The Self-Healing, Practical Encyclopedia of: A Mindful Approach To Holistic Fitness, With: Flower Healing, Herbal Remedies, Aromatherapy, Healing ... Therapy, Therapeutic Touch, Yoga, Meditation - Hardcover

Airey, Raje; Houdret, Jessica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754831523 ISBN 13: 9780754831525

Publisher: Lorenz Books, 2017

Synopsis

Improve your health and well-being naturally with this wide-ranging guide to complementary healthcare. Split into easy-to-follow sections, it details all kinds of natural treatments and approaches for body and mind. Grow your own medicinal plants for use in ointments, creams and tinctures; prepare juicy fruit smoothies or flower tisanes to boost immunity; meditate with amber stones to focus the mind; or drink a healing orange essence to lift your spirits. In addition, you can use holistic methods drawn from yoga, ayurveda, massage, reflexology and reiki to achieve physical health and bring clarity and purpose to daily life. The perfect antidote to the demands of modern living: recognize the signs of emotional and physical stress, and use natural remedies to heal and restore balance. Specific treatments give fast, effective remedies for colds, allergies, muscular pain, fatigue, depression and more. Describes holistic techniques suitable for self-healing, or for practice with partners, friends and family members, which can easily be incorporated into everyday life. Over 2000 photographs and illustrations show alternative healing in action, and will help you to achieve optimum health and vitality in simple steps.

About this title

About the Author:

Jessica Houdret is a member of the Herb Society and the British Herb Trade Association and writes regularly on medicinal herbs.

Raje Airey is a writer specializing in complementary healthcare. She has also spent many years in India studying meditation.

Review:

Of course, I like this book! I always like Houdret's work. Plus, the book's content parallels my herbal and healing body systems classes. The text is illustrated in a beautiful presentation that displays gorgeous photography. Illustrations show how to make all sorts of herbal products and even create and use your own flower essences. There are suggestions of which products are best to use for each of the many specific health concerns. A helpful chart in the aromatherapy chapter gives an assortment of health conditions that are treated by essential oils. One chapter nicely explains Ayurvedic medicine principles and another describes foods that have healing properties. Incorporating a true holistic health approach, there are also healing touch techniques that include reiki and shiatsu. The meditation exercises that use positive affirmations, yoga, homeopathy, color therapy, and crystals nicely round out this book to offer a complete healing package. The authors also address the potential of life force and energetic healing. All this is presented in a format that is easily accessible to the reader. Houdret is a member of the Herb Society and the British Herb Trade Association and author of numerous books. He co-author, Airey, is involved in complementary healthcare. (Kathi Keville, AHA Director American Herb Association Quarterly 33.1, October 2018)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lorenz Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0754831523
• ISBN 13: 9780754831525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640