The Fourfold Path To Healing: Working With The Laws Of Nutrition, Therapeutics, Movement And Meditation In The Art Of Medicine

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Summary: Beautifully written and and easy to understand!
Review: In reading Dr. Cowan's book, I've often mentioned to professional colleagues the ease that is available in understanding potentially difficult subjects of the human body, especially infectious disease and cancer.

In teaching my own classes on nutrtition, I have often sought the advice of Dr. Cowan through his writings. I especially like and continually refer to his analogy of a willow tree and the fluid balance when dealing with arthritis. Bravo Dr. Cowan!

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Summary: Redefines holistic medicine -- an instant classic!
Review: This is a beautifully written book that manages to be both a crystal clear health practitioner's guide and a fascinating philosophical discussion of the nature of disease and health.

The Fourfold Path to Healing offers a variety of very specific ways to restore balance to the human body, all of which are gentle, non-invasive, and sensible.

Four introductory chapters discuss the "paths" of the title -- nutrition, therapeutics (herbs and whole-food supplements), movement and meditation. Then Dr. Cowan applies these foundational principles to a variety of conditions, from arthritis to cancer to weight loss to heart disease.

He invites us to look at health conditions as more than collections of symptoms. He does so skillfully, drawing on the language of myth as well as botany, dreams, the work of Rudolf Steiner, and other insightful metaphors. Each discussion guides the reader into a broader understanding of the ways in which our health reflects our world view, our mental and emotional balance, and, of course how we care for our physical bodies.

The Fourfold Path to Healing invites deeper participation in our healing -- and in the maintenance and care of our good health, as well.

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Summary: Multi-levelled Healing
Review: This is a brilliant book about healing the physical body through nutrition, the life body through therapy, the emotions through movement and thinking through meditation.It is full of deep insights culled from the work of geniuses like Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner and Weston Price. I particularly loved the knowledgeable and humorous way the heart and its activities are described; the heart is obviously not a pump, but rather a sensitive balancer and regulator of the whole system. I can't think of a better present to give my friends for Christmas.

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Summary: Healing and The Art of Medicine
Review: This is a must read for all medical/health practitioners as the authors have taken extra care to do this exteremely informative work. Serious matters like heart and its activities and other dieseses are described in a much lighter, easy to understand form. This book offers many ways to have a balanced life and how to restore balance to the human body.

I read the book and I thought, this doesn't sound too bad, but I found myself miserable. I just was frustrated after a week....it was very regimented. I did benefit by eliminating my coffee habit with the help of a wonderful coffee substitute called soyffee (www.s o y c o f f e e .com) Its made from soybeans which is a godsend for those troubled with hot flashes like myself. Another book I bought was the South Beach Diet book. I read that book and found the plan to be made up of things I would eat and the items were normal grocery store items so no hunting at the health food stores or buying online.