spheres, towards union with higher consciousness.

About the Author:

Dr Swami Shankardevananda was born in 1952 in Sydney, Australia, and graduated in medicine in 1977.
In 1974 he met Swami Satyananda Saraswati and was then able to blend yoga and medicine into a unified system.
In 1976 he received poorna sannyasa diksha and from 1977 to 1985 lived at the Bihar School of Yoga, Munger, where he was Chief Coordinator of the IYFM Research Centre.
Author of three books on the therapeutic effects of yoga, in 1990 he received his MSc from the University of NSW. From 1990 to 2001 he coordinated the Sydney Yoga Therapy Research and Education Centre, and up to 2006 he travelled around the world as an ambassador of Satyananda Yoga. Dr Swami Shankardevananda continues to combine western medicine and yoga therapy to serve people.

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“Tao and Dharma: Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda” by Robert Svoboda and Arnie Lade

Lotus Press, USA, First Edition 1995, 2nd printing 2005

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CONTENTS:
Illustrations 4
Foreword 5
Introduction 7
Part One: Chinese Medicine
Origins and Development 10
The Tao and Yin-Yang Philosophy 12
The Five Elements 16
The Essential Substances 19
The Organs 21
The Meridian System 25
Disease Causation 30
Diagnosis and Differentiation 33
Therapeutic Modalities and Ideas 37
Part Two: Ayurveda
Origins and Development 44
The Sankhya Philosophy 47
The Three Doshas 50
The Doshas in the Body 54
Channels of Flow 57
Subtle Anatomy 59
Constitution 65 Disease Causation 67
Diagnosis 71
Treatment 74
Part Three: Traditions in Comparison
Historical Considerations 80
Energetic Physiology 93
Consciousness 100
Disease Causation 102
Diagnosis 105 Treatment 108
Primal Distinctions 111
Integrating Traditions 113
Conclusion 116
Appendix I: Comparison of Some Medicinal Substances 119
Appendix II: The Use of Vital Points in Asia 142
Glossary of Sanskrit and Chinese Terms 146
Bibliography 149
Index 152

INTRODUCTION (from the book)
Chinese and Indian medicine embody the two oldest continuously practiced traditions of medicine on the planet. These traditions are oceans of wisdom whose depth and breadth are almost incomprehensible to one who stands on their shores. Into these oceans of healing art tributaries of thought flow, and the two seas have at times mingled their waters together. Though the origins of these medical traditions have no fixed historical landmarks, they seem to have appeared at approximately the same time, yet independently, grown out of an understanding expounded by their sages and rishis. Centuries passed after Chinese and Indian medicine were founded before they first mingled to exchange ideas with each other. Why two great systems should appear simultaneously in two vastly different corners of the globe, each a unique expression yet possessing many similar characteristics, is a great mystery. Perhaps their
fundamental vision and insights about life grew out of humanity’s collective unconscious.
At the heart of both of these great healing traditions is a world view which sees man and nature as inextricably linked. From this perspective each elucidates its own understanding of health, meaning of disease and journey from illness to health, both employing analogies to the forces and manifestations of nature to express their views. These insights were carefully refined, systematized, clinically verified, orally transmitted and later recorded in writing. Contained within the written traditions of both systems are the experiences of countless physicians and patients which serve today as an immense storehouse of knowledge.
The goal of this book is to convey to the reader an introductory understanding of Indian (Ayurveda) and Chinese medicine, and to compare these understandings. Inherently Ayurveda and Chinese medicine both explain, in their own terms, health and illness, and each offers direction for regaining health. Since they share much common ground each can enhance certain themes and expand the vision of the other, and hopefully through this work new ideas will emerge which can intellectually cross-fertilize students and practitioners of both systems. Perhaps ultimately these two energetic paradigms can be reconciled, not by a wholesale incorporation of one tradition into the other but, as has happened over the centuries, by an exchange of ideas, techniques and principles. Reconciliation will require that the proponents of both systems remain open-minded, willing to reflect objectively on the strengths and weaknesses of their respective fields.
In both North America and Europe the past few years have seen a dramatic rise of interest in Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. As these two traditions establish niches for themselves as “alternative medical systems”, their practices will undoubtedly be modified by their new social, economic and medical milieu. A thorough understanding of the Asian roots of these two medical traditions is, we believe, essential to the success of their transplantation here. Some hybridization may well be necessary to effect their successful propagation in the context of our modern days, since it is always difficult to transfer concepts from one culture to another, but we have tried assiduously in this essay to maintain intact the original meanings of the theories and practices so that their flavor will not suffer. The common tendency today in the West is to look at Ayurveda and Chinese medicine from a modern biomedical approach; we suggest that there is merit in comparing one with the other, since both are energetic in nature.
This book is divided into three parts. The first and second detail the basic theories and practice of Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, respectively, while the third consists of a comparative study of both systems, including an outline of what we know of their historical relationship with each other.
Following the third part, a summary of our main conclusions is given. In addition two appendices are provided, the first outlines the history and use of twelve medicinal substances by both Chinese and Indian systems, whereas the second reviews the use of vital points in Asia.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Arnie Lade is an acupuncturist practising in Victoria, British Columbia where he lives with his wife and children. He studied Chinese language at the University of Victoria and Xiamen University, and acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Beijing and Chengdu Colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. He is also the author of The Acupuncture Points: Images & Functions, a standard teaching text in its field, and is a contributing author of Chinese Massage Therapy. Mr. Lade lectures widely and is currently on the faculty of the Centro de Estudos de Medicina Oriental de Brasilia in Brazil.
Robert Svoboda graduated from the Tilak Ayurvedic College of the University of Poona in 1980 as the first and, and until today, the only Westerner ever to become a licensed Ayurvedic physician. Since then he has travelled extensively, lecturing and conducting workshops on Ayurveda. Among his writings are Prakruti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and Ayurveda: Life Health and Longevity. Mr. Svoboda is on the staff of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and divides his time principally between North America, Hawaii and India.

