Reprint. Originally published: HarperCollins, 1998.

If you’re interested in using natural remedies for treating your everyday ailments, then The Healing Remedies Sourcebook is the perfect book for you.

Loaded with over 1000 natural remedies, this title shows how to naturally treat everyday ailments. Therapies include traditional home and folk remedies, Chinese herbal medicine, and flower remedies.

Loaded with more than 1,000 natural remedies, The Healing Remedies Sourcebook will teach you how to naturally treat common problems, including stress, anxiety, depression, headaches, allergies, the common cold, high blood pressure, even diabetes and obesity. Based on eight therapeutic backgrounds -- Chinese herbal medicine, ayurveda, traditional folk remedies, herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, flower remedies, and vitamins and minerals -- this sourcebook is comprehensive and easy-to-use. Simply look up your ailment in the extensive list and find the corresponding remedies, treatments, and answers you need. Whether you're looking for the ancient Chinese remedy for arthritis or your grandmother's solution for hiccups, this jam-packed reference book is sure to cure what ails you.

Quick and Easy Remedies for Holistic Health This impressive book contains almost 200 recipes for herbal remedies that anyone can use, even if you've never worked with herbs. Expert Sandra Kynes shows how herbal remedies can treat everything from the flu to kidney stones and can be made from ingredients commonly stocked in your kitchen. Herbal Remedies for Beginners is cleverly organized and cross-referenced so you can look up remedies by ailment or by herb, making it easy to find what you need. You'll discover how to make the remedies and a wide variety of application methods from teas and oils to balms and gels. With everything from a basil and lemongrass salve for soothing insect bites to a ginger and turmeric syrup for alleviating motion sickness, this is the perfect beginner's guide to natural wellness.

Combining the wisdom of classical Chinese medicine with modern nutritional science, this book explores the concept of Yang Sheng, which means to nourish life by nurturing body, mind and spirit in harmony with the natural rhythms and universal laws, revealing the importance of nutrition within it and outlining how our modern lifestyle and environment challenges our ability to do that. A perfect guide for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine, the book explains modern diets and Chinese nutritional theory with a focus on prevention of illness and the impact of lifestyle and environment on our health during each stage of life. Lifestyle and nutritional advice for prevention and treatment of a range of illnesses and conditions is given for both adults and children.

This comprehensive volume covers ayurveda, aromatherapy, vitamins and minerals, flower essences, Chinese herbal medicine, folk remedies, herbalism and homeopathy. Explains which ailments the therapies treat most effectively.