Bircher-Benner 2 Manual for patients with liver and gallbladder conditions

About the Author: Dr. med. Andres Bircher grandson of Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner. Medical studies in Zürich and Geneva, ten years practice as a hospital physician in anaesthesiology, intensive care, emergency medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychosomatics, haematology, geriatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy, medical specialist(Facharzt) in an administrative position at Zürich university hospitals, teaching analysis with Brian Kenny, chief physician (Chefarzt) of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in Western Switzerland, medical specialist (Facharzt) in TCM and acupuncturist in Vienna; studies of neural therapy, manual therapy and traditional homeopathy, successful completion of medical specialist (Facharzt) training in balneology, climatology and physical medicine in Germany, scientific work on food energies, dietetics and the effects of regulatory medicine. Dr. med. Andres Bircher is the medical manager of the Centre for Scientific Natural Medicine Bircher-Benner.

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

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 to the 32nd edition This manual is based on long experience in the treatment of patients who have been healed by Bircher’s order therapy. The earlier editions have been supplemented with many notes from basic research and the new results of clinical gastroenterological research, and the dietetic section has also been slightly revised without losing the high quality of Bircher’s recipes. The manual gives the patient or person with a weakness of the liver the required knowledge and the indispensable practical instruction to enable him to stop progression of his disease and initiate continuous 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 liver and gall diseases has been researched for more than one hundred years at the Bircher-Benner clinic and in private practices under careful observation of its healing effects. Throughout these years, the many thousands of desperate patients who recovered from their rapidly worsening diseases have been our best teachers. With a strong will to be healed, they successfully followed the instructions of the order therapy and enabled great insights whose confirmation is only now slowly 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 warden des neuen Arztes” (The physician of the future): “The wonders of the soul remain closed to those who continually ignore the laws of nutrition. Power and depth of inner experiences depend on nutrition-this is their actual meaning. Taking care of one’s body and nutrition is useless unless a new development and awakening of inner powers results from it” Dr.med. Andres A. Bircher

Preface to the 32nd editionThis manual is based on long experience in the treatment of patients who have been healed by Bircher's order therapy. The earlier editions have been supplemented with many notes from basic research and the new results of clinical gastroenterological research, and the dietetic section has also been slightly revised without losing the high quality of Bircher's recipes. The manual gives the patient or person with a weakness of the liver the required knowledge and the indispensable practical instruction to enable him to stop progression of his disease and initiate continuous 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 liver and gall diseases has been researched for more than one hundred years at the Bircher-Benner clinic and in private practices under careful observation of its healing effects. Throughout these years, the many thousands of desperate patients who recovered from their rapidly worsening diseases have been our best teachers. With a strong will to be healed, they successfully followed the instructions of the order therapy and enabled great insights whose confirmation is only now slowly 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 warden des neuen Arztes" (The physician of the future): "The wonders of the soul remain closed to those who continually ignore the laws of nutrition. Power and depth of inner experiences depend on nutrition-this is their actual meaning. Taking care of one's body and nutrition is useless unless a new development and awakening of inner powers results from it"Dr.med. Andres A. Bircher