Natural Health, Natural Medicine

by Weil, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780618479030
• ISBN10: 0618479031
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-09
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

The bible of natural medicine" (Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weils theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientic ndings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimers, attention decit disorder, reux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the u, and much more.

Author Biography

Andrew Weil, M.D., has degrees in biology and medicine from Harvard University. Author of the best-selling Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, he traveled the world experiencing and studying healers and healing systems and has earned an international reputation as an expert on alternative medicine, mind-body interactions, and medical botany. He is the associate director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine and the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Preventive Maintenance
What Should I Eat?	p. 3
Answers to Common Questions About Diet and Health	p. 47
What Will You Have to Drink?	p. 76
Air and Breath	p. 88
A Guide to Exercise for People Who Hate the Whole Idea of It	p. 98
Relaxation, Rest, and Sleep	p. 121
Habits	p. 142
Connections	p. 164
Specific Prevention: Outwitting the Killers
How Not to Get a Heart Attack	p. 175
How Not to Get a Stroke	p. 184
How Not to Get Cancer	p. 187
How to Protect Your Immune System	p. 210
Basic Natural Treatments
Simple Measures	p. 223
Vitamins and Supplements	p. 232
The Herbal Medicine Chest	p. 257
A Treasury of Home Remedies for Common Ailments	p. 277
Finding Practitioners	p. 392
Finding Supplies	p. 398
Sample Recipes	p. 402
Acknowledgments	p. 414
Index	p. 415
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