PREFACE
THE ORGANISATION OF THE TEXT
PART ONE: POISE
SECTION ONE: HEALTH: WHAT CAN WE MEAN?
- Definitions of health
- Definition of health for the purposes of the current work
- The scope and purpose of the model
- The limitations of the model Model of health in this current work
SECTION TWO: AXIOMS, THEOREMS AND IDEOLOGY
- Split personalities
- Personalities restored
- Axioms
- Human development
- Mind, thoughts, conceptions
- 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
- 1/5: Mindedness
- 2/5: The interconnected matrices
- 3/5: Life as trajectory
- Human drives as a function of time
- 4/5: Capacitance
- 5/5: The distribution of energy (maintenance of a ratio between capacitance and adaptation)
- Recapitulation of Section 3 The biological basis of the adaptive
- Some examples of accumulation and discharge
- The constant cycle of accumulation and discharge
- The adaptive capacity
- 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
- Parallel worlds
- Binaries: the garden with forking paths
- Circadian binaries and transition zones
- Symmetry
- Gaias sister: the biosphereseparations and divisions
- Things and events
- Boundary conditions
- Bounded states
- Where do we draw the line and with what do we draw it?
- Essentialism
- Soil
- Gaias children: fauns and fauna
- Separations and divisions
- Fixation
- Oscillation
- Fixation
SECTION FIVE: THE TERRAIN: MIND AND MINDEDNESS
- The necessity for a concept of terrain
- Organisational structure
- Structure and information
- The trajectory
- Physiology as music
- Anatomy and physiology in time
- Resonance
- Lines and penetrance
- Rationality
- Reason
- Bipolarity
- Facts and occasions
- Things and events
- The structure of the terrain
- Stabilising the trajectory
- Causality and scale: death and life
- Mindedness in the structure of poise
- The hypothalamic mind
- Mindedness
- Consciousness
- Poise as stabiliser of the trajectory
- The adaptors and regulators of poise
- The analogic mind
- Consciousness
- A memory is always an abstraction
SECTION SIX: LIMITATIONS OF THEORY
- Escape from limitations
- Time and drive
- Rheology
- Patterns and drivers
1. The hypothalamicpituitary driver
2. Cholinergic and aminergic referees/regulators
3. Hypothalamicposterior pituitary Intensifiers
4. Organ responders and pacemakers
- Potential applications of theory
- Configuration of the terrain within the human body
- Moravecs paradox
- The materialist defence
SECTION SEVEN: HEALTH AND POISE
- The hypothalamic mind
- Mindedness
- Consciousness
- Poise as stabiliser of the trajectory
- The adaptors and regulators of poise
- The analogic mind
- Consciousness
- A memory is always an abstraction
PART TWO: PEOPLE: WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE CLINIC
Preface to Part Two
SECTION EIGHT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE
- The medical theoretician
- Alternative medicine
- Traditional 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
- Selfdefeating patients
- Anxious patients
- Commonsense pluralists
- Oneoffs
- Cost
- The functions of a physician
- Good medicine
- The great divide
- The cobblers 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
ECTION 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 dischargerecapitulation 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 dressingup 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
PART THREE: PLANTS
Preface to Part Three
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
SECTION TWENTY: THE MULTIMODAL HYPOTHESIS FOR THE ACTIONS OF MEDICINAL PLANTS: SENSORY PRIMING AND STOCHASTIC RESONANCE
- The multimodal hypothesis for the action of medicinal plants
- Sensory priming
- Stochastic resonance
- Pulsatility
- Polycyclicity
- 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
- Stimulusorganisationresponse 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
- All along the digestive tract: the many presentations of dysfunction
- Fussy eaters
- Gastrooesophageal 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
- Eczema and psoriasis
- Upper respiratory infections
- Arthralgia and myalgia
- The bow wave
- The treatment of premenstrual 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
- IBSA
- 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 & Prantl 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
- StachysorBetonica
- 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 HypothalamicPituitary Axes
- Table of plants that either increase or reduce reactivity
- Table of plants with effects upon the Blood Vessels and Coagulation
- Drainage of organs
SUMMARY
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
Bibliography for plant systematics, as well as general & field plant studies
- Phytotherapy, phytochemistry & traditional herbal medicine
- Textbooks of basic medical sciences
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
