A Brief History of Mind-Body Medicine

Dacher, Elliot S.

doi:10.24972/ijts.2014.33.1.148

Cited by 8 publications

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“…However, these achievements often come at a cost and unnecessarily so. Disregarding the important role of the inner, spiritual aspects of healing has left developed societies with a new set of ailments, including anxiety, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and all sorts of addictions (Dacher 2014). However, this is changing.…”

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Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

Grim

Grim²

2019

J Relig Health

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This study reviews the voluminous empirical evidence on faith’s contribution to preventing people from falling victim to substance abuse and helping them recover from it. We find that 73% of addiction treatment programs in the USA include a spirituality-based element, as embodied in the 12-step programs and fellowships initially popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, the vast majority of which emphasize reliance on God or a Higher Power to stay sober. We introduce and flesh out a typology of faith-based substance abuse treatment facilities, recovery programs, and support groups. This typology provides important background as we then move on to make an economic valuation of nearly 130,000 congregation-based substance abuse recovery support programs in the USA. We find that these faith-based volunteer support groups contribute up to $316.6 billion in savings to the US economy every year at no cost to tax payers. While negative experiences with religion (e.g., clergy sex abuse and other horrendous examples) have been a contributory factor to substance abuse among some victims, given that more than 84% of scientific studies show that faith is a positive factor in addiction prevention or recovery and a risk in less than 2% of the studies reviewed, we conclude that the value of faith-oriented approaches to substance abuse prevention and recovery is indisputable. And, by extension, we also conclude that the decline in religious affiliation in the USA is not only a concern for religious organizations but constitutes a national health concern.

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Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

Grim

Grim²

2019

J Relig Health

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“…Arvay (2019) also outlined some of the health benefits of forest therapy, among others: forest therapy physiologically can increase the number and activity of human natural killer cells, increase HRV (heart rate variability), lower the level of saliva cortisol, lower blood pressure and lower heart rate. Dacher (2014) makes a middle way between two integral approaches from Aurobindo and Wilber, where there is an understanding that awareness development is essential for optimal health. A harmonious, balanced mind and soul leads to biology and harmonious and balanced life experiences.…”

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The Effect of Forest Therapy on Integral Health: Which Can Be Developed in Indonesia

Prabowo¹,

Dewi²,

Afandi³

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Forest therapy is various therapeutic activities in the forests to improve an individual's health and well-being. The hypothesis in this research refers to Fromm's biophilia perspective, which indicates that being in a forest and nature would increase human ecology's consciousness and promote health. In Japan, "Shinrin-yoku," or forest bathing, is considered an immersion in the forest. Then, from Japan, this Shinrin-yoku influenced further research in East Asia and various European countries. This paper is a literature review of the multiple benefits of forest therapy and forest bathing based on the concept of integral health developed by Elliott Dacher. In addition, this paper also discusses opportunities for the development of forest therapy and forest bathing in Indonesia.

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“…A typical patient with multi-faceted IBS needs a detailed history workup, physical and systemic examination, pertinent laboratory investigations, differential diagnosis and comprehensive treatment plan: prevention strategies such as use of prebiotics and probiotics to promote growth of beneficial GIT bacteria, i.e., gram negative bacteroides, dietary supplements including medicinal herbs and lifestyle modifications,and stress reduction through the lens of evidencebased conventional and complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) therapies [2,4, IBS preferentially afflicts females and is a multidimensional disorder [38], often presents differently in each individual and can be managed better with evidence-based patientcentered holistic-integrative approaches. A judicious combination of pharmacotherapy with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies including acupunctureis evidenced to produce cost-effective and best outcomes for patients with IBS compared to placebo [2,4,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. Pharmacotherapies needing comparative research, and used relatively more in IBS-D include, but not limited to, antispasmodics, lowdose tricyclic antidepressants and specific serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), 5-HT-3 and [54,56].…”

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Holistic Treatment of Functional Irritable Bowel Syndrome with a Spotlight on Medical Acupuncture: A Narrative Clinical Update!

Qureshi

Alsubaie

Ali

et al. 2018

JOCAMR

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Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common recurrent functional disorder without organic pathology. IBS mostly afflicts females often presents in different forms with abdominal and extra-abdominal symptoms, and impacts quality of life of patients around the world. Objective: This update aims to critically describe the salient clinical features of IBS along with brief snapshots of complementary, conventional and integrative therapeutic approaches with a special focus on medical acupuncture. Methods: A selective e-searches of relevant literature were carried out using keywords and Boolean operators, and finally 65 articles were retained for this critical clinical update. Results: The main clinical manifestations of IBS include diarrhoea, constipation, abdominal pain, bloating and flatulence in the absence of "red flag" signs. Its several types (IBSdiarrhoea/constipation/mixed) affect approximately 15% to 40% of the general population. A variety

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A Brief History of Mind-Body Medicine

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

Belief, Behavior, and Belonging: How Faith is Indispensable in Preventing and Recovering from Substance Abuse

The Effect of Forest Therapy on Integral Health: Which Can Be Developed in Indonesia

Holistic Treatment of Functional Irritable Bowel Syndrome with a Spotlight on Medical Acupuncture: A Narrative Clinical Update!

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