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SECTION ONE: HEALTH: WHAT CAN WE MEAN?
Definition of health for the purposes of the current work
The scope and purpose of the model
Model of health in this current work
SECTION TWO: AXIOMS, THEOREMS AND IDEOLOGY
The sound of one hand clapping
There is no life without motion
There is no life without energy
SECTION THREE: THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE ADAPTIVE RESPONSE
Five crucial interlocking ideas
2/5: The interconnected matrices
Human drives as a function of time
5/5: The distribution of energy (maintenance of a ratio between capacitance and adaptation)
Recapitulation of Section 3–The biological basis of the adaptive response
Some examples of accumulation and discharge
The constant cycle of accumulation and discharge
Summary of common chronic conditions
Footnote to Section 3: adaptive capacity is not a heritable trait
SECTION FOUR: POISE AS AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO HEALTH
Binaries: the garden with forking paths
Circadian binaries and transition zones
Gaia's sister: the biosphere—separations and divisions
Where do we draw the line and with what do we draw it?
Gaia's children: fauns and fauna
SECTION FIVE: THE TERRAIN: MIND AND MINDEDNESS
The necessity for a concept of terrain
Anatomy and physiology in time
Causality and scale: death and life
Mindedness in the structure of poise
Poise as stabiliser of the trajectory
The adaptors and regulators of poise
A memory is always an abstraction
SECTION SIX: LIMITATIONS OF THEORY
1. The hypothalamic–pituitary driver
2. Cholinergic and aminergic referees/regulators
3. Hypothalamic–posterior pituitary Intensifiers
4. Organ responders and pacemakers
Potential applications of theory
Configuration of the terrain within the human body
SECTION SEVEN: HEALTH AND POISE
PART TWO: PEOPLE: WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE CLINIC
SECTION EIGHT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE
What is the alternative to medicine?
SECTION NINE: THE CONSULTATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
The setting the speech the style the point the outcome
Whom do we treat?
The presentation
Classification of patients?
The Worried Well
Discomfort
Contrarians
Fugitives
Preaching to the converted
Consumer health-ists
Difficult patients
Self–defeating patients
Anxious patients
Common–sense pluralists
One–offs
Cost
The functions of a physician
Good medicine
The great divide
The cobbler's children go to school barefoot…
Continuity and belonging
Style
Loyalty and power
Your own style
Fashion and style
The practice is organic
Could herbs help my husband?
SECTION TEN: STAGES IN THE CLINICAL PROCESS
The clinical process
Observation precedes the physical examination
The consultation as data collection
Records
Stages in the process
Judgements
Advice
Assessment of the terrain from the history and examination
The presentation of the patient
Time of day
The circadian moment
Our fractal histories
SECTION ELEVEN: CLINICAL EXAMINATION
The face
Tongue, eye and pulse
The voice
Hair
Chilly mortals
Containment
Bodily cavities in the axial skeleton
The musculoskeletal system
Zoning
Human cartography
SECTION TWELVE: SYSTEMIC REVIEW
Sleep
Fatigue
Confusion
Lungs and colon
Heart
Energy, Drive and fatiguability
Balance in the broadest sense
Digestive system
Teeth
Renal or sifting system
Skin, hair and circulation
Hands, feet and circulation
Menstrual history
Asymmetric symptoms
Seasonal
Snap observations
APPENDIX TO SECTIONS TEN, ELEVEN AND TWELVE: RECOMMENDATIONS SHEETS
Sheet 1. General recommendations towards helpful dietary habits
Sheet 2. Special recommendations towards reducing the provocation of insulin (as well as blood lipids) and reducing abdominal fat
Sheet 3. Iron
Sheet 4. Daily breathing exercise
Sheet 5. Seasonal fasting
Sheet 6. GOUT and high levels of uric acid in the blood
SECTION THIRTEEN: PATTERNS OF LIFE
Staging, cycling and timing
The primes of life
Integrality: comparing and contrasting
A chart of ages
Think of a number
Biorhythms
Biological time
Photosensitivity
Claims of sensitivity
Meteoropathy and barometric sensitivity
Acoustic hypersensitivity
Biological time and infectious illness
Recovery time
Sleep
The parallel brains
Modules of sleep
The alternation between sleeping and feeding
Ratios
In summary
SECTION FOURTEEN: THE PATIENT AS PERSONALITY
Four element theory
Contemporary theories of personality
Personality and age
The patient as personality
Alternators
Alternators as a failure of circadian entrainment
Mental states
Mood swings
Mood stabilisation
Containment
Creativity
Promiscuity and paradoxical loyalty as a response to separation anxiety
Mental illness is always social illness
Attachment and detachment
Configuration
All of our lives are a continuity
Act and activation
Pleasure and pain as alternators
Personality and clinical assessment
Anxiety and personality
Personality and time
Personality as behaviour
Wilfulness and selflessness
Will and willingness
Personality as an emergence from family
The pivotal person
The sacrificial personality
The patient as personality
The patient as commodity
The human economy
The human ecology
Personality as outcome
Personality forgotten
Accumulation and discharge–recapitulation
Multiple choice
SECTION FIFTEEN: THE CLINICAL ARENA: SPACE AND TIME
The appointment
The space
Holding the space
Sacred space
Mimesis
What is herbal medicine good for?
