Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women's Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing comprehensive integrative care.Presenting the best evidence in a concise, accessible format, and written exclusively by female clinicians, this text addresses many aspects of women's health, including feminine perspectives on aging, spirituality and sexuality, specific recommendations for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV, headaches, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, and cancer, as well as integrative approaches to premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, fibroids, and endometriosis. Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners provide insight into the ways in which these systems manage reproductive conditions.As leading educators in integrative medicine, editors Dr. Maizes and Dr. Low Dog demonstrate how clinicians can implement their recommendations in practice, but they also go beyond practical care to examine how to motivate patients, enhance a health history, and understand the spiritual dimensions of healing.

Part I. Lifestyle1) Philosophy of Integrative Women's Health - Tieraona Low Dog and Victoria Maizes2) Nutrition - Wendy Kohatsu3) Dietary supplements - Mary Hardy4) Physical activity - Patricia Lebensohn5) Mind-Body practices - Rita Benn6) Women, Soul Wounds and Integrative Medicine - Beverly LanzettaPart II. Systems and Modalities7) Traditional Chinese Medicine - Leslie McGee8) Ayurveda - Prema Patel9) Energy Medicine - Ann Marie Chiasson10) Homeopathy - Pam Pappas and Iris Bell11) Manual medicine - Cheryl Hawk and Raheleh KhorsanPart III. Reproductive Health12) Premenstrual Syndrome - Daphne Miller13) Vaginitis - Priscilla Abercrombie14) Pregnancy and Lactation - Jacqueline Paytel15) Perinatal depression - Marlene Freeman16) The role of stress in infertility - Beate Ditzen, Tammy Louckes, Sarah Berga17) Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Bridget Bongaard18) Endometriosis - MargEva Morris Cole19) Chronic Pelvic Pain - Bettina Herbert20) Uterine Fibroids - Jo Perron21) Cervical cancer - Lise Alschuler22) Breast cancer - Susan Love and Dixie Mills23) Menopause - Tori Hudson24) Sexuality - Lana HolsteinPart IV. Common Illnesses in Women25) Urinary Tract Infections - Priscilla Abercrombie26) Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Cynthia Robertson27) Headaches - Kelly McCann28) Fibromyalgia - Chronic fatigue Melinda Ring29) Rheumatoid arthritis - Nisha Manek30) Multiple Sclerosis - Patty Ammon31) HIV - Karen Konkel32) Anxiety - Robbie Lee33) Depression - Naomi Lam and Sudha Prathikanti34) Eating disorders - Carolyn Ross35) Cardiovascular health - Vivian Kominos36) Osteoporosis - Louise Gagne37) Aging - Birgit Rakel and Elizabeth R. Mackenzie38) Women's Health: An Epilogue - Tieraona Low Dog and Victoria Maizes