Used throughout the ages for its healing and immune properties, mushrooms have always been a focus of the mysterious and mystical.    But, has the potential for a healthy life been right under our feet this whole time?

 

HEALTHY AGING By Dr. Andrew Weil. Dr. Weil has been an authoritative and companionable guide through a uniquely effective combination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to health and healthy living. Now he gives us abook about aging that is unlike any other in the breadth and depth of its information and understanding. At the heart of Healthy Aging is Dr. Weil’s belief that although aging is an irreversible process, there are myriad things we can do to keep our minds and bodies in good working order through all phases of life. To that end, he draws on the new science of biogerentology (the biology of aging) as well as on the secrets of healthy longevity—diet, activity, and attitude—that he has gathered firsthand from cultures around the world. Informative, practical, and uplifting. 304 pages, hardcover.

$27.95

 

Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover & Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain & Heal Itself This was book that really put Andrew Weil on the map and public speaker circuit and it was totally deserved. A wonderful mix of Weil's personal journey of being disaffected with the medical system, his travels abroad to look for answers he could only find at home, stories of patients that taught him key concepts about the body's inherent capacity to heal itself, and discussion of herbal and mind/body research that has influenced his work are only some of the main concepts he expounds upon in this volume. The main crux of the book is short and sweet: the body can heal itself because it is a healing system.

$14.95

 

Medicinal Mushrooms: An Exploration of Tradition, Healing, & Cultures By Christopher Hobbs. As an herbalist who has had this book for several years, I find that I return to the book again and again. Chris Hobbs puts together research and his own clinical background on a wide variety of mushrooms. Highly recommended. (By Karen Vaughan "Herblady")

$18.95

 

Shiitake: The Healing Mushroom By Kenneth Jones. Shiitake The Healing Mushroom represents a very good first attempt to bring detailed information about the nutritional and medicinal merits of this exotic Asian mushroom to the general public. According to Mr. Jones, besides tasting sinfully good steamed or sauted in butter and garlic, shiitake has many 'bioactive' compounds that either stimulate, boost, supplement or somehow enhance the disease fighting capability of our immune system. (by Gregory McMahan)

$15.95