The medical science of Saint Hildegard

Description

Our eating habits and industrial foods with no nutritional value and often too rich in animal proteins, fats, sugars and salt, are the source of many of today's illnesses and health problems. Yet food is one of the ways we can maintain and regain our health.

In this respect, the dietary therapy developed by St Hildegard of Bingen over 900 years ago, based on fruit, vegetables and whole grains, whose curative virtues no longer need to be demonstrated, appears to be the appropriate answer to these questions.

Explaining the basics of Hildegard's medicine and the various therapeutic approaches, such as dietetics and the theory of equilibrium, Wighard Strehlow gives us all the information we need to effectively treat a wide range of illnesses, and particularly chronic, hard-to-beat conditions. He also gives us the secret of his balms and elixirs, as well as useful information on his remedies and the correct use of medicinal herbs. Two indexes of remedies and diseases make this a practical reference book for everyday use and