Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• VHS Release Date: August 29, 1997
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304238819
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,449 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

Best selling author/physician, Andrew Weil, M.D. has traveled the world investigating health and healing. In this fascinating video, he shares his vision of the human body's innate healing abilities, and counsels us to cultivate the resilience and balance which are the essence of health. As a medical doctor trained in botany, Andrew Weil laments the distance that has grown between conventional medicine and nature, as well as its emphasis on disease rather than health, and its focus on material structure rather than function. It is these conceptual limitations that are the root of the health care crisis, he tells us. His integrative approach to wellness is based on informed skepticism about suppressive Western medicine, and a deep appreciation on the healing power of nature. On video Dr. Weil radiates the same warmth and intelligence that have made his books such popular and valuable tools.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very entertaining,informative,& enlightening!!, July 31, 1999

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This review is from: Spontaneous Healing [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I purchased Dr. Weil's 8-weeks to optimal health one year ago,& have been on his program since.just this week I got the spontaneous healing video,what a treat!!from the start,when he enters the room,the feeling of attaining information never before heard,is exciting,& full of hope & trust.when Dr. Weil is telling us to eat garlic,he breaks out in unguarded laughter & joy,he's one of us!!when he asks us all to take a deep breath "together" I really felt like I was in that room too! this is a very frank & fair 72 minutes.when I say fair,I mean he's easier on the medical profession than I expected.all in all,I cant wait to see more of his presentations!THANKS,DR.WEIL 8/1/99 ! -jim- Terre Haute,Indiana

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Instant Wellness, December 6, 2000

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Band Guy "bandguy1" (Woodland Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Andrew Weil M.D.: Spontaneous Healing [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are a fan of Dr. Weil, or at least open to alternative ideas about our healing system, you may find this video helpful and enjoyable as the philosophical underpinnings for his later works "8 Weeks to Optimum Health" and "Eating for Optimum Health." If you are predisposed to agree with his common-sense approach to combining Traditional Western Medicine and Alternative Therapies, this is probably superior to reading the book. Wait. Stay with me on this. The book naturally offers much greater detail and more anecdotal evidence. But there is something in his calm, assured yet compassionate presentation of this abridged version that enhances its message and lends it additional credibility.

So in just 72 minutes you can absorb the necessary, reassuring information and parables and get down to the nitty-gritty details of applying it to YOUR life in his later works, where I believe the books will serve you better.

Added Bonus Entertainment- If you're trying to interest a partner in his philosophy and you feel they're starting to drift, you can keep them entertained for a while by seeing how long it will take for Dr. Weil to swat at the fly which is constantly buzzing around his beard and how amazingly few times he does so. It may buy some time for them to get drawn in. Sadly, the Fly Wrangler goes uncredited. (Is that only funny in L.A.?)