Alternative Cures: More than 1,000 of the Most Effective Natural Home Remedies [Mass Market Paperback]

Bill Gottlieb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 26, 2008

When your health is at risk, you want to consider every option.

In Alternative Cures, three hundred of America’s top doctors and natural healers–herbalists, nutritionists, homeopaths, and naturopaths–share more than one thousand safe and effective remedies for many health concerns. Inside you’ll discover

• a nutrient that blocks the side effects of arthritis drugs
• a two-nutrient combo that can help cure chronic fatigue
• an herbal “cocktail” that stops common flu symptoms in twenty-four hours
• an amino acid that works as well as Viagra
• a group of remedies that rein in high blood pressure
• a natural hormone cream that rebuilds bones
• a home remedy that stops sugar cravings immediately

Plus, there are easy-to-follow illustrations of healing exercises and pain-relieving pressure points–along with guidance on when to seek a professional. Alternative Cures provides not only health advice but peace of mind.

“A valuable resource of alternative and integrated medicines.”
–Elson M. Haas, M.D., author of The False Fat Diet

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Bill Gottlieb is an author and freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Alternative Medicine, Best Life, Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line Personal, Bottom Line Women’s Health, Cooking Light Books, Cosmopolitan, Health, InteliHealth.com, Men’s Health, Natural Healing, New Beauty, Prevention, Reader’s Digest, Runner’s World, and Self. He is the former editor in chief of Rodale Books and Prevention Magazine Health Books. He lives in California.

www.drugfreehealing.com

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (August 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345505395
• ISBN-13: 978-0345505392
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.3 x 6.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Health, Mind & Body > Alternative Medicine > Naturopathy
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first edition, March 29, 2009

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I can't say enough about what a wonderful book this is. Updated and easier to read with a new font. It is one that we refer to with regularity at our home. I will buy extras to give as gifts to family I think that highly of it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book but full of health term jargons, April 9, 2010

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a good book for those who want to get rid of some of those various lingering med problems. i gave it 4 stars and not 5 just because of the jargons in the book (e.g. vitamin E for this, vitamin D for that). if you have no idea what foods or home remedies serve these vitamins then you're gonna be annoyed. Good book to have but the not so savvy like myself might want to buy another book to complement, which explains the food groups and their health contents/uses.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not sure I trust it, June 16, 2011

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To me this book just did not do enough to make me feel confident that I could trust the information provided. It mostly recommends supplements, but I felt explanations were sometimes lacking. For fatigue it recommends glutamate. I googled this and found information on MSG. The book is telling me to take MSG supplements? I'm not really sure- but having paid for the book, I don't expect to have to spend hours googling trying to figure out what you are telling me and if it's actually safe for me. Similarly it recommends carnitine which I had to google and read about various forms and try to figure out what I was supposed to be taking. If you recommend supplements at the very least couldn't the book tell me what to look for in supplements- particularly what it would be called would be helpful. When I look for carnitine supplements I find L-Carnitine, Acetyl L-Carnitine. Which one is right? Looking more I find there is propionyl-L-carnitine, and D-carnitine which apparently is bad. None of this is the book. I don't feel the information is complete enough and due to that I don't feel I can trust it. I do not recommend wasting money on this book.