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“Home Nursing”, by Swami Sivananda, The Divine Life Society, 1955, 2008

CONTENTS:

Prolegomena 8
I. Introduction 15
II. Duties of a Nurse 18
III. General Instructions 26
IV. The Sick Room 29
V. Practical Instructions 33
VI. Disinfection and Sterilization 38
VII. Enema 42
VIII. Injections 48
IX. Poisons and Antidotes 53
X. Home Hydrotheraphy 57
XI. Fomentation 66
XII. Medicated Hot Baths 70
XIII. Poultice 73
XIV. Lotions, Paints, Plaster 77
XV. Domestic Hygiene 79
XVI. Infant Feeding 82
XVII. Feeding of the Sick 85
XVIII. Diet for Invalids—I 87
XIX. Diet for Invalids—II 93
XX. Food for the Invalids 101
XXI. Simple Household Remedies 106
XXII. Hospital Formulae 110
XXIII. Modern Drugs 114
XXIV. Maternity and Child Welfare 120
APPENDIX—
A. Home Remedies Chest 123
B. Temperature 125
C. Weights and Measures 126

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“Integrative Nursing” by Mary Jo Kreitzer and Mary Koithan (Editors), 2014, Oxford University Press; Buy at Amazon.co.uk

CONTENTS:
Contributors xix
Introduction xxv
I Foundations of Integrative Nursing
1. Concepts and Principles of Integrative Nursing 3
Mary Koithan
2. The Integrated Nurse: Wholeness, Self-Discovery, and Self-Care 17
Janet F. Quinn
3. The Integrated Nurse: Way of the Healer 33
Janet F. Quinn
4. Whole-Systems Healing: A New Leadership Path 47
Mary Jo Kreitzer, with exemplar by Jayne Felgen and Patricia A. Roach
5. Building an Integrative Health Program 56
Mary Jo Kreitzer and Beth Somerville
6. Transforming the Healthcare Environment Through a Hospital-Based
Integrative Health Initiative: Sanford Medical Center 68
Arlene Horner and Ellen L. Schellinger
7. Creating Optimal Healing Environments 84
Terri Zborowsky and Mary Jo Kreitzer
8. Integrative Nursing Caring Science, Human Caring, and Peace 101
Jean Watson
9. Informatics and Integrative Healthcare 109
Connie W. Delaney , Bonnie L. Westra, Patrick J. Dean, Cheryl J. Leuning, and
Karen A. Monsen
II Optimizing Wellbeing
10. Advancing Wellbeing in People, Organizations, and Communities 125
Mary Jo Kreitzer, Louise Delagran, and Andrea Uptmor
11. Facilitating Lifestyle Choice and Change 137
Judith Aufenthie
12. Movement and Integrative Nursing 148
Susan Masemer, Mary Farrell, Jayson King, and Matthew Koithan
13. Nutrition and Integrative Nursing 160
Laura Sandquist and Laurie Kubes
14. Health Coaching: A Partnership on the Journey to Wellbeing 171
Jane Anderson
III Symptom Management and Integrative Nursing
15. Integrative Nursing and Symptom Management 187
Debbie Ringdahl
16. Integrative Nursing Management of Stress 200
Ruth Lindquist, Dawn R. Witt , and Lynette Crane
17. Integrative Nursing Management of Nausea 214
Susanne M. Cutshall and Lisa M. Van Getson
18. Integrative Nursing Management of Sleep 230
Norma G. Cuellar
19. Integrative Nursing Management of Anxiety 243
Linda L. Chlan and Melinda Bors
20. Integrative Nursing Management of Depressed Mood 257
