DOCTOR VALNET- DOCTOR NATURE  [to french]

Written for doctors and also the public, this scientific book details 10 years of laboratory experimentation on essential oils.  Before Jean Valnet, this had not been done.  More than 50 essential oils are listed with their compositions, properties, internal and external uses and methods of use. Dr. Jean Valnet gives numerous examples of clinical cases and observations that he has made of patients.  His book is littered with recipes for aromatic preparations for home use; this makes it a practical guide.
Dr. Jean Valnet affirms that the intelligent use of essential oils gives results that no modern therapeutic can obtain.  However, he doesn’t pretend that aromatherapy can cure everything.  He stresses its limits, and also its dangers when it is used by charlatans as aromatic essences are concentrated products which must be used with discretion.  Another warning: essential oils used in aromatherapy must be of irreproachable quality, perfectly pure and natural. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx            to summary    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hippocrate’s maxim “what you eat becomes your medicine” shows that for all time men have made the connection between their food and their health.  Today, studies allow a better understanding of the composition and properties of plants.  It is only with the discovery of the amazing actions of chemicals that their therapeutic value has been put to one side.  The black radish is remarkable in cases of liver deficiency, the apple has diuretic and purgative properties which are rapidly being forgotten.  The knowledge of plants accumulated over millennia by hundreds of generations have disappeared in a few decades.  If modern chemical medicine knows undeniable successes, which Dr. Jean Valnet doesn’t question, it has its inconveniences and its systematic or to frequent use runs important risks for patients.  Its unpleasant side effects explain, in large part, the return to favour of fruits, of vegetables and other plants in the opinions of certain doctors who give as much importance, if not more, to hygiene and diet as to prescriptions for drugs.  Fortunately, continuing work brings new proofs of the efficacy of plants everyday.  In the course of its pages Dr. Jean Valnet reveals “the beneficial action on coronary arteries of  **daucarine**  contained in carrots, he stresses the action of myrtle in improving night vision, that of cold first pressing virgin oils in eliminating excess cholesterol, that of chlorophyll in combating anaemia etc.  He leads the reader into a natural, rural life across fields and gardens to discover the constituents and virtues of more than 130 plants, fruits, vegetables, cereals, pulses, oil producers.  He doesn’t forget pollen, algae, brewers yeast  and clay which represent the most valuable complimentary foods.  For Dr. Jean Valnet it is essential that all the plants are produced by organic farming which gives a well balanced composition and are not tainted with pesticide residues.  In his conclusion Dr. Jean Valnet recalls his wish for a return to organic farming, equally he demands measures aimed at the prohibition of chemical products in the food industry and in the preparation of foods for animals and poultry intended for human consumption .....     to summary 

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In “DOCTOR NATURE” (1970) Dr. Jean Valnet reveals his concept of medicine for the whole man.  With words understandable by all, he compares opinions and methods and he presents observations he has made and the results obtained in the course of his practise of medicine.  In this sense “Doctor Nature” reflects the experience of Dr. Valnet; but it is also a lucid plea for the protection of nature and its vital resources “Provided that they can be discerned, all treatments can be found in nature.  It is necessary to go back to nature before the modern barbarians destroy it”  Dr. Jean Valnet has always spoken and written as a free man, his only interest is that of his patients.  Relying on detailed and scientific arguments, he plainly denounces the disastrous effects on health of modern life (sedentariness, unnatural agriculture, tainted food, polluted air and water, blind medicine that only recognises chemical therapies.).
He extols organic farming, healthy food, a true policy of environmental protection and medicine open to all therapeutics.
“Doctor Nature” shows us the sometimes determining role of the psyche in the explosion of illnesses and in thwarting their healing.  One of the errors of medicine is to only see the illness and its symptoms, it must consider the patient as a whole, organic and psychological at the same time.  “This medicine of the person, that is to say of the thinking being seems to be, in effect, the only rational attitude to adopt as it is the only one able to furnish the maximum chance in face of the disconcerting aspects of an illness of which one doesn’t know the causes or the out come”.  The underlying influences, those of food, too often neglected, often have unfortunate consequences or dis-benefits for health.  Dr. Valnet gives us a clear and documented view over all these aspects.  He never falls into the irrational or tries to con.  His aims are backed up by precise scientific observations and references.  Next he mentions all the natural therapeutics which are available to doctors and which of these should be known and often used in place of the ever-present chemical therapy.
Herbal medicine, aromatherapy, **vertèbrothérapie**, electric ions, homeopathy etc.  All form part of medicine.  They are left out, derided, ignored by modern medicine which, dazzled by chemical therapy, has become blind.  “The natural always prevails over the synthetic......It must retain the truth contained in the innumerable remedies of natural origin still at our disposal”.  According to Galien, the best medicine is nature, because it cures 3/4 of all illnesses”.  He adds elsewhere “And it never speaks ill of its colleagues”. to summary 

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“HERBAL MEDICINE” completes the works written by Dr. Jean Valnet on the use of  plant therapeutics.  Herbal medicine, the treatment of illness with plants, is not a new medicine.  There is about 5000 years of the use of plants for their therapeutic value and 40% medicines at present contain them.  Medicine has forgotten above all the doctors who have not received training about plants since chemistry became the absolute master of the pharmaceutical industry.
However, the failures of synthetic drugs, their aggressiveness and their noxious side effects, have brought into question their systematic use.  Little by little, plants have returned to favour with numerous practitioners and especially patients and the healthy for whom prevention is better than cure.
"Simples" named, plants for medical use have a very complex composition of which the most modern analytical techniques have not yet penetrated all its secrets; a complexity often denounced by the detractors of herbal medicine who criticise plants for their lack of precision compared to pure, chemically defined  molecules.
The continuing studies regularly bring explanations of the way in which plants work and knowledge of their composition.  Generally the action of the whole plant is superior to that of one or more of its components separately.  “There exists in plants several synergetic components which make the resultant effect of their use less brutal, more long lasting, more complete than that of chemicals and which explains why natural medicines are, on the whole, better tolerated by the organism than artificially created foreign substances of which one doesn’t know the toxicity of long term use or its side effects”.  Plants, with the exception of those which of a toxic nature, don’t present a danger when one uses them with discretion.  On this subject, Dr. Valnet warns the reader against charlatans and con-men who, profiting from the public’s passion for plants, prescribe anything, anyway.
Backing his demonstration of examples of  “wild, anarchic prescriptions” he denounces the practitioners who according to him take up “shamblestherapy” and he advises pharmacists to refuse to prepare them and patients to refuse to take them.  “HERBAL MEDICINE”, like Dr. Jean Valnet’s other books, is a clear guide to discovering the properties and uses of several hundred plants. It is full of simple recipes such as the preparation of infusions or decoctions or the more elaborate such as elixirs or medicinal wines. to summary  our products  

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