CONTENTS
Preamble
P1. Terminology
P1.1. The art of healing
Р1.2. The medicine of self-healing is very effective
Р2. The problem with modern medicine
Р3. Functional medicine
Р3.1. Goals, principles, and methods of healing
Р3.2. How functional medicine works
Р3.3. Functional medicine began to develop actively at the beginning of the 1990s
Р4. Comments and opinions of famous scientists, doctors, and healers
Р5. The foundations of healing – principles and rules of Hippocratic medicine
- How does disease occur?
- What can healers do?
- What should patients do?
- The body’s restorative and self-healing abilitie
Р6. The dangers of pharmaceutical treatment
Р7. Readers’ testimonies and recovery stories (2008-2016)
P7.1. Letters from various readers
P7.2. Main conclusions from general analysis of treatment records
Р7.2.1. List of disturbances/obstacles to the normal functioning of the human body that occur in the course of “normal” everyday life
Р7.2.2. List of disturbances/obstacles to the normal functioning of the human body that occur due to individual bad habits
Р7.2.3. List of urgent changes, organizational practices and actions for successful recovery/healing
P.8. How to use this book
Section 1: Introduction
1.1. You need to love and care for your body
1.2. You should always be examining the condition of your body
1.3. How this book differs from hundreds of other health manuals
1.4. A message to the reader from the authors
Section 2: Symptoms of health problems, conditions and diseases caused by substance deficiencies and disturbances in the body that hinder functionality
2.1. Substance (nutrient) deficiencies in the body
2.2. Disturbances and obstacles to the functioning of the body’s organs and systems
2.3. Symptoms of health problems, medical conditions, and diseases
2.4. Summary
Section 3: Useful knowledge about the main substances required for the normal functioning of the human body
3.1. Vitamins and vitamin-like substances
3.1.1. The properties of vitamins and their main natural sources
3.1.2. Therapeutic properties of vitamins
3.1.3. The antioxidant effect of vitamins
3.1.4. Essential doses of vitamins (see Table 2)
3.1.5. Synthetic and natural vitamins
3.1.6. Reasons for the occurrence of vitamin deficiencies in the body (see Table 3)
3.2. Macro- and microelements
3.2.1. The function of minerals and their main natural sources (see Tables 4 and 5)
3.2.2. Recommended doses of macro- and microelements (see Table 4)
3.2.3. Mineral deficiencies in the body (see Table 5)
3.2.4. The therapeutic properties of macro- and microelements (see Table 9)
3.3. Amino acids
3.3.1. Important and essential amino acids (see Table 7)
3.3.2. Natural sources of amino acids (see Table 7)
3.3.3. Amino acid deficiencies (see Table 7)
3.3.4. The therapeutic properties of amino acids (see Tables 7 and 9)
3.4. Beneficial fatty acids
3.4.1. The properties of beneficial fatty acids (see Table 8)
3.4.2. The properties of essential fatty acids
3.4.3. Therapeutic use of essential fatty acids
3.4.4. The balance of essential fatty acids in the body
3.4.5. The effects of a deficiency of omega-3 essential fats
3.4.6. Recommendations for taking essential fatty acids
3.5. Eliminating and preventing the occurrence of substance deficiencies
3.5.1. General recommendations
3.5.2. Examples of how to use foods and remedies to eliminate deficiencies or prevent their occurrence
3.6. Summary
Section 4: Dehydration – insufficient water in the body
4.1. The consequences of insufficient water in the body
4.2. Signs of insufficient water in the body
4.3. Structured water
4.4. How to use drinking water
4.5. The known disadvantage of various drinks
4.6. The therapeutic properties of clean water
4.7. Silver water
4.8. Health drinks
Section 5: Incorrect breathing
5.1. Characteristics of the breathing process
5.2. Identifying incorrect breathing processes
5.3. How to correct, regulate, and sustain breathing processes
5.4. Breathing exercises
5.5. Concern for the quality of inhaled air
5.5.1. The requirements that inhaled air must meet
5.5.2. Some general recommendations
5.6. Breathing exercises as first aid
Section 6: Lack of exercise
6.1. The muscles are an independent organ
6.2. Signs of insufficient physical exercise
6.3. Lack of exercise does immense damage
6.4. Restoration of the body’s muscles
6.5. Physical exercise and working out is vital for everybody today
6.6. What to do for physical exercise and training
6.7. Physical exercise and workouts as an effective therapy
6.8. Physical exercises as first aid
Section 7: Pollution of the body
7.1. How the body gets polluted
7.2. Symptoms of body pollution
7.3. How to detoxify the body
7.4. Restoration and activation of the body’s detoxification capabilities
7.5. Methods of gentle detoxification
7.5.1. Restoring the function of the skin
7.5.2. Physical exercise
7.5.3. Massage
7.5.4. Fasting
7.5.5. Baths and steam baths
7.5.6. Special diets
7.5.7. Detoxifying honey products
7.5.8. Detox remedies and infusions
Section 8: Parasites in the body
8.1. Almost 95% of people have parasitic organisms living in their bodies
8.2. Symptoms of parasitic infection
8.3. Getting rid of parasites
8.4. A few recipes to destroy parasites
Section 9: Disturbances to gut microflora (dysbiosis)
