The Natural Pharmacist: Your Complete Guide to Conditions and Their Natural Remedies

This book is a comprehensive (to date of publication) evaluation of the evidence regarding alternative medicine treatments. Bottom line: basically, alternative treatments do not work. The few supplements and herbs said to be effective at the time of the book's publication have, almost without exception, subsequently been found ineffective.

I practiced alternative medicine in the 1990s but gradually recognized that the field was intellectually bankrupt and that I should abandon it. This was a difficult recognition because my practice was very successful. I wrote two partially supportive alternative medicine that I now reject, and also a dozen or more books on evidence-based evaluation of alternative medicine and evidence-based medicine generally that I still endorse. After accidentally inventing the word "orthorexia nervosa" in 1997,  I went on to write and publish science fiction short stories, a comic novel on alternative medicine, a hard-science science fiction novel on immortality, and two rather challenging biology-based popular science books that are highly regarded by experts in their fields. A third popular science book is on its way on the origins of animal communication and human language.