Naturopathy: Understanding the Healing Power of Nature (Health Essentials Series) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Stewart Mitchell (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd; 236th illustrated edition edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862043035
• ISBN-13: 978-1862043039
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,778,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Rare Gem, August 1, 2011

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This review is from: Naturopathy: Understanding the Healing Power of Nature (Health Essentials Series) (Paperback)

Mitchell's "Naturopathy" is a well organized, easily understood book. The author takes a very complicated subject -- human health -- and developes this topic based on ten principles of naturopathy. He illustrates each principle with clear examples of applications which the reader can use to improve his or her well being. Rarely does any text allow the reader to practice a craft effectively from the outset, but Mitchell has accomplished this with brilliance. Buy this book and read it!

5.0 out of 5 stars A USEFUL INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT, July 18, 2011

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This review is from: Naturopathy: Understanding the Healing Power of Nature (Health Essentials Series) (Paperback)

Stewart Mitchell has a research degree in complementary therapies. He is director of the School for Complementary Therapies and conducts training programs for the UK National Health Service. He is also the author of The Complete Illustrated Guide to Massage: A Step-by-Step Approach to the Healing Art of Touch.

He wrote in the Introduction to this 1998 book, "The aim of this book is to explain naturopathy to two audiences. The first is readers who are suffering disorders, personally or within the family and, finding the rationale of naturopathy appealing, are inspired to take up its methods... The second audience consists of those who are biomedically inclined but not totally convinced, and who may be patients or health professionals."

Here are some additional quotations from the book:

"Naturopathy's basic tenet is that human life is governed by the same self-regulating, self-repairing forces that care for all living things... Treatment consists in interpreting symptoms so as to release inhibitions on the self-regulating mechanisms and provide relief from discomfort and distress. Its methods are natural in that they utilize readily available resources such as food, touch and water, but do not require specific products." (Pg. 2-3)

"Naturopathy has existed since the days of Hippocrates. It represents the complementary view ... that health is normal, life lived to the full in harmony with one's nature, and that ill-health is not caused by the interference and actions of an external entity but comes as a reminder to oneself to live a more harmonious life... Naturopathy's development has benefited from observation of nature as opposed to experimentation." (Pg. 7)

"...medical observers known as epidemiologists were compiling reports of something of which the doctors were becoming increasingly aware: that the incidence or previously unknown conditions such as cancers was rising; that more people were dying from diseases of the cardiovascular system; that conditions were emerging which seemed resistant even to the most favored drug, the antibiotic." (Pg. 11)

"...it has taken a dramatic rise in the 20th-century 'lifestyle' illnesses all around the world for the focus within mainstream medicine on the implications of diet on health to develop." (Pg. 27)

"Reserve the use of pain-killing medicine for emergencies. Fear of existing pain is pain-promotiing. Paradoxically, fully experienicing pain can be pain alleviating, if we can give way to tears." (Pg. 43)

5.0 out of 5 stars WISH I HAD THE WHOLE SERIES OF BOOKS, November 23, 2008

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This is an old book, but written very well. I would love to own all of the books in the Health essentials Series.