(Part 2) Best holistic medicine books according to redditors
We found 52 Reddit comments discussing the best holistic medicine books. We ranked the 29 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
For a brief and free book it's cool, but I'd hardly call it a bible. I personally also don't find it a worthwhile reference because it only shows one view of each pose. I also disagree with its choice in poses and levels of difficulty.
For a proper "bible" I prefer Iyengar's Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health. It shows poses from every single angle, and then has a wonderful guide in the back for sequences for beginners, specific health issues, and other situations. I get that it's not free, but for anyone looking for a comprehensive and large hardcover book to take that will endure on your bookshelf for years, this would be the one.
I'd be interested in hearing other people's suggestions for what yoga book on their shelf they consider their yoga bible!
I'm not exactly sure if I understand your question, or if this is what you're interested in. But here are two good introductory books to Tibetan Medicine (Sowa Rigpa), which is thoroughly Buddhist (comes from tantras taught by Medicine Buddha):
Birth, Life, and Death by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
The Tibetan Book of Health by Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Additionally The Tibetan Art of Good Karma is an introductory book on the Yuthok Nyingthig, the spiritual practice of Tibetan doctors. The Yuthok Nyingthig was revealed by the terton Yuthok Yonten Gonpo, "the father of Tibetan Medicine", who also revealed the Four Medicine Tantras taught by the Medicine Buddha. This book is an introduction to the Yuthok Nyingthig Ngondro and also gives a historical (some might call "hagiographical") background on Yuthok Yonten Gonpo himself. It's a pretty neat story. There are actually two Yuthoks, an elder and a younger reincarnation a few hundred years later. One of them attained rainbow body along with his wife and dog!
yoga mastering the basics it's got very detailed descriptions on how to get in and out of postures, not to mention some very effective relaxation techniques with detailed instruction.
For Candida, you can have your stool tested. Have you done this? If it is Candida or some other disturbance in your gut flora, you'll need a ton of probiotics and special diet.
Check out Clean Gut from the library (I got an electronic copy from my library). There's a case study like yours. It advocates an elimination diet which others here have suggested. In combination with probiotics and other gut healing procedures.
So sorry you're going through this. Thank you for putting things in perspective for me.
this article cites this book as the source for that claim
These problems have to do with accumulated muscular tension which over time becomes "permanent". It can be removed but it will not go away on its own. Muscles will start to stick together and more and more movement patterns are impaired. In the body, everything is connected to everything, so it is more useful to work on realigning the body as a whole.
As you have found, most regular doctors know nothing about such things and have no interest in learning.
You must now embark on a Healing Journey. You can take a self-help approach or you can spend a lot of money paying various
therapists to help you. Or you can do both. The types of therapists that may be helpful will be various kinds of "bodyworkers" - massage therapists, myofascial therapists, Rolfers, Hellerworkers, etc. Maybe some chiropractors. You might look into yoga and other types of stretching. You need to spend time checking into various approaches and helpers to see what and/or who works for you.
You can make all the progress you want on this. Its just a matter of how much you want to learn and how much time you want to spend learning about and working on yourself.
Here are some very special books that I highly recommend:
(there are countless more)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Note the reviews on these books. And note that you can get them cheaper used.
Have faith. Good luck!
The book Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet by Dr. Gabriel Cousins focuses on this exact topic in great detail. It is an inspiring read on how to use nutrition to take you to higher levels of vibration.
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Nutrition-Rainbow-Gabriel-Cousens/dp/0961587520/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543552169&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=spiritual+nutrition+and+the+rainbow+diet
> It does matter if it's being sold as an effective treatment, because it isn't.
Except that the evidence seems to suggest that a placebo treatment is an effective treatment for many things. Why no one has jumped on this yet and started advertising a placebo pill, I don't know (hell, they could even use the filler pills used in the Pill - it's not like they'd need to start producing anything new). Maybe because of drug approval laws. Still, until someone does this, we need the alternative meds for their placebo effects.
Book recommendation for anyone interested in a not very sciencey look at the science.
well at least you are trying to be helpful.
But no, has nothing to do with tinfoil hats. Yes some of it is anecdotal (my personal experience and the experience of several other people I know who have had the same procedure and the same results...i.e. complete elimination of chronic migraines), but there is also a mountain of evidence out there to support those claims.........including a book written by a world renown dental surgeon:
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Body-Dentistry-Complete-Understanding-Impact/dp/0967844312
As well as several other dental surgeons speaking out on the subject......here is an example on Dr. Oz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2t53ytNa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7c_3-OWq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOrgMVfvFk