Fit Together or Evidence Based Herbal Medicine

Fit Together: How to Double Your Workout Results with a Partner

Author: Eddy Goicolea

Everyone wants to stay fit today, but working out at the gym can be boring, expensive, and inconvenient. Here's a way to liberate your fitness program--in more ways than one. Fit Together presents a new and revolutionary system of resistance exercises to do with a partner--exercises that couples can do anywhere, anytime. In exquisite photographs that show off the sculpted forms of the two authors, this book reveals ways of working out that are more stimulating than ever imagined.

Instead of all those clunky machines, the regimen here relies solely on gravity to provide a more natural, more constant, and more challenging resistance for the muscles. Every muscle group is covered in more than thirty exercises--from lunges for the glutes and rows for the delts to push-ups for the pecs and squats for the quads. And, for each day's workout the regimen pairs exercises that work opposing muscle groups, so that no time is wasted resting between sets, as so often happens in gyms. Fit Together will reinvigorate your fitness program with newfound motivation, satisfaction, and visible results.

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Evidence-Based Herbal Medicine

Author: Michael Rotblatt

A handbook of practical, objective, and clinically oriented information on the use of herbalism in health care.

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Reviewer: Marie Londrigan, PhD (Pace University)
Description: In this is a well researched and timely book, the authors use an evidence-based approach in an attempt to assist healthcare practitioners make sound, safe, efficient and effective recommendations about herbal therapeutics in clinical practice.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide the healthcare practitioner with reputable sources of evidence in the field of herbal medicine. Meeting this objective raises the standards of herbal therapeutics and validates the inclusion of such modalities within the standards of practice. The book meets the authors' stated objectives. Considering the growing popularity and use of herbs, this book is critical and welcomed by healthcare practitioners who face multiple daunting questions daily. These questions may include: What is this herb? How does it work? Is it safe? What are the potential benefits? What are the potential risks? What are the potential reactions with other treatments? Has there been scientific research that demonstrates the safe, efficient, and effective nature of the herbal remedy?
Audience: This book has been written for healthcare practitioners who are searching for scientifically based information that will assist them with decision making in the area of herbal remedies rather than making decisions based on "folklore" and "tradition." Such scientifically based information will also assist healthcare practitioners who wishes to confidently discuss these remedies with their clients. This book may also be a useful tool for educators. Both authors are credible in the subject matter of this book as are the multiple contributors.
Features: The field of herbal medicine has grown in recent years. Today healthcare practitioners are frequently bombarded by their clients who come into their offices making requests to start a particular remedy or to notify the practitioner that they have already started an herbal modality. Traditionally, the use of certain herbal modalities have been handed down from generation to generation with stories as to their effectiveness with little reliable clinical data to back these claims. This book attempts to take herbal medicine from these subjective stories to an organized body of scientific literature. The highlight of the book is the 65 herbal medicines that the authors chose to focus on. Each herbal medicine is review and defined with historical points of interest followed by sections critical for practice and include: uses, pharmacology, clinical trials, adverse effects, interactions, cautions, preparations, and doses. For each herb an extensive literature search was conducted including Medline, the Cochrane Collaboration, and relevant published articles. All available evidence was assessed, analyzed, and evaluated and given a "Benefit Rating" of one to three leaves and a "Safety Rating" indicated by a plus or a minus. The ratings are based on the evidence presented and are meant to assist the healthcare practitioner in determining the efficacy and safety of the herbal medicine.
Assessment: This book is both timely and necessary. Considering that herbal remedies have traditionally been passed down from generation to generation in the oral tradition it is time to bring evidence-based practice to the field. Reliable clinical data must back up claims as to the usefulness of herbal remedies. This book is extremely useful as it brings another dimension to the field of herbal medicine. The authors not only provide descriptive information but highlight another approach to understanding and validating this old tradition.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

I	Introduction to Herbal Medicine	1
	Evidence-Based Herbal Medicine	1
	Herbal Practices in the U.S.	6
	Quality Assurance and Choosing a Brand or Product	17
	Understanding Herbal Dosage Forms	24
	Chemistry of Herbal Medicines	29
	Herb-Drug Interactions: Reported Versus Potential Effects	45
II	Herb Evaluations	63
	Introduction	63
	Evaluations of 65 Selected Herbs	66
	Herbal Medicines Categorized By Levels of Evidence and Indications	380
III	Special Topics	387
	Chinese Herbs	387
	Ayurvedic Herbs	396
	Mexican Herbs	403
IV	Essays & Commentaries	411
	Aromatherapy	411
	The Placebo Effect and Herbs	420
	What We Have Learned	429
V	Appendices	443
	Resources for Herbal Medicine Information	443
	Selection of Additional Herbal Medicines	450
	Index	461