Edinburgh M.E. Self help Group

The following publications are held in the edmesh library. The library is a FREE service for all members. Items are sent out and returned by post. All postage costs are covered by edmesh. There is usually no time limit on borrowing, unless an item is requested by another member.

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This list was correct as of Spring 2012.

Books

AMAND, R Paul St MD & MAREK, Claudia Craig – What your Doctor may NOT tell you about Fibromyalgia: The revolutionary treatment that can reverse the disease
ANDREW, Sarah (ed.) – A Silver Lining
ARBER, Martin – The Joke’s On M.E.
BALL, Nigel & HOUGH, Nick – The Sleep Solution
BAMFORTH, Nick – M.E. (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and The Healer Within
BARNARD, Neal MD – Foods that Fight Pain
BARTON, Alexandra – Recovery From CFS: 50 Personal Stories
BECKER, Robert O & SELDEN, Gary – The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and The Foundation of Life
BERNE, Dr Katrina – Running On Empty
BESTED, Alison C. & LOGAN, Alan C. – Hope And Help For CFS and Fibromyalgia
BIGELOW, Stacie L MA – Fibromyalgia: Simple relief through Movement
BLACK’S Medical Dictionary 40th Edition – Edited by Gordon Macpherson MB, BS
BRADLEY, Dinah – Hyperventilation Syndrome
BRIGGS, Margaret – Vinegar: 1001 Practical uses
BROSTOFF, Dr Jonathan & GAMLIN, Linda – Food Allergy and Intolerance
BRUMFITT, Jan – The Final Surrender: A Journey to Wellness
BRUNO, Dr Richard L. – The Polio Paradox
BUDD, Martin ND DO – Why Am I So Tired
BURNS, David – The Feeling Good Handbook (CBT & Anti-depressants)
CANNON, Geoffrey & ENZIG, Hetty – Dieting Makes You Fat
CARPER, Jean – The Food Pharmacy
CARTER, Jill & EDWARDS, Alison – The Elimination Diet Cookbook
CHAITOW, Leon – Candida Albicans: Could Yeast Be Your Problem?
CHAITOW, Leon – Fatigue: The New Self Help Series
CHAITOW, Leon – Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome
CHAITOW, Leon – The Raw Materials of Health
CHAITOW, Leon ND DO – Fibromyalgia & Muscle Pain
CHOPRA, Deepak – Boundless Energy
COLEMAN, Dr Vernon – Overcoming Stress
COLLINGE, William M.P.H., PH.D – Recovering From CFS
COLLINGRIDGE Emily Severe ME/CFS: A Guide to Living
COUSINS, Barbara – Cooking Without
COUSINS, Barbara – Vegetarian Cooking Without
CRAGGS-HINTON, Christine – Living with Fibromyalgia
CRAGGS-HINTON, Christine – The Chronic Fatigue Healing Diet
CROOK, William G – Nature’s Own Candida Cure
CROSTHWAITE, Fran – How to Eat Well Again on a Wheat, Gluten and Dairy Free Diet
CUNNINGHAM Chet The Fibromyalgia Relief Handbook
D’ADAMO Peter & WHITNEY, Catherine – Eat Right 4 Your Type
DANCEY, Christine P & BLACKHOUSE, Susan – IBS: A Complete Guide to Relief
DAWES, Dr Belinda & DOWNING, Dr Damien – Why M.E.?
DE RUYTER, Peter – Understanding Candida
DE VRIES, Jan – Body Energy
DE VRIES, Jan – Realistic Weight Control
DE VRIES, Jan – Viruses, Allergies And The Immune System
DOIDGE, Norman – The Brain That Changes Itself
ELLIOT, Rose & DE PAOLI, Carlo – Kitchen Pharmacy
EMSLEY, John & FELL, Peter – Was it Something you Ate?
FOX, Joyce – Surviving M.E.
FRANKLIN, Mike & SULLIVAN, Jane – M.E.: What Is It? Have You Got It? How To Get Better
GEARY, Amanda – The Food and Mood Handbook
GIBSON, Dr Sheila, TEMPLETON, Louise & GIBSON, Dr Robin – The Complete Wheat-Free Cookbook
GILBERT, Paul – Overcoming Depression
GLANVILLE-BLACKBURN, Jo – Home Spa Relax
GOLDBERG, Burton & TRIVIERI, Larry Jr – Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Lyme Disease
GOLDENBERG, Don L – Fibromyalgia: Understanding and Getting Relief from Pain that Won’t Go Away
GRACE, Janey Lee – Imperfectly Natural Woman: Getting Life Right The Natural Way
GUPTA, ASHOK – The advanced ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia recovery programme with DVD [3 copies]
HAY, Louise L – You Can Heal Your Life
HOLFORD, Patrick – Super Nutrition for A Healthy Heart
HOLFORD, Patrick – The Energy Equation
HOLFORD, Patrick – The Whole Health Manual
HOLFORD, Patrick & BARLOW, Dr Philip – How To Protect Yourself From Pollution
