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It offers precise herbal "prescriptions" that can be used to treat an array of health conditions. It lists herbs and formulas that can amplify the benefits of a healthy diet, nutritional supplementation, and natural healing techniques. It presents clear information on the compatibility of herbs with conventional medication in the treatment of health conditions. It points out possibilities for combining herbal healing with conventional treatment with outcomes that neither can achieve alone for various conditions. It's amazing how far we have come in natural healing, without serious side effects.
Herbal treatments are capable of healing all kinds of disorders and all parts of the body. Many countries, especially the European countries and China, are ahead of the United States in using natural products such as herbs, but even in North America, many doctors now blend the best of conventional medicine with alternative healing and have found powerful new treatments that work.
Part One of this book defines the principles and materials of herbal healing. Then it lists over of the plants used in traditional herbal healing and the scientific evidence for their use in extending health. It gives the most current scientific explanation of how each herb has been used successfully for centuries as a healing tool. It also provides current clinical information on the herbal formulas of ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, Native American, and South American medicine most widely used today, as well as several modern herbal formulas of great healing potential.
Although every herb and formula listed in Part One has been employed by one or more of the great schools of traditional herbal healing, no herb in Part One is employed only by informal healers. In fact, all of the herbs and formulas listed in this book are used in modern medical practice in Europe, Egypt, Israel, or Japan. The herbs and formulas listed in Part One are at least understood in chemical terms and can be used with predictable results with modern medicine. Interestingly, most conventional drugs were originally derived from plant sources.
The problem with this is that to make a pharmaceutical drug, the component of the herb believed to be responsible for its activity is extracted and concentrated. In their whole form, herbs are buffered because they contain many different components. Because of this, they are less likely to cause side effects which can sometimes be worse than the original problem. People need to be educated about their treatment options and the potential risks involved. Anything you can do to help yourself, to empower yourself, helps to get rid of the sense of hopelessness when disease strikes. It's never too late to protect your health.
There is no reason you should not know about your body and how it works, even as doctors know these things. Not every herb recommended in Part One has been confirmed by the highest standards of research recommended if not always actually used in conventional medicine.
That is, not every herb listed in this book has been confirmed as effective by statistically controlled, randomized, double-blind, clinical studies. But every herb and formula listed in this book is known to be safe when used as prescribed and has a long history of healing benefits, which makes for a brighter future for all of humankind.
Part Two of this book shows how these herbs and formulas can be used to treat over specific conditions. This information is also based on scientific studies. It is included for those who wish to provide themselves with the widest range of possibilities for gaining health. This section reveals how herbs correct disease processes. It discusses the use of herbs with diet and nutritional supplements. It also lists dozens of therapeutic practices for which there is objective evidence. Herbs, nutrition, and personally directed healing therapies are included to give the reader even greater opportunity to take charge of his or her health.
Part Three provides information on making baths, compresses, creams, lotions, ointments, and tinctures. This information is included for those who are most comfortable using herbs as a healing art, as a healing connection to the natural world. This entire book has been written with an acute and personal awareness of the frequently overwhelming cost of health care.
The most economical approach to regaining and maintaining health is a combination of conventional medicine with supplemental approaches. Except for minor conditions, the herbs and formulas in this book are not chosen to replace conventional medicine. Instead, they are intended to work with conventional medicine, to help it work more quickly, effectively, painlessly, and economically. Of course, for herbs to be useful with conventional medicine, it is essential to pay attention to herb safety. Only those herbs that are generally recognized as safe, or that can be processed by known manufacturing practices into safe forms, are included in this book.
Special notes on safety for administration to children and during pregnancy and nursing are included where needed. Always read the precautions for each herb before using it. And since the philosophy of this book is that herbs can be used with a doctor's prescribed medication, interactions of herbs and drugs are noted throughout the text.
I want to thank you for choosing to read this book. Its purpose is to make the process of treating disease and returning to health a little easier for you. May this book help you use the best of herbal healing and, when needed, modern medicine to find greater health than you have ever known before. Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
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I highly recommend this book to all. Recommended to Brock by: Matthews emphasizes that an important aspect of divine healing is the willingness to submit in obedience to what the healing process requires. It's never too late and it's never too hopeless. Balch I have read a number of nutrition books over the last few years but this book by Balch ranks at the top of the pile in my estimation. My husband came down with a severe case of Epstein-Barr a few years ago and he followed the recommendations given in the book with great results. He says the importance of complying with a prescribed healing regimen is vividly demonstrated in the encounter of Naaman and Elisha 2 Kgs 5:
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Showing of reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I just purchased my own used copy of this excellent reference, having read portions of it online, perused a copy owned by a friend and thumbing through it several months ago in the reference section provided in a local health food store. I've done a great deal of work with herbs and nutrition, considering it essential if we are to survive many conditions that are often not helped by or are made worse by Western medicine and hospitalization.
