Understanding Chronic Pain or Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants

Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His Patients

Author: Robert T Cochran

Chronic pain, whether in the form of headache, fibromyalgia, backache, neuralgia, endometriosis, or countless other states of painfulness, affects millions. If you are one of them, spending your days in incessant pain and your nights in sleepless, hopeless despondency, then this book is for you. Robert T. Cochran Jr., MD uses his more than thirty years of experience among victims of chronic pain and the discoveries that came from those encounters to speak to those who suffer from this disease. This expanded second edition now includes a glossary, index, and up-to-date pharmaceutical list.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Drugs Useful for Pain	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1.	Failure to Recover	3
2.	What is Chronic Pain?	9
3.	Identifiers and Risk Factors	13
4.	Mind-Soul Disease	23
5.	Drugs for Pain	39
6.	Memory	54
7.	Triavil	64
8.	The Painful Brain	77
9.	Sexual Abuse	85
10.	Referred Pain	95
11.	Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy	99
12.	Kindling	110
13.	Substance Abuse	117
14.	Bipolarity	125
15.	Chronic Fatigue	143
16.	Migraine	155
17.	Neurogenic Inflammation	169
18.	Attention Deficit Disorder	179
19.	Summing Up	192
	Epilogue	200
	About the Author	202

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Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants (2 Volume Set)

Author: George D Pamplona Roger

A 2-volume complete, up-to-date, and scientific encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants is based on rigorous botanical, pharmaceutical and chemical research.

• More than 470 plants botanically and medically described and classified by diseases
• Natural treatments explained and illustrated in simple and clear language. Now the healing virtues of medicinal plants and their practical applications are in reach of everyone.
• Instructions on the therapeutic preparation of fomentations, compresses, poultices, infusions, ointments, baths, cold extracts, and more...
• Numerous charts describing the most frequent disorders of each part and system of the body, and the plants that have the active ingredients to heal them
• Detailed explanation of the complex vegetable world, how to identify medicinal plants, and what parts of the plants to use medicinally.
• Practical step-by-step instructions for the preservation and administering of medicinal herbs and medicinal plants
• Beautifully illustrated and photographed throughout
• Includes artists renditions of most plants, and actual in-the-wild pictures of most plants.
• Includes synonyms and alternate names for most plants, as well as Spanish and French names for each plant.
• Includes warnings and special considerations for any plants that need them, including interaction precautions, sensitivity and substitution advice, and dosage restrictions.

Volume 1 - Generalities

• The vegetable world
• Gathering and preservation
• Methods for preparing and using plants
• Active principles
• Caution: Plant toxicity
• From the plant to the medicine

Volume 2 - Descriptions

• Plants for each body system
• Plants for each organ
• Plants for the skin
• Plants for the metabolism
• Plants for infectious disease
• Plants for other ailments