Enthusiasm
The Ailment: What does the patient wish for? Where exactly is the problem?
Health: the elusive diagnosis
Complaints: a metaphor?
SECTION SIXTEEN: THE PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE
Empathy and the dressing–up box
Imagination
Improvisation
An actor prepares
Ambiguity
Style of herbal medicine in Britain
A broad church
SECTION SEVENTEEN: THE UNCONSCIOUS
Repression
Leaking
Eurocentric
Unknowing
Dreams and dreaming: the facets of life
Healing
Reflexive collectivism
Triangles of identity
Fixity and range
Liminality
Zeal, family size and escape from the shadows
SECTION EIGHTEEN: THE ENTRAINMENT OF POISE
Symbolic and pragmatic thinking
Evidence based medicine
He who pays the piper calls the tune
A definition of poise
Uniqueness and the biology of poise
Loss of capacitance leads to symptoms of subjective illness
Capacitors
Fatigue, listlessness and depression
Poise is modifiable
Is it really healthy to never get ill?
Persistence
A diagrammatic representation of poise
Accidents, distractions and dithering
Power and purpose
Quantifying poise
Fibonacci number series and spatial and temporal relationships
Metaphors of poise
The sailing boat
Being under the weather
Hill and stream
Opening and closing the fan
The poise economy
Memorialists and poise
The therapeutic enhancement of poise
SECTION NINETEEN: MINDEDNESS IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Humoralism
The pharmaceutical model
Why plants? how do they work?
How do plants exert an effect upon the human body?
Colloids and films
Essentialism
Terrain
Belief, facts and assertions
The four drives
Coherence
Theraps
Fake projection and authentic acquaintance
Replacement therapies
The medicinal act
The multi–modal hypothesis for the action of medicinal plants
Sensory priming
Stochastic resonance
Pulsatility
Poly–cyclicity
Similarity and sameness, differentiation and uniqueness
Family resonance
Personalised medicine
Trials and tribulations
SECTION TWENTY ONE: MEDICINAL PLANTS
Polyvalence and contradiction
Contradictions within the prescription
Drugs or adaptogens
Stimulus—organisation—response events or SORe
Symptomatic treatments
Is the medicinal plant an object or a process?
