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National Geographic Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies
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066626
ISBN
9781426212604
Grade AD
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Description
Subtitled, 1,025 Easy Ways to Live Longer, Feel Better, and Enrich Your Life, this National Geographic book provides a detailed introduction to home remedies, healing herbs and foods, healthy home and body care, and finally, ways to build a healthy lifestyle with personal choices. An additional chapter explains the basics of alternative healing traditions including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, Qigong, meditation, and yoga, among others (you'll have just enough information to intelligently decide about potentially controversial methods). Chapters highlight “top picks" in each category: allowing you to delve in without being overwhelmed. There are also lots of individual tips to apply: make a baking soda bath for heat rashes; build healthy social relationships, etc. Note: Not a medical manual. Includes an additional reading list and an index. 383 pgs, reinforced pb. ~ Ruth
Publisher's Description of National Geographic Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies
Combining science and folklore for health, this book features practical cures, medicinal herbs, healing foods, green housecleaning, sustainable cosmetics, alternative therapies, and lifestyle changeshundreds of ways to boost your health naturally. Created with a nationally recognized advisory board of medical professionals and leading figures in natural healing fields, National Geographic Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies covers topics ranging from the familiar to the new and promising: from mint tea for a stomachache to onion juice for a bee sting, from using baking soda as a kitchen cleanser to finding quiet in a crowded world, from adding turmeric to fight arthritis to practicing aromatherapy at home. Sections on healing traditions and best life practices from around the world offer readers all-around guidance on the path to optimal health. Photographs, recipes, cautions, and quick tips on page after page make this both a handy look-up reference and a fascinating browse to keep close at hand for years to come.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | National Geographic |
| Grade: | AD |
| ISBN: | 9781426212604 |
| Length in Inches: | 9.75 |
| Width in Inches: | 7.625 |
| Height in Inches: | 1.125 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 2.7 |
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