Cancer Recovery Guide
15 Alernative and Complementary Strategies for Restoring Health

Jonathan Chamberlain

Softbound

$25.00

In Europe and the U.S., we have a forty to fifty percent chance of illness from cancer at some time in our life. So what do you do if you are diagnosed with the disease? The harshness of orthodox treatments (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy) are well-known. Their use is widespread, but their results are not very impressive. Faced with these options, informed patients are increasingly seeking alternative and complementary strategies to take control of healing their illness. This book provides an overview of those options.

Jonathan Chamberlain watched his wife suffer and eventually die—both from her cancer and from the direct effects of the orthodox treatments she had undergone. His experience led to a journey in search of other methods of overcoming cancer. What he discovered stunned him. There are many alternative and/or complementary remedial approaches out there—dozens of them—many offering very good chances of recovery.

In Cancer Recovery Guide, Chamberlain presents fifteen simple and practical strategies for becoming well again. These strategies are grouped into three families—those that relate to the mind and the emotions (did you know stress makes cancers more aggressive?); those that address the health of the whole body (cancer cannot survive in a tissue environment that is truly healthy); and those that focus on attacking cancerous tumors directly.

The personal stories cited throughout Cancer Recovery Guide testify to the therapeutic possibilities of the strategies presented.

Contents:

• Introduction: Understanding the Basics
  
  
• Embrace Hope - Cancer is Curable
• Harness the Healing Power of the Mind
• Love and Forgive Yourself and Others
• Relax and Laugh
• Detox the Body
• Oxidize the Body
• Alkalize the Body
• Empower the Body
• Feed the Body with the Right Nutrients
• Cut the Cancer's Energy Supply
• Interfere with the Cancer Cell's DNA
• Induce Cancer Cell Suicide
• Attack the Tumour
• Attack the Causes of Cancer
• Open Yourself to Possibilities

Iscador - Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy

Christine Murphy, Editor

Softbound

$20.00

In recent years, the plant-based cancer remedy Iscador has been gaining increased media attention. But, Iscador has been known for its therapeutic benefits for over eighty years. As early as 1917, Rudolf Steiner suggested using injections of mistletoe extract for the treatment of cancer. his recommendations were taken upand put to clinical use by Ita Wegman, MD, a Dutch physician. Dr. Wegman, who founded a clinit that later became the Lukas clinic, also first developed Iscador in 1917.

In Iscador - Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy, Christine Murphy gathers together some of the work of doctors and clinicians who have been using Iscador today. Dr. Richard Wagner answers many of the questions about Iscador asked him by his patients during his many years of practice as an oncologist in general practice, treating cancer patients with both conventional and alternative therapies. Dr. Thomas Schuerholz, a medical doctor specializing in cancer, offers an overview of the terms, procedures, and different approaches to treating cancer. Phoebe Alexander examines the role of art therapy in healing, Dr. Erika Merz offers suggested dietary options for cancer patients, and a full list of resources allows those diagnosed with cancer to understand fully the options available to them.

This is the first and only book to date that really explores this topic. It does so in a thorough yet easy-to-understand way that is truly empowering. Highly recommended!

The Fourfold Path to Healing
Working with the Laws of Nutrition, Therapeutics, Movement and Meditation in the Art of Medicine

Thomas S. Cowan, MD
with Sally Fallon
and Jaimen McMillan

Softbound

$25.00

A magnificent work! The Fourfold Path to Healing does something I have wanted to see for years -- it addresses a wide variety of ailments and conditions and offers a comprehensive approach that includes homeopathic and anthroposophic remedies and herbs, really supportive nutrition using traditional foods, movement exercises that are condition-specific, and (I just love this!) types of meditation and prayer conceived to assist with the healing of the given illness.

This is the first time I have see any of Jaimen McMillan's work (Spacial Dynamics) presented to the general public and in a healing context - wonderful! You can easily follow the diagrams and descriptions to practice this beautiful movement art.

Sally Fallon may already be known to some of you as the author of Nourishing Traditions (below), but if not I will tell you that her research is rigorous, her conclusions sound and (this is the best part) her recipes delicious, satisfying and life-giving. To see her work placed in the context of a healing program is a joy.

I had not encountered Dr. Thomas Cowan before reviewing this book -- boy, have I been missing something! He is deeply and warmly schooled in conventional medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, herbal remedies and anthroposophical medicine. His insight and guidance are extraordinary.

I believe that this book is probably the best self-help guide for the healing arts that has ever been written -- it is certainly the best I have ever seen, and I have seen many that I value very highly and have used for years. I'm delighted to be able to introduce you to this unique and vibrant guide to healing. Gesundheit!

*See also Nourishing Traditions (below), the basis for the nutritional approach detailed in The Fourfold Path to Healing.

