PART ONE: THE 'SILENT KILLER'
Chapter One: A Difficult
Day for Cresswell Jones
In which we meet Cresswell Jones, a newly discovered hypertensive.
Chapter Two: Help!
What's Happening"
Cresswell has lots of questions. What is blood pressure? What is hypertension?
Chapter Three: Maybe
if I do Nothing this Will All Just Go Away
We have to take high blood pressure seriously. Yet surprisingly what Cresswell is told is not completely in his best interests.
PART TWO: MAGIC BULLETS
Chapter Four: The Urge
to Give a Dog a Name
The plot thickens. A risk factor assumes a life of its own and we "drug
the many to save the few".
Chapter Five: The Medical
Arms Race
The "medical armamentarium" revealed.
Chapter Six: Five Uncomfortable
Facts for Pharmacologists
Adverse effects, drug interactions and inconvenient regimes mean that
few people seem to like taking drugs.
Chapter Seven: The
Great Escape from Drugs
How we can escape from the culture that gives us drugs.
PART THREE: PERFECT BLOOD PRESSURE, PERFECT HEALTH
Chapter Eight: The
Quest for Wholeness
The world-wide reaction to medical reductivism
Chapter Nine: Coming
Back Home
How to achieve wholeness using a simple technique for transcending thought,
Transcendental Meditation.
Chapter Ten: The Proof
of the Pudding
Published studies supporting the antihypertensive effect of Transcendental
Meditation
Chapter Eleven: Cresswell
Makes his Move
Follow Cresswell as he takes the plunge, and finds he enjoys it!
Chapter Twelve: Your best medicine
Cresswell discovers that the best medicine treats people, not diseases.
Chapter Thirteen: All
in Together
Amazing studies that suggest we all affect each other's blood pressure.
Chapter Fourteen: Seven
Steps to Perfect Health
A practical step-by-step guide to lowering your high blood pressure.
Read the Preface
Read the Introduction
Read Chapter One
"Perfect Blood Pressure - Naturally shows that there is more to lowering high blood pressure than drugs and diets."