19. Pi-Chu Lin, “An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Relaxation Therapy for Patients Receiving Joint Replacement Surgery,” Journal of Clinical Nursing 21, no. 5–6 (2011): 601–08.
20. Galina Kipnis, Nili Tabak, and Silvia Koton, “Background Music Playback in the Preoperative Setting: Does It Reduce the Level of Preoperative Anxiety Among Candidates for Elective Surgery?” Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing 31, no. 3 (2016): 209–16.
21. Joke Bradt, Cheryl Dileo, and Minjung Shim, “Music Interventions for Preoperative Anxiety,” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 6 (June 2013).
22. Herbert Benson and Miriam Z. Klipper, The Relaxation Response (New York: HarperTorch, 2000).
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24. A. Michalsen, P. Grossman, A. Acil, J. Langhorst, R. Lüdtke, T. Esch, G. B. Stefano, and G. J. Dobos, “Rapid Stress Reduction and Anxiolysis among Distressed Women as a Consequence of a Three-Month Intensive Yoga Program,” Medical Science Monitor 11 (2005).
25. Andreas Michalsen, Michael Jeitler, Stefan Brunnhuber, Rainer Lüdtke, Arndt Büssing, Frauke Musial, Gustav Dobos, and Christian Kessler, “Iyengar Yoga for Distressed Women: A 3-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial,” Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2012): 1–9.
26. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Lorenzo Cohen, Timothy McCall, and Shirley Telles, The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care (Edinburgh: Handspring Publishing, 2016).
27. Andreas Michalsen, Hermann Traitteur, Rainer Lüdtke, Stefan Brunnhuber, Larissa Meier, Michael Jeitler, Arndt Büssing, and Christian Kessler, “Yoga for Chronic Neck Pain: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial,” The Journal of Pain 13, no. 11 (2012): 1122–30.
28. Dania Schumann, Dennis Anheyer, Romy Lauche, Gustav Dobos, Jost Langhorst, and Holger Cramer, “Effect of Yoga in the Therapy of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review,” Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 14, no. 12 (2016): 1720–31.
29. Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, Jeanette M. Bennett, Rebecca Andridge, Juan Peng, Charles L. Shapiro, William B. Malarkey, Charles F. Emery, Rachel Layman, Ewa E. Mrozek, and Ronald Glaser, “Yoga’s Impact on Inflammation, Mood, and Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” Journal of Clinical Oncology 32, no. 10 (2014): 1040–49.
30. Tom Hendriks, Joop De Jong, and Holger Cramer. “The Effects of Yoga on Positive Mental Health Among Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis,” The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 23, no. 7 (2017): 505–17.
31. Holger Cramer, Jost Langhorst, Gustav Dobos, and Romy Lauche, “Yoga for Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis,” European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 23, no. 18 (2016): 1982–93.
32. Paul Posadzki, Holger Cramer, Adrian Kuzdzal, Myeong Soo Lee, and Edzard Ernst, “Yoga for Hypertension: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials,” Complementary Therapies in Medicine 22, no. 3 (2014): 511–22.
33. Karen J. Sherman, “A Randomized Trial Comparing Yoga, Stretching, and a Self-care Book for Chronic Low Back Pain,” Archives of Internal Medicine 171, no. 22 (2011): 2019–26.
34. Karen J. Sherman, Daniel C. Cherkin, Janet Erro, Diana L. Miglioretti, and Richard A. Deyo, “Comparing Yoga, Exercise, and a Self-Care Book for Chronic Low Back Pain,” Annals of Internal Medicine 143, no. 12 (2005): 849–56.
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36. P. Barthel, R. Wensel, A. Bauer, A. Muller, P. Wolf, K. Ulm, K. M. Huster, D. P. Francis, M. Malik, and G. Schmidt, “Respiratory Rate Predicts Outcome after Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Cohort Study,” European Heart Journal 34, no. 22 (2012): 1644–50.
37. Benson and Klipper, The Relaxation Response.
38. Paul Grossman, Ludger Niemann, Stefan Schmidt, and Harald Walach, “Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Health Benefits,” Journal of Psychosomatic Research 57, no. 1 (2004): 35–43.
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40. Jenny Gu, Clara Strauss, Rod Bond, and Kate Cavanagh, “How Do Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Mediation Studies,” Clinical Psychology Review 37 (2015): 1–12.