Merrie J. Kaas , Gisli Kristofersson, and Sue Towey
21. Integrative Nursing Management of Fatigue 271
Diana Drake
22. Integrative Nursing Management of Pain 286
Judy L. Wagner and Susan Thompson
23. Integrative Nursing Management of Cognitive Impairment 300
Rebecca L. Ross and Iris R. Bell
24. Integrative Nursing Care of the Human Spirit 314
Janet F. Quinn
IV Integrative Nursing Applications
25. Integrative Nursing in Acute Care Settings 331
Lori Knutson and Valerie Lincoln
26. Integrative Nursing in the Community 344
Judith Fouladbakhsh and Susan G. Szczesny
27. Integrative Nursing in Mental Health: Models of
Team-Oriented Approaches 356
Merrie J. Kaas , Barbara Peterson, and Gisli Kristofersson
28. Integrative Nursing of Older Adults Across the Continuum 367
Linda L. Halc ón, Constance Schein, and Corjena Cheung
29. Integrative Nursing: Palliative Care and End-of-Life 381
Julie Katseres and Kathleen A. Nelson
30. Integrative Nursing and the Environment 391
Susan Luck
V Integrative Nursing: Models of Education
31. Pre-Licensure Nursing Education for Integrative Nursing 405
Teddie Potter, Linda L. Halc ón, and Mary M. Rowan
32. Graduate Nursing Education for Integrative Nursing 416
Mary V. Fenton , Linda L. Halc ón, and Marie Napolitano
33. Continuing Professional Development for Integrative Nursing 429
Mary Koithan and Kathy Chappell
34. Integrative Nursing and Health Literacy 445
Bonnie L. Westra , Elizabeth Fine Weinfurter, and Connie W. Delaney
VI Integrative Nursing: Global Perspectives—State of the Practice
35. Integrative Nursing in Germany 459
Ranier Ammende and Renate Tewes
36. Integrative Nursing in Turkey 470
Sebahat Gözüm and Nurgün Platin
37. Integrative Nursing in the United Kingdom 479
Susan Smith , Janina Sweetenham , and Angela Bradshaw
38. Integrative Nursing in Ireland 491
Michael Shannon and Martin McNamara
39. Integrative Nursing in Iceland 504
Gisli Kristofersson and Thora Jenny Gunnarsdottir
40. Integrative Nursing in Sweden 515
Mats Jong , Miek C. Jong , and Torkel Falkenberg
41. Global Activism , Advocacy, and Transformation: Florence
Nightingale’s Legacy for the Twenty-fi rst Century 526
Deva- Marie Beck , Barbara M. Dossey , and Cynda H. Rushton
VII Conclusion
42. Gazing with Soft Eyes 541
Mary Koithan
Index 545

 “Anthroposophic Nursing Practice: Foundations and Indications for Everyday Caregiving”, 2021, by Rolf Heine (Editor)    Buy at Amazon.co.uk

CONTENTS:

Introduction to the English edition Adam Blanning, MD  xxi
Preface Rolf Heine   xxiii
Foreword to the fourth German edition Matthias Girke, MD  xxv
Foreword to the third German edition Michaela Gldckler, MD  xxvii

Methodical-Didactical Foundations
CHAPTER 1 Rolf Heine
How Do You Learn Anthroposophic Nursing?
Learning Aid and Guide through this Textbook  1
1. Working with the text   1
2. “Warming up” to the topic   2
3. Discussion  2
4. Develop your own questions and set your own goals   3
5. Practice
6. Deepening and expanding upon the material presented  4
7. Acting creatively  4

