Naturopathy Books

A collection of brief excerpts from autobiographies of literary women around the world spanning then last 50 or so years.

Stunning read as each excerpt offers a unique cultural, historical, political and emotional insight into the 'ordinary' lives we lead.

Highly recommended.

I got this book as it is part of a course I am taking. Has nothing on medicinal mushrooms which has more nutrients than most herbs or plants. Incomplete would not purchase if not required.

This book is one of my texts for clinical herbal medicine and is a fantastic reference and resource book that I use regularly. Actually, in terms of nutrition, it is the first resource book I pick up. Thorough information on all the essential nutrients including safety issues. Highly recommended. The only aspect it lacks is essential amino acids, which is why it gets four stars instead of five.

This item is so out of date it should not be stocked.

I have grown weary of Health Shop and pharmacy employees whos expertise is limited to certain areas of medication and their interactions. I take many suppliments and could not get accurate information on interactions, and other detailed information necessary to make good informed choices. Until now. At times like this, I wish I'd gone to med school, or been a journalist, to be able to accurately and succinctly review this excellent book. Suppliments and other medications can be dangerous together, and it is imperative to be informed, so as to only take what's both necessary and healthful. At last a book that covers EVERY aspect of supplimentation, and nutritional therapy. It accurately covers interactions, ACCURATE dosage, and dangers associated. If like me, you are bombarded with information from the bottles of companies desperate to sell you their product, regardless if you really need it or not.. then this book will be a breath of fresh air for you. Nothing is left out, only pertinent information left in. A real treasure for the health conscious.

the book isn't that good; get the Doctor's Book of Home remedies Instead. The information is vague, and the index is set up for herbs instead of ailments. Isn't the book supposed to tell you which herbs fix which ailments? not easy to look things up.

This book is outstanding at addressing verifiable good alternative health practices and omits all of the fads and unreliable methodologies to give sound advise that works. Superb book and the best one I've read out of the hundreds that I've researched. Skip the others as this one has it all.

If you've ever heard Gary Null on the radio, you would know that he espouses beliefs about AIDS, anti-depressive meds, mercury fillings, etc. which are so out there that I find it unbelievable that this man has an audience anywhere. Don't waste your time or your money on this book!

This is a fabulous book however I have to say that the quality of the paper in the revised edition is not of the same quality as the original and also the print is too darn small for older people to enjoy reading. Enough said - the book is essential to all who are interested in natural healing.

(Comments based on the 2006 edition)
This book has five hundred pages covering various illnesses, 70 pages on the "Gary Null Protocol and testimonials" and finishes with another 130 pages on various treatments which is mostly more testimonials. There is no section on nutrients and what they do or dosages (sometimes the illness sections do mention dosage for some nutrients).

Largely this book depends on whether or not you trust and believe Gary Null. (there are no actual references as to where he obtained any of this information, no references to studies) If you trust Mr. Null then this is a highly readable book. And may be one of the best resources for a non-technical person.

But if you are looking for a reference book to further your knowledge of nutrition this probably isn't the best choice of book.

I do recommend this book (despite the low rating I've given it), the information (what little there is) appears to be good. And it certainly should rate highly for the "readability" factor. This book really shouldn't be sold for more than about $10.

The book was interesting, made a lot of sense. The person doing the program with me had great results and I just felt awful the whole time. So it's good, just not for everyone......

Wonderful book, I like it very much. And this book works. I was very pleased to read it in it's original language. I highly reccomend this book to anyone who wants a good guide.

Very impressed with this detox diet. Easy to do. More than just a detox, it is also a great nutritional and diet guide. Much more reasonable and realistic as a detox, cleansing plan than most.

After drinking soy milk for 8 years, I found out that I was severely allergic to soy. At 27 years old, I had no energy, could barely walk four short city blocks without feeling dizzy and fatigued, was depressed and lethargic, and became a social recluse. After, of course, eliminating soy from my diet and taking vitamin supplements, I felt slightly better. But this detox program was the only thing that gave me a boost in energy, vitality, and my life back. I did the 2-day fast and hydrotherapy and followed the food and supplement guidelines. I highly recommend this thorough yet concise detox program to anyone and everyone. You will feel so much better in every way for doing it. To health, happiness, and vitality!

