Best of alternative medicine field

As a result of reading this book, previously published as The Patient's Guide to Natural Healing, our family has resolved a lot of health issues. (We also started as patients at the author's medical practice, The Tahoma Clinic, near Seattle.)

It turns out our whole family has food allergies (gluten+dairy). My biggest benefits have been energy, weight loss and many little symptoms going away: hundreds of tiny pimples on uppper arms, excessive snot/ear wax, chunky-dandruffy-scalp - these cures a result of specific supplements. Our one-year old had "colic" as a baby, which turned out to be a dairy allergy (cow milk protein thru my "mama's milk"). Our six-year-old is also more calm and has fewer/milder ADHD-like moments. My husband has fewer headaches and joint pains.

We are mostly well now. The kids recover quickly from anything that's going around, and they never get ear infections. My hair and skin are the best they've been for many years.

The book comes out strongly against processed food and refined sugar.

Many therapies use vitamins, and a few use food. Beats using pharmaceuticals!

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One of the best natural medicine texts I've seen.

Great resource for consumers and health professionals alike. Nice combination of easily understood personal anecdotes balanced with more scientific information.

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An excellent guide: appealing and easy to understand

If you want a one-stop holistic handbook for diagnosis and treatment, NATURAL MEDICINE, OPTIMAL WELLNESS: THE PATIENT'S GUIDE TO HEALTH AND HEALING is for you: two doctors discuss all the real-world questions and concerns about common conditions, from menopause and illness to hypertension, multiple sclerosis and ear infections. It's these dialogues which make for such a unique presentation, surveying drug interactions, differences between holistic and traditional medical treatments, and adding case histories to liven up the topic and relate it to common patient experiences. An excellent guide: appealing and easy to understand.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch


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