Natural Remedies Encyclopedia

SEVENTH EDITION - ENLARGED, SEVERAL NEW CHAPTERS, HERITAGE EDITION, NOW WITH 570 COLOR PICTURES, 1224 PAGES

-OVER 11,000 INEXPENSIVE, NATURAL, DRUGLESS HOME REMEDIES COVERING OVER 730 DISEASES HELPING YOUR FAMILY FOR A LIFETIME - FOR THE PRICE OF ONE DOCTOR VISIT PRESCRIPTIONS FROM NATURE'S STOREHOUSE
-PRACTICAL, LOW-COST THINGS YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR LOVED ONES.
-THE BEST FOLK REMEDIES OF EARLIER GENERATIONS COMBINED WITH MODERN MEDICAL AND NUTRITIONAL FACTS  

BASIC PRINCIPLES  Caring for the Sick - Rebuilding Health - Dietetic and Nutritional Principles - The Eight Laws of Health - Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes, Special Foods, and Other Nutrients - 126 Most Important Herbs - Poultices - Essential Oils - Complete Water Therapy Manual - Hydrotherapy Index

HOME CARE FOR NEARLY 730 DISEASES Fevers - Skin Extremeties - Head and Throat - Gastro-intestinal - Urinary - Respiratory - Cardiovascular - Neuro-Mental - Skeletal-Muscular - Endocrine - Lymphatics - Bites - Allergies - Infestations - Tumors - Poisoning - Addictions - Cancer - Men's Problems  

SPECIAL WOMEN'S SECTIONS  Women's Reproductive Problems - Pregnancy and Breast-feeding - Infancy and Childhood - Basic Women's Herbs - Pregnancy Herbs - First Nine Months - More

PLUS MORE  Terrorist and New Diseases, Disasters, and Emergency Care - How to Quit Tobacco and Alcohol - Indexes  

BASED ON RESEARCH, PERSONAL MEDICAL PRACTICE, plus the drugless natural remedies of seven leading medical specialists of earlier times: R.T. Trall, M.D.; John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.; J.C. Jackson, M.D.; John H. Tilden, M.D.; Jethro Kloss; Hubert O. Swartout, M.D.; F.M. Rossiter, M.D.

The sections on hydrotherapy and other remedial treatments are based on the writings of the following medical authorities: George Knapp Abbott, M.D.; Fred B. Moor, M.D.; Ethel M. Manwell, B.S., RN., A.R.P.T.; J. Wayne McFarland, M.D.; Gertrude Muench, R.N., R.P.T., Agatha Thrash, M.D.; Clarence W. Dail, M.D., Kathryn Jensen-Nelson, R.N., M.A.; Mary C. Noble, B.S., R.N.; Stella C. Peterson, R.N., B.S.N.E.; Charles S. Thomas, Ph.D., Richard A. Hansen, M.D.; Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.

The sections on herbal medicine are based on the writings of the following authorities: Samuel O.L. Potter, M.D.; Edward E. Shook, D.C.; Michael A. Weiner, Ph.D.; William Pelly, N.D.; John R. Christopher, N.D.; Melvyn R. Werbach, M.D

"If the United States is to be saved from catastrophic health-care costs, it is time to take a good look at the wisdom and cost-effectiveness of alternative medicine." --John R. Lee, M.D.