The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies: Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems [Hardcover]

Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books (Author), Deborah Tkac (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1990

The authors have combed the country to find reliable, unique, and sometimes never-before-revealed self-care secrets practiced by physicians and health-care professionals. The result is a one-of-a-kind volume of sure cures and treatments for common conditions--from angina to ulcers, from sore feet to forgetfulness.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Designed as a reference to help the consumer make informed choices about health, this source book includes more than 2000 self-help remedies for everyday health problems, alphabetically arranged in an easy-to-read format. Each entry provides a description, tips, techniques, and causes for medical concern. Compiled after interviewing medical experts in the appropriate fields, the collection of home-care solutions in each section ends with a list of a panel of advisors. Not an essential purchase; recommended where interest warrants as a supplement to standard health books.
- Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

What do doctors do when they get sick? The editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books asked more than 500 of the nations top specialists to recommend their best doctor-tested and easy-to-follow remedies for 138 illnesses and maladies. This complete, practical guide contains the distilled experience of health professionals who offer more than 2300 accessible healing tips for the most common medical complaints.

In this handy reference you will find curative techniques and symptom-relieving treatments for bladder infections, depression, emphysema, headaches, premenstrual syndrome, toothaches, and much more.

Here are invaluable at-home solutions for annoying afflictions such as canker sores, dandruff, and snoring as well as methods for coping with more serious health problems such as high cholesterol, ulcers, and backaches. The Doctors Book Of Home Remedies is like having a doctor on call 24 hours a day. So treat yourself to this prescription for health and stay well. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 676 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1st edition (March 15, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878578730
• ISBN-13: 978-0878578733
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.9 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #837,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, August 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies: Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems (Paperback)

I've had this book for about 5 years, and it's been very useful when I or one in my family gets sick. What I like most about the book is that it gives you remedies that don't mean heay medicines, for instance, honey, aspirin, alcohol, oatmeal, things that you usually have around your home. It contains an index of "illneses" like jet-lag, the flu, cramps, stomachaches, heartburn, fever, it tells you what to do and when, if necessary call the doctor. It is a highly recommended book, you won't waste your money here.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful advice for people with bad medical insurance benefit, July 20, 2000

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Carol A. Friedlander "Critical Mass" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies: Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems (Paperback)

I have used this book as a reference guide for everything between athelete's foot to zinc and I have found it to be very useful. In fact, I loaned the book to my brother and he refuses to give it back. I bought another copy for me and a few more for gifts. Not everything that they recommend works, but I have a high deductable for medical insurance, and I have saved many trips to the doctor by reading this book.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most practicle guide to healh problems for your family, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies: Thousands of Tips and Techniques Anyone Can Use to Heal Everyday Health Problems (Paperback)

A handy well written and wonderfully researched guide to just about everything that can go wrong with the health of every family member. Their advice and answers to every day health questions and problems is like having a doctor on call 24 hours a day. It's also great for piece of mind or educating yourself on problems you your friends or family members may be experiencing. Even after a visit to the doctor I often further educate myself by looking up the information in their comprehensive index section. My wife and I were amazed how often we picked it up to refer to it. On lots of minor problems it saves a trip to the doctor, plus the Publisher Rodale and Prevention are perhaps the leading publishers in the world on Health and Fitness.