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Spontaneous HealingHow to Discover and Enhance Your Body’s Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself by Andrew WeilEnglish | April 23, 1996 | ISBN: 0449910644, 0679436073, 0804117942 | EPUB | 320 pages | 1.8 MBThe 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 illnessesAnd much more!Amazon.com ReviewIt is clear that all organisms have highly developed mechanisms for self-repair and healing — but according to Dr. Weil, Western medicine often interferes instead of working with these systems. In the course of his argument, he describes several extraordinary case studies of drastic spontaneous healing. Perhaps the most valuable feature of the book is his more gradual eight-week program of strengthening the ability of your immune, endocrine, circulatory, and nervous systems to provide such spontaneous healing. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyAs others argue the politics of health care, Weil (Health and Healing) turns away from the usual practice of Western medicine, which is focused on alleviating symptoms rather than strengthening internal mechanisms of health, to closely consider the nature of the healing process. “At every level of biological organization, from DNA up,” he writes, the “mechanics of self-diagnosis, self-repair and regeneration exist in us.” To buttress his point, he cites such evidence as the placebo effect, inexplicable remissions and the commonplace repair of wounds, often marginalized by the medical community. In an effort to make the process of healing seem less obscure, Weil reports a wide range of dramatic case histories. Other sections detail various means, e.g., diet and breathing exercises, available for optimizing one’s healing system, and suggestions for approaches to illnesses. Also included are an “Eight Week Program for Optimal Healing Power” and a guide to finding practitioners, supplies and information.From Library JournalArizona doctor Weil leads the movement to combine alternative forms of medicine with standard treatment.From BooklistWeil, the Harvard-trained physician who has become the most articulate and persuasive advocate of holistic medicine, here recirculates the kind of advice he has previously vended (in how-to’s such as Natural Health, Natural Medicine [1990]) for keeping yourself healthy and making the right decisions when you are injured or sick. But before he does those things–more readably and personably than anyone else–in the second and third parts of this book, he weighs in on its animating subject: the phenomenon of “miraculous” (that is, inexplicable by Western medicine) recoveries from illness. Weil believes such healings in defiance of physicianly business-as-usual should be taken far more seriously than they are. If we attend closely and open-mindedly to the traditions and practices by which such “miracles” are so often effected, Weil thinks we may learn how to make spontaneous healing, as Western medicine often bewilderedly calls the good outcomes of non-Western therapies, happen regularly for many more than now experience it. Maybe we’ll learn that such healing is entirely natural. Plenty of case histories, excellently reported, flesh out Weil’s argument and make it fascinating. Ray Olson –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Review”DR. ANDREW WEIL IS AN EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.”–The Washington Post”MEMORABLE . . . DR. WEIL MAKES HIS CASE CAREFULLY AND CLEARLY.”–The New York Times Book Review”HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”–Library Journal (starred review)From the PublisherI think my mother is the long lost sister of Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Spontaneous Healing. As children, my brothers and sisters and I went to the doctor only for yearly check-ups. If we had a cough or cold, we would not be rushed to the doctor’s office. For a few days we were treated with orange juice, chicken noodle soup, Vicks Vapo-Rub and TLC, until our bodies recovered, and this turned into our one illness of the year. A lot of my friends, however, who were always being rushed to the doctor, were also always being diagnosed with something or other and spent the winter months on antibiotics. Was I just generally more healthy? Maybe. But it seems now that to some extent my mother was mirroring the teachings of Dr. Weil, and letting our bodies respond to whatever was making us sick.– JMC –This text refers to the Paperback edition.About the AuthorDr. Andrew Weil is a leader in the new field of integrative medicine, which combines the best ideas and practices of Western and alternative medicine. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine in Tucson, which is advancing the field worldwide. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller 8 Weeks to Optimum Health. His Web site, “Ask Dr. Weil,” is in the top five of all health-related programs on the Internet.BiographyAndrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. His newest book, “FAST FOOD, GOOD FOOD,” was released on October 20th, 2015.Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health and the Lovell-Jones Professor of Integrative Rheumatology. Dr. Weil received both his medical degree and his undergraduate AB degree in biology (botany) from Harvard University.Dr. Weil is an internationally-recognized expert for his views on leading a healthy lifestyle, his philosophy of healthy aging, and his critique of the future of medicine and health care. Approximately 10 million copies of Dr. Weil’s books have been sold, including “Spontaneous Healing,” “8 Weeks to Optimum Health,” “Eating Well for Optimum Health,” “The Healthy Kitchen,” “Healthy Aging,” and “Why Our Health Matters.”Online, he is the editorial director of DrWeil.com, the leading web resource for healthy living based on the philosophy of integrative medicine. He can be found on Facebook at facebook.com/DrWeil, Twitter at twitter.com/DrWeil, and Dr. Weil’s Daily Health Tips blog at drweilblog.com.See a comprehensive list of Dr. Weil’s information: about.me/DrWeil