Health Titles
Please click on a topic to find the book, or range of books, that you need.
Topics
- ADHD
- Antidepressants
- Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Caring
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Diabetes, type 1
- Diet & Nutrition: Natural Health
- Diet & Nutrition: Trick and Treat
- Disability
- Dyspraxia
- Energy
- Infertility
- ME
- Menopause
- Old age
- Thyroid problems
- Traditional Medicines
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – a natural way to treat M.E.
By Professor Basant K. Puri
160 pp £14.99
ISBN: 1-905140-00-2
It is still a widely held belief that ME is ‘all in the mind’, a psychosomatic condition that requires treatment with antidepressants. In this ground-breaking new book you will discover a very different way of looking at ME. Historical and contemporary evidence are combined to show how it is almost certainly a physical, or ‘organic’ condition resulting from viral and other influences that reduce essential chemicals in the body. As such it can be treated, and in a natural way with purely beneficial ‘side-effects’.
‘It has been awhile since I have been riveted by a genuinely exciting, inspiring scientific tale of discovery that clinically alleviates symptoms of long-sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome…so when I received the review by Dr Derek Pheby of Professor Basant Puri’s book…I was intrigued about the promising and significant clinical and objective MRI scan results experienced by sufferers of CFS/ME using specifically formulated essential fatty acids. Professor Puri grippingly relates how his scientific research collaborations regarding the role of essential fatty acids into brain function have led to discoveries such as fatty acid modifications within the brains of CFS/ME sufferers…Professor Puri’s book is a must-read for every sufferer of CFS/ME, as well as all those interested in the biochemistry and function of essential fatty acids, which play huge roles in Depression, ADHD, even the quality and lustre of our skin, nails and hair…’
‘Those who wish to try Professor Puri’s approach will find a wealth of detail in this interesting book…There is a sound theoretical basis for anticipating that this approach may produce positive results.’
‘Thanks to Professor Puri’s advice I’ve become far more disciplined and practical about dealing with my ME. More sensible forms of exercise and a renewed emphasis on the best possible EPA supplements.’
‘Dr Puri maintains that with depleted levels of HUFAs the immune system is unable to combat the original virus and its subsequent spin offs, thus creating the downward spiral so often seen in CFS/ME…His suggestion is that by feeding the patient those HUFAs in a pure form…one provides the body with the ‘fuel’ that it needs to rebuild its own defences and, in due course, repel and reject both the original virus and any subsequent spin off viral or bacterial infections. A compelling argument.’
‘Professor Puri writes very well. He explains scientific ideas in a way that makes it possible for the general reader to understand and includes interesting asides and personal comments. It is such a relief to be able to read that a consultant in one of our local hospitals thinks ME is a real physical disease.’
‘Thank you, thank you, thank you. I took your advice, bought the book, ordered the VegEPA, came to listen to your talk at Alternatives in Piccadilly, and waited for the results. Within 3 months I felt calmer, within 6 months I was sleeping better, now 15 months on I have so much energy I feel 20 years younger!!!’
‘For Basant Puri there are four key points describing the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome…The biochemist in me enjoyed his theory…His style is gentle and, refreshingly, he is happy to present a potted only history…[His] name is associated with the publication of nine papers in 2004 and 17 in 2002 so, in his specialist areas (MRI and Neuroscience), he is well and truly peer reviewed… As someone who has chronic fatigue, reading about the latest “cure” always has me wondering “have they got it right this time?”…While I’ll be spitting tacks if a single enzyme is responsible for 10 years of tiredness, it would be lovely, finally knowing, why.’
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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – a natural way to treat ADHD
By Professor Basant K. Puri
208 pp £14.99
ISBN: 1-905140-01-0
A fresh look at ADHD, the controversial condition that is being increasingly diagnosed in children in the developed world and treated with powerful drugs. Professor Basant Puri chronicles the rise of ADHD as a ‘diagnostic entity’, how it has been regarded over the past 100 years and how current treatment with powerful amphetamine-like drugs was found to ‘work’. These drugs may help to reduce the symptoms, but at what long term cost to the individuals concerned? Professor Basant Puri examines the underlying metabolic problems and dietary imbalances that may lead to hyperactive behaviour, and the ways in which these deficiencies can be addressed. He also looks at the conditions that often co-exist with ADHD, especially dyspraxia, which may have a similar root cause. Parents and carers of children with ADHD will find new hope in combating this relentless condition.
