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by John W. Anderson (Editor), Larry Trivieri (Editor), Burton Goldberg (Introduction)
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The "Bible" of Alternative Medicine

Learn the health secrets that millions of readers have discovered in the book that is revolutionizing health care in the United States. Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide is packed with lifesaving information and alternative treatments from 400 of the world's leading alternative physicians.

Our contributors (M.D.s, Ph.D.s, Naturopaths, Doctors of Oriental Medicine, and Osteopaths) offer the safest, most affordable, and most effective remedies for over 200 serious health conditions, from cancer to obesity, heart disease to PMS. This guide is easy enough to understand to make it perfect for home reference, while it would also make a fine resource for health care providers interested in learning more about alternative medicine.


   • 70% of Americans currently use some form of alternative medicine
   • This 1,136-page encyclopedia puts all the schools of alternative medicine-50 different therapies-under one roof
   • Highlights dozens of actual patient stories and physician treatments.
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"Weighty yet incredibly useful reference for anyone who wants to learn more about alternative medicine therapies." - Cooking Light

"This book could save your life." -Julian Whitaker, M.D.

"If you are interested in alternative medicine of any kind, and want the security of authenticity in this field, you'¬?d better get Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide." -Deepak Chopra, M.D.

"In bookstores nationwide, titles on holistic cures by such authors as Andrew Weil, Dr. Dean Ornish and Christiane Northrop have been selling out for some time. Still, it may come as a surprise that one of the bestsellers in the field has no famous name attached: it's an 1,100-page reference book entitled Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide." -Publishers Weekly

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For more than 14 years, Alternative Medicine magazine has been the trusted voice of the complementary and alternative medicine field. Alternative Medicine guides and inspires its readers to make informed decisions about their health and well-being in every facet of their lives. Its editorial content, backed by the strength and credibility of the research in peer-reviewed practitioner journals, emphasizes practical solutions and gives readers the information they need to better care for themselves.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1587611414
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Celestial Arts; 2nd Updated edition (June 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1233 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781587611414
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1587611414
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 2.25 x 11.25 inches
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    Larry Trivieri Jr is a bestselling author and nationally recognized lay authority on holistic, integrative, and non-drug-based healing methods, with more than 30 years of personal experience in exploring techniques for optimal wellness and human transformation. During that time, Trivieri has interviewed and studied with over 400 of the world's top physicians and other health practitioners in over 50 disciplines in the holistic health field.

    Trivieri is the author or co-author of 20 books on health, including Outstanding Health: The 6 Essential Keys To Maximize Your Energy and Well Being - How To Stay Young, Healthy and Sexy For The Rest Of Your Life, The Acid-Alkaline Lifestyle, The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide, Juice Alive, The American Holistic Medical Association Guide to Holistic Health, The Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine, and Health On The Edge: Visionary Views of Healing in the New Millennium. He also served as editor and principal writer of both editions of the landmark health encyclopedia, Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, and has written over 200 articles for Internet-based health sites, including 1HealthyWorld.com and IntegrativeHealthReview.com. He has also written numerous feature articles for a variety of publications, including Alternative Medicine, for which he also served as contributing editor from 1999 through 2002; Natural Health, Natural Solutions, and Yoga Journal. He has also been written about in a number of national publications, including The Washington Post.

    Trivieri is dedicated to sharing the wealth of potentially life-saving information he has learned about with as wide an audience as possible in order to help usher in a new era of wellness and health care in the 21st century. To that end, he also lectures about health nationwide, and has been a featured guest on numerous TV and radio shows across the United States.

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    John W. Anderson is a writer and editor who lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with his two cats. He currently works for an edtech company, developing educational materials for Advanced Placement high school courses. His interests include jazz, film, politics, and health and wellness. He was the co-editor of "Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide" 2nd edition (Celestial Arts, 2002) and has edited over thirty-five books on health, diet, and exercise. "How to Work with a Dragon" is his first book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Loads of information
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Got this used like new. Well worth price. Very large book with some much important information. Get on and you will be happy.
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Dr. Tim
5.0 out of 5 stars PATIENT BEWARE!!
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one half of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class. that is a statistical FACT. if you don't want to be the next victim of an incompetent and uncaring doctor, you NEED to get this book.

