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New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine

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This book is used to discuss the alternative ways for healing, for people looking for other methods of healing rather than expensive medications from the hospital. This book covers traditional and eastern ways of healing, as well as nutritional healing, such as food therapy, juice therapy, vitamin and mineral therapy. The book is organized by health problems, and has an introduction for each method of healing. It also contains a resource page where you can find information on each method.

If you are wanting to understand more about natural healing, this book is definantly for you!

This book has natural remedies for minor ailments (it specifically mentions that if symptoms are severe or persist over an extended period of time you should see a doctor). I have found it very helpful (I figured in the least it can't hurt me). This book is split into 3 parts.

Part I: This part contains an overview of what natural healing is and then gives descriptions of various methods used in natural healing (ex. acupressure, aromatherapy, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, yoga).

Part II: This book lists many ailments in alphabetical order. It is easy to look them up because they are written as an encyclopedia style reference. Some problems included are: acre, bad breath, colds, heartburn, jet lag, rashes, and warts. This part also includes illustrations of things such as massage and acupressure so that it is easy to lacate the areas yourself.

Part III: This part lists various resources in case the reader is interested in looking up more information or some organizations that deal with natural healing.

I would recomend this book for anyone who doesn't know much about natural healing but likes to try and heal themselves before seeing a medical doctor.

New Choices in Natural Healing takes several areas of natural health care and incorporates it by condition. As an example, if you were to turn - alphabetically, of course - to Arthritis, you'd read a short paragraph describing the ailemtn, then a paragraph or two under Acupressure, Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, Flower Remedy, Food Therapy, Homeopathy, Hydrotherapy, Imagery, Juice Therapy, Massage, Reflexology, Relaxation and Meditation, Vitamin and Mineral Therapy, and -finally- yoga.

If you know much on herbs, you'd get frustrated seeing the cautious and very generic recommendations, and the same goes for some other areas. However, to have this much information on such a wide variety in one book is invaluable, an excellent idea and, even if not done completely up to par, worth owning. The authors act more as journalists in a way, objectively describing what the experts in each field would recommend for each condition, not taking an active stance much. The objective authors of course follow it up with ask your doctor and generic advice, but the book they've put together has served its use well enough.

The end section is great, as it's filled with illustrations on acupressure points, massages, reflexology jargon and charts, a few relaxation stretches, yoga illustrations (good amount of these). This section alone brought the book up another star - I'm a visual learner, and the diagrams can assist many people. Great segment!

The beginning is well-done, also, telling about each area of natural healing with background details and such. Having a book at your fingertips that will point you in the right direction for a variety of natural techniques is priceless. In order to learn this much about each would involve buying multiple books about seperate healing techniques - a book such as this saves mucho on the wallet, makes general browsing a breeze, and cuts your time in half. Not perfect in some areas, but certainly worth picking up!

This is the best of the best. It tells you when to see an orthodox doctor, and gives you MANY choices in therapy options for all medical concerns. It's an all-inclusive guide to ALL alternative health methods, from Acupressure and Ayurveda to Sound Therapy and Yoga. I refer to it daily, and learn something new each time.

When I first heard about this book, I knew this was the book that I had been looking for.

This book looks at alternatives that the medical society would absolutely flip over.

Under each listed health problem there is a selection of treatments. Some treatments deal with herbal therapy, vitamin and mineral therapy, massage, and juice therapy just to mention a few. These treatments have been used throughout the history of the mankind, and have a proven track record.

Part I - Understanding the Methods of Nautural Healing gives an overview of the different methods. I found this a great help, it has led me towards my journey to a more healthy and productive life. The part about Herbal therapy has been the most helpful, all of the herbs that are written about and there effects are right on target. I have researched these herbs and have found that the write-ups about them are consistent with other resource documents.

I believe this book is the start of a huge movement in the world to look to ourselves and natural alternatives to healing. The mind and its natural healing abilities is our best weapon to control disease and to facilitate healing.

If you are interested in the powers of yourself, food, and mother nature to heal you, all I can say is this is the book for you.

I founded the book to be all that I expected and somewhat more. The medical information were easy to find. And the price was somewhat unbelievable at 1 cent. I keep the book handy for quick advice.

This book is very informative, easy to understand, covers any conditions that occurs on a daily basis. We've used many of the methods mentioned in the book and found them very helpful.

I've been reading a lot of "natural remedy" or "folk remedy" books lately. I checked this one out from my library.

Many of the books I've been reading, this book included, have the same format. It begins by describing some common types of natural medicine (16 in this book). Then it lists common health problems (160 in this book) and the remedies from selected types of natural medicine.

Some of the remedies in this book were unique. So, I may buy it or check it out again if I need to refer to it later.

I'd like to address the review that speaks of the 'comedy' of this book. What he/she wrote is truly in the book, but it is merely in the imagery section, and is to be interpreted by the individual for meditation purposes. The "100 pound sack" image is symbolic of the stresses each person has weighing over them, which may cause them to slouch and mope, etc. There are also accupressure, massage, herbal, homeopathic, yoga, and other remedies for each ailment. And the ailment section only takes up half the book, the other half teaches about various natural healing methods and topics.

this book has a lot of useful stuff in it. i bought this book for my husband, and he loves it. i found different remedies in it for my 11 yr old sons ingrown toe nails.