9.1. The invisible organ
9.2. The correct composition of gut microflora
9.3. The benefits of well-balanced microflora
9.4. Dysbiosis
9.5. The causes of dysbiosis
9.6. Signs of disturbances to gut microflora
9.7. What can be done?
9.8. A plan of action to deal with dysbiosis
9.9. Various recommendations for the preparation of remedies (infusions, dishes, and mixtures)
9.10. Summary
Section 10: Mistakes in diet
10.1. A proper, varied, balanced and nutritious diet
10.2. Organizing your diet
10.3. Species-appropriate diet
10.4. Cholesterol and diet
10.5. Food allergies
10.6. Dangerous foods
10.7. Preparing food
10.8. Dietary regime and mealtimes
10.9. Food as medicine
Section 11: “Brain junk” or mistakes in thinking
11.1. Your psycho-emotional state
11.2. The power of thought
11.2.1. Suggestion
11.2.2. Placebo and nocebo effects
11.3. The body under stress
11.4. Negative emotions
11.5. The consequences of brain junk
11.6. Recommendations for ridding your conscious and subconscious of negative thinking
11.6.1. Eliminating disturbances to the functioning of the body’s organs and systems
11.6.2. Always try to think more
11.6.3. Take more opportunities to feel happiness and pleasure
11.6.4. Have a positive attitude to life and to yourself
11.6.5. Have more sympathy for yourself
11.6.6. Fight laziness
11.6.7. Put your goals, tasks, and wishes in order of importance
11.6.8. Learn to control your negative emotions and prevent them from taking root
11.6.9. Make time to meditate every day
11.6.10. Get rid of constant stress
11.6.11. Maintain correct thinking and don’t lose your composure when you fall ill
11.6.12. The importance of laughter
11.6.13. Always try to be a happy person
11.7. Medicinal plants and honey products to cleanse the mind and subconscious
11.8. Sample recipes for simple homemade remedies to bring order to the mind and prepare for healing and healthiness
Section 12: Excessive levels of acidity within the body (acidosis)
12.1. The body’s acid-base balance
12.2. The shift of the acid-base balance in favor of acidity
12.3. The consequences of acidification in the body
12.4. What happens when there’s too much acid in the body
12.5. How to improve the situation
12.6. The steps that can be taken
Section 13: Low stomach acid (hypoacidity)
13.1. The properties of stomach acid
13.2. The consequences of hypoacidity
13.3. Symptoms of hypoacidity
13.4. Causes of low gastric juice acidity
13.5. How to increase the acidity of your gastric juices
Section 14: Muscle tension, muscle spasms, and pinched nerves
14.1. The causes of muscle tension and spasms
14.2. The pinching of nerves by muscles and ligaments
14.3. Getting rid of tension and muscle spasms
14.4. Recommendations for preventing the occurrence of muscle spasms
Section 15: Poor circulation and pinched blood vessels
15.1. Causes, symptoms and consequences of poor circulation
15.2. What to do and how to act
15.3. Examples of treatment of many diseases through the restoration of blood supply without using medication or treatment methods
