Healing from the Heart: How Unconventional Wisdom Unleashes the Power of Modern Medicine

by Mehmet C. Oz and Ron Arias

Book Overview

Dr. Mehmet Oz, celebrated heart surgeon and co-founder of the Complementary Care Center at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, is spearheading the health-care revolution that is yielding powerful new healing tools that will forever change the way we think of medicine. In this ground-breaking book, he describes his pioneering work--combining cutting-edge Western medicine with such Eastern techniques as acupuncture and chi-gong, as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452279550
• ISBN13: 9780452279551
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Heart on Heart!!

Great information and easy read. I learned more in one book than the other 5 I read on the heart and the things we can do to help heal. As a yoga instructor I will recommend this to my ailling students.

FANTASTIC BOOK - SUPERBLY WRITTEN!

What is impressive about this book is the author's concepts of healing both heart and mind as he points out just how closely the two are interconnected. The writing style is one that will grasp the reader's attention from start to finish. The approach to holistic health is a welcome approach to healing. It is a concept that is gradually increasing in the health care field, but one that still has a long way to go before it is universally accepted by all physicians. More education and information needs to be provided in this area to all health care providers. Using the holistic approach, there can be fewer side effects from medication, less depression and a general feeling of well being during the most trying and difficult times. There is much to be said on combining Western and Eastern traditions in the process of healing. Our world can benefit dramatically from this approach and the author vividly explains why throughout the pages of this well-researched and superbly written book. It is highly recommended reading material and most deserving of a five star rating.

This book was fantastic - for the sick and healthy alike.

Dr. Mehmet has given me a new perspective on holistic health and disease. As my mother is going through the breast cancer battle, I am incorporating many of his suggestions for heart patients: soothing music after the mastectomy, foot massages as she fades in and out of conciousness, arranging to have someone loved at the bedside constantly. I am looking into getting a masseuse to come in and perform foot massage as her body receives chemotherapy. As a result of this, her attitude is positive and I believe that has a grave impact on how her body reacts to all of this trauma. I'm waiting impatiently for his next book.

A must-read for anyone concerned about his cardio-care.

A heart-transplant recipient myself, I was doing research on how to support my body to relieve the many side-effects of the immune suppressing drugs I must take when I happened to see Dr. Oz' book. I literally cried tears of joy as I read that there is a revolution finally taking place in medicine which understands that the body and mind work together for our health. Dr. Oz' book confimed my own discoveries of a thirty-five year avocation of clinical nutrition: there is a way to support a body after transplantation so that one can reduce the drugs and, in my case, I could have all medications held except one. This alone will reduce the wear and trear on my body, particularly the cleansing organs. My well-documented research is awaiting publication. In Dr. Oz we finally have the best of both worlds...the best allopathic and the opportunity for the best complementary medicine. Thank you, Dr. Oz, from the bottom of my new heart and may you be the beginning of a new era in the healing art of medicine.

For everybody with a heart

Having a doctor at the peak of western medicine like Dr. Oz talk about "healing" is an incredible inspiration for everybody whether or not they are related to any kind of illness. It combines the pieces of a puzzle that should never have been seperated into two in the first place. All doctors, patients, everybody that wants to be reminded of having a heart and caring for it should read it. It is also an inspiration for me to see how a human being, Mehmet Oz, has found his mission in life and is out there successfully carrying it out.