Table Of ContentIntegrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine Series
Medical Empathy, Pharmacological
Systems, and Treatment Strategies
in Integrative Cardiovascular
Chinese Medicine
Volume 2
Anika Niambi Al-Shura, BSc, MSOM, PhD
Niambi Wellness Institute
Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
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The writing of this textbook is dedicated to my son, Khaleel
Shakeer Ryland, and his son, my grandson Khaleem Qurban
Ryland.Yourancestorsmotivatedmetofindimportantsolutions
thatmayhelpsomepeopleinthisworldberelievedofsuffering.
May this legacy inspire and guide you to do the same in this life
and to pass our ways on to future descendants.
In Memory
This textbook is dedicated in memory of my late parents.
To Mary A Cummings (1954e2006) who passed away of heart
failure and other related diseases, I am continuing to keep my
promiseoffindingoutwhatwaswrongwithyouandwhatcould
have been done to prevent some of them. To my father Abdur-
Rahman Qurban Al-Shura (1949e80), I followed what you
advised me to do in life, and taught me to always find a way
to make it happen.
Preface
The Development, Promotion, and Ongoing Research of
Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine
IntegrativeCardiovascularChineseMedicine(ICCM)isanareaofmedicalstudy,research,
and education with basic medical sciences, theories, and practices. It was created by Dr.
Anika Niambi Al-Shura in 2014 as part of her doctorate degree. Cardiology in Chinese
Medicine first became an interest during her early years of study in Chinese hospitals in
Chinain2004e06.AtthetimeDr.Al-ShuragotagreatopportunitytotraveltoChinatowork
and study. It had dawned on her that before her father died in 1980, he predicted that she
would study sciences and travel east to do something important. Dr. Al-Shura decided that
she could search for waysto improve on herskills and master’s degree in Oriental Medicine
educationtohelphermother,Mary,sufferingfromadvancingcardiovasculardiseases.Before
important revelations in medicine and health care became understood in her mission,Mary
passed away in her early 50s in 2006.
Dr.Al-ShuracontinuedherstudyandwentontohospitalresearchinChinabetween2006
and 2014. She was recycling what her father had predicted directly to her word for word,
realizing it may have been bigger than finding ways to only help her mother. Realizing that
her father’s prediction seemed to be coming true, she used this period to learn and think
about how she could have been able to care for Mary and possibly relieved or cured certain
cardiovascular disorders had she survived. It became apparent that Mary’s ignored genetic
predispositions, lifestyle, and practitioner racial/cultural profiling assumptions about pre-
scribing, maintaining, and prolonging pharmaceutical drug use, and without access to gold
star therapies even though the means to afford such therapies were available, were con-
tributors to her advancing condition. Consideration and empathy for these factors from her
health-care team and a careful analysis of the condition early on, the method of combining
herbal therapy, nutrition, and pharmaceutical drug therapy, had this method been available
at the time, may have had a positive impact.
Today,Dr.Al-Shura’sworkindevelopinghersubjectofICCMispartiallyinmemoryofher
mother who lived before the dawning of the integrative medicine era.
Health-care practitioners, cardiovascular patients, and the public who study from the
textbooks in the Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series should note the basic
medical sciences, theories, and practices which revolve throughout the textbooks, making it
necessary to read them first in order then randomly several times. The reader who studies
among the integrative cardiovascular Chinese medicine series embarks on a leg of the life
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journey, discovering what small and significant accomplishments one may achieve in their
own well-being.
Themes which can be found in the textbooks throughout the series are as follows:
1. ICCM acknowledges and integrates the history of the ancient and modern medicine per-
spectivesfromculturesaroundtheworld.Scienceandmedicinewassharedandpreserved
onsome continents while being destroyed or lost onothers.
2. ICCMestablishesthebeliefthatthehumanbodycanbeexplainedthroughstaticscientific
explanationsofanatomyandphysiologicalmechanismsandactionsandthroughdynamic
perspectives which brings people together in common and makes each person unique.
Personalizing medicine can put analysis and insight into focus and tailor treatment
more effectively.
3. ICCMacknowledgesthatpatientautonomyandresponsibilityisanecessaryandprimary
factor in health and well-being. Patients must enter the health care arena with a clear
intention to heal and a detailed narrative that assists in that purpose. They must partner
with providers in compliance with what is required to assist healthrestoration.
4. ICCM establishes the belief in practitioner empathy and the ability to listen, teach, and
guide patients. Also, the ability to discern when utilizing one or more than one system of
medicine to help apatient who also helps themselves heal.
5. ICCMconsiderstheetiologyofdiseasesasdynamicastheconstantchangesinmodernand
urban life.