Section 16: Excess weight and obesity
16.1. The causes of obesity
16.2. Obesity is dangerous for your health
16.3. Recommendations for losing excess weight and reducing obesity
16.3.1. General guidelines
16.3.2. Preparing to lose weight
16.3.3. Diet therapy
16.3.3.1. Table 18: Medicinal plants that help the body with obesity
16.3.3.2. Drinks
16.3.3.3. Dietary advice
16.3.4. Apitherapy
16.3.5. Physical exercise
16.3.6. A dietary regime that accords with your body’s physiology
16.4. Remedies for obesity made with medicinal plants, vegetables, fruits, and honey
Section 17: Sleep disorders
17.1. Why we need sleep
17.2. An overview of the causes of sleep disorders
17.3. Why sleep disorders are dangerous
17.4. The body begins to prepare for sleep long before bedtime
17.5. Conditions that are essential for healthy sleep
17.5.1. The body must have all vital substances
17.5.2. Sleep should be peaceful and undisturbed
17.5.3. Bedroom temperature should be 16-18oС
17.5.4. The body should not be suffering from tension or spasms
17.5.5. Before going to bed, induce a passive state in your body
17.5.6. Free your mind of all worries and psychological problems
17.5.7. Create the right conditions for synthesis of the sleep-regulating hormone melatonin
17.5.8. Maintain a consistent ritual for going to bed
17.5.9. Prepare your body properly for sleep
17.6. Recommendations for overcoming difficulty getting to sleep
17.7. If you have problems getting back to sleep after waking during the night
17.8. How to wake up properly
17.9. How long you should sleep
17.10. Recommendations to combat drowsiness
17.11. Sleep is one of the most important indicators of health
17.12. Sleep is the best healer
17.13. Eliminating sleep disorders
17.14. Remedies for insomnia
17.15. Medicinal plants, foods, and bee products that help with sleep disorders
17.16. Examples of effective remedies for sleep disorders taken from traditional folk medicine
Section 18: Disturbances to the body’s physiological biorhythms – desynchronosis
18.1. Rhythms in the human body
18.2. Universal ultradian rhythm with a period of 90–120 minutes
18.3. Disturbances to synchronization of rhythms
18.4. What can be done to rectify desynchronosis
Section 19: Weak and compromised immune system – immunodeficiency
19.1. What is the immune system?
19.2. How the immune system’s defenses are structured
19.3. What weakens and suppresses the immune system?
19.4. Some symptoms of a compromised immune system
19.5. Getting rid of immunodeficiencies and improving the functioning of the immune system
19.5.1. What you need to do
19.5.2. Maintain a full and balanced diet and rectify and substance deficiencies
19.5.3. Regulate your water intake
19.5.4. Ensure that you are breathing properly
19.5.5. Detoxify your body
19.5.6. Regulate gut microflora
19.5.7. Regulate the acid-base balance in your body
19.5.8. Maintain the main ultradian rhythms, especially the rhythm of work and rest 19.5.9. Get sufficient sleep
19.5.10. Take sufficient physical exercise
19.5.11. Activate your immune system
19.5.12. Reduce psycho-emotional strain
19.5.13. Reduce stress levels
19.5.14. Training your immune system
19.5.15. Correct faults in the functioning of your immune system
19.5.16. Use special products to boost your immune system
19.5.17. Employ phytotherapy
19.5.18. Remedies made with medicinal plants and honey products
Section 20: ”Helpless” brain
20.1. Why the brain is “helpless” what it’s missing
20.2. Ways to restore the proper functioning of the brain
20.3. What harms the brain?
20.3.1. Various factors cause damage to the brain
20.3.2. Symptoms of impaired brain function
20.4. How to help your brain regain its lost powers
20.4.1. Detoxification
20.4.2. Ridding the brain of negativity
20.4.3. Supply of vital nutrients
20.4.4. Supply of clean water
20.4.5. Supply of energy
20.4.6. Restoration of hormone balance
20.4.7. Increase synthesis of the most important neuromediators
20.5. Get rid of inflammation
20.6. Medicinal plants, fruits, vegetables, and spices with an anti-inflammatory effect
20.7. Maintain the stability of the blood-brain barrier
20.8. Improve circulation in the brain
20.9. Get rid of functional disturbances in the body
20.10. Getting rid of excess stress
20.11. Maintaining and enhancing brain plasticity
20.12. Activating and accelerating the synthesis of new neurons
20.12.1. What impedes or blocks neurogenesis?
20.12.2. Means of inducing the formation of new neurons
20.12.3. Neurogenesis diet
20.12.4. Brief conclusions