Chemical constituents of plants
Structure and function
Animal impulses and plant responses
What can we do?…
SECTION TWENTY TWO: MODES METHODS AND PARADIGMS OF TREATMENT
The priority of needs
The treatment of ailments
Spasmophilia and the steps in the fall from poise
Problems with initiating recovery
Adverse effects on the side
A health reminder
Ageing and poise: losing the ratio
Inclination and poise
Ailments and poise
Alternation
Segmented systems
Alternation prescribing for alternators
Treat the insomnias by managing circadian entrainment
The parallel interlocked systems of homeostasis and circadian adaptation
All along the digestive tract: the many presentations of dysfunction
Fussy eaters
Gastro–oesophageal reflux
Bloating or postprandial fatigue
Intestinal transit
Diverticulosis
Pain
Pain referred but also displaced
Daily medicinal plants in food
The disadvantages of stamina
An approach to migraine and asthma
Gout and hyperuricaemia
Chilblains
Heavy legs
Essential hypertension
Pimples, styes, boils, lipomas and acne
Eczema and psoriasis
Upper respiratory infections
Arthralgia and myalgia
The bow wave
The treatment of pre–menstrual syndromes as well as low fecundity
Advice and habit
Eating meditation
Modal treatments
Alcohol (harmful use)
Anxiety
Acne
Anaemia (and Genital Ratio)
Arthralgia and myalgia, aching and stiffness
Calamitous expectation
Children and adolescents
Congestion
Disconnected states
IBS–A
Intolerance
Osteoporosis
Wobbly states
SECTION TWENTY THREE: PLANT TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATICS
Botany
Appendix to section on plant taxonomy and systematics
Nineteenth century
de Candolle in France
Lindley in Britain
Engler & Pranti in much of Continental Europe
Bentham & Hooker in Britain
Twentieth century
Bessey in the United States
Hutchinson in Britain
Dahlgren
Benson
Kubitzki system
Lyman David Benson. plant classification 1957
Principles of the taxonomy of the vascular plants in the twenty-first century
A list of useful vascular plants
Arranged according to recent phylogenetic research (APG IV 2016)
Lycopods Clubmosses
Ferns
Leptosporangiate Ferns
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms
Basal Angiosperms 3 Families
Magnoliids 17 Families
Monocots
Eudicots
Leguminosae
SECTION TWENTY FOUR: MATERIA MEDICA
Lists of plants
Recommendations for the dispensary
Gymnosperms
Pinaceae
Pinus
Monocots
Amaryllidaceae
Alliums
Asparagaceae
Convallaria
Ruscus
Zingiberaceae
Zingiber
Poaceae (= Gramineae)
Agropyron
Zea
Eudicots
Papaveraceae
Fumaria
Ranunculaceae
Anemone (alternative therapeutic name Pulsatilla)
Grossulariaceae
Ribes
Leguminosae
Fabaceae
Glycyrrhiza
Galega
Medicago
Melilotus
Trigonella
Rosaceae
Agrimonia
Alchemilla
Filipendula
Prunus
Rubus fruticosus: Brambles
Rubus idaeus
Poterium or Sanguisorba
Crataegus
Rosa
Ulmaceae
Ulmus
Cannabaceae
Humulus
Urticaceae
Urtica
Fagaceae
Quercus
Hypericaceae
Hypericum
Passifloraceae
Salicaceae
Salix
Rutaceae
Citrus aurantium
Malvaceae
Tilia
Brassicaceae (= Cruciferae)
Capsella
Ericaceae
Calluna
Vaccinium
Apocynaceae
Vinca
Boraginaceae
Borago
Solanaceae
Fabiana
Dulcamara
Oleaceae
Fraxinus
Olea
Plantaginaceae
Plantago
Verbenaceae
Verbena
Lamiaceae (= Labiatae)
Vitex
Ballota
Hyssopus
Lamium
Lavandula
Leonurus
Lycopus
Marrubium
Melissa
Mentha pip
Ocimum
Marjorana
Rosmarinus
Salvia and Salvia sclarea
Satureja
Stachys or Betonica
Thymus
Menyanthaceae
Menyanthes
Asteraceae (= Compositae)
Achillea
Arctium
Calendula
Matricaria
Inula
Silybum
Taraxacum
Artemisia
Eupatorium
Hieracium
Solidago
Adoxaceae
Sambucus
Valeriana
Apiaceae (= Umbelliferae)
Angelica
Anthriscus
Foeniculum
Levisticum
Addendum
Schedule of the use of medicinal plants by neuroendocrine action
Table of plants with effects upon the Autonomic Nervous System
Table of plants with reducing effects upon the Autonomic Nervous System
Table of plants with effects upon the Hypothalamic–Pituitary Axes
Table of plants that either increase or reduce reactivity
Table of plants with effects upon the Blood Vessels and Coagulation
Drainage of organs
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Bibliography for plant systematics, as well as general & field plant studies
Phytotherapy, phytochemistry & traditional herbal medicine
Textbooks of basic medical sciences
