A Path to Healing: A Guide to Wellness for Body, Mind, and Soul - Hardcover

Sullivan, Andrea D.

 
9780385485753: A Path to Healing: A Guide to Wellness for Body, Mind, and Soul

Synopsis

One of the premier naturopathic physicians in the nation presents her alternative methods for maintaining health and keeping away disease, with special information on the most common ailments among African Americans. Tour.

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About the Author

Andrea Sullivan, N.D., lives and practices in Washington, D.C., is a member of several national homeopathic organizations, and is a founding member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. She appears frequently on television and radio.


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ago, at age twenty-nine, Andrea Sullivan was a high-level executive at HUD in a state of what she now calls "dis-ease": stressed out, thirty-pounds overweight, with a face full of acne. Moved by a desire to help her community and herself in a "meaningful way," she quit her job and decided to become a doctor. She applied and was accepted to Bastyr Medical School for Alternative Medicine and became a naturopathic physician.



Since then, Dr. Sullivan has been at the vanguard of naturopathic medicine and has helped hundreds of African Americans create dramatic and lasting lifestyle changes. Unlike traditional doctors, naturopathic physicians, with the aid of herbs, roots, and other natural remedies, treat the patient, not the disease.



Here, in easy-to-understand language, Dr. Sullivan provides an overview of alternative medicine (paying close attention to naturopathy), discusses the African American tradition and its link to naturo

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ISBN 10:  0385485778 ISBN 13:  9780385485777
Publisher: Crown, 1999
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