Bircher-Benner Manual Vol. 19 (Paperback)

This manual is based on the knowledge and decades of experience of a medical centre of state-of-the-art healing, the globally renowned Bircher-Benner-Klinik, now called the Centre for Scientific Natural Medicine Bircher-Benner. This manual is a great help for patients in that it supports their active contribution to the healing and prevention of disease. It gives patients insight into the scientific basis and causes of their disease, and provides valuable instructions for dietetics, care and physical applications. The manual explains dietetics in a gradual manner-ready for simple, practical applications-and provides tasty, diverse, tried-and-tested diet recipes from the Bircher-Benner-Klinik. For the doctor, this book is a great time saver and valuable aid in guiding patients.

Table of Contents

• Preface to the 17th edition
• Introduction
• The healthy heart, an astounding organ
• The heart and its functions
• The systemic circulation
• The pulmonary circulation
• The capillaries and the basic substance of the soft connective tissue
• Degeneration and regeneration, and the obsolescence of calorie calculation
• Arteriosclerosis, a widespread disease
• The risk factors for cardiovascular diseases
• The problem of small amount of alcohol
• Oxidative stress, an important contributing cause
• What precisely is arteriosclerosis and how does it develop?
• The importance of fat metabolism, obesity and cholesterol
• The importance of fatty acids
• Saturated fatty acids
• Unsaturated fatty acids
• Monounsaturated fatty acids
• Polyunsaturated fatty acids
• The pharmacological effect of the omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids
• The suitable ratio between polyunsaturated fatty acids
• The risk of oxidation of highly unsaturated oils
• The problem of vegetable margarines, cream and butter
• The importance of cholesterol
• The cholesterol metabolism
• The effect of nutrition on the cholesterol levels in the blood
• Cholesterol metabolism disorder and gallstones
• Cholesterol and coronary heart disease
• The importance of proteins and amyloidosis
• The importance of carbohydrates and sugar for arteriosclerosis
• The importance of vegetarian nutrition int the prevention of coronary heart disease
• The effect of almonds and nuts on arteriosclerosis
• The effect of fruits and vegetables on arteriosclerosis
• The antioxidative effect of vegetarian raw food, the importance of secondary plant
• Substances
• The importance of wholemeal cereals
• Bircher-benner’s healing diet and order therapy
• Hypertension
• Blood pressure regulation
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Treatment of hypertension with medication
• Angina pectoris
• Stable angina pectoris
• Unstable angina pectoris
• Prevention and treatment of heart attack
• Heart attack
• The risk factors for heart attack
• Caring for a heart attack victim
• Complications of heart attack
• Prevention of heart attack
• Cardiac insufficiency or chronic heart failure
• Dietary treatment of cardiac insufficiency
• Heart valve defects
• Mitral valve stenosis
• Mitral insufficiency
• Aortal valve stenosis
• Aortic insufficiency
• Pulmonary valve stenosis
• Pulmonary valve insufficiency
• Tricuspid valve stenosis
• Tricuspid valve insufficiency
• Inflammatory diseases of the heart
• Myocarditis
• Toxic myocardial damage
• Autoimmune inflammation of the heart
• The symptoms of myocarditis, treatment and prognosis
• Endocarditis
• Aneurysm
• Aneurysm dissecans of the aorta
• Aneurysms of the cerebral arteries
• Stroke (apoplexy)
• Renal artery stenosis
• Carotid artery stenosis
• Peripheral vascular disease (PVD)
• Arrhythmia
• Supraventricular extrasystoles
• Ventricular extrasystoles
• Atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation (absolute arrhythmia)
• Tachycardia
• Inflammation of the arteries
• Vasculitis
• Regulative treatments of naturopathic healing for cardiovascular patients
• Climate therapy and terrain treatments
• Hydrotherapy
• Classical homeopathic treatment
• The new scientific acupuncture
• Neural therapy
• General directives for the treatment and prevention of arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases
• The healing regime
• Secondary plant substances
• Menu
• Menu for various raw food regimes
• 1. Fresh Juice Fasting (bed/juice day)
• 2. Full Juice Day
• 3. Fruit Fasting Days
• 4. Raw Vegetable Menus (for stage-2 diet)
• Daily menu
• The Recipes
• Fruit Juices
• Vegetable Juices
• Potato Juices
• Gruel to Accompany Juices
• Birchermuesli
• Sprouted cereal grains
• Linomel muesli according to Dr. Johanna Budwig
• Raw vegetables and salads
• Salads dressings
• Table for Choosing Suitable Salad Dressings
• Milk Types
• Plant fats, oils and butter
• Gentle cooking and steaming/sauténing
• Soups
• Vegetables
• Salads of cooked vegetables
• Potato dishes
• Cereal Dishes
• Sauces
• Sandwiches
• Desserts
• Table for Raw Food Diet
• Healthful teas
• Recipes
• Notes
• Index

Dr. Andres Bircher is Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner's grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, he spent ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive and emergency care surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy. As a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level, he performed training analysis with Brian Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich. He received study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neuraltherapy, manual therapy and classical homeopathy, as well as training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. He is currently medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Centre.