Healthy at home : get well and stay well without prescriptions
Title:
Healthy at home : get well and stay well without prescriptions
Author:
ISBN:
9781426212581
Physical Description:
335 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword by Michael J. Balick -- Introduction -- Making medicine at home -- Understanding and managing infections -- Caring for the respiratory system -- Calming the nerves, strengthening the nervous system -- Healing the gut -- Helping and healing the skin -- Women's medicine -- The gift of plants -- The eighteen essentials: natural remedies every home should have on hand -- Stocking the pantry -- Resources -- Herbs for today: a modern materia medica -- index.
Summary:
"Get the how, when, and why of getting better and staying well with homemade remedies that the doctor orders. National Geographic helps you take charge of health care guided by a physician expert in natural healing, herbal medicine, and home remedies. In this book she guides us in identifying, responding to, and caring for all the most common ailments, so that when it's time to take care at home, you have a doctor's advice on how. Learn how to make herbal remedies and why you and your family will be healthier for doing so--and get advice on when it's best to consult a health care professional instead"--
