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Chanchal Cabrera is a medical herbalist and clinical aromatherapist. She is associate editor of the Medical Herbalism newsletter and the founder and co-owner of the Gaia Garden Herbals, a full-service herbal store and clinic in Vancouver, Canada.
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| What is Fibromyalgia? | p. 1 |
| Fibromyalgia in Context | p. 3 |
| Epidemiology | |
| History | |
| My Own Experience with Fibromyalgia | |
| The Clinical Features of Fibromyalgia | p. 13 |
| Major Symptoms of Fibromyalgia | |
| Conditions Commonly Associated with Fibromyalgia | |
| Who Gets Fibromyalgia and Why? | p. 43 |
| Genetic Causes | |
| Psychogenic and Social Causes | |
| Nutritional Causes | |
| Toxins and Environmental Stress | |
| Neuroendocrine Causes | |
| The Perception of Pain | |
| Cellular Metabolic Disturbance | |
| Neuromuscular Causes | |
| Physical Trauma as a Causative Agent | |
| Modern Medicine and Fibromyalgia | p. 79 |
| Sleeping Agents | |
| Muscle Relaxants | |
| Pain Management | |
| Guaifenesin | |
| Holistic Approaches to Fibromyalgia | p. 95 |
| Using Food as Medicine: Building a Healthy Diet | p. 97 |
| The Paleolithic Diet | |
| The Building Blocks of Health | |
| Enzymes | |
| Choosing and Using Nutritional Supplements | |
| Vitamins | |
| Minerals | |
| Amino Acids | |
| Additional Supplements | |
| Biochemical Individuality | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| Basic Principles of a Healthy Diet | |
| Herbal Approaches to Healing Fibromyalgia | p. 155 |
| The History and Philosophy of Western Herbal Medicine | |
| What Is Holistic Medicine? | |
| Building an Herbal Formula | |
| Herbal Therapies for Fibromyalgia | |
| Clinical Approaches to Treating Fibromyalgia | |
| Adjunctive Therapies and Self-Care | p. 191 |
| Sleep Management | |
| Light Therapy and the Serotonin/Melatonin Balance | |
| Mind-Body Medicine | |
| Therapeutic Bodywork | |
| Exercise | |
| A Primer on Herbal Medicines | p. 217 |
| How to Make Herbal Medicines | |
| How to Take Herbal Medicines | |
| Sources and Resources | p. 225 |
| Books | |
| Web Sites | |
| Organizations | |
| Products | |
| Contributing | |
| Practitioners | |
| Herbal Materia Medica | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 311 |
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