Pocket Herbal

This incredible resource indexes over 1,500 herbs along with their medicinal culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore, grasses, fungi, shrubs and trees with all their modern scientific uses. It includes hundreds of recipes for using the herbs.

The Herbal Drugstore: The Best Natural Alternatives to Over-the-Counter and Prescription Medicines

You're about to enter a completely different kind of drugstore. One where herbal medicines are offered right alongside conventional pharmaceuticals. Where bottles of feverfew stand next to bottles of aspirin, and echinacea has its place among other cold and flu remedies. The Herbal Drugstore is the only place where you can compare mainstream drug treatments and their herbal alternatives for close to 100 common health problems.

The Herbal Internet Companion

Today, a great deal of the most reliable information about herbal medicine is available only in scattered sources like trade journals, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and market research reports. Many of these are available online if you know how to find them. The Herbal Internet Companion: Herbs and Herbal Medicine Online will show you how to find the information you need!

Herbs for Healthy Skin

Herbs for Healthy Skin is a practical guide to the use of natural herbal remedies for common skin complaints.

Herb Toxicities & Drug Interactions

This book has been patterned after Blue Poppy Press’s critically acclaimed Chinese Medical Psychiatry. Each Western medical condition contained herein is discussed in terms of its Western medical definition, epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, current standards of care, and prognosis.

French Women Don't Get Fat

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals.

The Joy of Weight Loss: A Spiritual Guide to Easy Fitness

Unlike other weight-loss or diet books, The Joy of Weight Loss is a weight-management book that offers a fresh new solution to everyone’s quest for health and happiness. There are no magic pills, no starvation or binge diets. There are no crash courses or deprivations. Chumley, who lost 160 pounds and has kept it off for 11 years, instead counsels a sensible diet, taking pleasure in pleasurable movement rather than a punishing exercise regime, and, most importantly of all, learning to surrender yourself to a higher power and discover a true form of self-love that is at once accepting and transforming.

Eating Well for Optimum Health

From one of our most trusted authorities on health and alternative health care, a comprehensive and reassuring book about food, diet, and nutrition.Building on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of his enormous bestseller Spontaneous Healing, the body's capacity to heal itself, and presenting the kind of practical information that informed his 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr.

25 Natural Ways to Relieve Allergies and Asthma

The incidence of allergies and asthma is on the rise. Millions of Americans suffer from minor to severe allergies, and in the last decade, reports of asthma cases have risen 33 percent. With the amount of air pollutants pumped into our environment, it is not surprising that these two disorders have become more widespread. 25 Natural Ways to Relieve Allergies and Asthma explains the triggers of allergy and asthma attacks and how to eliminate these irritants from your surroundings.

Breast Health the Natural Way

Discover the road to breast health and overall well-being. An authority in complementary medicine provides a wellspring of insight into the information and tools women need to maximize their breast health. Turning to the benefits of herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutritional therapies, and mind-body medicine in conjunction with conventional medical therapies, Dr. Deborah Gordon presents strategies that women can easily incorporate into their everyday lives. She covers issues such as breast cancer, breast pain, nipple discharge, breast-feeding issues, birth control pills, fertility drugs, hormone replacement therapy, and more.

The Menopause Made Simple Program

Many women who are approaching or are in the midst of menopause are confused and frustrated with the information available to them on how best to manage this stage of their lives. Research shows that making changes to your lifestyle can definitely have positive benefits on your menopausal symptoms. Dr Debra Anderson and Vicky Graham have developed a simple lifestyle plan that includes six steps women can take not only to minimize menopausal symptoms, but also to maximize the quality of their lives into the future.

The American Institute of Homeopathy Handbook for Parents

The American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH) is the oldest medical organization in the United States, founded three years before the American Medical Association. The American Institute of Homeopathy Handbook for Parents is the first AIH publication that offers another option for parents who are reluctant to participate in the widespread extreme measures of conventional medicine such as stimulants, antidepressants, and overuse of antibiotics.