if anyone doesn't believe that the AMA, the FDA and all other gov't agencies are simply strong-arm goons to enforce the corporate profit agenda of big pharma and big agra, they should go to naturalnews.com to read about the para-military swat teams that just descended on several farms in armored vehicles, stole money, destroyed inventory and smashed equipment, terrorized workers and customers, and arrested the owners, all because they were selling unpasteurized fresh milk to people who WANTED unpasteurized fresh milk. OMG, i don't know about you, but i can sure sleep better knowing i'm being protected from terrorist farmers and their insidious roadside fresh milk bombs. YIKES!

doctors have a government (police-state) enforced monopoly on health care. is it really so unreasonable to think that the same government (allegedly of the people, by the people, and FOR the PEOPLE) should set limits on the fees and profits of doctors/hospitals/drug companies? the FIRST argument that you will hear if you voice this idea is that qualified people won't go into medicine and won't become doctors if the government restricts the profit motive. that is equivalent to saying that the best predictor of whether someone will be a great healer is their level of greed. nothing could be more ludicrous. in fact, the only sensible opinion is exactly the opposite, ie, if we remove greed as a motivating factor (and the total lack of conscience that so frequently accompanies it), the only people that will want to become doctors are those that genuinely want to help their fellow humans. won't THOSE people actually become the most qualified doctors of all? i think yes. nurses are paid far less than doctors, yet there is no shortage of nursing students. and the answer to the high cost of medical school is for the government to pay the cost for any QUALIFIED applicant, in exchange for 4 years of practice wherever the gov't assigns them, thus bringing qualified doctors to underserved areas.

concommitantly, all medical research should be conducted by independent scientists (academics) who are NOT employed by OR funded by big pharma, with the research all funded by the gov't. the benefits are twofold. first, we would get CURES instead of treatments. very recently, a vice-president of Glaxo had the audacity to blatantly state on MSNBC that their goal was to make cancer a "manageable condition," which is just double-talk for saying that they DON'T WANT to cure you, they want to make you an addict, hooked for the rest of your life on their outrageously overpriced patented dope, which only relieves the symptoms WITHOUT EVER curing the underlying condition. this is their stated goal, not just for cancer, but for ALL diseases and conditions. and not only Glaxo, but ALL of big pharma. stop and think like a big pharma CEO for just one minute, and you will realize this is the only paradigm that makes business sense. and not only are cures NOT researched, anyone outside the big pharma establishment who DOES find a cure is persecuted mercilessly. there are hundreds of historical examples for any doubters who care to learn the truth. second, when new cures or even new treatments are discovered, they will not be the "intellectual property" of a soulless corporation that will exploit them for the maximum profit, they will belong to EVERYONE, and drug manufacturors would be forced (by free-market competition) to sell them at a REASONABLE mark-up over actual cost of production, which is generally no more than a few cents per pill. in other words, all drugs would be available in low-cost generic form from the first day that they are approved.

and finally, we must have a national health insurance program that puts an end to rich corporations PROFITING from the misfortune and suffering of others. medicare and medicaid currently provide healthcare more efficiently to those who qualify (a greater percent of each healthcare dollar goes directly to healthcare costs) compared to patients covered by the private insurance industry. but there must be big changes to the existing gov't plans; - specifically patients should bear the burden of filling out and submitting the paperwork to claim benefits for treatment, while providers would be PROHIBITED from billing the gov't directly, because this is the ONLY cost-effective way to police the system for fraud, which is currently rampant and taking a huge bite out of every healthcare dollar. at the same time, patients MUST have the FREEDOM to choose WHATEVER form of treatment they wish, and to receive it from whomever they wish, and NOT be limited by the AMA or FDA. it is the PATIENT'S well-being or very life that is on the line, and ultimately it is the PATIENT (taxpayer) who is paying for the treatment, so how can anyone justify denying treatment or payment because the therapy is not "approved" by big business or big gov't? my life; my money paying for it; MY CHOICE!

the end result of these changes, taken together, would be that the real cost of health care for everyone would plummet to a fraction of the present corporate controlled and taxpayer subsidized abomination, while the quality of the healthcare dispensed and the proportion of people receiving it would substantially increase at the same time.

that's MY 2¢.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Being the definitive medicine book by also including the alternative advises.
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Beside to this book, I at the same time, half a year ago, also bought a copy of the "Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Heath Professions". But while the Mosby's is mostly a lexicon explaining what's hiding in the actual words, and besides is showing to where the authorities now have reached, and are accepting, when it come to medicine. Opposite to this the "Alternative Medicine" besides also brings many further advices telling much of all of the known alternative medical methods which also now a days are being used for solving the actual medical problems.

