Alternative medicine is booming. More and more people are relying on the powers of gentle therapies: whether it's classical homeopathy or Traditional Chinese Medicine, healing stones or oxygen therapies. With this standard work, written by bestselling author Simon Singh together with the world's first professor of alternative medicine, Edzard Ernst, laypeople can finally form their own opinions about the various approaches to natural healing. Singh and Ernst demonstrate which treatment methods are effective, which are not, and which can be harmful. A service section at the end of the book presents all the important information about 37 alternative healing methods.