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

By Dr. Andrew Weil

This book is a fountain of practical suggestions for a new, more natural approach to medicine. It describes how a wide range of specific complementary treatments may help people maintain their health or recover from illness. He illuminates the mechanisms and processes of the body's healing system. He also delineates the ways in which an individual can optimize the functioning of his or her own system.

Part One builds a case for the existence of a healing system and presents evidence for its operation, including its interactions with the mind. Part Two tells you how to optimize your healing system including lifestyle modification, facts about food, facts about environmental toxins, exercise, stress reduction, vitamins, supplements and more. Part Three gives advice on managing illness. It analyzes the strength and weaknesses of conventional and alternative treatments and identifies a number of strategies used by successful patients.

This is the latest book by Dr. Weil. Others are
"Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for Wellness and Self-Care",
"From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind Altering Drugs", and
"The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness"

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Updated Jan 2005