Natural Healing and Home Remedies

Prescription for Natural Cures : A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More
James Balch

The new natural health bible for the twenty-first century.
Dr. James Balch coauthored Prescription for Nutritional Healing (see below), which became the first major popular guide to the healing power of foods and nutritional supplements, selling more than 8 million copies in all its editions. Now, Dr. Balch and Dr. Mark Stengler present a new natural health resource that you can’t afford to be without–a comprehensive reference of natural remedies for common ailments, including: acne • allergies • arthritis • asthma • back pain • cancer • depression • fibromyalgia • heart disease • hypothyroidism • influenza • irritable bowel syndrome • menopause • osteoporosis • stroke • Syndrome X • varicose veins, and more–almost 200 health problems and conditions in all.
Prescription for Natural Cures provides a complete natural Rx for each condition, giving you a proven, natural, customized prescription that may include supplements, herbal medicine, homoeopathy, aromatherapy, Chinese medicine, hydrotherapy, bodywork, natural hormones, and other natural cures in addition to nutritional advice. Organized by problem from A to Z, this invaluable guide features:
• The unique Super Seven Prescriptions for each condition, which provide specific and practical remedies to help heal your problem. You have never seen natural health advice as helpful, targeted, and accessible as this
• Clear, authoritative guidance on dietary changes, healing foods, nutritional supplements, and recommended tests
• Easy-to-understand discussions of the symptoms and root causes of each health problem
• Down-to-earth descriptions of each natural remedy
• A resource guide to holistic practitioners
This breakthrough book is an indispensable resource if you want to get better - naturally.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing: A Practical A-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and Food Supplements
Phyllis Balch, James Balch

For more than ten years, people interested in alternative healing and preventive therapies have relied upon this invaluable reference as a guide to improve health through nutrition and supplementation. Now, completely updated and over one-third revised, this third edition of Prescription for Nutritional Healing incorporates the latest information on nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, and their health-promoting effects on hundreds of disorders and diseases.
This book's unique format and accessible style are instantly recognizable. Part One lists and explains the various types of nutrients, natural food supplements, and herbs found in health-food and drugstores; Part Two describes more than 250 common disorders, from acne to yeast infection, arranged conveniently in alphabetical order, and names the supplements that can be used to combat the conditions; Part Three is a guide to alternative remedies and therapies that can be used in conjunction with a nutritional program. In addition, self-diagnostic tests throughout the book offer in-depth coverage of a wide variety of topics.
Updates to this third edition include:
Discussions of newer supplements, including SAMe, MSM, pregnenolone, red yeast rice, inositol hexaphosphate (IP6), colostrum, and emu oil.
Latest research on lesser-known herbal remedies such as cat's claw, saw palmetto, black cohosh, hyssop, boneset, eyebright, squawvine, and Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs.
New information and theories on cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and a host of other chronic diseases currently receiving increased attention from doctors and researchers.
Whether readers are looking for relief from a particular ailment or simply wish to maintain optimum health, this book quickly and easily provides an abundance of information to design a complete nutritional program. The one book that instantly creates a complete health section, Prescription for Nutritional Healing is the standard to which all other books in the category are held.

Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide (2nd Edition)
Burton Goldberg

Alternative medicine is enjoying more popularity with consumers and greater acceptance in traditional medical communities than ever before. Although alternative methods, such as acupuncture, massage therapy, chiropractic, and homoeopathy, can offer patients less costly and more effective treatment options, it’s hard to know how to choose a competent and reliable practitioner. In this revised edition of ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, 400 of the world’s leading alternative physicians have contributed safe, affordable, and effective remedies for more than 200 medical conditions ranging from common health problems like allergies, asthma, and obesity to serious illnesses like cancer, heart disease, and AIDS. With all the schools of alternative medicine combined into one encyclopedic volume, this updated edition of ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE is the bible of good health.

Alternative Cures: The Most Effective Natural Home Remedies for 160 Health Problems
Bill Gottlieb

As the editor-in-chief of Prevention Magazine Health Books, Bill Gottlieb created the 10-million copy self-care bestseller, The Doctors Book of Home Remedies, and was the author of the 1.5 million copy alternative health bestseller, New Choices In Natural Healing. Now, Bill has once again created a groundbreaking book - a book that can help anyone safely, successfully and naturally self-treat 160 everyday and serious health conditions. To write this unique book, Bill interviewed over 300 of America's top natural clinicians-doctors, herbalists, nutritionists and more. You'll discover over 1000 of their most effective, practical and safest natural remedies for an A-to-Z of health problems, from arthritis, back pain and high cholesterol, to repetitive strain injury, weight gain and yeast infections.
Plus, every chapter of Alternative Cures has a guide to the best alternative and conventional professional care for the condition it covers. And, you'll find essential safety information for every remedy featured in the book. Once you look at it, we think you'll agree: There's never been a more useful, reader-friendly, get-better book about alternative health and healing than Alternative Cures.

