The Natural Pharmacist : Natural Health Bible from the Most Trusted Alternative Health Site in the World : Your A-Z Guide to Over 300 Conditions, Herbs, Vitamins, and Supplements (Paperback)

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"Rigorous, comprehensive, up to date, and refreshingly accessible." —Rajiv R. Ratan, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Institutes of Medicine

"More objective than anything I've read on the subject." —Jan Fawcett, M.D.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 2 Revised edition (November 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761524487
• ISBN-13: 978-0761524489
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #809,590 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!!, February 28, 2001

By A Customer

This book takes the mystery and mysticism out of herbs and nutritional supplements. The authors are objective in their description and count on the use of double-blind studies to determine if a particular substance has an effect on a particular condition. The book has a clever format - there is a section for conditions and a separate section for supplements, making it very easy to quickly find what you want. The book is fully cross-referenced and also lists all scientific publications. The writing style is most engaging, so the book makes a good read as well as a good reference.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dated but Authoratative and Relevant, August 7, 2006

By	Matthew Polly "L.Ac." (Carrboro, NC USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent reference, written by a competent and unbiased MD. Though the source material is going on 6 years old in a field of daily change, this is an excellent (and inexpensive) starting point. For what it's worth, all of the material (now updated) with extra entries is now online via a link on the principal author's website [...].

Personally I enjoy holding and folding real books more than gazing into CRTs for the kind of study this material requires. For what it's worth all of the References for the older book and updated material are included in the online version. (Some earlier reviewers were quite affected by the omission of References in the print edition.)

What I liked about this text was its level of granularity. By this I mean, it wasn't too fine as you might find in a medical text, nor was it too coarse as you find in so many second hand texts these days. By second hand texts I mean books that are restatements of other books (rarely including the rigorous primary source material searches/reviews as the author did in this case). Thumbs way up!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Tops, April 6, 2002

By	F. Mort "Fred" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This book is a must have for any serious student, patient, and doctors(yes please}
With over 50 books on nutrition,health etc. in my collection this is often the one I reach for first.Value for money. Highly recommended.