The Fourfold Path to Healing Working with the Laws of Nutrition, Therapeutics, Movement and Meditation in the Art of Medicine

by Cowan, Thomas S.; Fallon, Sally; McMillan, Jaimen

• ISBN13: 9780967089799
• ISBN10: 0967089794
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-31
• Publisher: New Trends Pub Inc

Summary

The Fourfold Path to Healing merges the wisdom of traditional societies, the most modern findings of western medicine and the esoteric teaching of the ancients. The fourfold approach includes: Nutrition using nutrient-dense traditional foods; therapeutics through a wide range of nontoxic remedies; Movement to heal and strengthen the emotions; and medication to develop your powers of objective thought.

Author Biography

Dr. Thomas Cowan has been a practitioner of family medicine for over twenty years. He is trained not only in conventional medicine, but also in homeopathy, nutrition, herbal remedies and anthroposophical medicine.
Sally Fallon is the author of Nourishing Traditions and president of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Jaimen McMillan is the founder of Spacial Dynamics, and a trainer in movement therapy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Part 1: The Fourfold Approach
Nutrition: Healing the Physical Body	11	(14)
Therapeutics: Healing the Life-Force Body	25	(16)
Movement: Healing the Emotional Body	41	(46)
Meditation: Healing the Mental Body	87	(12)
Part 2: The Art of Medicine
Introduction	95	(4)
Infectious Disease	99	(14)
Cancer	113	(24)
Heart Disease	137	(20)
Hypertension	157	(10)
Diabetes	167	(12)
Diseases of Adrenal Insufficiency	179	(18)
Digestive Disorders	197	(12)
Chronic Fatigue	209	(10)
Women's Diseases	219	(38)
Men's Diseases	257	(20)
Weight Loss	277	(10)
Depression	287	(14)
Back Pain	301	(10)
Arthritis	311	(16)
Neurological Diseases	327	(22)
Post Script: How to Be a Patient	343	(6)
Appendix A: Cooking Instructions	349	(10)
Appendix B: Therapy Instructions	359	(4)
Appendix C: Movement Instructions	363	(60)
Appendix D: Sources	423