The Alternative Pharmacy - A serious alternative health guide that tells you what really works including specific brand names, dosages, and courses of treatment. In a straightforward, easy-to-read format, it lists over 200 diseases and discusses over 700 safe and natural alternative remedies. Dr. Walker has accumulated over 25 years experience as a pharmacist and naturopath operating a successful practice. It is through Dr. Walker's vast hands-on experience with her patients that she has been able to compile this impressive, tried and true compendium of what works and what doesn't. Every disease is listed alphabetically, with a corresponding alternative treatment plan, outlining a step-by-step procedure for successful recovery. A brief description of each ailment and its underlying causes, signs, and symptoms, diagnosis, and conventional treatment are also covered. Dr. Walker cites many actual cases based on her experiences with her patients and their positive feedback. This book does exactly what it promises. It offers the reader an in-depth, honest evaluation of alternative forms of medication. Backed up by extensive research, case histories, and Dr. Walker's credentials as a pharmacist, homeopath, and herbalist, delivered in a clear and engaging style.
A Woman's Complete Guide to Natural Health - In this book, authors Dr. Lynne Walker and Ellen Hodgson Brown combine their experience in conventional and alternative medicine to create a comprehensive, accessible guide to natural healing for all women. Drawing from and comparing a number of treatment options - including herbs, nutritional supplements, homeopathic remedies, Chinese patent formulas, flower essences, essential oils, and prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The authors offer the safest and most effective treatments for more than 130 of the most common health concerns of women, including breast cancer, morning sickness, obesity, depression, anemia, incontinence, bloating, sexually transmitted diseases, hysterectomy and much more.
The Informed Consumer's Pharmacy - Each year thousands of Americans become ill, even die, due to improper or uninformed use of brand name and generic prescription drugs and over the counter medications - including a wide range of vitamins and minerals. The Informed Consumer's Pharmacy sets out to remedy this situation by drawing on the most up-to-date research and presenting it in a comprehensive and practical manner for the general public. What is the safest course of action for you - as a patient and a consumer? This book will guide you in the right direction, steer you away from exaggerated advertising claims, and shed new light on a wide range of drugs used to cure or relieve a host of medical ailments.
Nature's Pharmacy - Catering to the recent surge of interest in natural medicines are a number of books that aid enthusiasts in choosing remedies for their particular conditions, but these can leave you confused, taking a shot-gun approach not necessarily calculated to direct you to the specific remedy that will work for your particular condition. The approach of Nature's Pharmacy is to narrow your choices to what really works as reported by users. The authors also discuss why the drugs composing the armamentarium of conventional treatment may not be your best choices for particular conditions. The discussion is liberally supported throughout with research and actual case histories. The authors draw from and compare a number of approaches -- drugs, herbs, nutritional supplements, homeopathic remedies, Chinese patent medicines, flower essences and essential oils.
Nature's Pharmacy for Children - An A to Z guide to more than 200 childhood ailments and how to treat them with herbal, homeopathic, and other alternative treatments. Dr. Lynne Walker, Dr. Lendon Smith, and writer Ellen Brown team up to provide you with an escape from the vicious cycle of antibiotics and other prescription and non prescription medication. The authors address a full range of childhood problems from chicken pox and head lice to Attention Deficit Disorder and cancer. The book is also illustrated with "it could happen to you" anecdotes from the practices of its authors. Nature's Pharmacy for Children is both informative and inspirational in its comprehensive approach to the world of alternative pediatric medicine.
Menopause and Estrogen - This book is hard-hitting in its critique of the way the medical establishment views and treats menopause. Its purpose is two-fold: to tell the "real story" about hormone replacement therapy, its dangers, and why doctors are pushing it; and to offer alternative treatments based on looking at the body and aging from the point of view of health, not pathology. It advises women on what their best options are today, supported by the latest research. These alternatives include herbal and homeopathic products, natural hormones derived from plants, and healthy lifestyle options. Menopause and Estrogen is a helpful tool for the clinician, and an excellent diagnostic and treatment reference for the health care of women, which includes many current treatment plans and remedies. |