Anthroposophy and Nursing
CHAPTER II Monika Layer
Observation as a Method of Self-development and a Therapeutic Element in Care and Destiny   11
1. Introduction   11
2. Starting out in nursing   11
3. Observation and maintenance  12
3.1 Observation in care extended by anthroposophy  12
3.2 Report from a learner  13
3.3 The function of the sense organs  14
3.3.1 Outcomes from the observations  15
3.3.2 Continuity in the observational process  16
3.3.3 The selective perception  16
3.3.4 Attentiveness and observation  17
4. Observation and knowledge  18
4.1 Percept and concept   19
4.2 Thinking  20
4.3 Forming judgments   21
5. Observation and intuition  22
6. Observation training as a component of nursing training  23
6.1 Sense perception  24
6.2 Training of thinking   25
6.2.1 The seedling observation   25
6.2.2 The sage branch  25
6.2.3 Describing and considering paintings  26
6.2.4 A journey through the hand  26
6.3 Transfer to the daily nursing routine  28
7. Final remarks  28
CHAPTER III Frances Bay
The Anthropological Foundations of Nursing Extended by Anthroposophy   31
1. What do nurses do?   31
2. Developments in nursing   34
3. Our view of the human being  35
3.1 The fourfold nature of the human being  35
3.1.1 The human I  35
3.1.2 The soul body or astral body   37
3.1.3 The life body or etheric body  38
3.1.4 The physical body  39
3.2 Body, soul, and spirit and threefold functioning in the human being   40
3.2.1 The body  42
3.2.2 The soul   42
3.2.3 The spirit  43
3.2.4 A bridge between body and spirit—the soul  44
3.2.5 The threefold aspect in body, soul and spirit   45
3.3 Soul qualities and their physiological counterparts  45
3.3.1 Thinking-the neurosensoty system  46
3.3.2 Feeling-the rhythmic system  46
3.3.3 Will-the motor-metabolic system  47
3.4 Further examples of threefoldness  48
4. Functional threefolding in health and illness  49
4.1 Type I diseases—cold predominates  50
4.2 Type II diseases-heat predominates  50
5. Illness and biography   52
5.1 Threefoldness in spiritual development  52
5.1.1 Accompanying support-an opportunity in nursing  53
6. Three levels of knowledge   53
6.1 Imagination   54
6.2 Inspiration   54
6.3 Intuition  54
7. Final remarks   55
CHAPTER IV Renate Hasselberg • Rolf Heine
Illness and Destiny   58
1. Introduction   58
2. The question of meaningfulness   59
2.1 What is a biography?  59
2.2 A biography can be looked at on different levels  61
2.3 What actually falls ill and what happens during illness?   63
2.4 Inviting people to become inquirers  65
3. Biographical aspects of the nursing profession  67
3.1 What motivates young people?  67
3.2 We should create “space for inability”  69
3.3 Work and leisure   70
4. Encounters between patients and nurses  72
4.1 The nursing conversation  72
4.2 Insurmountable difficulties?  74
4.3 The social impact of an ill person  75
CHAPTER V Renate Hasselberg • Rolf Heine
Nursing as a Path of Development  78
1. Nursing as a cultural task  79
1.1 Maintaining things  79
1.2 Tasks in the plant and animal realms   80
1.3 Caring for human beings  82
1.4 Care-giving tasks and the inner and outer capacities needed to fulfil them  83
2. Nursing as a relationship  84
