The Nautilus Book Award–winning, comprehensive guide to natural, family health care remedies, by a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist. Are pharmaceutical drugs making you or your family sick? Do you want to use safe, earth-friendly medicine? Do you know how to effectively use supplements and natural remedies to build optimal health? Sixty-six percent of the U.S. population consults alternative health care providers, and over seventy percent take supplements. But many people don’t know how to use these methods effectively. The Green Medicine Chest offers a well-organized, straightforward guide for effectively using natural remedies, reducing your doctor bills, and improving your overall health. This family health companion shows you how to address: acne, bed-wetting, childhood vaccinations, colds, depression, diabetes, fatigue, food allergies, headaches, insomnia, low libido, low thyroid, menstrual cramps, prostatitis, teething, and much more. “Both scholarly and soulful, bot intellectual and entertaining, this gem of a book has inspiring information for general readers, as well as enough scientific rigor to appeal to health care professionals. Keep this on hand in the family library, or on the waiting room table for your patients. Highly recommended!” —Dr. Jillian Stansbury, N.D. “Reads like a good collection of short stories. Dr. Boice has such a warm and friendly voice, and the information she relays is thorough and practical in every sense of the word. I keep The Green Medicine Chest close at hand so when I hear the first sneeze, complaints of fatigue, or of encounters with poison ivy, I can come to the rescue with the types of treatments I prefer.” —Leigh Fortson, author of Embrace, Release, Heal

Open your medicine cabinet and take a look inside. How many pills, tablets, and bottles of syrups do you have that contain chemicals you can't even pronounce? For every ache and ailment, there is a medical prescription. But what about the cures that have been working for centuries? What about nature's medicines? The Natural Medicine Chest is a beautifully illustrated guide which provides the history, descriptions, research, and uses of over 100 healing herbs, foods, and nutrients.

CNS, New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan Your Natural Medicine Cabinet features the most important and up-to-date information for healing nearly 200 common ailments using the most effective, fastest-acting, and affordable natural remedies available today. Its concise, user-friendly format is ideal for overworked moms, stressed-out dads, and anyone interested in simple, natural, drug-free alternatives for themselves and their children. This hip, easy-to-understand A-to-Z guide provides “best practices” for the speedy and effective treatment of key health problems. You will learn how to save money on health care, safely treat yourself and your family, and enhance your overall health and energy with supplements, superfoods, homeopathics, cell salts and flower essences. The author also recommends related books and web-based resources, carefully researched for your further, in-depth study. She outlines healthy foods to eat and those to avoid, shares effective energy-based exercises, and shows when craniosacral and chiropractic techniques are an effective adjunct to her recommended treatments. Your Natural Medicine Cabinet is an indispensable health resource that you can refer to time and time again.

Rosemary Gladstar, one of the world's foremost herbalists, shows you how to create your own all-natural first-aid kit, customized to your family's particular needs. With her concise, simple instructions, you'll learn how to make healing teas, syrups, salves, pills, and baths to safely and effectively treat common ailments, such as colds, flus, sore throats, burns, cuts, headaches, heartburn, digestive problems, and more.

The Alternative Medicine Cabinet is a wealth of natural health information. Easy-to-incorporate, practical advice about treating depression, better sleep, alternative cancer treatments and so much more. Without drugs or surgery.

This publication shows designated first-aid providers how to diagnose, treat, and prevent the health problems of seafarers on board ship. This edition contains fully updated recommendations aimed to promote and protect the health of seafarers, and is consistent with the latest revisions of both the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the International Health Regulations.--Publisher's description.

Moringa is a wonderful herb known all over the world -- but only recently arrived in the U.S. It provides the boost in energy, nutrition and health many people are seeking. This book reveals Moringa's nutritional content, medicinal properties, where to get it, the best way to grow it, and how to prepare Moringa for best results.

Thousands of safe, natural remedies lie untapped in jungles, forests and herbal gardens throughout the world. Now, in Green Pharmacy by James A. Duke (with illustrations by Peggy Kessler Duke), America's foremost authority on medicinal plants and herbs shares his knowledge of these hidden reserves of healing power. * For Arthritis: A new, all-natural remedy that can cut pain in half. * For Back Pain: A fruit that has anti-inflammatory properties to produce long-term relief. * For Your Heart: An herb that opens up clogged arteries and lowers blood pressure, with none of the side effects of prescription drugs. * For High Cholesterol: A tasty grain that has three times more cholesterol-lowering power than oat bran. * For Migraines: An herb that has the power to eliminate the blurred vision and debilitating pain of these monster headaches. * For Mood Swings: A common food that shares the power of Prozac to boost the brain's level of "feel-good" serotonin. * For Osteoporosis: A prime plant source of calcium that vastly enhances protection against bone depletion. * For Wrinkles: An herbal lotion that has the skin-clearing, wrinkle-reversing power of alpha hydroxy acid but costs only pennies. And much more-- over 120 conditions in all!

Upon its publication more than a decade ago, Dr. James Duke's The Green Pharmacy quickly set the standard for consumer herb references. A favorite of laypeople and professionals alike, the book sold more than a million copies and solidified the author's reputation as one of the world's foremost authorities on medicinal plants. In The Green Pharmacy Guide to Healing Foods, Dr. Duke turns to the broader and even more popular subject of food as medicine, drawing on more than thirty years of research to identify the most powerful healing foods on earth. Whether he is revealing how to beat high cholesterol with blueberries, combat hot flashes with black beans, bash blood sugar spikes with almonds, or help relieve agonizing back pain with pineapple, Dr. Duke's food remedies help treat and prevent the whole gamut of health concerns, from minor (such as sunburn and the common cold) to more serious (like arthritis and diabetes). Dr. Duke has assigned a rating to each remedy, according to his evaluation of the available scientific studies and anecdotal reports. Many of the healing foods recommended here are proving so effective that they may outperform popular pharmaceuticals—minus the risk (and cost).