My name is Burton Goldberg, and I have been a businessman for over forty years. My interest is in results, so let us get right to the point.
Two systems of health care are available in this country today: conventional Western medicine and alternative medicine. The first is the world of the American Medical Association; medical doctors who practice by the book, and who inadvertently align themselves with the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry. Conventional medicine is superb when it comes to surgery, emergency, and trauma.
But there is no question that alternative medicine works better for just about everything else, especially for chronic degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and for more common ailments such as asthma, gastrointestinal disorders, headaches, and sinusitis.
Alternative medicine has a lot to offer you. But our government is ignoring its well established methods, and federal funds are not being sufficiently allocated to study them. We should all be asking, "Why"?
And that is te reason for this book. It represents the collective wisdom of thousands of alternative physicians and practitioners worldwide who are practicing the medicine of the future today.
The alternatives in this book are sound, as opposed to drug based therapies. I have seen dramatic healing in a wide range of serious cases, without the disturbing side effects mainstream medicine so often creates. The damage of strokes can be reversed, if caught early enough. Even the symptoms of AIDS can be reversed. The procedures are available and being used now, but you will not hear about them from your doctor.
You probably know someone who has had the experience of getting rid of one illness, only to come down with another from the procedure used by the doctor. Maybe that someone is you. People I love, including my own son and both of my parents, have suffered through medical procedures that were unnecessarily traumatic because their physicians neglected the basics. And yes, that makes me angry. But rather than hold onto that anger, I am going to work with you to change the system, by channeling our consumer medical dollars toward a more humane and effective medicine. Too many mainstream doctors today become so specialized they treat the body parts and forget they are treating a whole human being. Disease usually appears as a local symptom, but it is always related to the entire system. So you have to treat the whole person to cure the disease, and not just the symptom.
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Naturally, you are thinking, if these methods were really any good, doctors would be using them. But it takes time for new ideas to be accepted. Back in Vienna in the 1800's, one doctor had the audacity to suggest to his colleagues that they wash their hands after they finish working on cadavers, rather than using their unwashed hands to deliver babies. He knew this would keep the women and their babies alive, by sparing them infections. But his colleagues ridiculed him. It took them thirty years to catch on and wash their hands. Imagine how many babies died because of such doctors who thought they knew it all?
I never expected the study of alternative medicine to become the passion of my life. But when the nineteen-year-old daughter of the woman I loved tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrists, I had to find a way to help. Most people would send her to a psychologist and figure that's the answer. But it wasn't the answer. Her therapist finally threw his hands up and suggested vitamin therapy, so we pursued it. We found out that the daughter's mental distress was caused by hypoglycemia, an imbalance caused by food allergies, problems in her pancreas, and an overgrowth of bad bacteria in her gastrointestinal tract. When she was treated for hypoglycemia, her mental illness disappeared. That troubled nineteen-year-old is now a healthy mother of eight children-seven girls and a boy.
That is how it started for me-seeing people who had serious mental illness being cured just by changing their lifestyle and diet and taking nutritional supplements. The amazing success I saw got me hooked. One Connecticut doctor, Marshall mandell, M.D.., dramatically showed me how a persons's state of mind could be affected when a substance to which they were allergic was placed under the tounge. He brought a very bright woman in and out of depression simply by placing different substances under her tounge. A single dose of one substance to which she was allergic caused her to put her head between her knees and cry. When she was given a reliving dose, she experienced instantaneous release.
This episode sparked my interest in environmental medicine, the study of how substances affect the body. FRom there I went on to study such alternatives as homeopathy, electromagnetic diagnosing and treatment, mind/body medicine, and the newest protocols for cancer and AIDS. After attending alternative medical conventions with a doctor who could explain doctor talk to me, my interest in new concepts in health care led me to Western Europe, Russia, and Israel. There I discovered people being cured of diseases, even the most serious, by methods never even heard of in our country. It is possible to reverse chronic disease. Many of the health problems you face can be solved simply, directly, and inexpensively without toxic side effects.
I keep checking out what is out there, what's new and what works. Your well-being--and that of every member of your family-depends upon knowing about these alternatives. Thats why a team of over 350 medical doctors, naturopaths, osteopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists, scientists, researchers, and reporters have been assembled under the auspices of Future Medicine, Inc. to produce this work. This story has never been told before.
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In Part One we will lay out the new principles in medicine. You will learn what causes disease, what you can do to counter it, why so much of this important information is being supressed, and what steps you can take to help bring about change. You will also learn how to find the best health care practitioners, for you and your family.
In Part Two we will introduce you to a wide range of alternative methods of treatment. Each chapter will tell you how each particular method of treatment works, what conditions it is best suited for treating, and how to use it yourself or locate a qualified practitioner.
In Part Three we describe how alternative medicine treats epidemic twentieth century disease like AIDS, cancer, heart disease, and chronic pain. Over 30 conditions are covered in depth, with over 175 more cross-referenced alphabetically to provide you with information on the best self-care and professional treatments that deal with them. A more extensive cross-referencing of health conditions is provided in the index.
We have researched this in-depth, and now are ready to give you the straight story. Busy people do not like to waste their time. I have tried to give you the information as concisely as possible and in a way that is simple to understand. Our work is ongoing and we are committed to continuing our investigation and reporting the most current discoveries in alternative medicine.
Let me conclude by saying that I am not against mainstream, conventional medicine. The Chinese have a saying about the wisdom of "walking on both feet", which means using the best of Eastern and Western procedures. That's what I want to see us do. There is no single approach that works for all people, or with all conditions. This goes for alternative medicine as well.
Experience shows that you are likely to get the best results with a practitoner who has trained in a number of different modalities. There may be many underlying factors influencing your health-nutritional deficiency, poor digestion, toxicity from environmental pollutants, or mental and emotional stress. You want a practitioner who is capable of determining exactly what needs to be done to help you regain health and vitality. You also want an open-minded practitioner who treats you as an individual. What's good for Willard is not necessarily good for Colleen. You are biochemically unique.
Here is a most important, optimistic, and totally realistic thought to carry with you. Most everything is reversible. You need only to find the right therapies,
Be well!
Burton Goldberg
September, 1993