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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Spontaneous healing : how to discover and enhance your body's natural ability to maintain and heal itself / Andrew Weil.

Edition:

1st Ballantine books ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1996.

Description:

viii, 309 pages ; 21 cm

Summary:

Explains how the body's healing system operates, and looks at case histories in which people with seemingly incurable illnesses have experienced complete healing. Gives information on food, exercises, and other factors that can aid the body in maintaining its well-being and investigates alternative medicines and treatments.

Subjects:

Naturopathy.

Nature, Healing power of.

Healing.

Mental healing.

Alternative medicine.

Therapeutics, Physiological.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-298) and index.

Contents:

Healing System -- Prologue in the Rain Forest -- Right in My Own Backyard -- Testimonials -- Medical Pessimism -- Healing System -- Role of the Mind in Healing -- Tao of Healing -- Optimizing the Healing System -- Optimizing Your Healing System: An Overview -- Healing Diet -- Protecting Yourself from Toxins -- Using Tonics -- Activity and Rest -- Mind and Spirit -- 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.

LCCN:

96096016

ISBN:

0449910644

9780449910641

9780679436072

0679436073

Other Number:

34656925

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

41623

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

615.5 Weil