Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life [Hardcover]

Dr. James Balch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 1999

Dr. James Balch's book Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A to Z Guide to Supplements established him as one of the most trusted authorities in the fields of alternative and naturopathic medicine. Now, his potentially life-saving wisdom is made more accessible than ever in a groundbreaking new volume that will revolutionize the way Americans think about their health.

Throughout his career in medicine, Dr. Balch has committed himself to helping patients take charge of their own well-being. But how can people remain in control of their health if their doctors are unable (or unwilling) to teach them the basic principles of healthy living? Many health care providers are still woefully uninformed about preventive health measures and effective natural remedies, relying instead on conventional courses of medication and surgery--which are frequently more difficult, invasive, and expensive.

In Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life, Dr. Balch empowers readers to take action and protect their own health. He provides them with a better understanding of how the healthy mind and body function and suggests natural remedies for some of the most serious medical problems that face Americans today. Dr. Balch also offers a twenty-five-point exam that isolates the biological stresses in our everyday lives and helps us to eliminate them, so we can experience a higher standard of wellness than ever before.

With plainspoken common sense and examples from the case histories of Dr. Balch's own patients, Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life reveals the simple, proven remedies that really can save your life--naturally.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

For thousands of years, people have relied on the gifts of the earth: nutritious food, clean water, natural light, medicinal herbs--and an active lifestyle to stay healthy. Now the gifts of the earth have been compromised: we eat highly processed food, bathe in and drink polluted water, work by artificial lighting, and take pills when we're sick and depressed from living this way. Natural remedies can make a drastic positive change in your life, says James F. Balch, M.D., in 10 Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life. Balch, who is also the author of the bestselling Prescription for Nutritional Healing, presents 10 remedies to improve health. Some are no surprise--light, water, and air--but Balch gives us innovative, practical strategies for improving these areas. We all know we need to eat more "green foods," but Balch isn't talking about broccoli; rather, he recommends wheat grass and barley grass ("the most complete preventive medicine available ... one of the ultimate gifts of God"). Balch's other favorite remedies are garlic, ginseng, ginkgo biloba, chelation therapy, natural hormone balance (diet, DHEA, natural progesterone, black cohosh), and combined vitamins C and E. Some of his remedies are controversial and not supported by the medical community; some are backed by good research; a few are common sense and indisputable. Inform yourself with this book and other viewpoints, talk it all over with your physician, and evaluate what is best for your health. --Joan Price

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More from the author of Prescription for Nutritional Healing, which has sold 3.5 million copies.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; First Edition edition (April 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385493495
• ISBN-13: 978-0385493499
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,201,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

James F. Balch, M.D., the coauthor of Prescription for Natural Cures and the first two editions of the landmark Prescription for Nutritional Healing, is one of the bestselling health book authors of all time. He has made numerous appearances on television and radio and lectures regularly around North America.

Customer Reviews

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The title of the book says it all!, April 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life (Hardcover)

For anyone who is tired of having medical information doled out by a resistant medical hierarchy, here is some straightforward information to get you on the path to wellness. To reduce this book to a commentary about "grass clippings" (wheat barley grass), as a previous reviewer did, is a real injustice. Dr. Balch mentions the truly cutting edge information about numerous therapies unknown to most of us,including oxygen healing therapies like ozone treatments as one of the "10 Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life."

Very quietly, even conventional MD's are using hyperbaric oxygen chambers and other oxygen-related treatments to treat patients with the so-called "flesh eating bacteria." Why? Because ozone and many other oxygen therapies are the ONLY treatments known to "kill the bugs, not the body." In other words, where antibiotics fail to destroy these "killer bugs," and severely damage the immune system, ozone re-invigorates the body by giving oxygen on the cellular level. Don't take my word for it; do a search some time on PubMed or some other medical search engine and see what you come up with!

Medical quackery? HA! Within the next decade, the Mayo Clinic and the rest of the shrines we have built to the bloated medical bureacracy will ALL be using innovative natural cures like the ones Dr. Balch recommends in this very readable book.

His first book, "Prescription for Nutritional Healing" has sold in excess of 4 million copies. "10 Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life," especially at the amazingly low Amazon.com price is a steal.

This is a great book, especially for those not familiar with the world of natural remedies.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We are all in agreement here!, August 3, 2000

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J Davies - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life (Hardcover)

This book does the job of explaining WHAT our bodies need and WHY these Ten are the most important. Balch has helped us by picking the Ten Natural Remedies that are the most important ones. That way we can keep our focus a little better. Taking too many supplements throughout the day can get a little overwhelming. There are also combinations aimed at covering these areas of need. A site where my family has had great satisfaction in both service and product choices/quality is PapaNature. I feel the same way about praising them as I do about praising the work of the Balches. They also have additional documentation that exactly parallels Balch's topics in this great book.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book for every house, May 23, 2000

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Barbara - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life (Paperback)

I couldn't put this book down once I started it. It is really wonderful, and I have already started taking a few of the supplements the author suggests. I say "a few" because I found that the author could have done a much better job expressing/analyzing his ideas (that's why the four stars). For example, I am under 25, and there are a few things which left me in question as to whether I should start using them or not. If you are not sure of something, like me, you should see the book with your doctor and then proceed. If the author could expand a little bit more on his ideas, it would make the perfect book.