41. David W. Orme-Johnson, Robert H. Schneider, Young D. Son, Sanford Nidich, and Zang-Hee Cho, “Neuroimaging of Meditation’s Effect on Brain Reactivity to Pain,” NeuroReport 17, no. 12 (2006): 1359–63.
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43. Tonya L. Jacobs, Elissa S. Epel, Jue Lin, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Owen M. Wolkowitz, David A. Bridwell, Anthony P. Zanesco, Stephen R. Aichele, Baljinder K. Sahdra, Katherine A. Maclean, Brandon G. King, Phillip R. Shaver, Erika L. Rosenberg, Emilio Ferrer, B. Alan Wallace, and Clifford D. Saron, “Intensive Meditation Training, Immune Cell Telomerase Activity, and Psychological Mediators,” Psychoneuroendocrinology 36, no. 5 (2011): 664–81.
44. Sara W. Lazar, Catherine E. Kerr, Rachel H. Wasserman, Jeremy R. Gray, Douglas N. Greve, Michael T. Treadway, Metta Mcgarvey, Brian T. Quinn, Jeffery A. Dusek, Herbert Benson, Scott L. Rauch, Christopher I. Moore, and Bruce Fischl, “Meditation Experience Is Associated with Increased Cortical Thickness,” NeuroReport 16, no. 17 (2005): 1893–97.
45. J. W. Anderson, C. Liu, and R. J. Kryscio, “Blood Pressure Response to Transcendental Meditation: A Meta-analysis,” American Journal of Hypertension 21, no. 3 (2008): 310–16.
46. Rajinder Singh, Meditation as Medication for the Soul (Lisle, IL: Radiance Publishers, 2012).
47. Luciano Bernardi, Joanna Wdowczyk-Szulc, Cinzia Valenti, Stefano Castoldi, Claudio Passino, Giammario Spadacini, and Peter Sleight, “Effects of Controlled Breathing, Mental Activity and Mental Stress with or without Verbalization on Heart Rate Variability,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology 35, no. 6 (2000): 1462–69.
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CHAPTER EIGHT: GLOBAL MEDICINES
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3. M. Burnier, “Drug Adherence in Hypertension,” Pharmacological Research 125 (2017): 142–49.
4. Ajda Ota and Nataša P. Ulrih, “An Overview of Herbal Products and Secondary Metabolites Used for Management of Type Two Diabetes,” Frontiers in Pharmacology 8 (2017): 436.
5. Helen Tremlett, Kylynda C. Bauer, Silke Appel-Cresswell, Brett B. Finlay, and Emmanuelle Waubant, “The Gut Microbiome in Human Neurological Disease: A Review,” Annals of Neurology 81, no. 3 (2017): 369–82.
6. Daniel Furst, Manorama M. Venkatraman, Mary McGann, Ram Manohar, Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Reshmi Pushpan, P. G. Sekar, K. G. Raveendran, Anita Mahapatra, Jidesh Gopinath, and P. R. Krishna Kumar, “Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled, Pilot Study Comparing Classic Ayurvedic Medicine, Methotrexate, and Their Combination in Rheumatoid Arthritis,” Journal of Clinical Rheumatology 17, no. 4 (2011): 185–92.
7. Shanshan Li, Meir J. Stampfer, David R. Williams, and Tyler J. Vanderweele, “Association of Religious Service Attendance with Mortality Among Women,” JAMA Internal Medicine 176, no. 6 (2016): 777–85.
8. Tyler J. Vanderweele, Jeffrey Yu, Yvette C. Cozier, Lauren Wise, M. Austin Argentieri, Lynn Rosenberg, Julie R. Palmer, and Alexandra E. Shields, “Attendance at Religious Services, Prayer, Religious Coping, and Religious/Spiritual Identity as Predictors of All-Cause Mortality in the Black Women’s Health Study,” American Journal of Epidemiology 185, no. 7 (2017): 515–22.
/> 9. William C. Stewart, Michelle P. Adams, Jeanette A. Stewart, and Lindsay A. Nelson, “Review of Clinical Medicine and Religious Practice,” Journal of Religion and Health 52, no. 1 (2012): 91–106.
10. Claudia M. Witt, Susanne Jena, Benno Brinkhaus, Bodo Liecker, Karl Wegscheider, and Stefan N. Willich, “Acupuncture in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee or Hip: A Randomized, Controlled Trial with an Additional Nonrandomized Arm,” Arthritis & Rheumatism 54, no. 11 (2006): 3485–93.
