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Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum is a process of continuous learning and adjustment; Birthing From Within provides the necessary support and education to make each phase of birthing a rewarding experience.

Practiced for thousands of years in the East, urine therapy–the application of your body’s own urine as an agent for the promotion and management of good health–has gained popularity in the West as more people seek effective, affordable, and holistic alternatives to modern medicines. Dutch auto-urine expert Coen Van der Kroon first encountered urine therapy when he cut his foot at an ashram in the mountains of India. Conventional antiseptics and treatments did nothing for the injury, and the infection steadily worsened until he was advised to wrap his foot in a cloth soaked in his own urine.

Drawing on fascinating case histories from his own practice as well as medical techniques he has observed in his travels around the world, Dr. Weil shows how the mechanisms of self-diagnosis and self-regeneration have worked to resolve life-threatening diseases, severe trauma, and chronic pain. But spontaneous healing is also the essential element in the maintenance of our basic daily health. The book outlines an eight-week program that each of us can use to alter our diet, avoid environmental toxins, and reduce stress in order to enhance our innate healing powers.

First published 15 years ago, Opium for the Masses instantly became a national phenomenon. Michael Pollan wrote a lengthy feature (Opium, made easy) about Jim Hogshire in Harper’s Magazine, amazed that the common plant, P. somniferum, or opium poppies, which grows wild in many states and is available at crafts and hobby stores and nurseries, could also be made into a drinkable tea that acts in a way similar to codeine or Vicodin. With Opium for the Masses as their guide, Americans can learn how to supplement their own medicine chest with natural and legal pain medicine.