Everyone should read this book. Your body is a healing system. This book shows you how to heal yourself from illness and injuries / trauma. Dr. Weil shares with you his experiences traveling the globe in search of true healers of the body and mind. Also what types of food's and supplements we should all be consuming to facilitate healing and better health. Dr. Weil also brings to light the powerfull connection between the mind and the body. Just as Dr. Weil explains the reasons for the onset of an ilness, he also makes it clear what a person needs to do to overcome and reverse the problem. How to turn the healing switch to the on position, so that one may triumph and prevail over his or her illness or traumatic injury. This book teaches us how to be well and how to stay that way. Thank you Dr. Weil. You are the best!!!

This is a very useful book to improve your health and well being. Dr. Weil helps you examine your body's ability to heal itself naturally with limited use of pharmaceuticals. The author explains how the body performs self diagnosis and self healing. In an easy to understand language he explains the best ways of helping your body to cure itself by the use of acupuncture, herbal medicine and more. You'll learn how to help your body maintain its healthiest state.

Dr. Weil also proposes an eight-week program to help your body heal itself and ward off disease. I don't expect miracles, but the guidelines are better than in many other books. This book gives you the chance to get you started in a better direction. At least this is what it has done to me.

Another great book that helps you use your body's natural defenses to overcome illnesses is "Cure the Incurable". I highly recommend both books as they complement each other.

This is one of the best books I've read on natural healing. Andrew Weil presents his information and backs it up not only with facts, but experience. All of his books are fabulous, but this is one of his best. Another great book is The Natural Mind.

If you've had little success with chronic or "incurable" ailments or would like to avoid them in the future, your money will be well spent on this book. I've been practicing many of the suggestions Dr. Weil makes, yet I still found plenty of new material to learn from.

The book highlights the inadequacy of modern traditional medicine. From the lower success rates for treating a vast number of ailments, to the ineffectiveness of drug treatments, to the ever climbing costs of health care, it reveals what many medical professionals won't tell you or, even worse, don't know about themselves.

If you'd like to regain control of your health and keep it that way at the lowest reasonable cost, this book gives you the "fishing pole" for how to do that.

I read that Weil likes when he is criticised by both traditional medicine and by alternative medicine, because it means that he is doing what he likes to do: Tell the truth as best he can, combining the best of medicine and alternatives. He offers great advice on so many areas in this book, including nutritional supplements, food choices, elimination of toxins from your life, exercise, and more. All the "Weil" providing analysis and explanation so that we feel informed and not just doing what he says. Highly recommended book! Also, for a concise book and approach to effectively enhancing wellness, read also "Effortless Wellbeing: The Missing Ingredients for Authentic Wellness" by Evan Finer. Excellent and HELPFUL books!