11. Claudia M. Witt, Susanne Jena, Benno Brinkhaus, Bodo Liecker, Karl Wegscheider, and Stefan N. Willich, “Acupuncture for Patients with Chronic Neck Pain,” Pain 125, no. 1 (2006): 98–106.
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13. Claudia Witt, B. Brinkhaus, Susanne Jena, K. Linde, A. Streng, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Josef Hummelsberger, H. U. Walther, Dieter Melchart, and S. N. Willich, “Acupuncture in Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Randomised Trial,” Lancet 366, no. 9480 (July 2005): 136–43.
14. Andrew J. Vickers, Emily A. Vertosick, George Lewith, Hugh Macpherson, Nadine E. Foster, Karen J. Sherman, Dominik Irnich, Claudia M. Witt, and Klaus Linde, “Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: Update of an Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis,” The Journal of Pain 19, no. 5 (2018): 455–74.
15. Benno Brinkhaus, Miriam Ortiz, Claudia M. Witt, S. Roll, Klaus Linde, Florian Pfab, Bodo Niggemann, Josef Hummelsberger, András Treszl, Johannes Hofaker Ring, Torsten Zuberbier, Karl Wegscheider, and Stefan N. Willich, “Acupuncture in Patients with Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis: A Randomized Trial,” Annals of Internal Medicine 158, no. 4 (2013): 225–34.
16. Yan Zhang, Lu Lin, Huiling Li, Yan Hu, and Li Tian, “Effects of Acupuncture on Cancer-related Fatigue: A Meta-analysis,” Supportive Care in Cancer 26, no. 2 (2017): 415–25.
17. Benjamin L. Hart and Lynette A. Hart, “How Mammals Stay Healthy in Nature: The Evolution of Behaviours to Avoid Parasites and Pathogens,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373, no. 1751 (2018): 20,170,205.
18. Karl Shuker, The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature (Pleasantville, NY: Readers Digest, 2001).
19. Michael Greger and Gene Stone, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease (New York: Flatiron Books, 2015).
20. Michael J. Hanley, Paul Cancalon, Wilbur W. Widmer, and David J. Greenblatt, “The Effect of Grapefruit Juice on Drug Disposition,” Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology 7, no. 3 (2011): 267–86.
21. Francesca Borrelli and Angelo A. Izzo, “Herb–Drug Interactions with St John’s Wort (Hypericum Perforatum): An Update on Clinical Observations,” The AAPS Journal 11, no. 4 (2009): 710–27.
22. Cecilia Amadi and Amaka A. Mgbahurike, “Selected Food/Herb-Drug Interactions: Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance,” American Journal of Therapeutics 25, no. 4 (Jul/Aug 2018): e423–e433.
23. Borrelli and Izzo, “Herb–Drug Interactions with St John’s Wort.”
24. Ute Wölfle, Günter Seelinger, and Christoph Schempp, “Topical Application of St. John’s Wort (Hypericum Perforatum),” Planta Medica 80, no. 02/03 (2013): 109–20.
25. Kevin C. Maki, Kerrie L. Kaspar, Christina Khoo, Linda H. Derrig, Arianne L. Schild, and Kalpana Gupta, “Consumption of a Cranberry Juice Beverage Lowered the Number of Clinical Urinary Tract Infection Episodes in Women with a Recent History of Urinary Tract Infection,” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 103, no. 6 (2016): 1434–42.
26. Manisha Juthani-Mehta, Peter H. Van Ness, Luann Bianco, Andrea Rink, Sabina Rubeck, Sandra Ginter, Stephanie Argraves, Peter Charpentier, Denise Acampora, Mark Trentalange, Vincent Quagliarello, and Peter Peduzzi, “Effect of Cranberry Capsules on Bacteriuria Plus Pyuria Among Older Women in Nursing Homes,” JAMA 316, no. 18 (2016): 1879–87.
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17. Damian Hoy, Christopher Bain, Gail Williams, Lyn March, Peter Brooks, Fiona Blyth, Anthony Woolf, Theo Vos, and Rachelle Buchbinder, “A Systematic Review of the Global Prevalence of Low Back Pain,” Arthritis & Rheumatism 64, no. 6 (2012): 2028–37.
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