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

Name: Spontaneous Healing How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself
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ISBN: 9780449910641

ISBN-10: 0449910644

ISBN-13: 9780449910641

Edition: 1995

Authors: Andrew Weil

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"Memorable...Dr. Weil makes his case carefully and clearly." --The New York Times Book Review #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This book is destined to become a classic." --Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind Drawing on fascinating case histories from his own practice as well as medical techniques he has observed in his travels around the world, Dr. Weil shows how the mechanisms of self-diagnosis and self-regeneration have worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. But spontaneous healing is also the essential element in the maintenance of our basic daily health. The book outlines an eight-week program that each of us can use to…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Andrew Weil graduated from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson, specializing in alternative medicine, medical botany and mind/body interactions. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Services. Dr. Weil is the author of several books which includes the titles "The Natural Mind" (1972), "From Chocolate to Morphine" (with Winifred Rosen, 1983), "Natural Health, Natural Medicine" (1990), "Spontaneous Healing" (1995), and "Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition" (2000).



Introduction



The Healing System



Prologue in the Rain Forest


The Faces of Healing: Kristin



Right in My Own Backyard


The Faces of Healing: Harvey and Phyllis



Testimonials


The Faces of Healing: Al



Medical Pessimism


The Faces of Healing: John



The Healing System


The Faces of Healing: Oliver



The Role of the Mind in Healing


The Faces of Healing: Mari Jean



The Tao of Healing


The Faces of Healing: Jan


The Faces of Healing: Ethan


The Faces of Healing: Eva



Optimizing The Healing System



Optimizing Your Healing System: An Overview



A Healing Diet



Protecting Yourself from Toxins



Using Tonics



Activity and Rest



Mind and Spirit



An Eight-Week Program for Optimal Healing Power



If You Get Sick



Making the Right Decisions



Considering the Alternatives



Seven Strategies of Successful Patients



Managing General Categories of Illness: Secrets of a Hygeian Practitioner



Cancer as a Special Case


Afterword: Prescriptions for Society


Acknowledgments



Finding Practitioners, Supplies, and Information


Notes


Index