This book is based on the knowledge acquired over decades at the world-famous Bircher-Benner Clinic. It gives you all the information necessary on the path to recovery and to prevent recurrence. You will understand the causes of any rheumatic disease on a scientific basis. It provides any precise details of dietetic and natural regulative therapy on a scientific basis. For physicians, this book comes as a welcome time-saver and is a valuable aid for them in guiding their patients during treatment. This therapy makes possible to replace immunosuppressive drug-therapy by this highly effective approach, which concerns the underlying causes of rheumatic disease.
Table of contents:
- Preface of the 24 th edition
- Introduction
- What is rheumatism?
- A disease of the soft connective tissue (mesenchyme) is the origin of rheumatism
- The biochemical structure of soft connective tissue
- The connection of the soft connective tissue to the hormonal system and the autonomie nervous system
- The Experiment at Royal Free Hospital in London and the Remarkable Healing Effect of Bircher's Raw Food Treatment
- The patient with chronic secondary polyarthritis
- Limits of healing
- The Scientific Basis of the Order Therapy for Rheumatic Diseases
- The Rheumatic Diseases
- Chronic Polyarthritis (CP or PCP)
- Spondylarhtritis ankylosans (Bechterew's disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA)
- Collagenosis or connectivitis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Gout
- Soft-tissue rheumatism
- Infectious arthritises
- Arthrosis
- Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases
- The order of foods, meals and lifestyle
- Removal of infection foci and heavy-metal burden
- Physiotherapy
- Movement therapy
- Hydrotherapy
- The cabbage compress
- Healing earth
- Hay flowers
- Fango
- Neck gush according to Kneipp
- Lumbar gush according to Kneipp
- Steam compress according to Kneipp
- Plan medicines for rheumatism
- Treatment of infections
- Homeopathic therapy
- The new scientific acupuncture
- Manual therapy, chiropractic and osteopathy
- Neural Therapy accoring to Huneke
- Medication
- Surgical treatment
- The healing plan
- The healing regime
- The four diet stages
- Stage-1-diet
- Stage-2-diet
- Stage-3-diet
- Brief substitution table for animal products that must
- be left out in the stage-3 diet.
- Stage-4 diet
- The Recipes, including some traditional Swiss favourites
- Juives
- Birchermüesli
- Raw vegetables and salads
- Salad dressings
- Suggestions for dressings and herbal additions to varous salads
- Variations of mixed salad
- Milk Types
- Butter, vegetable fats and oils
- Light cooking and steaming
- Soups
- Vegetables
- Salads of cooked vegetables
- Potato dishes
- Grain Dishes
- Sauces
- Sandwiches
- Sweet dishes
- Healthful Teas
- List of recipes
- Bibliography
- 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.