HOLMES, Diana – Tears Behind Closed Doors: Failure to Diagnose a Thyroid Condition
HOWARD, Alex – Why Me? My Journey from ME to Health and Happiness
HO-YEN, Dr Darrel – Better Recovery From Viral Illness (5th Edition)
HO- YEN Dr Darrel – Climbing Out Of the Pit of Life
HO-YEN, Dr Darrel – Unwind! Understand And Control Life, Be Better!
INVEST in ME – Lost Voices
JACOBS Gill – Beat Candida
JAFRY, Nasim Marie – The State of Me
JEFFREYS, Toni – The Mile High Staircase
KABAT-ZINN, Jon – Full Catastrophe Living: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
KENTON, Leslie & Susannah – Raw Energy Recipes
KENTON, Leslie – The Raw Energy Bible
KENNEDY Graham and Linda Poole – It’s Good to Laugh
LAZARIDES Linda – Nutritional Health Bible
LEVIN, Alan Scott & ZELLERBACH, Merla – The Allergy Relief Programme
LOGAN, Karen – Clean House, Clean Planet: Clean Your House for Pennies a Day, the Safe, Nontoxic Way
LONGDEN, Deric – Diana’s Story
MACINTYRE, Dr Anne – M.E./C.F.S.: A Practical Guide [3]
MACINTYRE, Dr Anne – M.E. – Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome – How To Live With It
MACLARNON, Katie – M.E. And Me
MAGGIES Cancer – Back-up Recipes
MARBER, Ian – The Food Doctor Diet
MARKS & SPENCER- The eat well cookbook
MASON BROWN, Dr David – ME Action Pack 1 (2 tapes and booklet)
MASON BROWN, Dr David- ME Action Pack 2 (1 tape and booklet)
MAYNE, Michael – A Year Lost And Found
MCKEITH, Gillian – You are what you eat
MCKEON, Patrick – Coping with Depression and Elation
MEEK, Jennifer – Boost Your Immune System (Revised And Expanded)
MEEK, Jennifer – How to Boost Your Immune System
MICHELL, Lynn – Shattered: Life with M.E.
MILLMAN, Dan – Way of the Peaceful Warrior
MICKEL, Dr David – CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia : The long awaited cure
MOELLER, Mary & ELROD, Joe – The Fibromyalgia Nutrition Guide
MOSS, Jill – Three Villains: Exploring New Evidence in ME
MUMBY, Dr Keith – Allergies: What Everyone Should Know
MUMBY, Dr Keith – The Allergy Handbook
MUMBY, Dr Keith – The Food Allergy Plan
PARKER, Phil – An Introduction to The Lightning Process
PATERSON, Barbara – The Allergy Connection
PELLEGRINO, Mark J MD – Inside Fibromyalgia
PEMBERTON, Sue & BERRY, Catherine – Fighting Fatigue
PERRIN, Raymond – Osteopathy and ME
PERRIN, Raymond – The Perrin Technique – how to beat CFS-ME [2]
PROTO, Louis – Coming Alive
PURI, Professor Basant K. – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
READER’S DIGEST- Foods That Heal Foods That Harm
RENO, LIZ & DEVRAIS, Joanna – Allergy Free Eating
ROSENBAUM, Michael & SUSSER, Murray – Solving The Puzzle Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
ROSSI, Ernest Lawrence – The 20-Minute Break (Ultradian Rhythms for Stress Relief)
SANTOS, Daniel – Feng Shui for the Body
SAVILL, Antoinette- The Big Book of Wheat-Free Cooking
SCARFE, Christopher – How to Improve Your Digestion And Absorption
SCHEFFER, Mechthild – Bach Flower Therapy: Theory and Practice
SHARPE, Michael – CFS/ME: The Facts
SHEPHERD, Dr Charles – Living With M.E.
SHERWOOD, Dr Paul – Get Well, Stay Well
SHERWOOD, Dr Paul – Your Back, Your Health
SKYPALA, Isabel – Healthy Eating
STARLANYL, Devin & COPELAND, Mary Ellen – Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain: A Survival Manual
STAUD, Roland with ADAMEC, Christine – Fibromyalgia for Dummies
STEINCAMP, Jacqueline – Overload: Beating M.E.
SUTHERLAND, Gaynor – Fibromyalgia Recipe Book
TEITELBAUM, Jacob – From Fatigued To Fantastic
THOMAS, Pat – What Works, What Doesn’t: The Guide to Alternative Healthcare
THOMSON, Peter & Donna – Complete Food Combining
TURNER, Richard & SIMONSEN, Elizabeth – Candida Albicans: Yeast-Free Recipes
TURP, Elizabeth – CFS/ME for Family
WELLER, Stella – Natural Immune Power
WELLS, Chris Graham – Known in Pain- A self-help guide for Chronic Pain Sufferers
WILKINSON, Steve – M.E. And You
WILKS, John – Understanding the Bowen Technique
WILLIAMS, Xandria – Fatigue
WILLIAMSON, Miryam Ehrlich – Fibromyalgia a comprehensive approach
WOOKEY, Celia – Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
ZINSER, Stephanie – The Good Gut Guide

