Homeopathy and Its Applications in Psychiatry Iris R. Bell Pamela A. Pappas Homeopathy is a 200-year-old system of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann…
Acupuncture for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Albert Yeung Rosa N. Schnyer Yantao Ma David Mischoulon BACKGROUND AND TRADITIONAL CONCEPTS OF ACUPUNCTURE Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) developed under Daoist and…
Complementary and Alternative Therapy for Weight Management Anne E. Becker Alexandra Perloe Kate E. Nyquist Lee M. Kaplan Obesity is the worst epidemic of our time with more than 75…
Natural Products with Anti-Addictive Activities David Yue-Wei Lee There are two major therapeutic trends in the United States. The first involves the use of a sophisticated molecular approach for the…
Chaste Tree Fruit and Premenstrual Syndrome Donna E. Webster Steven J. Dentali Norman R. Farnsworth Z. Jim Wang The chaste tree fruit comes from a shrub or small tree of…
Black Cohosh for Relief of Climacteric Symptoms Daniel S. Fabricant Steven J. Dentali Elizabeth C. Krause Norman R. Farnsworth The botanical nomenclature of black cohosh—Actaea racemosa (L. syn.), Cimicifuga racemosa…
Ginkgo biloba Extract in Cognitive Disorders Hakima Amri Mones Abu-Asab Pierre Le Bars Janet Kastelan The work of Pierre Le Bars, author of the Ginkgo biloba chapter from the first…
Therapeutic Potential of Melatonin in Sleep and Circadian Disorders Irina V. Zhdanova Leah Friedman Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a phylogenetically primitive molecule, found in such diverse species as unicellular organisms, plants,…
Herbal Remedies for Anxiety and Insomnia: Kava and Valerian David Mischoulon Insomnia and anxiety are highly prevalent, affecting up to one third of the population (1). Despite the various anxiolytic…
Inositol in the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Robert H. Belmaker Joseph Levine Inositol is a sugar alcohol and a structural isomer (although not stereo-isomer) of glucose (Fig. 7.1). It differs…
