The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction
Author: Stephanie Marohn
Your life may have been turned upside down and inside out by addiction, but if you're reading this, you've already taken the first step to recovery: admission of the problem.
The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction offers proven natural solutions for addiction to anything from alcohol and cigarettes to drugs, painkillers, sex, gambling, food, and more. An approach to recovery that is based on natural medicine can reverse addictive behaviors and return you to a productive life free from addiction.
Accomplished health journalist Stephanie Marohn presents the work of eight prominent health practitioners whose array of addiction-reversing therapies include amino acid therapy, neurotransmitter restoration, allergy elimination, herbal medicine, flower essence therapy, heavy metal detoxification, psychospiritual work, and others.
The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction gives you the tools to uncover the hidden factors that contribute to addiction such as genetic vulnerability, stress, allergies, and nutritional and hormonal imbalances. You'll read what recovering addicts have to say -- in their own words -- about the natural medicine approaches that have changed their lives for the better. Most importantly, The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction gives you the necessary resources to get beyond merely coping, to reach a real recovery that lasts a lifetime.
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | xiii |
| Part I | The Basics of Addiction | |
| 1 | What Is Addiction and Who Suffers from it? | 3 |
| 2 | Causes, Contributors, and Influences | 26 |
| Part II | Natural Medicine Treatments for Addiction | |
| 3 | The Biochemistry of Addiction: Amino Acids and Neurotransmitter Restoration | 59 |
| 4 | Allergies and Addiction: NAET | 82 |
| 5 | Energy Medicine I: Traditional Chinese Medicine | 96 |
| 6 | Energy Medicine II: Flower Essence Therapy | 113 |
| 7 | The Five Levels of Healing | 137 |
| 8 | Energy, Trauma, and Spirit: Thought Field Therapy and Seemorg Matrix Work | 159 |
| 9 | Psychic Healing | 175 |
| Conclusion | 193 |
| Appendix | Resources | 195 |
| Endnotes | 201 |
| Index | 217 |
| About the Author | 225 |
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The Fasting Cure
Author: Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was not only a prolifc and much admired author, but also a follower of Bernarr MacFadden's Physical Culture movement (see his Physical Culture Cook Book, 1901) and a member of the editorial staff of Physical Culture Magazine. Dedicated to MacFadden, this 1911 volume advocates the benefits of systematic fasting in producing long-lasting health benefits.
