This Hardcover book is in excellent conditon. 612 pages. Book Overview This extraordinary book offers nothing less than a new vision of medical care. Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., has created a unique, integrative blending of the primary holistic schools of healing that is far more potent than any one of these alone. Like Deepak Chopra and Andrew Weil, Rudolph Ballentine is a medical doctor who became intrigued by the workings of mind-body medicine and looked beyond the West in his search for understanding. Drawing on thirty years of medical study and practice, Dr. Ballentine has accomplished a singular feat: integrating the wisdom of the great traditional healing systems--especially Ayurveda, homeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, European and Native American herbology, nutrition, psychotherapy, and bodywork. Melded together, the profound principles buried in these systems become clearer and stronger, and a new level of effectiveness becomes possible. Healing and reorganization are accelerated and deepened--physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The result is transformation. The result is radical healing. Radical Healing harnesses nature's medicinals--plants and other natural substances--with commonsense essentials such as diet, exercise, and cleansing, as well as the most profound principles of spiritual and psychological transformation. In Dr. Ballentine's synthesis, illness is an opportunity for growth that can go far beyond recovery. Through radical healing old habits and attitudes that supported the development of disease fall away, to be replaced by the clarity that comes with a whole new way of being in the world. Here is a couple of paragraphs that are inside of this book........... In many ways the medical scene today is reminiscent of the early 1800s and the drama that played out between the Thomsonians and the medical establishment of that time. Mainstream conventional medicine has become mired in its routines, offhandedly dismissing well-researched and documented advances made by those working in the fields of nutrition, natural medicine, and holistic therapy. Sincere physicians, caught in the inertia of the current system, desperate to help their suffering patients and yet ignorant of gentler alternatives, push the use of harsh treatments beyond the point where they might be helpful. Cancer patients, for example, are routinely pressured to undergo surgery or chemotherapy, sometimes even in cases where there is no clear evidence that those methods will prolong life or relieve suffering. Meanwhile, as a growing population marches off to the practitioners of alternative care, naturopathic medical schools are springing up around the country to provide academic training in natural medicine. They teach a spectrum of holistic traditions: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, nutrition, as well as herbal medicine. They are, we might imagine, the Eclectic medical schools reincarnated.