Two Bears, the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy is a comprehensive and informative read, with an extensive bibliography. Thanks for posting the link.

Here's a quote:

Despite their diversity, there are some common threads that run among many traditional systems of health care as well as systems that have emerged more recently. These similarities include an emphasis on whole systems, the promotion of self-care and the stimulation of self-healing processes, the integration of mind and body, the spiritual nature of illness and healing, and the prevention of illness by enhancing the vital energy, or subtle forces, in the body.1


Well, I never thought I'd see the day I'd be rooting for the W ... oh never mind ...


daylia


PS but   IT'S ANOTHER MIRACLE!!!    ... now stop that RIGHT now ... :-)