| Acknowledgments | ix |
| Foreword | xi |
| Introduction | xiii |
| 1 | Holistic Medicine: An Integrative Approach to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit | 1 |
| Dangers of Pharmaceutical Drugs | 5 |
| The High Cost of Unnecessary Medical Procedures | 10 |
| The Mind-Body Connection | 13 |
| 2 | Holistic Nutrition: Let Food Be Your Medicine | 16 |
| Building Immunity with Vegetables and Fruit | 19 |
| Giving Your Health a Juice Boost | 22 |
| When Less Is Better | 24 |
| Beware of Mainstream "Health Foods" | 26 |
| The Value of Ancestral Diets: A Question of Whole Foods, Digestion, and Assimilation | 29 |
| Who Needs Nutritional Supplements | 32 |
| Weight Loss and the Calorie-Counting Myth | 35 |
| Salt or No Salt? | 37 |
| Diet and Cancer | 39 |
| High-Fiber Diet for Diabetes | 44 |
| Nutritional Support for Arthritis | 46 |
| 3 | Methods of Therapeutic Manipulation: A Hands-on Approach to Better Health | 50 |
| Chiropractic | 51 |
| Osteopathy | 55 |
| Therapeutic Massage and Lymphatic Drainage | 57 |
| Body Electronics | 66 |
| Therapeutic Touch | 68 |
| Hydrotherapy | 69 |
| 4 | Exercise and Rest: Getting the Balance Right | 77 |
| Walk for Your Life | 80 |
| The Benefits of Exercising Outdoors | 81 |
| The Head-and-Neck Exercises | 83 |
| Health Stretches | 85 |
| Putting Stress to Rest with Sleep | 87 |
| 5 | Herbal Remedies: Nature's Own Cures | 96 |
| Herbs in the Cayce Readings | 100 |
| Herbs and Nutrition for Dental Health | 104 |
| Herbal First Aid | 108 |
| 6 | Energy Medicine: Subtle Healing Vibrations | 116 |
| Aromatherapy's Fragrant Healing Energies | 118 |
| Healing with Light | 123 |
| Sound as Healer | 130 |
| Homeopathy | 133 |
| The Radial Appliance and Wet Cell Battery | 136 |
| 7 | Healing the Mind-And Using the Mind to Heal | 139 |
| Staying Active Keeps the Mind Healthy | 140 |
| Heal the Mind-Get a Handle on Stress | 142 |
| Food and Mood-the Mind/Body Connection | 144 |
| The Endocrine Connection | 148 |
| Treating Depression Holistically | 151 |
| The Holistic Treatment of Alcohol Addiction | 154 |
| Mind as Healer | 160 |
| Bibliography | 169 |
| Index | 175 |
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