Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine

It's become clear to many of us that we need to take the initiative in learning how to approach our well-being from a perspective that doesn't rely solely on current medical systems. In RADICAL HEALING, Dr. Ballentine offers a new vision of health care and well-being - one that integrates the holistic healing traditions of ayurveda, homoeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other herbal medicinal traditions. He explains and emphasises the importance of understanding and maintaining the connection between the healing and spiritual aspects of these traditions. Only by maintaining this connection can mind, body and spirit be healed. The decade that has elapsed since the first edition has allowed ample time for the emergence of new health care needs and trends that support the central theme of Radical Healing. Like Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra, Dr. Ballentine is a pioneer of the holistic health movement. Drawing on more than forty years of medical practice and research, Dr. Ballentine presents a practical and comprehensive system of health care that anyone can embrace. Extensive self-help guides, tutorials and body maps help the reader access and customise alternative remedies for 100 of the most common ailments.

"Radical Healing is a stunning achievement. By integrating the major healing and wisdom traditions, Dr. Ballentine extends the horizons of our understanding of health, enabling us to achieve levels of well-being we might never have imagined. This book will be an instant classic." --Deepak Chopra, M.D., January 1, 1999

"Radical Healing presents a wonderful blend of the world's most dynamic healing methods spiced with many practical keys for their personal application." --David Frawley, M.D., January 1, 1999

"Radical Healing is a masterpiece. Rudolph Ballentine has given us a passionate, inspiring, profoundly insightful, and completely usable resource through which we can understand and appreciate the power in the classic healing traditions. The information in this book is priceless, and I love his stories of healings. Radical Healing will help you heal, too." --Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit, January 1, 1999

"Dr. Ballentine's original, vitally important guide for working with your emotions and your body is radical in its simplicity, clarity, and effectiveness. His book empowers you to become a partner in your own healing." --Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., author of Awakening Intuition, January 1, 1999

Why purchase the second edition?

A new preface geared toward alternative medicine's growing audience Further insight into the spiritual core of the major holistic healing traditions A revised and expanded Self-Help Index for the prevention and treatment of more than 100 common ailments, disorders, and illnesses An up-to-date reference list to guide further study A General Index that now includes the Self-Help Index and Resources chapters

In this timely second edition of Radical Healing, Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., presents a new vision of health care and well-being--one that integrates the holistic healing traditions of Ayurveda, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and other herbal medicinal traditions. He shows how they overlap and differ. When these great traditional healing systems are practiced together, healing is accelerated and deepened--physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The result is transformation. The result is radical healing.

Replete with inspiring case studies and an extensive resource section, this book includes a Self-Help Index for the prevention and treatment of more than 100 common ailments, disorders, and illnesses.

Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., is a pioneer of the holistic health movement. Drawing on more than 40 years of study, medical practice, and research, Dr. Ballentine presents a comprehensive, practical system of dynamic healing. Our ultimate objective is to expand our self-awareness on all levels, and guides us toward our ultimate objective--a restoration of wholeness. The result is transformation. The result is radical healing.

Rudolph M. Ballentine received his degree from Duke University specialising in psychiatry. For 25 years he directed the Center for Holistic Medicine where treatment integrated homoeopathy, ayurveda, yoga, movement, meditation and psychotherapy. The author of several books, including the classic best-sellers Diet and Nutrition and Transition to Vegetarianism, he is now retired and living in the Carolinas.