Bircher-Benner Manual Vol. 2

This book is based on the decades of knowledge and experience of the world famous Bircher-Benner Clinic. This book is a huge help for you as a patient to assist you on the road to recovery and to prevent illness. It enables you to understand the scientific basis and causes of illness and gives valuable direction on nutrition in interconnected levels, is ready to use practically, and is supplemented by a wide variety of tested good-tasting nutritional recipes by the Bircher-Benner Clinic. You will receive a deep insight into the causes of illenes and get into your hands this highly effective way to permanent healing. For physicians, this book is a great time-saver and valuable aid in guiding their patients.

Table of contents:

• Preface to the 32nd edition
• Introduction
• The structure and function of the liver
• The enterohepatic cycle as a vicious circle
• The tasks of the liver
• Scientific bases of the order therapy for liver-gallbladder disease
• The problem with small amounts of alcohol
• The different disease forms of the liver-gallbladder system
• The general appearance of the failing liver function and first measures
• Inflammation of the liver (hepatitis)
• Liver cirrhosis (cirrhotic liver)
• Liver failure as the final stage of liver cirrhosis
• Tumour diseases of the liver
• Diseases of the gallbladder
• Gallbladder carcinoma
• Bile-duct stones (choledocholithiasis)
• Postcholecystectomy syndrome
• Plant remedies for liver-gall diseases (phytotherapy, spagyrics)
• Treatment of infections
• Hydrotherapy
• Compresses
• Gushes
• The baths
• Washes
• Compresses and applications
• Description of some water applications and compresses
• Homeopathic therapy, miasmatically inherited consequences of diseases and traumas
• The new scientific acupuncture
• Neural therapy according to Huneke
• The healing plan
• The healing regime
• Treatment of hepatitis
• Treatment of liver cirrhosis
• Treatment of gallbladder inflammation (Cholecystitis)
• To prevent and avoid relapses
• The four diet stages
• Diet Stage 1- The raw-juice regime
• Diet Stage 2
• The Stage 3 Diet
• The Stage 4 Diet
• Small substitution table for animal products that must be left out in the stage-3 diet
• The Recipes
• Juices
• Healthful Teas
• Birchermuesli
• Raw vegetables and Salads
• Salad dressings
• Milk Types
• Butter, plant and vegetable fats and oils- Light cooking and steaming
• Soups
• Vegetables
• Salads of cooked vegetables
• Potato dishes
• Cereal Dishes
• Sauces
• Sandwiches
• Desserts
• List of recipes
• Bibliography
• Glossary

About the author: Dr. med. Andres Bircher is Dr. med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner’s grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive medicine, emergency surgery, pediatrics, psychosomatics, hematology, geriatrics. Psychiatry and psychotherapy, as a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level. Training analysis with Brain Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in the western part of Switzerland. Study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neural therapy, manual therapy, classical homeopathy, Training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. Scientific work in food energy, dietetics and the effects of regulative medicine. Medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Center