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		<title>Tea for High Blood Pressure?  Hibiscus Tea&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studies have been accumulating to show that drinking a few cups of hibiscus tea daily can significantly lower elevated blood pressure in people with pre- and mild hypertension. In a paper that appeared in the Journal of Nutrition in February 2010, Tufts University researchers reported an average drop of over 7 mm HG for hibiscus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Treatment Options in Holistic Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is always important to do your homework about any provider to whom you entrust your health and well-being and consider the different treatment options that are available with regard to holistic healing. 
Mind-Body Treatment Options
You can support these first two components of your care by adding whatever form(s) of mind-body approaches appeal to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Healing:  Steps to the Journey of Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, now that you see the big picture, have chosen your preferred approaches to a personalized holistic health care plan, and understand how to evaluate your progress, what are your next specific steps?
Here is a brief To Do list to get you on your journey of healing. These are only suggestions – again, tailoring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Medicine:  The Who of Health Care Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrBell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care options include a what (name or class of therapy), a how (particular school or style of the therapy), and a who (particular provider). All health care occurs in a context — the larger context of your life. Although you may see your health as separate from your life context, it is not. Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Healing:  What’s in Your Dynamics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to put together your personal treatment program in a way that will move you closer to inner readiness to heal and position, you to have an extraordinary healing response to the package of care you assemble. Your healing response depends upon what is in your dynamics and how stuck you are when dealing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complementary and Alternative Medicine:  Examining the Levels of Scale in Holistic Healing for People with Hypertension</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patient-Centered Care vs. Disease-Centered Care in High Blood Pressure
As we&#8217;ve discussed, in health care, our usual focus is the person level of organization. In conventional medicine, there is a perspective called “patient-centered care.” Patient-centered care, which concerns itself with the issues of who-has-the-disease, is distinguished from disease-centered care, which concerns itself with the issues of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Medicine:  Learn About the Big Picture of Chronic Disease and Health Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking to learn about the big picture of chronic disease and health care, you must first be aware of the bad, the ugly, and the good.  These facts provide the foundation for building a personalized approach to holistic healing through what I call the ABC principle.
The Bad – The Problem of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Medicine:  Using the ABC Principle to Create a Personalized Approach to Holistic Healing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can learn to build your own effective individualized program of holistic healing care that includes practitioner-provided and self-care interventions – but you have to understand where each option fits into the big picture.  A lot of publications on CAM (complimentary and alternative medicine) are either introductory overview encyclopedias of treatment modalities or in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Medicine:  Thinking about Your Health Care Options As You Make Decisions</title>
		<link>http://irisbell.com/76/holistic-medicine-thinking-about-your-health-care-options-as-you-make-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrBell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainstream conventional or Western medicine is the politically dominant form of health care in developed nations. The central world view assumption about nature in Western medicine is that the person is a physical entity in which some external cause produces an effect (disease manifestations). 
Conventional Treatment vs. Alternative Medicine 
Conventional treatment consists of doing something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holistic Medicine:  Are You Better or Worse?</title>
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		<comments>http://irisbell.com/74/holistic-medicine-are-you-better-or-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrBell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overnight cures are wonderful miracles. They do happen. Rarely. Gradual cures are far more common, especially with whole systems of CAM (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine). So, expect a possible miracle – or at least a solid improvement, but be prepared for a longer haul and perhaps less than a complete miracle.  Many people are [...]]]></description>
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