Nourishing Traditions
The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

Revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition

Sally Fallon
with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D

Softbound

$25.00

I LOVE this cookbook! There are over 700 recipes and eveyone I've tried produces delicious, satisfying, healthy food. Reading it inspires both appetite and joyous cooking -- and, the only cookbook I can think of that offers almost as much variety as this one, is The Joy of Cooking. I was serious when I said "almost" as much variety -- out of a foundation of world traditions, there is more creativity, wide-ranging ingredients and surprising combinations here than in any other cookbook I've read (we're talking hundreds - I love cookbooks).

As much as I love the recipes, I think I love Fallon's research and clear thinking about food the best. I knew I'd met a friend when I discovered that the bedrock of her research begins with Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who got to wondering what the nutritional roots of good dental formation and health were and set out on several journeys around the world, photographing and documenting which groups of people had well-formed teeth, which did not, and what each group generally ate.

In 1939 he published Nutrition and Physical Degeneration which is the classic study of isolated populations on native diets and the disasterous effects of processed foods and commercial farming methods on human health. The book includes Price's unforgettable photographs showing the superb dentition and facial development of peoples living on nutrient-dense foods. I first saw these photos in the late 1970s in one of the original Whole Earth Catalogs. I've never forgotten them, and the little bit I learned from them has guided my diet and what I chose to feed my family ever since. In later years, I was startled to find that Rudolf Steiner offered similar conclusions about human nutrition from an entirely different perspective, which shouldn't have been surprising, but somehow was anyway.

What Nourishing Traditions offers is a diet that brushes aside Politically Correct notions of nutrition in favor of traditional food choices that are known to produce robust health. What you'll find is a diet rich in meat, vegetables, whole grains, naturally sweet treats and brimming with easily absorbed vital nutrients. And flavor. Lots and lots of flavor -- as though the love of cooks throughout the ages infused each bite.

A great book!

As a convinced vegetarian of some 25 years, I opened Sally Fallon's book to her many meat recipes and immediately closed it again. But then I figured that there must be more to it than that. There is . . . I was surprised at the wealth of information to help me (even as a vegetarian) make better food choices and prepare the ones I have chosen to get the most nourishment from them.

-Peter Hinderberger, MD, Past President
Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine

Cookery Book from the Lukas Clinic
for patients with cancer or precancerous conditions

The Soceity for Cancer Research
Arlesheim, Switzerland & Stuttgart, Germany

Softbound

$7.95

The Cookery Book offers a collection of recipes that grew out of the research done at the Lukas Clinic, the famous anthroposophical cancer clinic in Switzerland. All recipes in this book are part of the clinic's menu for patients. This is a valuable sourcebook, whether you are recovering from an illness or want to make a health-conscious, preventive diet part of your everyday life.

Complete Healing
Regaining Your Health through Anthroposophical Medicine

Michael Evans, M.D.
Iain Rodger

Softbound

$14.95

What I like best about Complete Healing is that it offers a beautiful presentation of the way anthroposophical medicine approaches different sorts of ailments and circumstances, as well as how this healing art understands the interweaving of spiritual-soul forces with those of the physical in sickness and health. In other words, this is an outstanding introduction to the world of anthroposophical medicine, one that offers the reader a much deeper and more practical understanding than has been generally available.

Anthroposophical medicine is seen as an extension of conventional medicine - a practice which fully utilizes standard practice but then offers more at the point where conventional limitations begin. In conventional medicine, diseases are analyzed in terms of cellular disturbances and drugs prescribed to counter physical symptoms. Yet, in order to understand what brings physical matter to life and imbues it with thoughts, feelings, and will, anthroposophical medicine adds the perspective of soul and spirit. The resulting therapeutic opportunities offer the possibility of genuine health rather than suppression of symptoms.

This is a terrific addition to the available literature on the nature of anthroposophic medicine - one which I found helped me understand not only anthroposophical medicine, but also many other streams of alternative therapy as well. Highly recommended!

Seeing Christ in Sickness and Healing
Anthroposophical medicine as a medicine founded in Christianity

Dr. Peter Selg

Softbound

$29.50

For those who are in daily contact with people who are ill or in need, there may be a tendency to forget the larger purpose of healing because of a need to focus on the day-to-day mechanics of healthcare. Anthroposophic medicine, however, encompasses more than the physical body—it is also concerned with the soul and individual biography of patients, which brings a broader dimension to conventional medical care.

Peter Selg shows how anthroposophic therapies draw heavily on the Christian concept of healing as seen in the Christian Bible. In practical terms, he suggests that, through meditation, healers and caregivers can allow the healing power of Christ to work through them. They must come to recognize that sickness is part of a person’s destiny and that the healing process can help realize the purpose of the sickness for the person’s individual life story.

Nurses, caregivers, social workers, therapists, counselors, and doctors can all benefit from this insightful book.