I wasn't really feeling a need for a full detox, my concern was my cholesterol. My doctor was referring me to a stroke and heart attack prevention clinic. I knew I had to do something and taking prescription medication (poison) was not a desirable "solution".

I had previously heard of this book from a hiking friend who recommended it whole heartedly, so I figured it was worth a try. I did not do the fasting nor the hydro therepy (I think the Geneva conventions and ASPCA would frown on the latter).

I did faithfully follow the diet plan. This included eating 100% vegan and consuming no coffee, black tea, chocolate or alchohol for 12 days. Since then I have included fish and lesser amounts of coffee and alchohol than I consumed in the past.

The good news is my Dr. called today with my cholesterol results and CANCELLED my appointment with the stroke and heart attack clinic because the results were so profoundly improved!

The book has sample meal plans and easy to follow recipes. The meals taste good and you don't go hungry (unless you do the two day fast). An added benefit was getting my weight down about 7 lbs (5%) and reducing my bmi a couple percent.

A good health resource covering an array of suggestions to help improve your health and quality of life.

I originally read this book a few years ago and I felt it did a great job in educating the reader about appropriate ways to restore and maintain optimal digestive health. It is very easy to understand and provides the reader with empowering knowledge about probiotics and many other factors that promote gut health. If you follow the tenets outlined in Rubin's work, you'll never have another digestive disturbance again! This is very significant seeing as 80% of all Americans experience digestive trouble regularly.

Dr. Matthew J. Loop

- Author of "Cracking the Cancer Code"

I have noted that several reviewers had issues with the author but didn't actually review the book. My wife has IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and other gastrointestinal problems. She developed the problems after going through gastric bypass surgery several years ago. She has seen several doctors, but it wasn't until my daughter (who works at a health food store - The Vitamin Shoppe) suggested that we read this book and follow the guidelines set in it, that is when things changed.

The book outlines quite well how the digestive system works and sets out to give you a really good example of someone with serious intestinal problems (the author) went about dealing with them.

I think that the author goes a bit overboard with a lot of his claims. Let me try to explain it this way. You have a headache and you decide to take an aspirin with a glass of water. The headache goes away, so you assume that the aspirin made the headache go away. But did it? A lot of headaches are caused by dehydration, so maybe the glass of water is what made it go away. A lot of other headaches are caused by stress. So maybe the THOUGHT that you did something about it and that the drug would help you is what made you relax and that cured your headache.

This book points out what any common sense book on health would tell you. Stay away from sugar like the plague, exercise, etc. He makes other suggestions that in our experience we simply have not needed. My wife has not had to resort to the broth or soil probiotics mentioned in the book. She stays away from ALL bread (even the sourdough) suggested in the book. We no longer eat pasta and/or refined sugar. We still eat rice (just long grain or wild rice). These changes (and the inclusion of lots of yogurt) have "cured" my wife. Almost all of her symptoms are gone and she feels better than she has in years.

I mentioned some of the things he states as outlandish. For instance, I am an engineer by trade and I know how microwaves work. Microwaves DO NOT break down water as he claims. He might know quite a bit about food, but he knows little about microwaves. The same goes with the electromagnetic stuff he is talking about. I think that is a bunch of nonsense.

However, what I cannot deny is that after reading this book and changing our diets; my wife, son, and I feel so much better. That accounts for something. Is it the water, the aspirin, or the idea that it works the underlying factor? Frankly I don't care - the fact that it works is good enough for me. We use common sense. As I mentioned my wife still cannot eat bread or any milk (even goat's milk). So we don't keep trying, we just learn to keep that stuff away from her and make sure she gets her vitamins and other nutrients from other foods.

To make things easier on all of us I bought a large white board that you can mark up with markers. We put on there the foods that were good to eat, those to completely stay away from, and those that we could have in a limited way. It is displayed in the dining room and THAT has helped tremendously with keeping focused on what we eat.

I do recommend the book and hope it helps you like it has helped us.