2.1 First exercise: proper thinking—concentration   84
3. Nursing as a process  85
3.1 Second exercise: initiative  85
4. Nursing between closeness and distance  89
4.1 Third exercise: serenity  89
5. Nursing and hope   91
5.1 Fourth exercise: positivity  91
6. Learning in day-to-day nursing care   93
6.1 Fifth exercise: impartiality  93
7. Practicing in day-to-day nursing care  94
7.1 Sixth exercise: inner balance  94
8. Outlook on the anthroposophic path of development  95
8.1 Nursing quality   95
8.2 Path of development  95
8.3 Our view of the human being—thinking as the point of departure  95
8.4 The exercises   96
8.5 Where are human beings headed? -Nursing as a cultural task   96
CHAPTER VI Rolf Heine
Meditation in Nursing   99
1. Aims of meditating  99
1.1 Expansion of consciousness   100
1.2 Health—Regeneration   101
1.3 Transforming the world with spiritual means   102
1.4 Developing our soul forces  103
2. Applied meditation for nurses  104
3. The central meditation for nurses: transforming the verse into a mantram  108
3.1 Working with the verse for nurses  109
3.2 Other practical aspects   114
3.3 The mantram for nurses and the activation of heart thinking   115
CHAPTER VII Rolf Heine
The Concept of Nursing Gestures as a Model for Nursing Care  121
1. What is a nursing gesture?  121
1.1 Nursing activities and inner attitude  122
2. How did the concept of nursing gestures arise?   123
3. How do we fmd a gesture?  125
3.1 Hardening and dissolution as human disease tendencies   126
4. Nursing archetypes  129
4.1 Substituting and activating gestures   130
4.2 Gestures as inner movements   131
5. Gestures in typical areas of nursing  132
5.1 Nursing gestures in the education of the child   144
5.2 Nursing gestures in the care of the elderly  144
5.2.1 Cleansing  144
5.2.2 Nurturing  145
5.2.3 Relieving—Challenging  146
5.2.4 Protecting—Enveloping-Creating order  146
5.2.5 Confirming—Awakening-Uprightness  147
5.2.6 Balancing—Stimulating  148
5.3 Nursing gestures in the accompaniment of people who are dying  149
5.3.1 Creating space—Creating order   149
5.3.2 Affirming-Comforting—Hope  150
5.3.3 Stimulating  150
5.3.4 Nurturing   151
5.3.5 Challenging—Encouraging  152
5.3.6 Relieving  153
5.3.7 Uprightness  153
5.3.8 Enveloping  154
5.3.9 Helping the essence to appear-Cleansing  155
5.3.10 Balancing  155
5.3.11 Averting-Protecting  156
5.3.12 Awakening  157
5.4 Nursing gestures for cancer patients-Awakening as a central gesture  158
5.4.1 How do people wake up?  159
5.4.2 What do cancer patients awaken to?   160
5.4.3 How can external and internal processes of awakening
be accompanied by nursing care?   161
6. Nursing gestures in typical activities  162
7. Nursing gestures and external applications  165
8. Nursing gestures and the zodiac  167
9. The basic nursing moods and the planets  170
9.1 Sun quality—Being interested—Vowel AU   170
9.2 Mars quality—Leading, Guiding—Vowel E  170
9.3 Venus quality—Sympathy, Empathy—Vowel A  171
9.4 Jupiter quality-Organizing-Vowel 0  171
9.5 Mercury quality—Mediating—Vowel I   171
9.6 Saturn quality-Accompanying—Vowel U  171
9.7 Moon quality-Mirroring, Serving-Vowel El  172
10. Overview of nursing gestures  174
11. Nursing gestures in practice  196

