Natural Energy: A Consumer's Guide to Legal, Mind-Altering and Mood-Brightening Herbs and Supple Ments

by Mark Mayell

A former editor of "Natural Health" has written the definitive, authoritative, responsible, and comprehensive answer to the confusing array of herbal supplements now available. The information is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517888122
• ISBN13: 9780517888124
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Great Resource for Substance Use (Drug & Alcohol) Clinicians

Mayell's "Natural Energy" is a normalizing, de-pathologizing discussion of human desire to experiment with its consciousness and a methodical, encyclopedic review of legal, socially-sanctioned mind-altering and mood-brightening herbs and supplements. As such, the book is a wonderful resource for any substance use/drugy and alcohol providers interested in designing "natural highs" clinical curricula for clients struggling to find psychologically healthy over-the-counter self-medicating options. Let's face it: there will be people who don't like to go to doctors. Whether we call them "resistent," or Stoic, they have and will self-medicate. For some users (or, shall we say, "chemical copers"), drinking and boozing is self-psychiatry. Mayell offers a no-nonsense guide to this kind of herbal/supplemental self-management. In my work with substance use population (in the correctional setting), I found this tome to be of great value (along with Weil's and Rosen's "Chocolate to Morphine") in designing a "natural highs" treatment curriculum for offering clients an exploration of non-addictive self-medication alternatives. Perhaps, more valuable than the specific herbal prescriptions, is Mayell's thesis: non-addictive responsible self-medication is a possibility. Pavel Somov, Ph.D. Author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, Nov. 2008), "Recovery Equation: Motivational Enhancement/Choice Awareness/Use Prevention: an Innovative Clinical Curriculum for Substance Use Treatment" www.drsomov.com www.eatingthemoment.com