Natural Prescriptions for Women: What to Do-and When to Do It-to Solve Dozens of Female Health Problems-Without Drugs - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875964338 ISBN 13: 9780875964331

Publisher: Rodale Books, 1998

Synopsis

Traditionally, doctors don't issue prescriptions for herbs, exercise, nutrition, yoga, or massage. But what if they did? The answer can be found in Natural Prescriptions for Women, a self-care manual of non-drug prescriptions for more than 100 health problems plaguing women today. Natural Prescriptions for Women seriously addresses the health problems that concern women most in today's stress-filled environment. In addition to these physical concerns, this book also treats women holistically, tackling such non-medical concerns as single parenting, making time for exercise, caring for older parents, and much more. This valuable manual truly belongs on every woman's bookshelf.

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Natural Prescriptions for Women seriously addresses the health problems that concern women most in today's stress-filled environment. In addition to these physical concerns, this book also treats women holistically, tackling such non-medical concerns as single parenting, making time for exercise, caring for older parents, and much more. This valuable manual truly belongs on every woman's bookshelf.

From Publishers Weekly:

This compendium of non-drug therapies provides a wide variety of low-tech, low-risk options to traditional treatments, including herbal remedies, aromatherapy, exercise, nutritional approaches and lifestyle change. Addressing not only conventional illnesses, the editors consider such conditions as frizzy hair, computer anxiety, hot flashes and heart disease. The first chapter offers gentle remedies for about 30 everyday ailments, arranged alphabetically from aches and pains to yeast infections. Serious and chronic conditions are covered next, followed by hormonal and reproductive issues, and then pesky personal appearance problems. Emotional health is not neglected, with coping techniques offered to women who are single mothers, are in the throes of divorce, are frequent travelers or who have other demanding lifestyles. A clock or calendar in the margin marks treatments that are most effective when begun at a particular time of the day or month, and boldface warnings indicate conditions calling for a medical doctor's attention. Although a trifle hit-or-miss, this volume nevertheless is a handy reference for women interested in natural remedies for the hazards of 20th-century living.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0875964338
• ISBN 13: 9780875964331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Prevention Health Books For Women