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Healthy Medicine: The Philosophy and Principles of Natural Medicine

There’s a worldwide move towards a new kind of medicine, a medicine which improves health, focusing on the underlying dysfunction in the body rather than treating the disease (usually with drugs). In Healthy Medicine medical doctor Bernard Brom explains the principles of this new medicine, based on his experience of more than 30 years researching and using non-drug ways to help his patients. It is the distillation of Dr Brom’s experience working with body, mind, and spirit to achieve optimal health.

The basic tenet is that the body has an innate drive to heal and repair itself. What we and our health practitioners need to do is support it to carry out that primary function. We do not need more drugs. Diet, lifestyle, stress management and key nutrients are essential to optimise our health and shift dysfunction in the body back to function so that our body’s innate intelligence can heal itself.

Healthy Medicine explains the simple principles which will guide you on your journey to health. It is not about techniques or remedies but rather about understanding why we get ill and our body moves towards disease and how to reverse this downward spiral..

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Healthy Medicine: The Philosophy and Principles of Natural Medicine

There’s a worldwide move towards a new kind of medicine, a medicine which improves health, focusing on the underlying dysfunction in the body rather than treating the disease (usually with drugs). In Healthy Medicine medical doctor Bernard Brom explains the principles of this new medicine, based on his experience of more than 30 years researching and using non-drug ways to help his patients. It is the distillation of Dr Brom’s experience working with body, mind, and spirit to achieve optimal health.

The basic tenet is that the body has an innate drive to heal and repair itself. What we and our health practitioners need to do is support it to carry out that primary function. We do not need more drugs. Diet, lifestyle, stress management and key nutrients are essential to optimise our health and shift dysfunction in the body back to function so that our body’s innate intelligence can heal itself.

Healthy Medicine explains the simple principles which will guide you on your journey to health. It is not about techniques or remedies but rather about understanding why we get ill and our body moves towards disease and how to reverse this downward spiral..

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Healthy Medicine: The Philosophy and Principles of Natural Medicine

Healthy Medicine: The Philosophy and Principles of Natural Medicine

by Nanditha Karthik
Healthy Medicine: The Philosophy and Principles of Natural Medicine

Healthy Medicine: The Philosophy and Principles of Natural Medicine

by Nanditha Karthik

Overview

There’s a worldwide move towards a new kind of medicine, a medicine which improves health, focusing on the underlying dysfunction in the body rather than treating the disease (usually with drugs). In Healthy Medicine medical doctor Bernard Brom explains the principles of this new medicine, based on his experience of more than 30 years researching and using non-drug ways to help his patients. It is the distillation of Dr Brom’s experience working with body, mind, and spirit to achieve optimal health.

The basic tenet is that the body has an innate drive to heal and repair itself. What we and our health practitioners need to do is support it to carry out that primary function. We do not need more drugs. Diet, lifestyle, stress management and key nutrients are essential to optimise our health and shift dysfunction in the body back to function so that our body’s innate intelligence can heal itself.

Healthy Medicine explains the simple principles which will guide you on your journey to health. It is not about techniques or remedies but rather about understanding why we get ill and our body moves towards disease and how to reverse this downward spiral..

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781920535926
Publisher: Kima Global Publishers
Publication date: 07/31/2017
Pages: 356
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Bernard Brom qualified as a medical doctor in 1965. While specialising in gastroenterology he became dissatisfied with medicine and his lifestyle and in 1971 gave up medicine and travelled around the world in a VW kombi for almost 6 years.
He returned to South Africa and started an integrative medical practice. He very soon specialised in the non-drug treatment of ill-health, and after studying Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), herbal medicine and homeopathy realised that conventional medicine's focus on disease had moved doctors away from lifestyle management and how to support health.
Instead of focusing on TCM and alternative therapies he immersed himself in exploring how a person becomes ill and how to support the person back to previous health. This did not require breaking away from the conventional medical model, but rather shifting the focus away from the disease model and the use of dangerous drugs towards lifestyle medicine and supporting health medicine. His approach was that while treating the disease and symptomatic approaches using drugs had their place, it needed to be within a model of medicine that was much more supportive to health improvement.
Dr Brom was chairman of the South African Acupuncture Medical Association and the founder and chairman of the South African Society of Integrative Medicine (SASIM). He was also one of the founders and the first Chairman of the Traditional and Natural Health Alliance, an organisation working towards a balanced and appropriate regulatory process for natural products.
He has also written extensively on integrative medicine, both in medical journals and in his monthly newsletters. He founded the Complementary Medicine Journal in 1996 which became the Journal of Natural Medicine in 2000.
His non-medical interests include walking in nature, growing organic vegetables, deep discussion on the meaning of life and his own inner spiritual journey.

Table of Contents

Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 1: What is Natural Medicine? . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 2: History of Natural Medicine. . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 3: History of Modern Medicine . . . . . . . . . 34

Chapter 4: What is Scientific Medicine? . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 5: Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Chapter 6: Experience vs Experiment . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter 7: Two Medicines, Two Systems . . . . . . . . . 81

Chapter 8: Properties of Biological Systems. . . . . . . . 92

Chapter 9: The Causes of Ill Health. . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 10: The Toxic Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Chapter 11: The Meaning of Illness. . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Chapter 12: Health and Harmony . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter 13: The Human Anatomy Revisited . . . . . . 162

Chapter 14: The Healing Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Chapter 15: Spontaneous Remissions . . . . . . . . . . 207

Chapter 16: Drugs vs Natural Products . . . . . . . . . 219

Chapter 17: Dealing with Stress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Chapter 18: The Placebo Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Chapter 19: Lifestyle Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Chapter 20: Principles of Disease Management. . . . . 273

Chapter 21: Do we need God for Healing? . . . . . . . 300

Chapter 22: The New Medicine Emerging. . . . . . . . 313

Chapter 23: My Personal Journey. . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

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