And in this book, based on the knowledge and experience from more than 400 persons, M.D. and Ph.D., we in many cases are told the names of doctors who have come with the actual advise. And in most of the cases we as proposals are getting a lot of different possibilities.

My reason for buying this book is that through out history we again and again have seen how authorities for years have waited to start on using healing methods which persons have shown to be better than what until then had been used and thought. So therefore to be up to date much knowledge we will be missing if we only are owing books like the Mosby's.

Looking back on history we for example 350 years ago had an English captain who on his ship always gave fruit to the seamen, and after having been around on all of the oceans returned home to England with all of his sailors still being alive, opposite to the normal only being 50 %. And then around 200 later a person in the English navy proved how necessary it was to get fruit while being out on the oceans, not yet knowing the C vitamin. But after this it took more than 40 years before the English navy started giving fruits. And for example we still are remembering that when Linus Pauling 40 years ago started talking about how much C vitamin helps for many things, how the medical firms then opposite to this even were telling us that we might die if we got too much C vitamin! Or how for example, at nearly the same time, Kilmer S. McCully, M.D., after some years were fired from Harvard Medical School, because having discovered the potential importance in Homocysteine, and thereby disproved much on what earlier had been "proved" by some colleges, and what was internationally thought.

So for being up to date, and thereby having the possibility for getting the best doctor advises, or maybe controlling what being told from doctors, we need to read in books like "Alternative Medicine. The Definitive Guide".
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TRACIE L HOPE
4.0 out of 5 stars Alternative medicine, The Definitive Guide
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I purchased this book for one of the courses I am taking to become a Holistic Health Practitioner, but the book is huge. I also ordered the kindle version to make it more portable. The book is full of useful information, I can already see that it will be something I will refer to often in the future.
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Zack
5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource
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This book is a great place to start if you are looking to expand your knowledge of healing practices. It explains various types of medical practices and gives you examples of their application for many common ailments. It's best used as a reference to find therapies that work for you. It is not a diagnostic tool but if you know what's wrong you may find some great tips in this book.
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M Live
5.0 out of 5 stars 2nd Edition is Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2011
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I had the first edition of Alternative Medicine and felt it was great. But, too often recommended supplements did not give doses. As newer therapies and research developed, it became a bit behind the times. The second edition is outstanding and I see that supplements usually have recommended amounts. I love the additional therapies. There is so much information it takes time to put it all together but is surely worth that effort. The Internet is a great source of info but you never know who is a crackpot out to make money. The editors of Alternative Medicine have done their homework. They present a wide range of information to choose from but it appears to me that they have left out the crackpots. It is a solid resource of information that I can assimilate along with allopathic recommendations from my M.D. I give it five stars!
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Ella Vacca
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books, to own!!!
Reviewed in Canada on May 28, 2019
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Fantastic bible! This book is pretty much all you need to keep healthy in todays polluted world.
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Sanjay
5.0 out of 5 stars Gem books for sure
Reviewed in India on May 6, 2019
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Truely an awesome book and when Deepak Chopra endorses the book then the book doesnot need further comments.Just go for it.It has amazing alternative thearapies.
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Paul Rohe
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book.
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This is a bloody big book but worth the money. Don't be put off by any negative reviews, this stuff works, I have seen it work in myself & others and so have hundreds of thousands of others, who cares if allopaths don't know how homeopathy works say, if it works it works, thousands of years of clinical evidence should be enough for everyone IMHO, I would add that the contact numbers and address are all American, would love to see a UK version, other than that, info you want a general introduction to about almost all Natural (original & authentic) Medicine, then get this book, don't be put off by any die hard positivist reviewers, they would deny the truth if it slapped them in the face.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book is good delievery very good
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They delivered on time as expected all good thank you
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