Cure

A Chinese herbal designed for modern English speaking audiences. This book covers the Chinese philosophy of balance and motion, Yin and Yang. It is organized by food group, with the medicinals alphabetized by common English name within each food group section. A very useful book for natural healing and practice.

I bought this book after a friend recommended it. The cures really do work. A friend of mine often gets headaches and he is immune to any type of medicine including OTC pain relievers. I gave him a remedy from this book and his headache was gone in 20 minutes! So far all of the cures we have tried worked. Unfortuneately some of the items required are either very difficult to find or non-existant in the US. We went into Chinatown in San Francisco looking for black sugar and all we received were very weird stares.

The good: this book has only 192 pages yet it has hundreds of food cures. it has chinese-medicine profiles of a large number of food items.the cures are really effective i have tried some my self. it has an effective cure for Hypoglycemia(low blood sugar) using an extremly common fruit everyday. I tried it with excellent results , I feel like superman!. it presents scientific experemints , citizen reports , medical knowledge , and personal experience and research.

Also: This book gives a valuable working knowledge of chinese food effects and cures which is a major part pf chinese medicine.
Food interaction is the first protocol of chinese medicine.So with this book you'll know a practical home based healing system with out needing to go to China or learn Chinese or going anyware because by just ordering this great book you'll learn alot of important info that will show its importance for a very long time in that you will constantly be referring to it.

Remark:generally speaking , practitioners of an alternative medicine practice are more knowledgable of natural cures than MDs who research the field.

The bad: of course this book cannot cover all known foods, you will find some common foods missing and this book has a large number of asian foods that arent common in some countries. some organization problems , sometimes the index does not show all possible cures , maybe there was a computer error in the printing , meaning that you might find a cure for a certain disease that wasen't listed under a food name.

The Bottom line: buy this book now , try its remedies before you go to a hospital.

Seamus Heaney is a fine poet, but with that said...

I just don't agree with awarding the Nobel Prize to an OK adaptation of mediocre play (look, even Shakespeare has some duds,) the message of which was put far more meaningfully and to a far broader audience in Star Trek II & III.

Re-read a great play like the Oedipus or check out Charles Mee's "Trojan Women: A Love Story" (available in his "History Plays",) or something by Brecht instead.

There's a reason they never taught you Philocetes in school- this is one should have stayed buried. Of value only for the specialist.

Sorry Seamus!

"The Cure at Troy," translated by Seamus Heaney offers a delightful translation of Sophocles' "Philoctetes." With a compelling tale from anchient times layed out before him, Heaney applies colloquial speach diction to the play. This accessability offers the audience a window into the basic moral struggle occuring at the heart of the work. A finly crafted story draws the reader to the characters. A worthwhile read.

Seamus Heaney pulls through again with his brilliant translation of Sophocles' Philoctetes. The tragic story of the forgotten hero, Philoctetes, provides a unique insight into the conflicts between personal moral beliefs and political calling. Odysseus persuades the heroic Neoptolemus into tricking the mamed Philoctetes into giving up the bow of Hercules. This act challenges the admired traits of the ancient world and draws into question the importance of personal beliefs. As each character represents a different aspect of the Greek world, a fight for beliefs - fidelity, pity, piety - endures. As for the translation itself, Heaney provides a beautiful interpretation of the story as seen in the words of the chorus:

History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.

This enriched translation strays slightly from the ancient text in order to enhance the understanding of the modern reader. Overall, this fast-moving play entices and enchants through a lyrical harmony like no other. Bravo, Seamus. Bravo.

This book was really good with all its twist and turns, but and of course their is a but. I like my books to end a certain way and this one did not so for that alone I gave it three stars. It just really made me madd. I bought this book but I returned it just for the reason I have stated. Disappointed reader.

A friend told me of this book and though I had doubts of spending that much money on a new author--I am glad I did. The book starts off with many characters which took a while to get to know, but the prose is poetic and picturesque and K.D. Knudsen does not shy away from depiction of the brutality of evil. The interracial love interest was very sensual and I could see some of the conflict in a relationship I had. The farther I got into the book, the harder it was to put down. The best part...I usually guess the endings...but I never could have in this book. I was stunned and WOWWED! I can't wait for his next work!

My girl friend made me read this book. I'm glad she did. This would be an awesome movie! Sex, violence, intrigue, and an ending I never saw coming!

Characters were so real and developed and felt like they were real people and the scenario just could be...

She thought it was romantic, but I thought of it as a suspense-thriller!

How to stop snoring: see your doctor, lose some weight, exercize, don't drink alcohol or caffeine in the evening. There. That's the book. Saved you [$$$] + P&H.

