Dr. Kidd's Guide to Herbal Dog Care
Author: Randy Kidd
Natural and alternative methods of health care have become increasingly popular in recent years because they can benefit anyone, even pets!
Dr. Randy Kidd, a holistic veterinarian and herbalist, explains how herbs can be used as a practical, safe, and efficacious part of dogcare. This guide to complete herbal care for dogs includes simple introductions to holistic dog care, how herbs work, dosage and potency, and methods for delivering herbs into a dog's system. Herbal Dog Care includes chapters on common ailments and how to address each of them herbally. Kidd covers preventive care, approaches for age-related problems, and the treatment of chronic conditions -- from calming a nervous animal to getting rid of parasites, addressing urinary tract conditions to strengthening the teeth.
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Speak the Language of Healing: A New Approach to Breast Cancer
Author: Susan Kuner
Drawn together by their dismay over the medical establishment's approach to the healing process, four women offer a new way of viewing the five stages of illness using a language of relationship, spirit and integration.
Publishers Weekly
Rejecting the pervasive medical view of cancer treatment as a "war" against illness, four women with breast cancer offer holistic perspectives on the processes of treatment, healing and renewal. Drawing on their diverse spiritual backgrounds (Orsborn is Jewish and a student of Eastern philosophy; Kuner studied with a Sufi teacher; Quigley has undergone 12-Step programs; and Stroup is a Christian minister), the authors have crafted a framework that allows women to view their cancer as part of an encounter with their deepest selves. They postulate five stages through which "initiates" travel on the journey from fear to acceptance: impact, chaos, choices, community and spirit. As each author relates her experiences--such as confronting fears of death, pain and isolation, choosing between mainstream and alternative therapies and enduring the loss of hair, self-esteem, friends and, in once case a fianc --she suggests ways to counter the prevailing view of doctors and patients that patients who "fight back" stand the greatest chance of being healed, that survivors are "winners" and those who die have lost their "battles." Readers at any stage of breast cancer treatment will likely take comfort from the authors' spiritual emphasis. Agent, Linda Roghaar. (Oct.) FYI: A portion of the proceeds from the books sold will go to breast cancer research. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
Four friends diagnosed with breast cancer believe that the language of spiritual growth is more a complement to their lives than that of the battleground, the traditional words used when discussing cancer. Kuner is a meditation teacher and Sufi student; author Carol Matzkin Orsborn (Return from Exile: One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism) is Jewish; Linda Quigley is a journalist and follower of the 12-step path; and Rev. Dr. Karen Leigh Stroup is a Christian minister. The multivoiced reading by four professional narrators doesn't mince words about diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, recurrence, and death. Breaking down the cancer journey into five sections--impact, chaos, choices, community, and spirit--the authors wish to increase their connection to God (often referred to as She) through deepening humility. Women should "find their own path through illness as a spiritual initiation rather than a war." Their words and spirits will bolster any woman coming to the same crossroad in her life. Highly recommended.--Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal" Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Table of Contents:
| Speak the Language of Healing | |
| Preface by Dr. Joycelyn Elders | ix |
| Foreword by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D | xi |
| How This Book Came to Be | 1 |
| How to Have Cancer Without Going to War | 5 |
| How to Speak the Language of Healing | 15 |
| A Pathway to Spirit | 16 |
| The Five Stages of Transformation | |
| The Stage of Impact | 21 |
| ONE Did I Create This? | 23 |
| The Stage of Chaos | 43 |
| TWO Does Death Mean I Lose? | 45 |
| THREE Does God Get to Vote? | 61 |
| The Stage of Choices | 75 |
| FOUR Is Treatment War or Initiation? | 77 |
| FIVE Do I Hold On or Let Go? | 95 |
| SIX Do I Trust the Medical Establishment or Do I Put | |
| My Faith in Alternative and Spiritual Healing? | 107 |
| The Stage of Community | 125 |
| SEVEN From Whom Must I Learn to Receive? FromWhom | |
| Must I Learn to Protect Myself? | 127 |
| The Stage of Spirit | 147 |
| EIGHT How Can I Find Peace of Mind When I'm Living | |
| My Life over the Edge? | 149 |
| NINE What Have ILearned? | 165 |
| Afterword | 185 |
| Resources | 191 |
| Group Study Guide | 197 |
| Acknowledgments | 211 |
| Index | 215 |
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