Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance: Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

by Andrew Weil

Hardcover, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

XI Wei

Collection

XI. COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Publication

Knopf (1995), Edition: 1, 320 pages

Description

Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML: "DR. ANDREW WEIL IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.". "MEMORABLE . . . DR. WEIL MAKES HIS CASE CAREFULLY AND CLEARLY.". "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.". HTML: The body can heal itself. Spontaneous healing is not a miracle but a fact of biology--the result of the natural healing system that each one of us is born with. Drawing on fascinating case histories as well as medical techniques from around the world, Dr. Andrew Weil shows how spontaneous healing has worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. Weil then outlines an eight-week program in which you'll discover: - The truth about spontaneous healing and how it interacts with the mind - The foods, vitamins, supplements, and tonic herbs that will help you enhance your innate healing powers - Advice on how to avoid environmental toxins and reduce stress - The strengths and weaknesses of conventional and alternative treatments - Natural methods to ameliorate common kinds of illnesses And much more! From the Paperback edition..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member hooeezit

Very structured presentation of natural healing processes with lots of anecdotal evidence. The guide to common herbs and alternative medicine options towards the end of the book makes for a great reference. It's worth internalizing the knowledge contained in the book.

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LibraryThing member J_Starling

I first purchased this book in 1995, at its first publishing. I instantly became a devotee of Andrew Weil, MD. I got the feeling, as I read the book that he genuninely CARES and is NOT only writing books and giving lectures for the money. When I tried some of his suggestions, and saw AMAZING

improvement in my own health, I became a true believer - with a testimony! Weil has had an interesting career: he spent quite some time in the Amazon rainforests with native peoples and Shamans there, and experimented with MANY types of herbs and plants (some of which were hallucinogenic!), all in an effort to find some answers to the illnesses that plague western society. His advice mixes Western medicine, with Asian/Eastern medical belief systems and herbs, and South American herbology. A wonderful book, and a book that given to an ill person, will give them HOPE.

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LibraryThing member infjsarah

I read this because I was looking for more info about the mind body link as advocated by Dr John Sarno. This has some info about that idea but not a lot and not much practical advice related to it either. I am also sceptical of people who advocate eating naturally and then proceed to tell you to

eat supplements of this and that (all of which they of course sell). So quite interesting but didn't speak to me in the way that Dr Sarno's ideas do.

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