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Summary: Don't Waste Your Time!
Review: This book was utterly disappointing. If you are at all interested in "Alternative" Medicine, then don't waste your time on this book. The author clearly is biased against alternative medicine - he warns people over and over again not to do certain alternative treatments instead of the ABC drugs available for MS. Those of us interested in alternative medicine don't need this kind of help. Our goal is to avoid those drugs and others that produce countless side effects and weaken our immune systems. I have a large collection of holistic-minded books, but this one went right in the trash!!
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Summary: Good
Review: This book was well-written and stayed on the subject very well.
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Summary: An excellent starting point
Review: To explore alternative medicine is to take a journey into aspects of healing that are outside of patentable pharmacology. The journey is easier with a map, but the map is only a starting point. When considering alternative medicine, we need to make our own decisions about approaches to health that often have not been studied in the way that patentable drugs have been studied. Even so, the journey should begin by learning what has previously been reported on the subject. Dr. Bowling's book is a fist-rate description of the terrain of alternative medicine. Unlike other MS-specific books about alternative medicine, his is based on a review of published literature rather than on personal experience, anecdote and fancy. Part of Dr. Bowling's accomplishment is that he has managed to catalogue a diverse and hard-to-define area. More imortantly, it describes, in succint and easy-to-understand and language, the published research that is available on about 40 different areas of alternative medicine. Don't buy the book thinking there is a cure for MS to be found in its pages. On the other hand, if you are looking for a starting point for understanding alternative medicine, then this book is a useful resource.
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