About the Book

Increasing Clinical Burden

The marked increase in chronic conditions is imposing a great strain on GPs and on hospital outpatient clinics. More and more patients are needing help because they suffer from asthma, rhinitis, eczema and other allergies or from IBS, migraine and mood changes. Sometimes the same patients come back again and again with a variety of complaints and are thought to be somaticising. Children suffer increasingly from asthma, eczema, colic, migraine, hyperactivity and glue ear.

Finding the Causes

Although these conditions are often provoked by environmental and food factors or by deficiency of micronutrients, the relationship is usually hidden. This new text shows how to expose the causes and find out what provokes the symptoms so that the patient can avoid them and become symptom-free. Most patients are happy to co-operate and delighted when they start to feel really well for the first time for years. After that you rarely see them.

Patients need to be shown how to look for the provoking factors, and how to interpret their findings, but they do most of the detective work themselves. Attention to nutrition may also be needed for best results. With the help of this new text, practice nurses can do much of the explanation and guidance.

A Valuable Resource

There is increasing interest in this approach from the medical profession and the general public, and this book will be a valuable resource for all who treat patients with chronic and recurrent illness. The book examines the evidence that it works, and gives clear instructions about how to start to practise in this way. The appendix includes 62 pages of invaluable instructions and diet sheets for patients.

About the Authors

Honor Anthony, Sybil Birtwistle, Keith Eaton and Jonathan Maberly are all doctors with conventional backgrounds, who find the methods of environmental medicine superior whenever they are applicable. They have, between them, worked as hospital physicians and in general practice, private practice and research, and in the first purpose-built environmentally-controlled unit anywhere in the world. They use drug therapy when necessary but prefer to practice in the way described in the book.

Between them they have published many papers and have a total of nearly 70 years experience of this type of practice, which they see as being in the true mainstream of medicine.