Spontaneous Healing, Andrew Weil
Spontaneous Healing, Andrew Weil
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Spontaneous Healing
How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself

Author: Andrew Weil

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Unabridged: 11 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/29/2025


Synopsis

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.

The best medicine does not merely combat germs or suppress symptoms, but rather works hand in hand with the body's natural defenses to manage illness. Building on this fundamental truth and tapping into the intricate interaction of mind and body, Dr. Weil arrives at a major new synthesis of conventional and alternative medical treatments. At once practical and inspirational, Spontaneous Healing gives each one of us the power and the wisdom to draw on the sources of health we hold within.

"Memorable...Dr. Weil makes his case carefully and clearly."

The New York Times Book Review

"This book is destined to become a classic."

-Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

This audiobook is expertly read by Dennis Kleinman, with audio engineering by Sam Platt. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

About Andrew Weil

Andrew Weil, M.D., has degrees in biology and medicine from Harvard University. Author of the best-selling Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, he traveled the world experiencing and studying healers and healing systems and has earned an international reputation as an expert on alternative medicine, mind-body interactions, and medical botany. He is the associate director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine and the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stew on September 04, 2012

Mark another one under the label 'Books not worth finishing'. In order to give full disclosure I should probably point out that I have spent some time with Dr. Weil personally and actually like him quite a bit. He's an interesting, likable man who has some progressive ideas about health care. I shou......more

Goodreads review by Erik on December 20, 2020

I've liked Dr. Weil since reading his 'The Natural Mind' many years ago and his ethnobotanical newsletters more recently. This book, published back in '95 and, so, a little outdated as regards cancer therapies, advocates for preventative 'hygienic' medicine as an inexpensive alternative to the expen......more

Goodreads review by Robert on June 25, 2007

"Spontaneous healing" is described by Dr. weil as "the inate, intrinsic nature of the healing process." In his view, healing and good health is not so much a matter or external factors or treatments as much as a conjuring of one's own natural abilities. Dr. Weil is considered a practicioner of "alte......more

Goodreads review by Dottie on January 29, 2013

The thesis of the book is that the medical profession only concerns itself with disease. Medical schools teach nothing about prevention or about the ability for the body to heal itself. It's not against medical care but tells many ways we can encourage our body’s immune systems to help us heal. The......more

Goodreads review by Ingrid on March 17, 2013

I've had this book on my bookshelf for a number of years and recently went back to for some references both for the support group and book. I remembered first reading this a little over 15 years ago. I loved re-reading it again. I admit, I forgot some of the information and I undoubtedly would be he......more