{"id":4645,"date":"2024-11-15T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:28:56","slug":"ancient-approaches-to-modern-maladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/2024\/11\/15\/ancient-approaches-to-modern-maladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Approaches to Modern Maladies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHON 298 -Prof. Christel Autuori\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tModes of Inquiry: Textual Analysis, and Historical, Social & Cultural Analysis\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

Course Description:<\/h3>\n
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The course will examine and study the philosophy, principles and <\/span>multidimensional (holistic) nonwestern<\/span>\u00a0approaches to health and wellbeing, including\u00a0<\/span>Traditional Chinese Medicine<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Ayurveda,<\/span>\u00a0Native American healing practices<\/span>\u00a0as well as others,\u00a0<\/span>for<\/span>\u00a0overall\u00a0<\/span>health and well-being<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>An overview of herbs and other botanicals, flower essences, and essential oils will be included, and emphasis will be placed on practices for<\/span>\u00a0the prevention and<\/span>\u00a0mitigation of<\/span>\u00a0infection and disease<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The prevention and management of the inflammatory response\u00a0<\/span>relative<\/span>\u00a0to disease development will be\u00a0<\/span>emphasized and<\/span>\u00a0explored<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 Dietary practices, positive stress management, physical, mental, and spiritual activities, community and social involvement and support, sleep and rest, and\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>minimal use<\/span>\u00a0of tobacco or other risky substances will be studied in each of these cultures, with special attention to how these habits and behaviors help prevent many of the chronic diseases experienced by many 21<\/span><\/span>st<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Century Americans.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The course will examine and study the philosophy, principles and multidimensional (holistic) nonwestern\u00a0approaches to health and wellbeing, including\u00a0Traditional Chinese Medicine,\u00a0Ayurveda,\u00a0Native American healing practices\u00a0as well as others,\u00a0for\u00a0overall\u00a0health and well-being.\u00a0\u00a0An overview of herbs and other botanicals, flower essences, and essential oils will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}