This document discusses alternative and herbal medicines and remedies as alternatives to pharmaceuticals. It mentions Hippocrates' view of treating the person and not just the disease, and covers herbal preventative medicine focusing on nutrition, structure, emotions, mind, and spirituality. Chinese medicine and the placebo effect are also briefly mentioned, as well as using poetry's images to see things in a new light for healing.

1. Alternative and Herbal Medicines and Remedies.

2. Interest in alternative medicine.

3. Hippocrates. “The man not the disease.”

4. Pharmaceuticals.

5. Herbal Preventative medicine-the basic ideas. Nutrition Structural Factors A conscious and free flowing emotional life. Mental factors Some openness to spirituality.

6. Chinese medicine.

7. The Placebo effect.

8. The Poetry Cure. “Poetry uses images to help us see things in a fresh way.”-Julia Darling.