Buy this book if you snore--or if your bed partner snores. It will change the way you sleep and feel. Everyone over age 30 should read this--and prepare ahead of time for the "snoring years" at midlife. Excellent book and scientifically sound.

Superb book on how to stop snoring--and how to know if you may have OSA (sleep apnea). I bought this book because I was SICK AND TIRED of being TIRED all the time--my husband has snored for 9 years. For the first time--in a long time--he is NOT snoring and I'm sleeping 7 long hours without awakening!!! That's great! Buy this book--your sleep will thank you.

The Psalms are treasured in three world religions embracing millions of people all over the globe. For this reason, it's helpful to be alerted when a book purportedly about a Psalm pushes a limited, sectarian point of view.

"Cure" is such a book. The author (the back cover tells us) is a graduate of L.I.F.E. Bible College. A visit to the school's Web site shows its affiliation with a single denomination that emphasizes evangelical, revivalist, and Pentecostal themes. No surprises there -- the book reflects these themes. As a result, the book is not (though it badly wants to be) for everybody.

"Cure" goes heavy on the syrup and light on the insight. Unfortunately, Psalm 37 gets short shrift, its text used mainly as a hook to draw the reader into sentimental homilies, didactic anecdotes, and obligatory Jesus commercials. If this is what one wants, fine. But the title promises a Psalm.

The prose style affects simplicity but comes off as contrived. The reader is denied the genuine, conversational tone of an adult and given instead the limited vocabulary and short, choppy sentences of Dick and Jane. Here and there a simple rhetorical device -- a repeated phrase, a one-sentence paragraph -- will break the monotony in an attempt to trip the reader's sentimental wires.

The book's values are commendable enough. Pentecostal readers (especially the young, or those for whom English is a second language) should feel at home with it. But Jews, Muslims, and most Christians -- and anyone seriously exploring Psalm 37 -- will be better served elsewhere.

[AT & HRS]

I received this book as a gift from the author and had never read a Ron Mehl book before. I could not put this book down. It is easy to read and easy to understand. The examples provided are insightful and thought provoking. Whenever friends of mine are experiencing rough times I give them this book.

While reading this book you can hear the quiet Spirit of God which reaches into your soul with comfort and quietness.

Highly recommended!

I read this book and it really touched my heart. This is the kind of book you have no doubt that the author is Holy Spirit himself. Actually, Ron Mehl is one of the best evangelical writer I ever read.

If you would write a book about economics would you visit your local bank manager to get all the background information? Would you think that it is sufficient to read your way through some archives? Probably not.
But this is what Rocco does to malaria. Rocco visits her childhood doctor in Kenya and spends a lot of time in archives to write about quinine. This may well be the safest and perhaps also the most comfortable approach to find the material for a book. And it could work for any subject, pianos in Berlin or cheese in Italy. Unfortunately what emerges is not a contemporary picture of the treatment of malaria or the history of malaria treatment but a rather skewed view on a historic niche. How can you try to understand the past if you don't know the present? If you care about some historical particularities, which pope had what malaria problem, written in beautiful English this is your book.

This engaging account sketches the investigation and quest for a cure for the "mal 'aria" of Rome. "Mal 'aria" was once thought to emanate from the "bad air" of swamps and marshes. Rocco, herself a victim of this dread illness, narrates its impact from ancient times into the modern world. When the death of a pope brought 55 cardinals to Rome to replace Gregory XV, 10 of them had contracted malaria within two weeks. Those who survived returning to Sees in European nations spread further a malady already prevalent in many nations as distant as the British Isles and Scandinavia. Even as the papal successor, who was also prostrated with chills and fever, struggled to survive the infection, some of his minions were advocating a likely cure against great skepticism.

Jesuit missionaries in the New World discovered Native Americans using a powdered tree bark to treat fevers and "agues". Sending the powder back to Catholic Europe introduced the first therapy for malaria, probably just as these same interlopers were infesting the Western Hemisphere with the parasite. Cinchona powder, diluted in wine to cover its bitterness, verged on the miraculous. As Rocco describes its effect, she also recounts the resistance to the "Jesuit powder" in Protestant Europe, particularly Britain. Lack of enthusiasm, plus military ineptness, led to a malarial onslaught in 1808, when an English attempt to invade Napoleon's empire ended in disaster.

Empire, war and malaria remained in close company throughout the 19th Century. British incursions into west Africa were stalled by the infection. At one point the medical records indicated more cases of malaria than there were settlers - due to repeat hospital patients. Even against this severity, progress was being made. It's said "there's always one" and Rocco shows how one dedicated man made an immense difference. On a voyage up the Niger, Baikie imposed a strict daily regimen of quinine dosage. One of his crew was murdered and one drowned - but none were lost to malaria.