6. ICCMconsidersgeneticinformationascrucialasthepatientfamilyandpersonalhistory.
Physicalexamanddiagnosticmethodsshouldinvolveroutinepracticesofmorethanone
system ofmedicine.
7. ICCM considers genetic information, innate and seasonal adaptions in body constitution
areascrucialasthe patientfamilyand personalhistory.Certainkey factorsin apatient’s
health-care profile make a significant difference when choosing a herbal formula,
nutritional supplement, and pharmaceutical drugs singly orin combination in therapy.
8. ICCMestablishesthebeliefthatknowledgeofherbalconstituentsinherbsthatcombineto
swiftlyrestorehealthareusedtomakeupasingleformulaorcombinationofformulations
in acute, recovering, and preventive care in cardiology. Knowledge of nutritional defi-
ciencies associated with cardiovascular symptoms helps in dietary planning over a short
treatment course or a permanent lifestyle in acute, chronic, recovering, and preventive
stages of care. Use of pharmaceutical drugs can assist with acute and chronic conditions
whereherbsandnutritionalinterventionisineffectiveortheconditionhasreachedastage
ofnoreturntohealthrestoration.Lifestylemodificationthathelpsavoidpreventablecar-
diovasculardisorders leadsto personalwell-being.
Chapters in each textbook involve the latest published research from around the world
that identifies agreement of theories of principles of ICCM with ongoing research and
established protocols of medical science. On of the purposes of exposure of ICCM is to
encourage practitioners and patient to adopt our principles when applicable to improve
health outcomes and to encourage medical researchers to study our principles and publish
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results in internationally recognized journals. I welcome your constructive comments, sug-
gestions, and ideas which may improve or enhance content for future editions and courses
offered for learners. Please write to:
Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Dr. Al-Shura biography
Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura is originally from Louisville, Ky, USA. She has one son, one
grandson,andresidesinKentuckyandFlorida,USA.Sheenjoyscultivatingmedicinalplants
and formulating medicinal herb recipes, soapmaking, fine art, travelling internationally to
meet people for learning new cultures and ways of living, mountain hiking, and relaxing on
the beach near the ocean.
Dr. Al-Shura has 14 continuous years of formal education involving Traditional Chinese
Medicine(TCM)clinicalpractice,advancedmedicalstudy,researchandeducationbetween
the United States, Italy, and China. In 2004, her master’s degree in Oriental Medicine was
earned from East West College of Natural Medicine in Florida, USA. In mainland China
between 2004 and 2014, she earned hospital study, advanced scholar, and specialty certif-
icates in Chinese medicine, internal medicine, and surgery and cardiology from several
university-affiliated hospitals. Those hospitals include Shandong University of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital, and Tianjin University of Traditional
Chinese Medicine. Her subspecialty training in TCM is in interventional cardiology
involving the catherization lab.
Dr. Al-Shura earned her PhD in medical education in 2014 through the University
Ambrosiana program. Her dissertation on Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine
(ICCM) became her first textbook entitled, Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: A
PersonalizedMedicinePerspective.Thisbookwasoneof7textbookswrittentointroducethe
conceptsofICCM.AllwerepublishedandreleasedtogetherthroughElsevierAcademicPress
in2014.Thosetextbooksareutilizedforthelevel1programstudiesinICCMwithcontinuing
medical education (CME) courses. Eight additional textbooks were written on the estab-
lishmentanddevelopmentofintermediateICCMtheoriesandpractices.Thosetextbooksare
utilized for the level 2 program CME studies in ICCM. Those 8 textbooks are part of the
IntegrativeCardiovascularChineseMedicineseriesandwerepublishedandreleasedtogether
through Elsevier Academic Press in 2019.
Dr. Al-Shura is currently a faculty member at Everglades University in Florida, where she
teachesmedicalandhealthcarecourseintheBachelorsofAlternativeMedicineprogram.She
alsohastheNiambiWellnessInstitute,basedinFloridaandKentucky,whereICCMresearch
and work continues. It includes a natural pharmacy lab and a CME program. The natural
pharmacy researches, formulates, manufactures, and distributes various patented and orig-
inal formulations using TCM herbs. The CME program includes TCM cardiology courses
which grant credits towards NCCAOM, state medical board, and state TCM board license
renewals in the United States.
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Other Titles by Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura
• Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: A Prevention and Personalized Medicine
Perspective
• Health Communicationsin TraditionalChinese Medicine
• IntegrativeAnatomy and Pathophysiology in Traditional
ChineseMedicine
• Physical Examination in Cardiovascular ChineseMedicine
• Diagnosingin cardiovascular Chinesemedicine
• EssentialTreatments in CardiovascularChinese Medicine 1: Hyperlipidemia
• AdvancedClinical Therapies in Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine
