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It has been nearly ten years since the first edition of Perfect Health was published, during which the world has undergone earth-shaking changes. Ten years ago, people only thought about how to get healthy, not how to avoid diseases. At that time, we were concerned about activating the internal rehabilitation system of the human body through natural means, and thought that the human body was a huge network composed of energy and information, not just a fundamentally cold human anatomical structure map. Now, however, we see that these concepts have gradually merged into the modern concepts of health, disease and life and death. According to the latest survey in Journal of American Medical Association, 40% Americans receive non-traditional medical treatment regularly, which shows that their health concept has surpassed the traditional human materialism. More than two-thirds of medical schools have also added alternative and supplementary medical courses. In addition, patients' demand for more treatment methods has generally increased, and more and more insurance companies and health maintenance organizations pay the project cost of overall medical care.
The scientific community has also changed the attitude of resolute resistance and cynicism in the past and made a serious study of alternative medicine. When you enter the medical database of the National Library, you will find more than 40,000 books on alternative and complementary medicine, including more than 65,438+0,600 books on herbs alone. ...