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Better Health Through Natural HealingHow to get well without drugs or surgerywith Dr Ross Trattler N.D., D.O.
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Alternative medicines and therapies are becoming more and more mainstream as they prove their effectiveness for all sorts of aliments. Patients and the wider medical community are embracing what are now accepted as bona fide treatments for a wide range of medical conditions.
First published in 1985, Better Health Through Natural Healing has become one of the most successful and authoritative compendiums of its type. This second edition has been fully revised and updated by Dr Ross Trattler, with the assistance of Adrian Jones ND, to encompass recent developments in holistic medicine and healing. The first part of the book clearly explains the principles and tools of natural medicine, including diet, spinal manipulation, botanical medicine, hydrotherapy, physiotherapy and homoeopathy. The second part offers practical advice for the treatment of over 100 common diseases and ailments that families face.
This second edition of Better Health Through Natural Healing is an essential family resource that unites traditional and alternative techniques with time-tested natural treatments drawing on the body’s natural healing abilities.
| CONTENTS | |
| Acknowledgments | v |
| Introduction to Second Edition | vii |
| How to Use this Book | ix |
| A Final Note | xii |
| PART 1 What is Natural Medicine? | |
| Naturopathic medicine | 3 |
| The philosophy of naturopathic medicine | 4 |
| The tools of naturopathy | 10 |
| Botanical medicine | 11 |
| Diet, fasting and nutritional therapy | 23 |
| Homeopathy | 33 |
| Hydrotherapy | 36 |
| Physiotherapy and massage | 48 |
| Health topics of special interest | 54 |
| Possible toxic effects of some nutritional | |
| and botanical preparations | 54 |
| Antibiotics | 61 |
| When drugs and surgery are necessary | 72 |
| Part II How to Use Natural Medicine | |
| Acne | 77 |
| Aging | 82 |
| Alcoholism | 96 |
| Allergies and food intolerances | 99 |
| Anemia | 107 |
| Arthritis | 111 |
| Asthma, bronchial | 119 |
| Athlete’s foot | 127 |
| Baldness or hair loss | 129 |
| Bed sores | 132 |
| Bed-wetting | 133 |
| Behavioral disorders, depression, stress | 136 |
| Body odor | 138 |
| Boils, furuncles, and carbuncles | 140 |
| Bronchitis | 143 |
| Burns | 146 |
| Bursitis | 148 |
| Cancer | 152 |
| Cataracts | 159 |
| Catarrh | 162 |
| Celiac disease | 165 |
| Cervical dysplasia | 167 |
| Childhood diseases | 168 |
| Colds, coughs, and sore throats | 173 |
| Cold sores | 178 |
| Colitis | 179 |
| Constipation | 182 |
| Cradle cap | 187 |
| Cystitis and urethritis | 188 |
| Dandruff | 191 |
| Dehydration | 194 |
| Dementia | 199 |
| Diabetes | 203 |
| Diaper Rash | 210 |
| Diarrhea | 214 |
| Digestive disorders | 217 |
| Diverticulitis and diverticulosis | 221 |
| Earache | 224 |
| Edema | 227 |
| Emphysema | 229 |
| Epilepsy | 232 |
| Fatigue | 236 |
| Fever | 241 |
| Fibrocystic breast disease | 244 |
| Flat feet | 245 |
| Flatulence | 249 |
| Gallbladder disease | 253 |
| Glaucoma | 257 |
| Gout | 260 |
| Halitosis | 262 |
| Headache and migraine | 265 |
| Heart disease | 268 |
| Heavy metal poisoning | 277 |
| Hemorrhoids | 282 |
| Hepatitis | 284 |
| Herpes genitalis and cold sores | 286 |
| Hiatal hernia | 288 |
| Hiccup | 290 |
| Hives | 291 |
| Hyperactivity | 293 |
| Hypertension | 299 |
| Hypoglycemia and hyperinsulinism | 306 |
| Immune deficiency | 311 |
| Impotence | 316 |
| Incontinence | 318 |
| Infertility | 321 |
| Insect bites | 323 |
| Insomnia | 324 |
| Kidney disease | 331 |
| Kidney stones | 333 |
| Leaky gut | 338 |
| Leg cramps | 340 |
| Low back pain | 341 |
| Mastitis | 351 |
| Meniere’s disease | 352 |
| Menopausal problems | 354 |
| Menstrual disorders | 359 |
| Multiple sclerosis | 364 |
| Nail abnormalities | 368 |
| Neuritis and neuralgia | 369 |
| Nutritional deficiencies | 371 |
| Obesity | 373 |
| Osteoporosis | 381 |
| Parkinson’s disease | 385 |
| Peptic ulcer | 388 |
| Phlebitis and thrombophlebitis | 391 |
| Poison ivy | 394 |
| Premenstrual tension syndrome | 394 |
| Prostate disorders | 399 |
| Psoriasis | 405 |
| Salpingitis and salpingo-oophoritis | 409 |
| Schizophrenia | 412 |
| Scoliosis | 417 |
| Senile memory loss | 424 |
| Sinusitis | 425 |
| Skin cancer | 428 |
| Smoking | 431 |
| Sprains | 435 |
| Staphylococcal infection | 437 |
| Stress | 441 |
| Teeth and gum disease | 445 |
| Thoracic outlet syndrome and brachial neuralgia | 451 |
| Thyroid disorders | 455 |
| Tonsillitis and adenitis | 458 |
| Underweight | 460 |
| Vaginitis | 464 |
| Varicose veins and varicose ulcers | 467 |
| Warts | 470 |
| Worms | 474 |
| Wounds, minor cuts, bruises | 475 |
| Yeast infection | |
| NOTES | 479 |
| APPENDIX I Remedies | 481 |
| APPENDIX II Naturopathic Websites | 485 |
| APPENDIX III Botanical Names | 489 |
| GLOSSARY | 493 |
| INDEX | 499 |
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