The Complete Idiot S Guide To Alternative Medicine

This comprehensive guide takes a balanced look at each alternative method, exploring its strengths and weaknesses, so that readers can make informed decisions.

Provides information about homeopathic medicine, including what it is, how it works, what it can be used for, how to incorporate it into conventional treatment programs, and how to find a homeopath.

Includes the latest advice from well-known and respected veterinarians.

It's amazing what a little peppermint and a couple of walnuts can do. The health conditions? Everything from heart disease, cancer, and migraines to insomnia, PMS, and allergies. The remedies? Fish oils, peppermint, lavender, blueberry yogurt, and old-fashioned vitamin C. This is a complete reference book for readers who want scientifically researched recommendations for the best all-natural treatments for specific conditions presented in an easy-to-follow format. • Covers complaints and ailments from high blood pressure to bug bites • Each treatment based on the latest scientific research • Includes natural remedies from herbs and supplements to traditional Chinese Medicine • Arranged by specific ailment or disorder

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Every day, researchers at top universities around the world are discovering new facts about how the right foods, supplements, and lifestyle practices can help prevent, manage, and sometimes reverse the symptoms of a wide range of health issues such as heart disease (walnuts), Type II diabetes (blueberry yogurt), mental acuity (cold water fish oils), and insomnia (tryptophan-containing foods). Natural remedies can also come in handy when it comes to motion sickness (a drop of peppermint oil on the tongue eases nausea), acne (try lavender oil for blemishes), and wrinkles (vitamin C builds collagen). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Natural Remediesis a complete reference book for readers who want scientifically researched recommendations for the best treatments for specific conditions presented in an easy-to-follow format. It covers myriad conditions-from the most serious ailments like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes to important issues like high cholesterol and blood pressure, sleep disorders, memory problems, allergies, PMS, migraines, and arthritis, to more common complaints like rashes, athletes' foot, and bug bites. For each condition, the book succinctly describes the problem and symptoms, explains the cause, and offers a variety of natural remedies for treatment based on the latest research studies, including diet and nutrition, nutritional supplements, herbs, traditional Chinese medicine, and a variety of alternative therapies.

Herbal remedies are laid bare in an insightful new guide that lists hundreds of herbs along with their scientific names, historic and current uses, and dosage advice, as well as plentiful advice on the role of such popular remedies as echinacea, ginseng, and St. John's Wort in curing a host of common ailments. Original.