As i've done more due diligence I've found that Rubin is a marketer who has been far from above board in shamelessly promoting products with dubious health benefits. Whether he actually recovered from his terrible illness eating soil only he can say for sure. What is certain is that the 'studies' he references are paid for by Garden of Life and are not peer reviewed. It also seems he paid for his PhD from some sort of a degree mill.

In 1991, at age 33, I was diagnosed by a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist as having severe Crohns/Colitis, which affected my entire large intestine and the beginning of my small intestine. At 5'9" I weighed 103 lbs. Without going into great detail, upon colonoscopy, this same Board-Certified Gastroenterologist said that mine was one of the worst cases he had seen. My diet, which had been extensive throughout my entire lifetime, was now reduced to four foods. Not four food GROUPS, but four actual foods. Anything else that I ate made me hemorrhage. Unfortunately, I was put on a myriad of pharmaceuticals, including Prednisone, which I stayed on for 13 continual years. My disease was hardly managed in this way, but I still lived as best as I was allowed by my affliction. This "life" included absolute necessity of staying home because of my need for the continual use of a restroom. In that 13 year timeframe, I unsuccessfully consulted and visited with multiple MD's, and alternative care practitioners from several countries. I tried a multitude of ways to stop my illness, all to no avail, and some actually made me worse.

In 2004, I heard about Jordin Rubin, read his literature, and almost passed up on my opportunity to try his program because I was so discouraged that I thought that this, too, would not work for my situation, as nothing up until that time had. I read both _Patient Heal Thyself_ and then went on to read _Restoring Your Digestive Health_. I then made the decision to try his method of healing. As any critically ill patient would do, I followed his regimen to the utmost degree, taking pains to make absolutely certain that I followed absolutely every step he issued in the healing process.

Amazingly and miraculously, within three weeks time, my body started to heal. Only someone who has been through the devastation of this disease can even begin to understand what an epiphany transpired for me as I was now able to eat foods once again that I had not been able to eat in the previous 13 years. Also, the constant day-to-day pain and 30+ painful daily bowel movements I had suffered from for 13 consecutive years had now ceased. My body was healing and has continued to do so to the point where I now suffer absolutely NO symptoms of the severe Crohns/Colitis I was diagnosed as having for the 13 years I lost in my life.

I literally owe my life to Jordin Rubin. I heartfully encourage ANYONE who suffers from Crohns/Colitis or any of the lesser digestive ills to please, obtain a copy of this book because it will not only change your life and heal your body, but it will give you back your very existence.

Karen
Buffalo, NY

I got this book from the library back in 2005. I had 5 of the 7 issues she described in the book. I started doing the little power packs as she suggested, and I did find myself feeling alot better within 10 to 2 weeks.

I found myself in the same situation of being tired and run down a few months ago. Started doing the power packs again, and it worked again.

It explains how stress depletes the body of vital nutrients, and why certain supliments work. I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who just doesn't have the get up and go they want.

After reading Crayhon's book on Carnitine, Schwartz' more biochemical approach to how carnitine works in my system made more sense. The two books combined are perfect for any person seeking knowledge on the subject. Honestly, a layman like myself could understand her explanations once the basics are in order. I have had good success with carnitine not only for boosting my energy, but for losing weight as I exercise. I have found that the best deals for carnitine and the other amino acids necessary for a healthy body can be found at Papanature, an herbal site that offers not only products, but information and testimonials as well. Check it out and you will understand how important taking our own health into our own hands has become.

After reading Crayhon's book on Carnitine, Schwartz' more biochemical approach to how carnitine works in my system made more sense. The two books combined are perfect for any person seeking knowledge on the subject. Honestly, a layman like myself could understand her explanations once the basics are in order. I have had good success with carnitine not only for boosting my energy, but for losing weight as I exercise. I have found that the best deals for carnitine and the other amino acids necessary for a healthy body can be found at Papanature, an herbal site that offers not only products, but information and testimonials as well. Check it out and you will understand how important taking our own health into our own hands has become.

The advice in this book did not help increase my energy one darn bit. I don't like reporting that anymore than you do.