Elements of Nursing Practice
CHAPTER VIII Annegret Camps
Rhythm  203
1. The phenomenon of rhythm   203
2. Rhythm in the human being  204
2.1 The rhythmic system  206
3. Leeway as an opportunity for freedom   207
4. Rhythm in nursing  209
4.1 Basic patterns in nursing care   209
4.2 The importance of time frames  211
CHAPTER IX Ada van der Star
The Human Warmth Organism and Its Care  216
1. Earth’s climate and living things  216
1.1 The human warmth organism   217
2. Perceiving warmth  220
3. Warmth in nursing  221
3.1 Temperature extremes and illness   222
3.2 Temperature regulation and clothing  223
3.3 Further aids to stimulate and regulate the warmth organism   224
3.4 Nutrition and warmth  225
3.5 Shaping the environment  226
CHAPTER X Rolf Heine
Variations on Whole-Body Washing  229
1. General aspects  229
2. Basic types of washing  231
2.1 Washing as service to the body   231
2.2 Strengthening self-care skills   231
2.3 Esthetics and attention as elements of washing   232
2.4 Washing to stimulate the life forces   233
2.4.1 Invigorating wash  233
2.4.2 Soothing wash  235
2.4.3 “Sounding Bath”  236
2.5 Variations of the basic forms  237
2.6 Cleansing impurities and the procedure for whole-body washing  238
CHAPTER XI Rolf Heine
Preventing Bedsores, Pneumonia, and Thrombosis in Seriously Ill Patients  240
1. Understanding the causes of bedsores, pneumonia und thrombosis  240
1.1 The importance of the ‘I’-organization  241
1.2 Excamation and incarnation   242
2. General prophylaxis  243
2.1 Warmth in the spiritual aspect  244
2.2 Warmth in the soul  244
2.3 Warmth in the body   246
3. Special aspects   247
3.1 Bedsore prophylaxis  247
3.2 Pneumonia prophylaxis   249
3.3 Thrombosis prophylaxis   251
4. Nursing care substances   252
4.1 Bedsores  254
4.2 Pneumonia  255
4.3 Thrombosis  255
CHAPTER XII Ursula von der Heide • Revised by Monika Layer
Rhythmical Einreibung According to Wegman/Hauschka  258
1. Touch in nursing care   258
1.1 Closeness and distance   258
1.2 Qualities of touch   259
1.3 Treating with the hands  261
2. What is Rhythmical Einreibung?  262
2.1 Basic forms  264
2.2 The importance of rhythm   265
2.3 Other characteristics of quality   267
3. Administering a Rhythmical Einreibung treatment   267
4. The effects of Rhythmical Einreibung  270
5. Touching must be learned  273
6. Final considerations  274
CHAPTER XIII Gabriele Weber
Compresses in Anthroposophically Extended Nursing Care  277
1. Introduction  277
1.1 Historical origins  278
1.2 Compresses as part of anthroposophically extended nursing care  . 278
2. Understanding the effects of external applications  .279
2.1 The relationship between the threefold human being and medicinal plants   279
2.2 Health and illness  281
2.3 Stimulating and supporting self-healing powers   281
3. Lemon  282
3.1 Practical implementation using the example of a lemon chest compress   283
4. Cabbage leaves  284
4.1 Practical implementation using the example of a joint compress   285
5. Chamomile  286
5.1 Practical implementation using the example of a hot abdominal compress   288
6. Mustard  289
6.1 Practical implementation using the example of a mustard powder foot bath  290
7. Observing and influencing metabolic activity and warmth processes  291
8. Basic rules for administering compresses  292
8.1 Substances  292
8.2 Materials   292
8.3 Special preparations for compresses  293
8.4 Priorities for monitoring   293
8.5 New qualities in the therapeutic process  295
8.6 The nurse’s inner attitude  295
CHAPTER XIV Rolf Heine
Active Principles in External Applications
The Nature of External Applications—How They Differ from Other Medical and Nursing Interventions   297
1. Effect factors  297
2. Substances in external applications   299
2.1 Active principles in sulfuric substances  303
2.2 Active principles in mercurial substances   303
2.3 Active principles in saline substances   304
3. The medium through which a substance is conveyed  305
3.1 The importance of warmth  307
4. Rhythm (time of day, frequency, dosage)  308
5. Attention-giving, setting and touch  310
5.1 Waking-Dreaming-Sleeping, shown in ginger and mustard applications  312
5.2 Touch   317
6. Evaluating external applications   318
7. Cognition-Based Medicine (single case studies)  322
7.1 Evaluation of external applications in practice   323
7.2 Vademecum of External Applications  326