Returning to the Western Hemisphere, Rocco describes the inept handling of fevers by the in the American Civil War. Vicksburg, she asserts, failed to be taken due to the Union's lack of quinine for its troops investing the city. Even greater disaster awaited the French in their attempt to link the Atlantic and Pacific with a Panama Canal. Instead of treating the workers, the French merely hid the casualty list and hired replacements. Even as late as World War II, battlegrounds in the Pacific highlighted the need for plentiful supplies of quinine. By that time, however, some synthetics had been developed. Malaria, however, is neither easily diagnosed nor treated. Rocco notes that there are several versions of the illness, and many varieties of cinchona. Matching them takes skill.

At the end of the 19th Century, malaria had been identified as a parasite, not the effusion of swampy fumes. Rocco describes the labours of British Army doctor Ronald Ross, who laboured under appalling conditions in India. He traced the course of the parasite, in part by dissecting mosquitoes with a razor blade! This new understanding led to more directed treatment, and, ultimately, a Nobel Prize for Ross. Rocco's diagram of the life cycle of the parasite suggests the complexity of the problem of diagnosis and therapy.

Rocco concludes with a reminder that malaria identified is not malaria eliminated. It kills millions of children every year and prostrates whole communities. South American forests were denuded by exploiters seeking the bark. The synthetics developed proved a temporary solution since the parasite appears to have evolved resistance to them. Today's chief source of natural quinine is a threatened forest in war-torn central Africa. She describes the travails of a firm struggling to maintain supply. The picture would be encouraging if the firm obtained support from industrial nations. That hasn't been forthcoming.

Rocco's opening sentence, "My grandparents had been married for many years when they left Europe for Africa - although not to each other" sets the tone of this book. Her personalised narrative form skips the use of footnotes, but there are Notes on Sources and a Further Reading list. A collection of photos and maps adds reference. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

The most devastating disease to humans has undoubtedly been malaria. Fiammetta Rocco is qualified to write about the disease. She has had it herself, and her father had it many times. Her grandparents kept a farm in Africa, and while it can be expected that there were plenty of diseases to bother or kill, malaria was the most prevalent. The story of the battle against malaria has been told many times, but since it combines science, the conquest of nations, and religion, it will always prove inexhaustible. In _The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure that Changed the World_ (HarperCollins), Rocco has focused on the discovery, utilization, and culture of quinine, the drug that for centuries has brought some hope against the disease. That it has had to work for centuries, of course, means that the battle is far from won.

Perhaps the most malarious city in the world was Rome. It was said that the many marshes around the city provided "bad air" (how the disease gets its name), but of course they actually provided breeding grounds for the mosquitoes that spread it. When there was a convocation of cardinals, for the eventual election of Pope Urban VIII in 1623, there was a clash of politics, philosophies, and personalities, but the most worrisome aspect of the meeting was that one cardinal after another sickened and died. At just about that time cinchona bark started coming in. That it was a miracle cure is clear, and part of the wonder was that a constant scourge of Europe had a cure growing in dense forests in the mountains halfway around the world. Jesuit priests in missions in the Andes saw that natives used it to stop the shivers when exposed to dampness and cold, and when it was tried on malaria, not only did it work to ease the shivering, it took away the other symptoms of the disease. It became know as "Jesuit Powder," and Protestants protested against its use; it also seemed to contradict the humoral theory by which medicine was done at the time. Its efficacy meant that it would conquer such prejudices, but Rocco shows how in one world war after another, the medicine was not available to troops who needed it.

Malaria is still a killer, one person succumbing about every fifteen seconds. The pharmaceutical industry is generally uninterested in researching and producing medicines for tropical diseases, and the artificial substitutes for quinine have resulted in resistant strains. But surprisingly, the Jesuit Powder has barely sparked any resistance, and it still works. This detailed and fascinating book ends with the optimistic outlook for the company Pharmakina, based in the Congo, which is simply growing cinchona trees, harvesting the quinine, and selling it at affordable prices. Such an operation won't do for the big drug companies, but sensible profits from a reliable product represent good business. This is a reminder that for all the colorful and dramatic history of malaria and our efforts to treat it, the past is not as important as the future.

Perhaps I had expected too much. My wife is confined to a nursing home with a rare parkinson type disease and I was hoping this book might help.

Instead of helping, the knowledge from books read earlier made me notice the many errors in this book - caused, I believe, by trying to make the book more readable. It also made it less accurate.

There are few miracles - PS is not one of them. If it were it would be in universal use.

A much better book, in my estimation, is "Mind Boosters" by Ray Sahelian, M.D.

This book is packed with information about memory loss. I feel so much better now that I know how to reverse my memory loss.