This work would be very helpful if you suffer from Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome or a related ailment. The authors provide
3 rules for repairing cells by recharging them via CoQ 10
enzymes, fat burning and revival. The CoQ 10 and Carnitine
constitute the important ingredients of the "energy pack"
enuncited by the authors. There is a purification protocol
which requires patients to drink a gallon of water a day
and abstain from milk which causes mucal secretions.
The common cold protocol works from my own experience.
It consists of taking 1000 mg of Vit C ( 3 times daily),
Echinacea and Zinc lozenges. The protocol for hypoglycemia
or low blood sugar consists of eating many small meals,
eating prior to exercise, taking Mg. supplements and watching
for early warning signs of diabetes. This work is a goldmine
in the alternative medicine health arsenal of weapons to fight
chronic conditions-particularly auto-immune type conditions.

I really enjoyed this follow-up to STICKS, STONES, ROOTS AND BONES! I'm not a hoodoo, but the suggestions for celebrating each of the seasons, tips for being healthy in body, mind, and spirit, and for keeping your home (cleansings and blessings) are ones anybody can follow. The recipes for teas, bath salts and floor washes alone are worth checking out this book.Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel

"Got my mo-jo workin' but it just won't work on you.
Got my mo-jo workin', but it just won't work on you
I wan-na love you so bad
I don't know what to do
Got my mo-jo workin'..."
-- By McKinley Morganfield, Blues Composer/Singer

Blues songwriters in the African-American culture coined the term mojo, it means casting spells to gain someone's affection. In McKinley Morganfield's song, he used a love potion to obtain love from a particular woman, but it didn't work. According to Stephanie Rose Bird, writer, educator, visionary artist and contemporary root worker, by working roots on that woman he should have had her in his arms that night.

I love the style in which FOUR SEASONS OF MOJO is written. Bird divides each section by season and highlights specific holidays of several cultures. She illustrates the time of the season and the affect it has on our mood and behavior. Respective holidays require certain herbs coupled with specific tools and equipment to communicate definition, significance and continuity with society-at-large. She shares an eclectic wealth of information that is sometimes overwhelming to a neophyte, yet people still derive a connection with other cultures.

Her approach to the world of mojo is like taking a Home Economics class. One does not start cooking a meal without first choosing the appropriate meal for the occasion, the exact tools and an awareness of their purpose in preparing the meal to get the desired results. The author provides stories and recipes from other cultures to enlighten the reader and to promote research of the new recipes.

I applaud Bird for acknowledging the validity of "nature's prescriptions" in contemporary society. She has joined the ranks of others to remove the shame of being "natural" by educating herself in the art of being an herbalist. Her guide has shown that in the African-American culture, as other cultures, we share a bond with the earth and nature.

Lana Hooks
for The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

A real root worker, a wise woman, has written a book that all wise women can share and see and learn from. There are enough textbooks out there with mechanical lists of sterilized ingredients; here is a story from the old religion. A combination of folklore, practical spells, humble steps, and a reverance for the simple joys we experience and adore in everyday lives, this is the knowledge being passed, once again, from one woman to another. Anyone can begin working her magic today; planting seeds is part of the great circle.

Stephanie, well done girlfriend!

I've really appreciated this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first book. I hope there is a third coming out soon. These suggestions really work and the book is written to be enjoyed as a good read as well. Highly recommend!

A friend of mine picked up this book and asked me to looked it over and let her know whether or not this is real Hoodoo.

Let me say that from the start this book is confusing. In the opening chapters the author discusses Hoodoo leading the reader to believe that what she includes somehow relates to Hoodoo when it is mostly a hodge-podge of ideas that the author threw together. Based on the majority of the contents of the book there is no real reason to discuss Hoodoo at all since so little of the book actually relates to it. That is not to say that what she's written won't work only that it isn't Hoodoo and if you are a Hoodoo purist you will not like this book. A few very non-Hoodoo inclusions:

* Bird talks about the celebration of Pagan holidays and working with Pagan Deities or ATR spirits such as the Lwa and the Orisha. Although Hoodoo does contain deeply spiritual elements, God(s) play almost no part so there is no reason to invoke any Deity to do anything. Overall, there is too much focus on Pagan elements and when considering the fact that 90% of Hoodoo practitioners are some flavor of Christian, this book should focus on Christian holidays, not Pagan.

