Spontaneous Healing : How to Discover and Embrace Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

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Summary: Quackery and Pseudoscientific Shennanigans
Review: Like Weil's other books, this one is filled with pseudomedical flapdoodle, unprovable claims, unsupported conclusions, and a complete dearth of scientific method. This book is for the desperate, the uneducated, the gullible, and the pollyana population who require no scientific proof of something that sounds good to them. Weil promises health and spontaneous healing to those who already believe outrageous claims without the rigor of proof (also known collectively as "the stupid"). This book has no basis in scientific medical reality, none of it has been proven clinically (where is Andrew Weil's cirriculum vitae?), and it is all designed to milk cash from the soft-minded, newage (rhymes with sewage) followers that depend on a corpulent quack for advice on eating.

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Summary: If it changes my life and stops my bad habits . . .
Review: Sometimes it just takes a little nudge to get you started in a better direction and that is what this book had done for me. I don't expect miracles, but the guidelines are better than most. If I am able to just adopt 25% of the good ideas, I'm way ahead of where I was before I read it.

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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: This book is very informative and easy to read! I love the way the author takes many different sides to every issue he raises.

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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: This book is very well written. Unlike many self-help and non-fiction works, you don't want to put it down. It is worthwhile reading for anyone looking to improve their overall health or achieve the nutritional strength needed to overcome illness. The many illustrations of the use of alternative medicine, and inclusion of their sources, provide valuable information for those who would like to break away from conventional medicine's use of a "magic pill" to heal our every ache and pain. This is a book you'll want to keep.

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Summary: Great starting point
Review: This is book offers basic, non-complicated ways to understand and implement alternative/homeopathic methods to not only heal, but just as importantly, to maintain good health. The author does tend to use some medical terminology when referring to western medicine but the rest is pretty straight forward and easy to follow. If you know nothing or little about homeopathic methods, then this book is a great start to get a general understanding and possibly guidance to where you can begin your research into more specific areas to study should you have a nagging condition that you can't seem to get rid of. I am young and in prefect health, but knowing how to maintain my health naturely is what prompted me to buy this book and I'm glad I did. I own both the book and the audio book. The tape is read by the author and he is a bit monotone so you might drift off into daydreaming while listening to it from time to time. You'll definitely have to listen to it several times, but worth it. The audio book is great for listening while I drive to work since you will have to read it or listen to it several times in order to absorb all of the information in it, but the tape doesn't offer as many examples of success stories that the book offers so it might be good to get both like I did. While the information is great, the stories are the ones that really inspire.

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Summary: Best book I've ever read on Health and Healing!
Review: This is such a great book, I don't know where to start! It has changed the way I look at food and over-the-counter medicine. I am buying this book for my mother, and for my sister-in-law who is training to be a nurse and believes that echinacea only works if you take it before you get sick. (I'm in no position to offer medical advice, but in my family echinacea and vitamin C will shorten any cold to just two days! and that includes my 2 year old son). I recommend this book for anyone who wants to feel good and be healthy. I especially recommend this book to anyone and EVERYONE in the medical professions.