Booklets

ACTION FOR ME – All about ME: Symptoms and Management
ACTION FOR ME – Your child and ME
ACTION FOR ME – Caring for Somebody with ME
ACTION FOR ME – Pacing for people with ME
ACTION FOR ME – Employees Guide to ME
ACTION FOR ME – Guidance on the Management of CFS/ME [2]
ACTION FOR ME  – Disability Alliance: problems and solutions for people affected by chronic ME
ACTION FOR ME – Men and ME
ACTION FOR ME  – A Turning Point for CFS/ME
ACTION FOR ME – Severely Neglected: ME in the UK
ACTION FOR ME- the Chief Officer’s Working Group Report on CFS/ME
CAMPLING, JOHN & Frankie – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
CARRUTHERS, Bruce – a Clinical Case Definition and Guidelines for medical practitioners [2]
HOWARD, Alex – A Brain Fogger’s Guide to Nutrition and M.E
LPIN – CHANGES – Stress
LPIN – CHANGES – Stress and Anxiety
LPIN – CHANGES – Controlling Anger
ME ALLIANCE – ME Diagnosis: Delay Harms Health
ME ASSOCIATION – Managing my ME
ME ASSOCIATION – An exploration of the Key Clinical Issues
NHS Scottish Good Practice Statement – Patient Guide
NHS Scottish Good Practice Statement on ME-CFS [2]
NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND – Access Guide
POLIO FELLOWSHIP – Pacing for Activity and Exercise
RAMSAY, Melvin – Post viral Fatigue States
SYKES & CAMPION – CFS/ME Trusting Patients Perceptions of a Multi-Dimensional Physical Illness
SYKES & CAMPION – The Physical and the Mental in CFS/ME