* The use of herbs in Hoodoo is heavily based on Native American herbology and herblore, although, there is some cross-over use of European botanicals. The author seems to have used European herbal information for 90% of this book.

* She includes terminology from the ATRs such as ashe, which are never used in Hoodoo. Hoodoo, while rooted in African magic and beliefs, is an American system of magic and uses American terminology.

* She gives definitions for words like "mojo" that not only contradict each other from one page to the next, but seem to be completely made up. She defines "mojo" as power or prowess when mojo is neither of these things. A mojo is simply a spell contained in a bag, nothing more or less.

* Hoodoo places a great deal of emphasis on numbers with 3,7,9, and 13 being highly favored. It is rarer for a practitioner to use even numbers as these are considered to be stable and stagnant and will reduce the effectiveness of the spell. In reviewing many of the spells given in this book, even numbers are often used. It doesn't necessarily mean the spell will fail, but it may not be as strong or successful as a spell that uses traditionally favored numbers.

* Despite these, and other, problems with the book there is one inclusion that is just bad all the way around due to a lack of information on the part of the author. In one of the chapters Ms. Bird has the reader sprinkling Goofer Dust to protect the home from spirits and "bad vibrations", but fails to tell the reader that Goofer Dust can mean two different things. In some regions of the country goofer dust is another term for graveyard dirt that had been gathered and paid for in a specfic manner from a specific type of grave and can be used to protect the home. Bird also fails to tell the reader how to gather and pay for it.
In other regions of the country Goofer Dust (proper) is a compounded powder used in harmful spells up to, and including, death spells and has absolutely no protective qualities. Unless the reader knows the difference between Goofer Dust and goofer dust, they run the risk of getting Goofer Dust proper from a supplier. Sprinkling this type of Goofer Dust around one's home would have disasterous results for those living in that home.

Overall, this book reminds me very much of Ray Malborough's "Hoodoo Mysteries", and contains about as much real Hoodoo as that book. Btw, "Hoodoo Mysteries" is the book that destroyed Malborough's reputation amongst Hoodoo practitioners, and Ms. Bird is fast on her way to doing the very same thing.
If you are looking for real Hoodoo you will not find it in this book; if you are looking for Llwelleyn New Age feel-good nonsense masquerading as Hoodoo then by all means pick this one up. Cavaet Emptor!

I found this book to be very informative. A personal account of a woman dealing with breast cancer.

This book is ahead of its time. No chemotherapy, no radiation, nor any surgery was involved in the author's healing from breast and uterine cancer. She devised a health program that included her physical and mental as well as spiritual well-being. By supporting her immune system, instead of destroying it, she rebuilt her body back into health. This is the future of mind/body medicine, alternative medicine. It should be read by everyone who wants to know more about health care than only traditional medical methods. ...

Our time has come, a must read!
Susan Moss unwraps the medical establishment with her out of the box innovations regarding the history of breast cancer treatment in this country. Opposing the 'big business' of breast cancer in Keep Your Breasts she revealed a number of dueable steps known as 'MOTEP' to rid oneself of the breast cancer mentality. I first heard Susan Moss interviewed on FM radio and was amazed by her unpretentious super intelligent but loving attitude and information. She applied this to the non-invasive but intensive 20 WOTEP steps to healing. All women should read this book and share it with their loved ones.

I LOVED this book!! Thank you, Susan Moss, for having the guts to believe in yourself and go up against conventional wisdom, and to write about it with such verve. I had a brush with the Breast Cancer Machine when my mammogram showed suspicious microcalcifications and my needle biopsy showed atypical ductal hyperplasia. My health care professionals insisted that I get a surgical biopsy to the tune of three thousand dollars to rule out cancer. Instead, I chose to see this as a wake-up call and to inform myself about how to strengthen my immune system and love of life. I probably wouldn't follow Moss's example if I had a lump diagnosed as cancer, but in such a circumstance I would at the minimum refuse chemotherapy. As Moss points out, and as I heard Candace Pert point out in her recording "Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind," there is no clinical evidence that chemo helps women with breast cancer.