The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Rebalance Your Emotional Chemistry and Rediscover Your Natural Sense of Well-Being
Julia Ross

In her highly successful The Diet Cure, Julia Ross helped thousands of readers halt food cravings and end dieting by rebalancing their body chemistry. Now, in The Mood Cure, Julia Ross once again draws on her years of experience as a psychotherapist, clinic director, and pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology to present breakthrough solutions for people looking for help with depression, anxiety, mood swings, irritability, and sleep problems that diminish the quality of their lives.
The Mood Cure is a comprehensive program that includes the use of amino acids (which provide results in 24 hours) combined with a high-protein, good fat, veggie-rich diet and other nutritional strategies. Beginning with a 4-part questionnaire to identify one's bad mood type, The Mood Cure will help to:
• lift depression
• blast the blahs
• cool anxiety and stress
• comfort oversensitive feelings
• let go of emotional healing
Highly informational and enormously helpful, The Mood Cure provides the good news that we can feel better emotionally, without the use of caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, or anti-depressants-and the even better news that we will see results in just one day.

Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works
Andrew Saul

"Expertly written by biologist and naturopathic teacher Andrew Saul (who has served as a consulting specialist in natural healing for more than twenty-five years), Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works is a straightforward and "non-specialist reader friendly" guide to organizing one's diet to promote health and nutrition. Promoting nutritional therapy as a preventative and treatment for many diverse ailments, and offering solid advice for adjusting one's diet plan to better live with everything from Diabetes, to PMS, to Parkinson's Disease, Doctor Yourself is a very helpful guidebook which is filled from cover to cover with gems of information that aren't usually discussed in most other nutrition books."

Miracle Cures : Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies
Jean Carper

Miracle Cures is the breakthrough book that presents scientific evidence of the effectiveness of natural remedies, culled from the world's leading doctors and scientists, research centers, and major international scientific journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal, combined with the awe-inspiring first-person medically verified accounts of people who have successfully cured themselves with natural medicines.
Jean Carper reveals the natural medicines that have been proven to:
• Lower Your Cholesterol
• Open up Your Arteries
• Regulate Your Heart
• Relieve Depression
• Overcome Anxiety
• Fight Sleep Problems
• Regenerate Your Liver
• Restore Your Memory

Natural Healing
Sue Nirenberg, Jack Soltanoff

BE IN CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH, FITNESS, AND VITALITY!
Wouldn't you like to keep your body totally disease-free every day of your life? Dr. Jack Soltanoff, a Doctor of Chiropractic and internationally recognized authority on natural health, is living proof that it can be done. His unique, holistic health program, which exploits the body's own defense systems, has enhanced the lives of thousands of patients - and helped Dr. Jack reach his seventies untroubled by illness, full of robust good health, and still practicing his healing arts full-time.
Now, with the nature-based three-part healing process Dr. Soltanoff calls Biochemical Reprogramming, you can infuse new life into every part of your body with:
• Nutrition - Overcome the excess acidity of the American diet by maintaining a healthful alkaline level, with the delicious and well-balanced Long-Life Diet
• Dry brushing - Banish harmful toxins from your body, relieve stress, and contribute to healthier, younger-looking skin, with an invigorating, minutes-a-day skin-brushing technique based on time-tested acupuncture principles
• Exercise - Boost your overall health through enjoyable exercise, special breathing techniques, and the secret of proper rest.

Natural Medicines and Cures Your Doctor Never Tells You About
The Staff of FC&A

You trust your doctor to diagnose and treat you for serious conditions and no doubt your doctor is very good at blood tests, surgery, and prescription medicines.
However, he doesn't tell you how to avoid getting cancer or cataracts in the first place or how to relieve your arthritis and allergies with simple home remedies. This book will fill in the holes in your health care.
From how to get a better night's sleep to spicy natural sinus relievers, the 1,293 tips included in this book offer better health to anyone and everyone.

Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition
Michael Murray, Joseph Pizzorno

The perfect balance between the latest research and age-old wisdom. This completely revised and expanded second edition of the classic reference work arms you with the latest information on the extraordinary healing powers of natural medicine. Michael Murray and Joseph Pizzorno, two of the most trusted naturopathic doctors in the world, have teamed up once again to bring you cutting-edge natural remedies for the most common ailments.
Easy to understand, a pleasure to read, yet scientifically well researched and documented, this is your complete health adviser to the natural approach to over 70 diseases, from arthritis to varicose veins. In addition, this life-long reference offers important information on:
• The four cornerstones of good health and how to achieve them
• How to enhance your body's key systems
• How to promote good health and increase longevity
Authoritative and up to date, the Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine is the essential medical reference no home should be without.

Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal
Richard Gordon

This easy-to-follow manual teaches a new hands-on healing practice called quantum-touch. Quantum-touch uses special breathing and body-focusing techniques to elevate the body’s energy. With a light touch, even novices can see postural corrections as bones gently glide into their correct alignment. The book presents a technique that “may truly allow us all to become healers” (C. Norman Shealy).