December 1978 RAIN Page 15 ~ ~ :c ! c o OJ -a i Ei ~ ~------------------------------------------------~ Innocently throwing out 400 pages of original manuscript for Whole Person Health Care, Charles Jennings' daughters provide a good situation for dealing with stress which is appropriately used as an example in the book! The School ofNatural Healing, Refer therapeutic properties and appli'cations ence Volume on Natural Herbs for the of several hundred herbs in treating disTeacher, Student or Herbal Practitioner, ease and maintaining a preventive health Dr. John Christopher, 1976,653 pp., regimen. Particularly useful is its group $39.95 from: ing of herbs by their functional uses: Bi-World Publishers alteratives (cleaning the blood and elimP.O. Box 62 inative organs), anthelmintics (destroyProvo, UT 84601 ing or expelling worms) and the like. The price is outrageous, to be sure. But if "In the course ofthis study, I want to you consider that this herbal is the cultell you a little bit about herbs . .." mination of 35 years of research and That's how Dr. Christopher begins his experience, that comes out to a little "short treatise" on the use of herbs in more than a dollar a year to share one natural healing. His definitive reference man's intensive compilation of basic work is so comprehensive and exten knowledge that is probably unavilable sively cross-referenced that it has quickly in such completeness anywhere else, become a hands-down classic, deserving at any price. A masterwork. (Thanks shelf space in every home concerned to Mikihasa Shima) -SA with organic health alternatives. School of Natural Healing focuses on the myriad Whole Person Health Care and Directory ofNorthwest Practitioners, Mark Tager, M.D., and Charles Jennings, 1978,448 pp., $8.95 from: Victoria House 2218 N.E. 8th Ave. Portland, OR 97212 This book just arrived, and it's one that I want to spend lots of time with. A very personal approach. Emphasis on self-care makes for an active relationship for the reader with the book. Provides exercises, nutritional information, self care plans related ~o body, mind, spirit, as well as a section on health activism and making change. Suggests keeping your own personal health journal-a great way to begin taking more responsibility for ourselves. It's a book that emphasizes preventive medicine, so anyone who's not been taking care of his/her earthly container or spiritual house would do well to use this book as a guide to greater well being. Especially nice for Northwest folks as it includes a good beginning directory of N.W. practitioners of holistic medicine which will be updated. -LS Getting Yours: A Consumer's Guide to Obtaining Your Medical Record, Melissa Auerbach and Ted Bagne, 1978,36 pp., from: Health Research Group 2000 P Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 If you're 35 years old and the idea of keeping your own personal health journal has just come up, you'll need a book like this to help you fill in the blanks. Use this guide to continue demystifying the health professions-and pursue having access to information that unquestionably is ours! Here's a stateby-state survey of access laws and an outline of how to obtain your records, or get the law changed so that you can. -LS The Book ofGarlic, Lloyd J. Harris, 1975,248 pp., $7.85 from: Panjandrum/Aris Books 99 Sanchez St. San Francisco, CA 94114 Healing takes on many forms-the hands, herbs, the foods we eat. Here's a book about a notorious healer of everything1rom leprosy to increasing sexual potency! The Book of Garlic includes garlic literature, art, mythreally just about everything "lovers of the stinking rose" would delight in. -LS
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