Family Wellness Guide: From Mother Earth with Love

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Tuttle Publishing, Jan 31, 2012 - Health & Fitness - 271 pages
The Family Wellness Guide is a soothing mix of history, basic information, and practical suggestions for keeping your whole family well.

According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of the world's population entrusts their health care to natural remedies and traditional practitioners. Out Mother Earth provides not only the basic food, water, and shelter that we need to survive, but also the wonderful medicinal herbs, plants, and flowers to comfort, soothe, and heal. More and more, people are turning to nature for their healing of body and mind.

The Family Wellness Guide covers such areas as herbs, flower remedies, homeopathy, and aromatherapy, and includes a a definitive Guide to Common Ailments. The author also provides her "Top Twelve" recommendations, such as "Mother Earth's Top Twelve Healing Herbs".

This comprehensive, traditional healing book is unique in its additional focus on children, and not only discusses childhood ailments in each chapter, but also provides games and stories for children throughout the text. Specific chapters on bathtime and bedtime rituals will create a sense of well-being for the entire family.
 

Contents

Preface
An 1
Our Green Relatives 39
Similia Similibus 67
Remedies Additional Useful Homeopathic Remedies
Nature Is Simple 87
The Sweet Breathing of 103
CHAPTER SEVEN Bath Time 151
CHAPTER Ailments NINE Mother Earths Guide to Common 193
Headache Head Lice Immune Support Insomnia Measles
Resource Guide 245
Notes 253

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