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Gentle Healing for Baby and Child: A Parent's Guide to Child-Friendly Herbs and Other Natural Remedies for Common Ailments and Injuries Paperback / softback - 2003
by Andrea Candee
- New
- Paperback
A master herbalist offers a timely parent's guide to child-friendly herbs and other natural remedies for common ailments and injuries, showing parents how a banana can be used to remove a splinter, how herbs can reduce fever, why garlic is a natural antibiotic, and much more. Author lectures.
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Details
- Title Gentle Healing for Baby and Child: A Parent's Guide to Child-Friendly Herbs and Other Natural Remedies for Common Ailments and Injuries
- Author Andrea Candee
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Revised
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pocket Books
- Date 2003-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780743497251
- ISBN 9780743497251 / 0743497252
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.64 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Herbs - Therapeutic use, Children - Diseases - Alternative treatment
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00060657
- Dewey Decimal Code 615.542
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Summary
When your children are sick or injured, you want them to feel better -- fast. Although in some cases there is no substitute for traditional medical care, prescription drugs are not always the best answer. Countless parents are discovering that natural, health-promoting substances can often be both safer and more effective. Now, a master herbalist with more than twenty-five years of experience who is also a mother of two shares her natural approach to wellness. Inside you'll find easy holistic therapies for common childhood injuries and ailments, and learn:
- how a banana can remove a splinter
- which herbs help reduce fever
- how an onion helps both bruises and earaches
- why garlic is nature's antibiotic
- how a spritz of rosemary hair juice prevents lice
- why peppermint tea relieves both headaches and stomachaches
- how gargling with lemon juice and table salt can ease a sore throat
- why ginger root can ease motion sickness
- and many other intelligent uses of foods and therapeutic plants -- nature's own medicine -- to alleviate discomforts.
Best of all, this invaluable reference stresses and approach that helps you teach you children the benefits of proventing illness -- not just treating it.
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When your children are sick or injured, you want them to feel better -- fast. Although in some cases there is no substitute for traditional medical care, prescription drugs are not always the best answer. Countless parents are discovering that natural, health-promoting substances can often be both safer and more effective. Now, a master herbalist with more than twenty-five years of experience who is also a mother of two shares her natural approach to wellness. Inside you'll find easy holistic therapies for common childhood injuries and ailments, and learn:
-- how a banana can remove a splinter
-- which herbs help reduce fever
-- how an onion helps both bruises and earaches
-- why garlic is nature's antibiotic
-- how a spritz of rosemary hair juice prevents lice
-- why peppermint tea relieves both headaches and stomachaches
-- how gargling with lemon juice and table salt can ease a sore throat
-- why ginger root can ease motion sickness
-- and many other intelligent uses of foods and therapeutic plants -- nature's own medicine -- to alleviate discomforts.
Best of all, this invaluable reference stresses an approach that helps you teach your children the benefits of preventing illness -- not just treating it.