Specializations in Nursing
CHAPTER XV Anna Wilde • Regula Markwalder
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Puerperium as Stages of Human Becoming  335
1. When does human life actually begin?  335
1.1 What happens at the threshold events of birth and death?  336
2. Pregnancy   337
3. Birth  340
3.1 Why does giving birth hurt, what is the point of such pain?  342
4. The puerperium  343
5. Lily and rose  344
CHAPTER XVI Inge Heine • Rolf Heine
Neonatal Nursing Care. Care Is Education—Education Is Care  347
1. Parental counselling as a focus of postpartum care  347
2. The didactics of parent counselling   348
2.1 The newborn’s physical environment   349
2.2 Clothing—Wrapping  351
2.3 Body care  353
2.3.1 Cleansing and prevention of infections  353
2.3.2 The skin as the body’s boundary  354
2.3.3 Touch and relationships during body care  354
2.4 Breastfeeding—Nourishment  355
2.4.1 Assistance with getting the baby latched onto the breast  356
2.4.2 Nipple confusion  357
2.4.3 Breastmilk and milk substitutes   357
2.4.4 Introducing other forms of nutrition—Weaning   358
2.5 Relationships-Education-Development  360
2.5.1 Supporting movement development through everyday care.  360
2.5.2 Cultivating a rhythmic lifestyle  361
2.5.3 Imitation as a basic principle of education  363
CHAPTER XVII Carols Edelmann
The Concept of Development as the Basis for Anthroposophically Extended Pediatric Nursing  365
1. The nature of children   365
2 The stages of child development, with a view to the associated illnesses and nursing care requirements   367
2.1 Infants and small children   367
2.1.1 Disease dispositions  369
2.2 The school child   370
2.2.1 Disease dispositions  371
2.3 The adolescent  373
3. The professional profile of extended pediatric nursing   374
4. New areas of activity for pediatric nursing   375
CHAPTER XVIII Klaus Adams
Psychiatric Nursing  378
1. General psychiatric nursing and elements of anthroposophically extended psychiatric nursing   378
1.1 Nursing as relationship work   378
1.2 Milieu therapy and psychoeducation   379
1.3 Cultivating rhythm, a daily structure, seasonal activities and annual festivals   380
1.4 External applications  382
1.5 Soul exercises (attention and mindfulness)  383
1.6 Dealing with medications  383
1.7 Work with the twelve nursing gestures  384
1.8 The therapeutic attitude   384
2. Anthroposophic aspects of the treatment and nursing care of common psychiatric diseases   385
2.1 Depression  386
2.1.1 Nursing aspects for the treatment of depression  389
2.2 Psychosis  392
2.2.1 Nursing aspects in the treatment of psychoses   393
2.2.2 Therapeutic aspects  396
2.3 Anxiety disorders  398
2.3.1 Nursing aspects in the treatment of anxiety disorders  400
2.3.2 Therapeutic aspects   401
2.4 Personality disorders  402
2.4.1 Factors in the nursing care of people suffering from borderline illnesses  406
2.4.2 Therapeutic aspects   407
3. Soul exercises  408
CHAPTER XIX Bernhard Deckers
From the Question of Meaning in Cancer to the Cultivation of the Senses  417
1. About our encounters with cancer patients in nursing care   418
2. The process by which cancer develops   420
3. The experience of cancer patients  420
3.1 The question of the meaning of life in cancer patients  420
4. Care of the ‘I’-care of the senses  421
4.1 Touch  422
4.2 Perceiving one’s state of health  423
4.3 Sensing movement and experiencing balance  423
4.4 Taste  424
4.5 Smell  425
4.6 Sight   426
4.7 Perceiving warmth   426
4.8 Hearing   427
4.9 Experiencing speech and perceiving thoughts   428
4.10 Perceiving the‘I’of the other person  429
5. Concluding remarks  430
CHAPTER XX Jana Schier
Anthroposophic Oncology Nursing  433
1. Historical aspects   433
2. The anthropological basis for understanding cancer  433
3. The four phases of the disease   434
4. The nurse’s case histoiy based on an anthroposophic understanding of the human being  435
4.1 The physical body  435
4.2 The etheric body   436
4.3 The soul body  437
4.4 The ‘I’-organization  438
5. Finding meaning and healing   439
6. Nursing—mediating—accompanying  440
7. Anthroposophic nursing accompaniment of cancer patients  441
7.1 Shock, bewilderment, specchlessness  441
7.2 Fear with agitation  443
7.3 Dysregulation in the warmth organism  444
7.4 Pain   446
7.5 Fluid congestion processes in the organism  448
7.6 Identity as a man or a woman  449
7.7 Anthroposophic nursing accompaniment of patients undergoing
radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy   450
7.7.1 Prophylactic and therapeutic nursing applications in tumor therapy   451
7.7.2 Nursing support before the start of therapy  451
7.7.3 Nursing support during and after therapy   453
8. Anthroposophic nursing in oncology   459
CHAPTER XXI Ada van der Star • Annegret Camps
Geriatric Care as Care for Human Beings  461
1. The difference between nursing the sick and nursing the elderly   461