I'd like to see a lot more thinking outside the box of cut, poison, burn in response to cancer. Moss is a pioneer.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my right breast in August 2002. Then I went to the Cancer Control Society's annual convention and met Susan Moss and got her book Keep your breasts. It and her motivated me to cancel a scheduled lumpectomy and take the alternative route. Now I am so glad I did, as the tumor is half the size and Dr. Privitera says it can very well only be a fibroid tumor at this point, as it is in the nature of cancer to grow and not shrink. If I had chosen the allopathic route I would be sitting here with a big dent in my chest and no hair or immune system to speak of, and instead I feel better and more alive than ever. If you have cancer, don't you want to do everything to support your body in the fight against it rather than tear it down until it eventually gives up? Please read this book!

Pharmaceuticals have side effects, mostly bad except for the one you're relying upon to make you feel better. Herbal remedies have side effects, mostly good. Sometimes using pharmaceuticals along with herbal remedies creates a time bomb. Your physician and/or pharmacist doesn't always know how your new prescription may rock the boat or in some cases capsize it altogether. I'd worked in the natural remedy industry for 10 years, pretty much ignored drug-herb interactions, and had a new pharmaceutical prescription. I picked up a copy of this book we had in our office and discovered that the drug could cause fatalities if used in conjunction with a very common herbal remedy, one I'd used frequently. Thanks, Mr. Brinker for bringing this vital info to mainstream users!

All herbist should have this in their library.

this book provides a good start for people becoming familiar with drug-herb interactions however there are other more extensive and better referenced books around now

I use this book as a reference in my Naturopathic Consulting Practice. It affords me the knowledge to keep people safe in the use of Herbs. Thanks!

It is a 5 star book for someone who understands a lot of technical/medicinal terms and information. 3 stars for a person looking for simple answers. Phil

I had a hysterectomy 14 years ago and I have been studing natural alternative and Bio-identical hormone replacement for years. This book is great info for women considering NRT - Natural Hormone Treatment for peri-menopause and menopausal symtoms and for staying young and healthy.

This MAN does not understand estrogen at all. It is sad that so many women are apparently putting their health into his hands. The reason why so many women and good clinicians are avoiding products like Tri-est is because these products don't feed our bodies the necessary estrogens that our bodies actually produce from our ovaries. Giving women estriol and estrone just blocks our receptors from receiving the necessary and most important E2-estradiol. Our bodies will then metabolize the E2 into the others naturally. Research supports this aspect clearly. The other thing about this guy and his book is that he bounces everything he says off of premarin studies and does not keep the information flow consistent one way or another.

Most women getting on bio-identical hormones these days have never used premarin and want good research or clinical comparatives to support their choices with regards to bio-identicals. This book does not provide either good knowledge or research. Additionally, this book is quite disappointing for one that Amazon places so highly in their search engine.

Instead, I would recommend Wiley's book for the radical approach to understanding what it is we actually want to achieve with our bio-identicals, and Reiss's book for good information on how to monitor ourselves when using bio-identicals. However, Reiss, (another boy doctor) is also a proponent of Tri-est, probably because its just easier for him to prescribe.

Once our female clinicians have really worked out the bio-identicals that are working well for us, then we will all have great data to support our choices. In the meantime, avoid this book.

Uzi Reiss and Elizabeth Vliet provide more thorough discussions of this topic, but Jonathan Wright has written magazine articles for years and offers a concise review of the evidence for bio-identical hormone replacement. Wright focuses on bio-identical hormone replacement, resulting in a briefer discussion, since he spends less time discussing studies of horse estrogens and artificial progestins.

Misleading, sensationalized media coverage of large, poorly designed, ethically questionable estrogen replacement studies, including the Womens Health Initiative and Nurses Health Study continues to discourage women from obtaining safe effective natural hormone replacement. These large studies of thousands of women used the same dose of Premarin horse estrogens for study subjects, without regard to symptoms. Doseage was not adjusted for individual study patients. I doubt anyone would volunteer for a thyroid hormone replacement study, if they were informed individual hormone levels would not be measured and everyone would receive the same hormone dose, irregardless of whether they exhibited hypothyroidism symptoms. What is surprising about the large overpublicized Premarin/Progestin studies is that women were willing to submit themselves to these dangerous, poorly designed studies and that the media has succeeded so thoroughly, in misleading the public.

