Family Guide to Natural Medicine

By Reader's Digest Association

Book Overview

An exploration of natural and alternative therapies offers clear explanations and evaluations of more than one hundred ancient and modern remedies and discusses how emotions affect health, at-home... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089577433X
• ISBN13: 9780895774330
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

Ive never been really impressed by a textbook before, but this did the job. It has so much useful knowledge, and tips about how to improve your daily life. I took a class last summer where we learned how to use alternative healing techniques, massages and various exercises to heal our bodies and minds, rather than using western medicine, and boy was this book helpful. Everything we needed to know was listed in the book. I give it 5/5!

Very helpful

I bought this book for a stress reduction through movement class but I ended up using it alot more than just in the class. I still look to it as reference and it has led to me getting other books and learning more about wholistic and eastern medicines and practices that I'm glad I know. I've been able to be healthier and just understand what all those tai chi and meditation and chiropractors,etc. are doing. I've saved some money on medications and doctor visits thanks in part to this book. Anyways for a college textbook it is and probably will be the cheapest I'll ever spend. But for a book that outlives its classroom usefulness yes it's great. I'm just sad it is no longer in print but at least it's available here.

It's an excellent book

I borrowed the book from a friend. I liked it so much, and decided to buy one. Like the name, it showed you how to stay healthy the natural way. I recommend you to read. Especially those who are disappointed with the modern medicine, should read it.

Wonderful introduction to natural healing!

Full-color photographs and charts outline step-by-step approaches to many varied methods of natural medicine. Balancing Yin and Yang, creating colorful mandalas, acupuncture as anesthesia, whole-body healing, and a wider view of osteopathy are only a few of the many topics covered. Meditation, biofeedback, hypnosis, massge, reflexology, yoga, nutrition, herbs, and many more complementary therapies are investigated. This wonderful text is well-organized and well-indexed, a perfect tutorial for beginners or reference book for practitioners. This is a must-have for the natural healing enthusiast!