2. Structuring one’s life and geriatric nursing  463
3. Views of humanity und motivation in geriatric care  465
4. Stimulation for people in care  467
CHAPTER XXII Christel Kaul
Aspects of Caring for Elderly People who are Mentally Ill or Confused  471
1. On the situation of people with dementia and their nurses  471
2. The transformation of physical decline into mental and spiritual development  472
3. The anthroposophic-anthropological understanding of senile dementia  473
3.1 Food intake and its metamorphosis  474
3.1.1 The pathology of untransformed metabolic processes in old age  474
3.1.2 Therapeutic nursing measures  475
3.2 Breathing and its metamorphosis  .476
3.2.1 Late-life depression and anxiety as lost mental elasticity  477
3.2.2 Therapeutic nursing measures  477
3.3 The metamorphosis of the senses  478
3.3.1 The sense of life transforms into equanimity   480
3.3.2 The sense of one’s own movement and the sense of balance  480
3.3.3 The sense of touch transforms into reverence  481
3.3.4 The sense of sight transforms into inner comprehension  481
3.3.5 The sense of smell transforms into compassion  481
3.3.6 The sense of taste transforms into tact and politeness  482
3.3.7 The sense of warmth transforms into patience   482
3.3.8 The sense of hearing transforms into restraint  482
3.3.9 The senses of the speech, thought, and the ‘I’ of the other person
transform into courage, silence, and renunciation  483
4. The double  483
CHAPTER XXIII Heike Schaumann
Caring for People with Dementia in Inpatient Facilities   487
1. Introduction   487
2. Moving into an institution: an increasing loss of space for
making decisions and acting as one pleases   488
3. Integrating into and getting used to one’s new home—shaping the way people live together   490
3.1 Feeling at home in the community  490
3.2 Habits create security  491
3.3 Different forms of dementia   491
3.4 What skills do staff need?  492
4. Dealing with life’s remaining opportunities-occupations in inpatient facilities  492
5. Adaptation and resistance: previous patterns of behavior may change  494
6. Letting go—Accepting increasing weakness and accompanying the dying process  495
6.1 The confrontation with dying  496
6.1.1 Building trust  496
6.1.2 Making decisions  497
6.1.3 Accepting the new situation  499
6.2 Nutrition in the last phase of life  500
6.2.1 Changing needs  500
6.2.2 Easing the feeling of thirst  501
6.3 Expecting the unexpected   502
7. The professionalism of caregivers   504
8. People with dementia in the hospital  505
9. People with dementia in outpatient care  506
CHAPTER XXIV Christoph von Dach • Sasha Gloor
Palliative Care   508
1. Introduction  508
1.1 The origins of palliative care  508
2. When does dying begin?   510
2.1 Living and dying as a process  511
3. The fourfold human being  511
4. The seven life processes   512
5. Pain in anthroposophic palliative care  512
5.1 Palliative sedation  512
6. Principles for external applications in palliative care   513
7. External applications in palliative care  513
7.1 Pain   514
7.2 Breathing   515
7.3 Warming   518
7.4 Nutrition   519
7.5 Elimination  520
7.6 Maintenance   521
7.7 Growth  523
7.8 Reproduction   523
8. The dying process—Observations from the daily work of a nurse  523
8.1 The dying process as a journey with seven stages  524
8.2 The seven planets as an analogy for the phases of the dying process  525
8.2.1 Self-perception   525
8.2.2 Confrontation  526
8.2.3 Deciding  527
8.2.4 Finding one’s own   528
8.2.5 Creating order  529
8.2.6 Preparation  .531
8.2.7 Detaching oneself from this world  532
8.3 How can nurses accompany the dying process?  532
8.3.1 Self-perception  533
8.3.2 Confrontation  533
8.3.3 Deciding   534
8.3.4 Finding one’s own   535
8.3.5 Creating order  536
8.3.6 Preparation  537
8.3.7 Detaching oneself from this world  538
CHAPTER XXV Gudrun Buchhol 
The Care and Accompaniment of the Dying and the Deceased  542
1. Introduction—An attempt at an approach to death and dying  542
2. The anthroposophic view of dying and death   543
2.1 What happens to our fourfold nature after death?  544
2.2 The psyche of the dying person  545
3. Birth and death  547
4. The transformation of the dying person   548
4.1 Time perspectives   548
4.2 Pain   549
4.3 Pain relief  549
4.4 The encounter with the double  550
5. Nursing care for people who are dying  551
5.1 Accompanying the patient’s relatives   554
6. Death   554
6.1 External features that indicate that death is about to occur   555
6.2 The moment of death  555
7. Care of the deceased in anthroposophic institutions   556
7.1 The laying out of the deceased  556
7.2 Changes after death  557
7.3 The laying-out group   557
Epilogue RolfHeine   561
List of Products Mentioned, with US and European equivalents  568
About the Authors   573
Index   579

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