Wright provides excellent information on the estrone/estradiol and estriol ratio correlation with cancer. He also explains studies indicating bio-identical progesterone decreases cancer.

Wright explains why animal lovers will want horse estrogen (Premarin) removed from the market, when they learn how inhumanely horses are treated to obtain it. Your HMO prefers dangerous horse estrogens, because they are less expensive to produce.

Physicians treat individual patients, not study groups. When safe bioidentical hormone replacement dose is adjusted to the individual patient, using repeated testing and gradual dose increases, dramatic improvements in depression,insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia and migraine often occur.

Florida Detox has been able to obtain all of these improvements, often in days, using bio-identical hormone replacement. These bio-identical hormones are sometimes almost the only medications, which highly allergic patients do not have adverse reactions to.

Steven Sponaugle
Research Director, Florida Detox

Read this book. It will get you long on knowledge you really should know in short order. A HUGE misunderstanding has been created (on purpose, by the major pharmaceutical companies, or through the unfortunate ignorance of medical professionals) about synthetic, altered, equine, patented, profitable hormone replacement therapy (HRT) vs. Bio-Identical HRT. Everybody should know the difference and how it can affect their health.

Bio-identical hormones are not all they are cracked up to be. They have serious, dangerous impacts on the human body. Please, if you are going to try these, do your homework first. A growing number of women are experiencing lethal side effects. Some don't make it out the other side. I am one of the lucky ones - I survived the blood clots in my legs and two near-fatal, year-long illnesses connected with use of "natural" progesterone. Since that time, I have been contacted by scores of women who have suffered due to use of these hormones. I hope this information will be helpful to someone else, too. Please, safeguard your health - no one else is going to do it for you.

This book is way too complicated for a regular person. Some of the items mentioned to either eat or use for an anti-wrinkle treatments (such as pigs feet or different fungi) are things that I would never use. I think the only way you could achieve most of these things is by purchasing her Nefeli cosmetic line, which is not cheap. The accupressure points are also very confusing. I would not have purchased this had I known this.

TCM=Traditional Chinese Medicine and it works! Accupressure really helps my skin glow, amazing. (Just a couple of days of doing the accupressure exercises, I began receiving compliments like, "you're skin has a beautiful texture, what have you been doing?")

My qualms with the book? What do you think of using a Pig's Foot Mask on your face? That's right, the book talks of boiling and cutting a pigs foot which, refrigerated, you're supposed to apply to your face over night!

Eating Bone Soup is also suggested in this book. Eating meat and/or killing animals just so I can look good just doesn't sound right.

Besides, boiled bones to fight wrinkles? Staying away from meat is best. Meat has fats and these days hormones and chemicals that are bad for the skin, let alone everything else in the body. Insted, eat fruits and vegetables (drink lots of water too) and make your skin look gorgeous.

I've probably read anti-aging books , and "Anti-Aging Therapy: How to Clear Away the Wrinkles & Rejuvenate Your Face by Ping Zhang"is undoubtedly the most effective and authentic one yet. Everyone who values their body and personal well being should read this book. Just read this book and truly help yourself.

Good advice for all ages.Acupuncture very helpful,but you must be consistent.Lots of hints for self-help.

I am truly grateful for the gift that Dr.Ping Zhang has bestowed upon her readership through her comprehensive research spanning thousands of years of eastern medicine. The concept of self healing in an integrative fashion allowing for the optimizing of the mind body soul connection is reflected in the pages of this book. The information is referenced in such a way that one can learn and apply principles of nutrition, qi gong, including self massage, conscious movement, and breath work, with direction and focus to produce a feeling of well being and synchrony. One can experience the compassion, knowledge base, and dignity of this practitioner as the fuel to motivate the practice of the principles that are referenced. My patients and I have borne witness to the dedication, and comprehensive care and dedication that direct both her practice and her writing.