Bircher-Benner 10 Manual for patients with rheumatism and arthritis

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 Brian 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.

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

The Bircher-Benner diet has tremendous healing value.
This is why doctors, nutritionists and dieticians use our Bircher-Benner diet books.

Editorial reviews:
Prof. Dr.med. Halden, Graz, M.D.:
“I think the books are excellent. In addition to many spa plans, recipes and meal plans for a helpful and tasty diet, tried-and-tested instructions for a protective and uplifting lifestyle are also provided, which promote the understanding of the medical prescriptions.

Dr. med. Klimcyk , M.D. in the German Medical Journal:
"It saves a lot of time for the doctor and is very helpful to the patient."

Prof. Dr.med. K. Kötschau, Schlossberg, M.D. near Rosenheim:
“These books rank above all medicine, because they give you the chance to prevent almost every illness, and indeed some illnesses. That is my medical conviction, which I have come across in decades of working in preventive health care."

Dr. med. W.Matzke, M.D. in the Austrian Medical Journal:
“Everything is thought of and everything is well thought out. This is the special value of this diet book series. Every doctor should recommend it to their patients. "

Dr. med. J. V. Mengershausen, Bayrischzell, M.D.:
“Max Bircher-Benner was the leading pioneer of this natural diet and lifestyle. The series of Bircher-Benner Manuals for the most important disease groups has emerged from the wide and long-standing experience of his famous clinic, which can be highly recommended to anyone seeking healing. ”

Prof. Dr. med. Mommsen, Frankfurt / M ., M.D.:
“These books are a valuable aid for every doctor in the management of their patients. They show the sick and the person at risk of illness how they can regain health and resistance through proper nutrition. The reader will be amazed to see how varied a diet can be. It is not necessary to give up the joys of good meals. I wish the books the broadest distribution and I am convinced that our hospitals' susceptibility to illness and the resulting high occupancy rates could be significantly reduced if the nutritional advice of the Bircher-Benner diet books were followed by the majority of our population.”



Dr. med. Schoeler, M.D. in the general Homeopathic newspaper:
"It is most convenient for doctors and patients and the most reliable for success to use these inexpensive and practical diet books."


Prof. Dr..med. H. Warning, Saarbrücken, M.D.:
“Since the existence of this diet book series, many related authors have been trying to bring something equivalent and comprehensive to the diet book market that is equally practical for the dietetically informed professional and the general public. As far as I can see, this has so far been only partially successful. So the Bircher-Benner diet book series is marching at the top of its genre as before. ”
Dr. med. J. Zinke, M.D. "Classic Homeopathy":
“The diet books of the Bircher-Benner probably represent the best that is currently on the market in this genre. They save a lot of time for the attending doctor and are extremely valuable help for the patient. ”

Preface of the 24 th edition: This manual is based on the abundant experience of patients who have been healed by Birchers's order therapy, the earlier editions have also been supplemented by much valuable information from basic research and by clinical results of from rheumatology research. The dietetic section has also been slightly revised without losing the high quality of Birchers's recipe art. The manual gives the patient or person with a weakness the required knowledge and the indispensable practical instructions to enable him to stop the progression of his disease and initiate continous healing steps. The book can be a valuable aid for the doctor practicing holistic treatment, helping him or her to provide patients with instructions for changing their lifestyles towards the order therapy. Since its establishment by Dr.med. Max Oscar Bircher-Benner, the order therapy for rheumatic diseases has been researched for more than one hundres years at the Bircher-Benner clinic and in privat e practices under careful observation of its healing effects. Throught these years, the many thousands of desperate patients who recovered from their steadily worsening diseases habe been our best teachers. With a strong will to be healed, they successful followed the inabled great insights whose confirmation is only now sloly being reflected in general medical research. In the change to a more healthful lifestyle nutrition is of primary importance! It leads to regeneration of the large regulation systems, a new opening towards the outer world and oneself that permits the healing forces of the organism, body and soul to begin their work. Let me finally quote a section of Bircher-Benner's book Vom werden des neuen Arztes (The Physician of the Future): The wonders of the soul remain closed to those who continually ignore the laws of nutrition. Strength and depth of inner experiences depend on nutriton-this is its real significance. Taking care of one's body and nutrition is pointless unless a new development and the awakening of inner forces are the result." Dr. med. Andres A. Bircher