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Listed below are some of our favorite books. These pages contain books about general subjects such as healing protocols, herbs, and unusual volumes. Recommendations for books about specific conditions or substances are found on their pages here at this web site.

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Critiques of Conventional Medicine

Critiques of Conventional Medicine

 Power Healing by Leo Galland, M.D. Every once in awhile I run across a book that kinds of says it all for me. This is such a book. Dr. Galland is a sort of medical detective. People come to him with problems their own doctors couldn't solve. Although he doesn't eschew conventional medicine entirely, in the case histories in the book, it is often a natural solution that does the trick. Out of this he offers what he calls the "four pillars of healing "(the former title of the book,) and  it is a must read.

Racketeering in Medicine by James P. Carter. It's all here; how the medical cartel squashes rivals. According to Carter (and he makes a compelling, well documented case) it is not the efficacy of a therapy that matters but whether it threatens the economic interest of organized medicine. The book is full of case histories and statistics that prove his point beyond all doubt.

Reclaiming Our Health by John Robbins. Robbins asks why, in this excellent book, people can't afford conventional medicine and why they usually aren't helped by it. He critiques various conventional treatments and finds that natural way more effective as well as cheaper. He also critiques the medical monopoly that places health in the hands of experts who know a lot about disease but not much about health.

GHB. The Natural Mood Enhancer. by Ward Dean, et al. According to the cover, this is the book that the FDA and DEA don't want you to read. GHB is probably the best substance for inducing sleep, the quickest and best anti-depressant and anti-anxiety agent, the best therapy for narcolepsy, highly useful in alcohol or drug withdrawal, a possible aphrodisiac, a powerful growth hormone inducer, and it facilitates communication and social interaction. Moreover, it is essentially non-toxic and by far the safest substance for these conditions. Incredibly, it has been deliberately misrepresented, demonized and illegally outlawed! Although this book is about an extraordinary and very useful natural substance, it is also about the seamy, irresponsible and corrupt side of the law-making and journalism partnership. It is also about how the drug industry protects its profits. Our hope is that you will read this book and become so outraged that these kind of machinations could occur in America that you will protest to your legal representatives and help restore the rule of law and justice in this country.

  Toxic Psychiatry. by Peter R. Breggin M.D. Here's a psychiatrist who is horrified by what psychiatric drugs do to people. It sort of reminds me of my own pharmacist's attitude about drugs in general. The cover says "Why therapy, empathy and love, must replace the drugs, electroshock and biochemical theories of the 'New Psychiatry' ". If you are taking psychotropic drugs you should read this. If you are a psychiatrist who writes prescriptions for them you must read this.

Freedom In Chains by James Bovard. I have a couple of book cases with books on political philosophy, but this book is the best. This is another book I wish I had written. It is not a dry philosophical tome but one which catalogs the many abuses by the "friendly fascists" (To use economist Murray Rothbard's term) who run this country to illustrate the simple truth that liberty works best and most humanely. If you don't get upset and outraged with each page then move to North Korea, Cuba, or Iraq where you belong. Although the book discusses medical freedom, its importance is placing the issue within the larger context of human rights.

Bitter Pills. by Stephen Fried. This book reads like a history of the drug industry and it isn't a very uplifting story. After his wife nearly died and suffered permanent brain and vision damage from taking a drug for a simple urinary tract infection, he investigated the hows and whys of the drug approval process. If you want to know why doctors are the third leading cause of death in the United States or why legal drugs kill 20 times as many people as illegal drugs, you must read this book. Fried is not a friend of alternative medicine. He refers, for example, to Dr. Breggin's book Talking Back to Prozac as "neo-luddite."  He really wants to reform the drug approval process. Whether it can be done or not is open to question. Any time synthetic chemical compounds not found in nature are introduced into the body, it is a crap shoot and biochemical individuality guarantee that tragedies will occur. Plus, some of the pharmacology has a few errors. Still in all, a great book and a muckraker to match the best.

Over Dose by Jay S. Cohen, M.D. Also not particularly a friend of natural medicine, Dr. Cohen never-the-less exposes the fact that most people take their medicines in doses which are far too high. Often, studies show that lower doses do just as well but the drug companies recommend a single dose that causes serious adverse reactions in many people. How and why they do it as well as how they manipulate, squash and misrepresent studies and facts, and why the FDA does nothing about it makes for an illuminating and fascinating read.

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