In my current environment, I am able to raise or gather relatively few medicinal and culinary herbs. As for gathering "in the wild", one must be ever vigilant due to runoff from poorly regulated mining operations which introduce heavy metals and some amount of radioactive particles into the air and water. So I more often rely on my trusted local discount health food store or order online, typically through Mountain Rose Herbs or via Amazon. I have personally found one implausible and bizarre plant mutation on the property of a woman who was in reasonably good health overweight, poor diet and collapsed, unable to breathe.
She is a staunch believer in traditional Western medicine and so was hospitalized not once, but twice for a period in excess of one month. She lost 40 lbs the hard way is the only positive result. She is now taking medications and must remain on oxygen for the rest of her life. Every recommendation in this book has been supported and reinforced by independent research I have done on behalf of friends who prefer relying on natural remedies and nutrition.
My current focus is on curing or stopping the spread of bladder cancer and utilizing alternative treatments to ease chronic pain from aggressive osteoarthritis in friends, neither of whom wish to receive standard treatments in hospital settings.
Personally, since I continue to live in a high-risk environment, my chances of getting cancer are far better than average. Having seen both failures and successes of "Chemo" and radiation treatments, I have made up my mind that when the treatment is often worse than the cure and a person's quality of life or what's left of it is often severely compromised, I will rely upon herbs, certain fungi and make whatever adjustments to diet are necessary to sustain my life.
Will our patients take their medicines as instructed, or quit smoking or dinking? Often, the answer is 'no,' and the progress of healing is retarded. God may ask us to confess our sins and amend our behavior. We can hasten our healing by following 'doctor's orders' and turning to God with a willing heart. Our prayers for healing are important to God. The Old Testament makes quite clear that God wants to accommodate our needs. Consider the illness experienced by King Hezekiah who ''became ill and was at the point of death'' 2 Kgs He consulted with the prophet Isaiah who bluntly told him: The answer was almost instantaneous as Isaiah promptly returned with the good news from God that Hezekiah will be healed and 15 more years would be added to his life.
That story demonstrates that our desire for healing is important to God. You don't have to be perfect to receive God's healing. Some people believe that only special individuals -- those who live holy, spiritual, morally pure lives -- can be recipients of divine healing. Two Old Testament accounts show this is a false and limiting belief.
The first concerns Miriam, the sister of Moses.
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Guilty of gossiping maliciously about Moses, she was struck with leprosy. Even though Moses was the target of her unkind words, he offered this urgent, five word prayer: A second account tells of God healing the hand of the evil King Jeroboam 1 Kgs His hand is withered when the King attempted to harm God's prophet. Recognizing the prophet's spiritual power, Jeroboam asks the same prophet to intercede with God for his healing. The man of God prayed and Jeroboam's hand was healed.
The lesson from those two accounts is this encouraging information: It's never too late and it's never too hopeless. That's the point of the story where Elijah restores life to a child 1 Kgs In that account, a widow's only son became ill and ''finally stopped breathing'' Elijah prayed ''O Lord, my God, let this boy's life return to him! Again, the prayer was answered.
No matter what the prognosis, we must remember that it is never too late and never too hopeless to seek God's intervention.
When Glen Dawson was seriously injured in an automobile accident, surgeons responded heroically but, because of the severity, one doctor told his wife, Genell: I'm very sorry, but I don't think he will make it through the night. Relatives, friends, their church family and even strangers joined in that prayer. After 21 days in a coma and on the verge of death, Glen opened his eyes and continued to heal. Healing in the Old Testament includes the emotional as well as the physical.
Often the wounds we bear in the mind and spirit are worse than any physical problems we may have. The Old Testament assures us that God's healing includes the emotional as well as the physical. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Psalms. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth. One who experienced such an answer to prayer was Richard Whetstone. There was a deep void in his life because he lost contact with his son, Teddy, whom he had not seen in 27 years.
The child was less than a year old when Whetstone and the mother divorced.