20.13. Increasing the lifespan of the neurons you have
20.14. “Treatment” (physiological regeneration) of retired incapacitated neurons
20.15. Synchronizing the functioning of both hemispheres
20.16. Physical exertion
20.17. Intellectual exercises
20.18. Training with the help of everyday life
20.19. Creating stores for the brain
20.20. Constant dietary intake of particularly necessary products
20.21. Brief conclusion
Section 21: Disruptions to self-regeneration and self-healing
21.1. A brief description of the powers and capabilities of our bodies
21.1.1. The human body is the heir to animal kingdom
21.1.2. The human body has self-healing capabilities
21.1.3. The human body has the power of the plant world at its disposal
21.1.4. The body has its own internal doctor
21.1.5. The tools and healing methods available to the internal doctor
21.1.5.1. The knowledge and assistance of the mighty subconscious
21.1.5.2. Epigenetic activation and suppression of gene expression
21.1.5.3. Epigenetic foods
21.1.5.4. Targeted neurogenesis
21.1.5.5. The internal pharmacy and factory for synthesizing substances
21.2. What prevents the body from healing itself?
21.3. How to launch and activate the processes of restoration and self-healing
21.3.1. Bring order to your body
21.3.2. How to engage the subconscious in healing the body
21.3.3. Specially organized thoughts
21.3.4. Emotional freedom technique (EFT)
21.3.5. Special natural epigenetic substances or correctors
21.3.5.1. Specially treated phytotherapy remedies
21.3.5.2. Specially treated apitherapy remedies
21.3.5.3. Apiphytotherapy – mixing plants and bee products
21.3.6. Fasting
21.3.7. Massage of brain structures
21.3.8. Eating epigenetic foods
21.3.9. Stimulating neurogenesis
21.3.10. Brief conclusion
Section 22: Subconscious indifference
22.1. The development of indifference in the body
22.2. Getting rid of indifference
22.2.1. External influence (replacement therapy)
22.2.2. Regular special physical exercises
22.2.3. Very decisive action by the sufferer
22.2.4. Hypoxic stress
22.2.5. Gaining a clear goal
Section 23: Conclusion
23.1. Everybody needs to take care of their health
23.2. The basis and principles of the medicine of self-healing
List of tables
Table 1:
Symptoms of health problems, medical conditions, and diseases in the body. Disturbances and barriers to the functioning of organs and systems, and the restorative and healing powers of the body
Table 2:
Recommended daily allowances, therapeutic doses, and some key sources of vitamins and vitamin-like substances
Table 3:
Key functions of vitamins and vitamin-like substances in the body. Plants, fruits, and vegetables particularly rich in each substance
Table 4:
Recommended daily allowances, therapeutic doses, and some key sources of macro- and microelements
Table 5:
Key functions of macro- and microelements in the body. Plants, fruits, and vegetables particularly rich in each substance
Table 6:
The body’s daily requirement for amino acids
Table 7:
The main effects of macro- and microelements in the body, with plants, fruits, vegetables, and other foods particularly rich in each substance
Table 8:
Beneficial unsaturated fatty acids, their main functions and therapeutic effects, with some natural sources
Table 9:
Selected health problems, conditions and diseases that can be treated with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fats
Table 10:
Medicinal plants that clean the different organs and systems of the body
Table 11:
Medicinal plants that remove different toxins from the body
Table 12:
A list of anti-worm and anti-parasite plants and honey products
Table 13:
A list of various plants and honey products that help with disturbances to gut microflora
Table 14:
Medicinal plants and honey products to cleanse the mind and subconscious
Table 15:
List of plants and foods that acidify the body
Table 16:
List of plants and foods that alkalize the body
Table 17:
Possible pains and other consequences of pinched nerves and blood vessels due to muscle tension and spasms at different vertebrae
Table 18:
Medicinal plants that help the body with obesity
Table 19:
Medicinal plants, foods, and bee products that help with sleep disorders
Table 20:
Medicinal plants that help the immune system
Table 21:
Proven pharmacological properties of bee products
Table 22:
Medicinal plants, fruits, vegetables, and spices with an anti-inflammatory effect
Table 23:
Medicinal plants that prevent the occurrence and development of health problems and diseases
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