DVDs

Beat Fatigue with Yoga – Fiona Agombar & Sue Delf
Gentle Energy Yoga – Kim
Yoga for stress relief – Body Wisdom Media
Dr Richard Bruno & Dr Elizabeth Dowsett – Polio Paradox/Viral illness and ME
Energising Biomedical Research in ME/CFS (2006) – Dr Vance Spence of MERGE (now ME Research UK) [2]
International Conference on ME/CFS Biomedical Research (2008) – ME Research UK/Irish ME Trust [2]
International Conference on ME/CFS (2009) – Invest in ME
International Conference on ME/CFS (2010) – Invest in ME
International Conference on ME/CFS (2011) – Invest in ME
Prime Directive Supplement [2]
What Doctors Don’t Tell You: Health and Nutrition – The Real Facts
Freedom from ME: Journeys to Recovery – A Paul Young film
Ross Grieve – CFS + illness management
MESH Open Meeting: January 2001
MESH Open Meeting: Eva Tombs-Heirman – Homoeopathy – March 2002 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: Dr Abhijit Chaudhuri – ME/CFS – June 2002 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: MERGE (now ME Research UK) – ME Research – March 2003 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: Dr John Gow – Gene Function in People with ME/CFS – September 2005 [3]
MESH Open Meeting: Meeting with ME North East – January 2006 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: Keith Anderson – The Role of the ME Specialist Nurse – March 2006 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: Joan Crawford – ME, Borelliosis and Lyme Disease – October 2006 [3]
MESH Open Meeting: Dr Charles Shepherd of the ME Association – ME/CFS: All That’s New in Rsearch and Management – March 2007 [4]
MESH Open Meeting: Susan Webster – The Role of the AfME Project Co-Ordinator, Scotland – September 2007 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: Ross Grieve – Working with the Person, not the Condition – March 2008 [4]
MESH Open Meeting: Jan Oakley – The Lightning Process – October 2008
MESH Open Meeting: Dr Raymond Perrin – The Perrin Technique – March 2010 [2]
MESH Open Meeting: Dr Julia Newton – Standing Up For Fatigue – October 2010

CDs

ADDERLEY, Delphine – Mindfulness Breathing (short)
CHANGES – Deep Relaxation/Quick Relaxation
CURRY, Nicola (Changes) – Muscular Relaxation: Visualisation on the Beach
JEN (Changes) – Passive Progressive Relaxation
SIEGEL, BERNIE MD – Healing Meditations: enhance your immune system and find the key to good health [2]
STIENE, Bronwen – Reiki Meditations for self-healing

Welfare Benefits/Legal

DLA/AA A guide to making a claim x 3
DISABILITY RIGHTS HANDBOOK 35TH Edition 2010-2011
DISABILITY RIGHTS HANDBOOK 36TH Edition 2011-2012

Fact Sheets

1. MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CFS/ME research strategy [2]
2. MERGE Report on the AACFS Sixth International Conference 2003
3. EDINBURGH ME SELF HELP GROUP – Value of Healthy Blood
4. ACTION FOR ME – Antioxidants fact sheet
5. ME ACTION CAMPAIGN – Therapy Information Pack
6. MESH Difference in patterns of Motor and Cognitive Function 2000
7. MESH Parliamentary Debate on ME
8. IMMUNOPRO Glutathyone – the Body’s Best Kept Secret
9. SARAH MYHILL DR MBBS An introduction to EPD
10. CFS RESEARCH FOUNDATION Newsletter 6 Persistence of Enterovirus Infection
11. ACTION FOR ME Organo Phosphate poisoning
12. ACTION FOR ME Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy
13. ACTION FOR ME Flu Vaccination Information
14. ME Practical Advice – Dietary changes
15. REPORT OF THE SCOTTISH SHORT LIFE WORKING GROUP CFS/ME Scotland
16. ACTION FOR ME Antidepressants
17. CAPPACCHIONE Lucia The Power of Your Other Hand
18. MIGRAINE TRUST Facts about Migraine
19. ACTION FOR ME Candida Factsheet
20. DR SKINNER ME and Thyroid Function
21. DR DAVID BELL ME and the Autonomic Nervous System
22. GUPTA ASHOK Unconscious Amygdale Conditioning
23. MESH Report of Jill Moss’s Talk on Saturday 19th February
24. ALAN LEAR Random Thoughts on Myalgic Life
25. TINNITUS
26. ME ASSOCIATION Fact sheets
27. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME NEWS CFS Study
28. DR MASON BROWN Facial Pallor Sign
29. NHS PLUS Occupational Aspects of Management of CFS/ME
30. DR MCINTYRE-Speech to the North Merseyside ME Association
31. Factsheet Long term Avoidance of Exposure to House Dust Mites/Management of Dust Allergy
32. NHS Lothian Review Group on ME/CFS
33. OUTREACH West London ME Group – Blood Ban XMRV and ME
34. ME ASSOCIATION Managing ME