The Nature of Animal Healing

Zusatztext "POSITIVE! COMPASSIONATE . . . VIVID AND ENGROSSING . . . This is a life-affirming book that should interest any pet owner." --Publishers Weekly "A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR EVERY ASPECT OF HOLISTIC MEDICINE." --Cat Fancy Informationen zum Autor Martin Goldstein, D.V.M. Klappentext A pioneering revolutionary prescription for the health and long life of your pets For two decades, Dr. Martin Goldstein-America's most successful, renowned holistic veterinarian-has healed and helped his animal patients with the same natural therapies that benefit humans. The results have been so astounding that today critically sick pets are brought to him from across the country for a new chance at life and health. In this compelling, very accessible book, Dr. Goldstein explains exactly what holistic medicine is and how it works. By treating the root of a health problem instead of its symptoms, you too can help your animal to regain and maintain its own health, as nature intended. Dr. Goldstein also shares many remarkable true stories of supposedly terminally ill animals who have recovered to full wellness. Inside you'll discover • Why our animals get sick, even when we strive to give them the best of care • An exhaustive A to Z guide of pet ailments-and the best course of action • Why vaccines can do more harm than good • The link between diet and disease-and how the right diet can not only prevent disease but reverse it • How acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, and other alternative options work--safely and painlessly--to restore true health • Specific guidance for the use of herbs, supplements, and natural remedies • The good news (and the bad) about cancer in animals--including extraordinary new treatments and potential cures • Coping with the inevitable death of your pet--both physically and psychologically • And much, much more Plus-the ultimate resource for holistic pet care: an extensive guide to holistic product manufacturers and stores, books, newsletters, Web sites, veterinarians, and associations! Leseprobe If animals could talk, here's what they'd say.        For starters, about that food. Why, they'd ask, do you give me the same boring pet chow day after day? You don't have that kind of diet. You have different foods for every meal--and the foods you eat are real ! Why wouldn't we want real food, too? Don't we have the same bodily needs? As it is, the dry kibble is boring, the canned food is gross, and neither kind seems to impart much nutrition. How, they'd ask, can a pet expect to feel peppy--never mind healthy--on that? Perhaps, they'd add, having thought long and hard on the subject, there's some connection between poor food and poor health. Certainly you take us to the vet more than ever before. Yet why, they'd ask, do visits to the clinic often leave us feeling worse in the long run? We come in with a skin inflammation, we're given a steroid; for a while we feel better, but then the effect fades. We go back with a fever, get an antibiotic; the fever goes down, but something else comes up. We get vaccines--five, six, seven ingredients at a time--meant to protect us against disease, yet days or even months later we feel sluggish and sick. Just as we're finally shaking off the ill effects, back we go to the vet for more. And if all that conventional medicine is supposed to keep us well, they'd ask, why are so many animals getting seriously sick? Why, in particular, is there so much cancer? Why are so many dying before their time? Pets don't talk to me either, but they don't need to. I see the results of bad diet and misguided conventional medicine every day. Admittedly, my clinic is somewhat different from the standard veterinary hospital. Like the doctors on ER, we take more than our share of desperate cases--basket cases, as some of my colleagues in th...

Product details

• Authors: Martin Goldstein, Martin Dvm Goldstein
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2000
• EAN: 9780345439192
• ISBN: 978-0-345-43919-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 206 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Guides > Nature