This book is a good read. It lists many ways for people to improve their memory, and it discusses the impact that nutrition, health supplements and mental exercises have on our memory. The writers use language that is easily understood, even if you aren't a doctor.

I have had Fibromyalgia for over 10 years and am also a Christian. So naturally I was very interested in Dr. Colbert's book, "The Bible Cure For Chronic Fatigue And Fibromyalgia" which by its title, seemed to combine these two elements.

I found the information presented to be interesting. However, I do think the title of the book is a bit "misleading!" The majority of the recommendations in the book are based on healthy eating, supplemented with the more popular vitamins on the market today such as CoQ10, 5-HTP, and others- rather than giving the readers an actual "Biblical CURE or SOLUTION" as the title indicates for those suffering with FMS or CFIDS. I guess I thought Dr. Colbert had found a "scriptural basis for an overlooked formula" that actually CURES FMS and CFIDS as the title implies. If this is what you are looking for also, you will be very disappointed with this book.

If however, you enjoy books that help you verify and confirm your symptoms of FMS or CFIDS; discuss healthy diets and foods to eat; and provide suggested vitimins to take for better health - then this book will satisfy you.

THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN WITH GENTLENESS AND IN A SPIRIT OF TRUE CONCERN FOR THOSE OF US WHO SUFFER WITH CFS OR OTHER CHRONIC ILLNESSES. HELPED ME TO SET GOALS WITH GOD AS MY HELP TO FEELING BETTER AND FUNCTIONING MORE ENERGETICALLY IN MY DAILY DUTIES. A GREAT READ!

This book was a little confusing at first but as the book went on you rely got a understanding of what it whas like in the time of the Plage. I would recomend this book to any one who enjoys historicalfichion. The book would not be good for someone who does not like sad books.

For you harry potter fans out there this ones for you. Gemm 64482 is different. He loves music. Why is he different? Because he is living many millenia away from us. In this future society everyone is the same. Everyone must wear a mask and are not allowed to show their face to anyone not even their partner. Music is a crime in the future world and gemm loves it. Gemm is given two choices for his "specialness" he can either be recycled(killed) or he can take the Cure. This book was impossible to put down as Gemm goes back to the times of the bubonic plague. I recomend this book to people 11-100. This book was awsome.

Whatever other pearls of wisdom this book may have to offer, the sidebar on page 212 destroys the author's credibility. It reads, "Do You Have a Neck Problem? A Simple Test Can Tell You" -- then, courtesy of Howard Loomis, D.C., you are instructed to lie on your back on a table with your arms crossed on your chest, raise both legs simultaneously while keeping your knees straight, then lower both your legs. You may not have a neck problem as "diagnosed" by using this technique but CONGRATULATIONS! -- you now will have a lower back problem. Lita Lee, Ph.D., was definitely remiss in not "road testing" this one! I tried this and then found out it is literally a prescription for lower back strain. It cost me three days off work, a trip to the doctor's office, a prescription for an anti-inflammatory and a prescription for a muscle relaxant. Gee, thanks Lita! The only piece of information that would be even more valuable is where to find the nearest trash receptacle so I can do justice to the rest of your book.

I didn't really like the book. I've found it to be OK for novices who don't know what enzymes are and what they do. I wanted some practical information for a particular condition but didn't find it here. While I won't say "Don't read this book", I wouldn't recommend it to my friends if they wanted some practical information. Glancing over it in a book store is all one would need to grasp most of the information in the book.

This book is excellent, like all books printed by Burton Goldberg. There is about 100 times the health information in this book as in any other health book. By that I mean, you learn about many ways to address each disease discussed, not just by using enzymes.

Enzymes can be used to treat inflammation, TMJ, candidiasis, weight problems, headaches, hormonal imbalances, etc. There is virtually no condition which would not be improved by the use of enzymes.

The only thing I don't like about the book is the author's emphasis on one brand of enzymes. Readers would be better served to know which enzymes a person needs, not which formula from this brand in particular. I hate to criticize this book, as it is excellent, but this is the only weak point. Constantly referring to certain formulations that are only available by prescription seems to make enzymes unattainable to the average reader.

Enzymes are available at any health food store. Ask for anti-inflammatory enzymes, that's usually the only formula they carry, but they are enough to get you started.

For more precise info, the book to read is "The Healing Power of Enzymes" by DicQie Fuller, Ph.D. This book gives lists of symptoms that are likely to occur if you are deficient in a particular enzyme. You can diagnose yourself and work on getting the correct enzyme formula.

For example, people with high cholesterol often have a lipase (fat digesting) enzyme deficiency. Taking lipase supplements will enable you to reduce your cholesterol level quickly.

I definitely suggest you buy this book.