Today's medicine is strongly influenced by natural science, which focuses entirely on the material nature of reality. Molecular biology has become the foundation of modern medicine with the result that today's medical industry chases after technology to solve all its problems. In the process it is losing its own essence as it moves into fields increasingly alien to human nature as a whole. Nevertheless, many doctors are beginning to reexamine this exclusive worldview in favor of a more who...

An engaging and accessible exploration of human anatomy, physiology, and pathology—through a holistic lensComplementary and alternative approaches to health and medicine have become increasingly widespread as the limits of conventional treatments become more apparent. Holistic Anatomy presents an authoritative study of anatomy, physiology, and pathology, but it expands the discussion by connecting the science of the body to a variety of alternative modalit...

In Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he researched healing systems of various cultures including Traditional Chinese Medicine, American Indian healing practices, homeopathy, and traditional Western herbal lore and discovered the teasel roo...

A comprehensive handbook on alternative treatments from the New York Times–bestselling author of Mind Over Meds.In Health and Healing, Harvard-trained physician Andrew Weil explores the full spectrum of alternative healing practices available today, including holistic medicine, homeopathy, osteopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, Chinese medicine, Shamanism, mind cures, faith healing, psychic healing, and outright quackery. He investigates w...

Shealy’s approach to Energy Medicine incorporates alternative and holistic therapies, offering you a practical guide with ten major complementary and alternative medical (CAM) approaches to: • Nutrition and lifestyle • Mind-Body medicine • Traditional Chinese medicine • Yoga and Ayurvedic medical systems • Homeopathy • Bioenergetic medicine • Herbal medicine • Dietary supplements and vitamins • Chiropractic and osteopathic therapies • Massage

Rudolf Steiner, a scientist by training, lectured and wrote, at different times on medical subjects and advised physicians on their work. His view of medicine was both unconventional and precise. He could describebased on his highly developed powers of observation and his spiritual researchprocesses of health and disease that escape conventional methods of medical observation. In all his lectures to doctors and in his explanations of anthroposophic medicine, Steiner emphasized that his medica...

The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism places the function of western herbs in their true historical context, apart from homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. Recently there has been a revival of interest in western herbalism, but practitioners haven't been able to explore its benefits due to a void of information on the topic—the system of medicine the herbs fit into had all but disappeared. To remedy the situation, herbalist Matthew Wood has researched t...

Unlike health books that cover only nutrition and lifestyle factors, or books that deal with consciousness, spirituality, personal growth, and metaphysical considerations outside the realm of the physical, How We Heal addresses healing in the broadest conceivable context. It presents this whole range of topics in a coherent, comprehensive manner that introduces the novice reader to Body Electronics, iridology, sclerology, and other alternative health modalities. Author Douglas Mor...

Air pollution is a growing problem worldwide and allergies and sinusitis are at an all-time high. If you are on of the many people who suffer from the headaches congestion itching and sneezing that are common symptoms of these health concerns using a neti pot may be a simple safe way to find relief. It's also effective for reducing the discomfort of common colds and flu. For hundreds of years in the East the combination of a neti pot and saline solution has been used for nasal cleansing. T...

If you or any of your family member is suffering from Diabetes, High B.P., High Cholesterol, Obesity or a Heart disease ................................................................ just imagine one morning you wake up to know that you are no more on those drugs and are just as healthy as you were few years back.............................................. To know this read "Heart Mafia" A glimpse of the eye opening facts in "Heart Mafia" You may not die of the disease but of the treat...

Drawing on research based on Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, this book by Gerhard Schmidt, M.D. looks at nutrition, offering a new dynamic view of humanity and the world and of food as a community-building force. Concerned with the problems resulting from the modern viewpoint of nutrition and the research of modern science, this book examines the fundamental and general aspects of nutrition. Schmidt makes the case that continued healthy human development will require us to reconceptualiz...

Natural Benefits of Urine Therapy is one of the “Educational Sections on Secret of Excellent Health” for everyone to maintain a healthy life. It has natural healing powers to control and cure all kinds of diseases.Urine Therapy or “Shivambu” is an ancient method of treatment. Reference of Urine Therapy is found in almost all the volumes of Ayurveda. In ancient books and Vedas, Urine is referred to as “Shivambu” (auto-urine), which means Water of Shiva. They termed “Shivambu” as holy liquid. A...