Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

by Lewis Mehl-Madrona

Distills the basic principles used by Native American healers to create miracles.

• Explores the power of miracles in both traditional Native American healing and modern scientific medicine.

• Cites numerous cases in which people whose conditions were deemed hopeless were miraculously healed.

• Enables readers to start their own healing journey through the exploration of purpose, meaning, and acceptance.

• By the author of Coyote Medicine .

Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all possible ways for them to occur. In modern medicine, miraculous recoveries are discarded from studies as anomalous cases that will taint the otherwise orderly results. Yet this small group of "miracle" patients has much to teach us about healing and survival.

Coyote Healing distills the common elements in miracle cures to help people start their own healing journey. Looking at 100 cases of individuals who experienced miracle cures, Dr. Mehl-Madrona found the same preconditions that Native American healers know are necessary in order for miracles to occur. The author reveals what he learned from both his own practice and the interviews he conducted with survivors about the common features of their path back to wellness. Survivors found purpose and meaning in their life-threatening illness; peaceful acceptance was key to their healing. Coyote Healing also tells of another kind of miracle--finding faith, hope, and serenity even when a cure seems impossible.

Genres: Spirituality

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2003

About the author

Lewis graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He completed his residencies in family medicine and in psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of New England. He continues to work with aboriginal communities to develop uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those communities. He is interested in the relation of healing through dialogue in community and psychosis. He is the author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world. He has also written Narrative Medicine, Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: the Promise of Narrative Psychiatry, and, his most recent book with Barbara Mainguy, Remapping Your Mind: the Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.

Reviews

[Mynde Mayfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you've never explored Native American traditions around healing and creating miracles, this is an excellent way to get started understanding the Medicine Wheel. I enjoyed the authors deep compassion which is easy to recognize in the book's pages as he recounts personal stories of health & healing the native american way. Sweat Lodge is on my list of things to explore very soon in my life and something others I know have spoken highly about. Being 1/16 Cherokee Indian, and dealing with my own personal health issues, it was time to explore my ancestors traditions and views on health & wellness. I recommend this book to anyone seeking alternative understanding that Western Medicine still seems to "leave" out due to it being "non-scientific."

[Mollie Moon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this author and his books. He is very authentic. His knowledge and expertise in a field unknown to many of us is exceptional.

[Julie M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love everything by Lewis Mehl-Medrano

[Kylie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written by an MD and Native American author interested in complementary/alternative medicine techniques. Good stories, stretches my thoughts on the "realm of possibility", but sometimes hard to take seriously without more details for my scientific scrutiny.

[Terre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another wonderful contribution!

I'm a fan of Lewis Mehl-Madrona and his work. This is another great effort of relating the healing of Spirit and narrative medicine. I recommend his work.

[Cheryl]

Is there a reputation out there?

[Joe Montoya]

Enhanced my studies with Maria Yraceburu. Very supportive, and demonstrated a cross-cultural theme with Earth and Spirit as the premise for all healing ways.

[Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm tempted to say this is a writer who needs a larger audience, but the more I think about it, the more I think he needs the audience that finds him.

[Federica Rossini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awsome!

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[Rinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting.