Modern Ailments, Ancient Remedies: Healing Manual

By Gillian Kerr

Book Overview

Americans are increasingly using natural remedies to treat physical ailments, buying herbs like St. John's wort, echinacea, and ginkgo biloba in record quantities, and spending over $27 billion per year on alternative heath care. Now Modern Ailments, Ancient Remedies brings alternative medicine home. This easy-to-follow, beautifully illustrated A-to-Z healing manual is filled with descriptions, history, uses, and helpful hints about using over 30 popular herbs -- from alfalfa to yarrow -- to treat over 40 contemporary ailments, from allergies to varicose veins. Consumers everywhere will want to add this terrific book to their reference shelf.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765116812
• ISBN13: 9780765116819
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Smithmark Pub
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"