The Hepatitis C Help Book, Revised Edition: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing [Paperback]

Robert Gish (Author), Misha Ruth Cohen O.M.D. L. Ac. (Author), Kalia Doner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2007

A fully updated and revised edition of an important health guide, including the latest information on optimum interferon protocol.

 

Hepatitis C has been called "the emergent and preeminent public-health problem of the twenty-first century--surpassing HIV." It has also been dubbed "The Shadow Epidemic," because it is one of the most clandestine of viruses and infects healthy people who have no idea they are being attacked by something they can't even detect. Now, the two experts on Hepatitis C who teamed up to write the first comprehensive guide to orthodox and alternative treatment options have revised and fully updated the book to include recent findings in the field. Along with programs for self-care, nutritional and fitness plans and a comprehensive Western and Chinese medical treatment program, the revised edition also includes important new self-help information for the growing number of people who are considering or undergoing interferon treatment, including updated information on vial load and the optimum interferon protocol.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Hepatitis C Help Book is a collaboration between two of the best known and most knowledgeable practitioners working in the hepatitis field today....This is a well-rounded and comprehensive guide that should be in the personal library of anyone dealing with hepatitis C, and can easily be used by both patients and health-care providers.  Highly recommended."

-Alan Franciscus, editor of the HCV Advocate

 

"Hepatitis C is an insidious virus…In the United States, it's believed that only about a quarter of the cases have been diagnosed."

-Jerome Groopman, Harvard Medical School professor, The New Yorker

About the Author

Misha Ruth Cohen, O.M.D., L.Ac., is clinical director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, cofounder and research and education chair of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, and Assistant Researcher at the University of California Medical School, all in San Francisco.  She is a pioneer in the use of Chinese Medicine for treating Hepatitis C.

Robert G. Gish, M.D., is an internationally recognized liver specialist, Medical Director of the liver transplant program of the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.

Kalia Doner is a seasoned journalist and author of twenty-five books on wellness and healing.  She is also the editor-in-chief of REMEDY and Diabetes Focus magazines.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Revised edition (May 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312372728
• ISBN-13: 978-0312372729
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Hepatitis
  • #54 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Abdominal

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great & unique resource for people w/ hepatitis C, November 1, 2007

By 

Robin Roth - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Hepatitis C Help Book, Revised Edition: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing (Paperback)

This is a "must read" book for anyone with hepatitis C, especially those interested in complementing Western medical advice with more holistic approaches such as acupuncture and herbs. The first edition helped me when I was going through treatment for hepatitis C and this revised edition is even more helpful. I was given a very low chance of success in clearing the virus with interferon & ribavirin, but since I had cirrhosis I needed to try. I credit weekly acupuncture, herbs, meditation, and qigong/tai chi, and other suggestions in this book for my beating the odds, and getting rid of the hepatitis C virus and the cirrhosis. Well, you can read more about my story on www.hepCmeditations.org if you want. I'm really grateful to have gotten through treatment successfully.
The Hepatitis C Help Book has info you don't find anywhere else. The explanations of how Eastern medicine can help people with liver problems are illuminating. Certainly take this book to your acupuncturist, but the recommendations of foods to eat or avoid for particular symptoms is invaluable for everyone, and there are also recipes worth trying. Getting advice from both the Western and Eastern perspective made me feel like I had some choices and that I was getting the best of both worlds. And there's advice on mood, sex, fuzzy thinking, aches & pains, why stress is harmful, how meditation helps, and lots of self-help advice. Unique things and up-to-date explanations of the basics. I'm teaching a course on Hepatitis now and I refer to this book, and recommend it to people who ask my advice on dealing with hepatitis C and other liver problems.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars mix of approaches, but hard to see how they're integrated., October 17, 2007

By 

E. Bishop (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Hepatitis C Help Book, Revised Edition: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing (Paperback)

I read this book as a nurse working with hepatitis C patients, and as someone without any knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). I'm not sure who the book's ideal reader would be, but I don't think it's me or my patients. It takes the unusual approach of alternating chapters or half-chapters between Dr. Gish, a GI/hepatology physician of some renown, and Dr. Cohen, a Chinese medicine practitioner at a clinic that sees some of the same patients. The two halves have virtually nothing in common: Gish's side is more or less like other mainstream books on the subject, although not the best-written of them (that's probably Living with Hepatitis C: A Survivor's Guide), while Cohen starts every section with something along the lines of "In TCM, [whatever organ, cell, or other concept Gish just explained] has nothing to do with this disease; it's an imbalance between [nondescriptive name of some principle in TCM] and [another one of those]"... basically a lot of terms that, to anyone who hasn't studied TCM, will just sound like gibberish and not really give any basis for understanding what the doctor thinks you should do. Now I know that that's more or less how even the simplest "Western" medical teaching would sound to someone who's never heard of any of its concepts, but the fact is that just about everyone here has heard of at least the very basic ones, so it's possible to describe even something as complicated as the immune system in simple terms and, if necessary, explain how those concepts can be tested and applied. Gish sort of does that, but - at least for me, and I think for any reader without that training - Cohen doesn't. I'm left with the impression that they have two totally contradictory approaches, and it's not clear whether they really think there's a way that they can both be accurate, or whether they've just decided not to argue. In any case, I'm not sure what a patient would take away from the book itself; it seems more useful as a guide to further reading, or an incentive to ask your doctor more about everything.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A collection of important infomation, all in one book., May 3, 2008

By 

L. Pimentel (Melbourne, FL USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Hepatitis C Help Book, Revised Edition: A Groundbreaking Treatment Program Combining Western and Eastern Medicine for Maximum Wellness and Healing (Paperback)

Very user friendly. Good information, all in one book. All you need to know in order to take good care of yourself and a live good quality life without the commercial western killer medications during a period of such a delicate disease.