As parents seek a more natural approach to children's health, Aviva Romm offers the most comprehensive and effective compilation of herbal remedies for children from infancy to pre-adolescence. Romm, a mother, midwife, and practicing herbalist with extensive first-hand clinical experience, teaches the practical, empowering steps that parents can take in conjunction with regular medical care to achieve a truly holistic health care approach. With the friendly, reassuring tone of a confident healthcare practitioner, this book offers parents the guidance they need to understand their children's bodies and provide basic preventive health care and home first-aid for common childhood ailments from abscesses to bed-wetting, coughs to hyperactivity, lice to whooping cough.
This book is sure to be cherished by readers as they learn to care for their children -- naturally.
Herbalists Guild. She has been an herbal medicine consultant to Reader's Digest Books and Baby Talk, Self, and New Woman magazines. She is co-author of ADHD Alternatives (Storey Books) and author of The Natural Pregnancy Book. Romm lives with her husband and her four children in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.