Human Health and its Maintenance with the Aid of Medicinal Plants. Julian Barker

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       Where do we draw the line and with what do we draw it?

       Essentialism

       Soil

       Gaia's children: fauns and fauna

       Separations and divisions

       Fixation

       Oscillation

       Fixation

       SECTION FIVE: THE TERRAIN: MIND AND MINDEDNESS

       The necessity for a concept of terrain

       Organisational structure

       Structure and information

       The trajectory

       Physiology as music

       Anatomy and physiology in time

       Resonance

       Lines and penetrance

       Rationality

       Reason

       Bipolarity

       Facts and occasions

       Things and events

       The structure of the terrain

       Stabilising the trajectory

       Causality and scale: death and life

       Mindedness in the structure of poise

       The hypothalamic mind

       Mindedness

       Consciousness

       Poise as stabiliser of the trajectory

       The adaptors and regulators of poise

       The analogic mind

       Consciousness

       A memory is always an abstraction

       SECTION SIX: LIMITATIONS OF THEORY

       Escape from limitations

       Time and drive

       Rheology

       Patterns and drivers

       1. The hypothalamic–pituitary driver

       2. Cholinergic and aminergic referees/regulators

       3. Hypothalamic–posterior pituitary Intensifiers

       4. Organ responders and pacemakers

       Potential applications of theory

       Configuration of the terrain within the human body

       Moravec's paradox

       The materialist defence

       SECTION SEVEN: HEALTH AND POISE

       Some definitions of health

       The calculus of poise

       The tripos of human life

       State of the system

       Intermission

       PART TWO: PEOPLE: WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE CLINIC

       Preface to Part Two

       SECTION EIGHT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICINE

       The medical