Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine: The New Approach to Using the Best of Natural Therapies and Conventional Medicine

By Mayo Clinic

Book Overview

This volume is a guide to understanding what works and what doesn't in the world of complementary and alternative medicine, and how to put this information to use in your everyday life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933405929
• ISBN13: 9781933405926
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.4" x 0.8" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Mayo Clinic - Alternative Medicine

Great Book - written by some of the best Doctors in the world not by an internet scammer. Nothing for sale just a lot of good advice.

Informative and Easy to Read

I found this book to be full of interesting information on the various alternative medicines and natural therapies. It quotes studies for each item and rates its efficacy on a scale of one to three - red light - don't take it, yellow light - won't hurt and green light - proven to work. It also quotes the pertinent studies to support its recommendations. I was disappointed that there wasn't a section on bio-identical hormone therapy. It wasn't even mentioned which I felt was a large oversight, thus the four star rating. Good to have around as a reference guide.

It is never wise to completely shun a proven method, and it's never wise to shun all alternatives

It is never wise to completely shun a proven method, and it's never wise to shun all alternatives as well. "Book of Alternative Medicine: The New Approach to Using The Best of Natural Therapies and Conventional Medicine" is a scholarly written and researched guidebook to alternative medicine, combining natural therapies and the conventional wisdom of modern science to find solutions when the common method fails alone. A seminal piece that should be read by all who want to keep their health up to snuff, "Book of Alternative Medicine: The New Approach to Using The Best of Natural Therapies and Conventional Medicine" is highly recommended for community library medicine collections.

Plain talk

Mayo Clinic book on alternative medicine should be on everyones book shelf. It contains down to earth information about many simple procedures for good health.