The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing Gary Null

The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing offers quick and relevant insights for your health. I truly enjoy this book for its straight forward details and users-friendly nature. Dr. Null writes with a simple elegance which makes the information easy to understand and even easier to apply. Easier does not mean simply. I find that practically every sentence offers some important insights into the subject; this is not a small feat considering the fact that the "Complete Encyclopedia" is over 600 pages. I'd read other reviews knocking this book for its lack of scientific references, but there are more than enough notable references. Honestly, do you really want to read 5,000 scientific citations every time someone says that vitamin C or ginseng works? If you really do, then I suggest you read Dr. Gary Null's "Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing," which offers 870 pages of scientific peer review studies. Growing up in an Asian household, I can not tell you how much astragalus, wolfberry and other Chinese herbs I ate not as herbal remedies but as a part of a regular diet. I have also added daily supplements of numerous vitamins to my diet for the better part of my life. If I have a bias for the alternative supplements mentioned in Dr. Null's book, it is formed through years of personal experiences. My wife and I use the remedies mentioned in the "Complete Encyclopedia" quite often, because information is quickly available and comprehensively revealed. Furthermore, Dr. Null's reputation as one of the primary authority on dietary supplements is unequivocal considering the outstanding history he has as a pioneer of the industry. His "Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing" is a wonderful complementary journal that read with a coffee table friendliness.

The indefatigable Dr. Gary Null has truly outdone himself with The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Revised and Updated ISBN #:0-7582-1316-6). I very much enjoyed the original Encyclopedia, but Dr. Null has redone the entire book, making it much more "user friendly." Parts of it actually read like a novel. Not only has he included many more references to scientific studies, but he has also incorporated studies from this year, 2005-this is an indication of how hard he must have worked to include up-to-the-date information. For example, it was just this year that cancer replaced heart disease as the number one killer of Americans. Out of curiosity, I perused the book to see whether it noted this. It did! To me, this is an indication of how much of his considerable talent and experience were put into this project. However, Encyclopedia's greatest asset is in how it presents scientific jargon in a language that the layperson can easily digest. After buying the book, I visited my mother for dinner. The next day, after realizing I had left the book at her house, I called her to ask if she'd seen the book. Not only had she seen it, but she had even read several chapters and wanted a copy for herself! In my opinion, of the 30 or so Dr. Null books that I have read, this is the best, and is in a category all by itself.

The book is excellent overall. The author's presentation isdrawn considerably from his own experience in formulating andimplementing these protocols. Some of the protocols may beseen in various journals of the Lancet or in studies doneoverseas. Dr. Null emphasizes the need for a patient to"listen to the body" as a condition precedent to a successfulhealing experience. That is, repeating harmful behaviorsonly impedes the healing process. The key to a successfulhealing experience is a careful monitoring and control overbehaviors which are at the heart of the disease process.Dr. Null's extensive knowledge of bio-chemistry is evidentfrom the discussion and implementation of a number of therecommended protocols. To gain a better perspective on thegeneral area of alternative medicine, it might be helpful toutilize this work in conjunction with the Alternative Medicinework by Burton Goldberg. In addition, Dr. Null gives frequentlectures on radio . It would be helpful to listen to thesepresentations in order to obtain foundational material onthe peer-reviewed journals which cite the natural healingmethodologies and the supportive statistical data.Burton Goldberg's work on Alternative Medicine citeshundreds of alternative medicine practitioners and anequal number of research sources in peer-reviewed journals.

My asthma has entirely improved. I run everyday and my energy level is soaring. I believe everyone should have a copy of this book in their home. Throw away the medicine in the medicine cabinet and fill it with natures healing sources! Thank you Mr. Null.Michael

This book was written for the layperson but written by an Expert. Gary Null gets down to the root of the problem and tells you what to do for your problem. An important thing that he talks about doing for almost every symptom is to exercise and to destress which is very important instead of just taking vitamins. The book also includes a section on magnet therapy and biofeedback.