‘An excellent read for anyone interested in ADHD, essential reading for anyone trying to deal with /treat their own or their child's condition.’Foods Matter, December 2005
Natural Energy
By Professor Basant K. Puri
224 pp £9.99
ISBN: 1-905140-02-9
Extending the principles of treating chronic fatigue with a diet rich in phospho-lipids to the promotion of greater energy in any individual. Modern life styles are blamed for increasing tiredness experienced by the general population but poor diet has a much more significant role to play and there are clear ways to combat this trend and increase personal energy levels
The Natural Energy Cookbook
By Professor Basant K. Puri
Cookery advisor, Sarah Banbery
224 pp £14.99
ISBN: 1-905140-03-7
The practical way to achieve a diet high in phospho-lipids that is also delicious, varied and easy to prepare. Grouped around key ingredients, the book presents tried-and-tested recipes together with weekly menu plans.
About the author and cookery advisor
Traditional Medicines
a practical guide to their safer use
By Dr Lakshman Karalliedde
240pp £15.99
ISBN: 1-905140-04-5
A highly structured compendium, bringing together what is currently known and has been scientifically validated regarding traditional medicines from around the world. Bringing together Chinese, Afro-Caribbean, Unani and Ayurvedic traditional medicines, this book covers the sources of these medicines, their known effects and side-effects, recommended dosages, and precautions.
The Essential Carer’s Guide
By Mary Jordan. Foreword by Philip Wroughton, Vice President of the Princess Royal Trust for Carers www.carers.org
240 pp £14.99 —
ISBN: 1-905140-07-X
A practical guide for carer’s of elderly and disabled relatives and friends, bringing together the many aspects (physical, emotional, social and financial) that most carer’s struggle to discover for themselves. Illustrated throughout with case histories and personal experiences, the book emphasises that every relationship between carer and cared-for is different but that there is common ground where practical advice can really make a difference.
For further information and links to organisations included in the book click here
Your Thyroid and How to Keep it Healthy
- second edition of 'The Great Thyroid Scandal and How to Avoid It'
By Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield
240pp £14.99
ISBN: 1-905140-10-X
In this second edition, Dr Durrant-Peatfield draws on his long experience of helping patients with possible thyroid problems to explain what the implications of having an over- or under-active thyroid are, how to spot the warning signs, and how to improve the condition using diet and nutritional options before accepting conventional medical treatments, which can prove a very blunt instrument.
For further information and links to organisations included in the book click here
Literary Medicine . Topics
Look through our range of humour, memoirs, and history relating to medicine and health. Our titles seek to restore the personal, narrative side of medicine and medical care, seeking to counterbalance the dehumanising effects of technology on the practice of modern medicine.
The Medical Miscellany
By Manoj Ramachandran & Max Ronson
192pp £9.99
ISBN: 1-905140-05-3
With the average medical textbook now running to over 1000 pages and newspapers daily devoting many columns to health matters, no individual can no more than the bare essentials of the broad subject of medicine. So, what better than to dip into a small book covering the amazing, the bizarre, the amusing and the really useful?
This fascinating collection of medically-related items will inform, tantalize and infuriate you by turns.
We challenge you not to find something unexpected on every page, nor to smile, or groan, at almost every entry. How much do you know already? How much will you be able to remember?
After much dipping in and out, or from referring to the topic based index, you will know what ‘100% proof’ really means for an alcoholic drink, and what the effect of drinking Ayahuasca is. You will also know when two doctors in Casualty earnestly discuss your ‘UBI’ that they have smelt your breath and are talking about your ‘unexplained beer injury’.
Some facts just are more memorable than others…
Pit yourself against the book and try our Miscellaneously Medical Quiz
Suburban Shaman
- tales from medicine's frontline
By Cecil Helman
240pp £9.99
ISBN: 1-905140-08-8
Cecil Helman is many things:old-fashioned general practitioner, psychiatrist, cultural anthropologist, storyteller, poet and artist - and all this comes together in Suburban Shaman, a beautifully written, devastatingly honest, and often very funny, account of an audacious and adventurous life.' Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
