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Oddball Ointments Powerful Potions and Fabulous Folk Remedies That'll Cure Almost Anything That Ails Ya

Product Description: Recipes for homemade tonics, salves, and poultices that can prevent, heal, and cure common health ailments are featured in this reference to folk medicines. Products in the kitchen cabinet, refrigerator, medicine chest, and garden can replace or supplement many expensive medicines through the innovative formulas detailed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jerry Baker (editor) and Jean Karen Thomas

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9780922433445 | Amer Master Products, April 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Recipes for homemade tonics, salves, and poultices that can prevent, heal, and cure common health ailments are featured in this reference to folk medicines.

The People's Pharmacy Guide to Home and Herbal Remedies

A comprehensive guide to herbal remedies by two of the most trusted authorities on the subject includes information about the most popular herbs, an A-to-Z handbook of common symptoms and ailments, dosage tips and precautions, and a variety of home andA comprehensive guide to herbal remedies by two of the most trusted authorities on the subject includes information about the most popular herbs, an A-to-Z handbook of common symptoms and ailments, dosage tips and precautions, and a variety of home and herbal remedies, vitamin therapies, and dietary supplements. Reprint. herbal remedies, vitamin therapies, and dietary supplements. Reprint.

By Graedon and Joe Graedon

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9780312207793 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive guide to herbal remedies includes information about the most popular herbs and a handbook of common symptoms and cures

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9780312981396 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Includes information about the most popular herbs, an A-to-Z handbook of common symptoms and ailments, dosage tips and precautions, and a variety of home and herbal remedies, vitamin therapies, and dietary supplements.

9780312267643, titled "The People's Pharmacy: Guide to Home and Herbal Remedies" | Griffin, December 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive guide to herbal remedies by two of the most trusted authorities on the subject includes information about the most popular herbs, an A-to-Z handbook of common symptoms and ailments, dosage tips and precautions, and a variety of home and herbal remedies, vitamin therapies, and dietary supplements.

Sacred Plant Medicine: Explorations in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism

Product Description: The first in-depth look at the processes by which indigenous peoples throughout the world developed their relationship with and knowledge of plant medicines. A reader-friendly introduction to the sacred nature of plant medicines and their ceremonies, songs, and medicinal uses. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Harrod Buhner

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9781570980855 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $30.00

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9780970869609 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, August 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The first in-depth look at the processes by which indigenous peoples throughout the world developed their relationship with and knowledge of plant medicines.

9781570980916 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A practicing herbalist and spiritual psychotherapist presents a seminal exploration of the way indigenous people in North America, Mexico, Siberia, South America, and elsewhere view the Earth and how that vision affects their use of plants as medicine.

Botanical Medicine: A European Professional Perspective

Product Description: This is an important resource for herbal practitioners who seek creative, innovative and sophisticated clinical models to enhance their practice. "Botanical Medicine, 2nd Edition" is designed to provide the herbal practitioner with tools for the development of clinical insights.

By Dan Kenner and Yves Requena

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9780912111667 | Paradigm Pubns, July 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is an important resource for herbal practitioners who seek creative, innovative and sophisticated clinical models to enhance their practice.

9780912111483 | 2 edition (Paradigm Pubns, January 1, 1997), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Botanical Medicine: A European Professional Perspective

International Collation of Traditional and Folk Medicine: Northeast Asia

Product Description: Traditional folk medicine practices in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea - all located in Northeast Asia - are comparable. Since different usage of a folk medicine may reflect cultural or regional differences, a detailed collation of the folk knowledge of traditional medicine can help to identiy common applications derived from different empirical knowledge as well as variations in appreciation of the value of the same source in different cultural settings...read more

By Paul P. H. But, Ji-Xian Guo, Takeatsu Kimura and Chung Ki Sung (editor)

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9789810245030 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Traditional folk medicine practices in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea - all located in Northeast Asia - are comparable.

9789810236397 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $85.00

9789810225896 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, June 1, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Traditional folk medicine practices in Korea, China, Japan, and Hong Kong â all located in Northeast Asia â are comparable.

Everything You Need to Know Before You Call the Doctor: A Straightforward and Sensible Home Medical Reference for Men, Women, Children and Seniors

Product Description: When should you get a second opinion? Are your symptoms serious? Should you call the doctor, go to the emergency room or just sleep it off? Everything You Need to Know Before You Call the Doctor answers these questions and more so you can make the right decisions to solve any medical problem quickly and efficiently...read more

By Verena Corazza (editor) and International Team of Doctors

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9781579120825 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, January 10, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: When should you get a second opinion?

Chinese Herbal Medicine Made Easy: Natural and Effective Remedies for Common Illnesses

Product Description: This comprehensive guide features alphabetical listings of more than 250 illnesses, information on their treatment in both Western and Chinese medicine, and more than 750 herbal formulas used to treat specific complaints. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Thomas Richard Joiner

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9780897932769 | Hunter House, June 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This comprehensive guide features alphabetical listings of more than 250 illnesses, information on their treatment in both Western and Chinese medicine, and more than 750 herbal formulas used to treat specific complaints.

Paperback:

9780897932752 | Hunter House, February 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

Mary Lee's Natural Health and Beauty: Healthy Living With Essential Oils

Having suffered and ultimately cured severe burns on her face and neck, the author shares her own healing regimen with readers, outlining a simple but effective plan for revitalizing ourselves through essential oil therapy. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Bob Condor and Mary Lee Patton

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9781585421053 | J P Tarcher, June 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Offers suggestions for enhancing lives naturally, using herbs and oils to stimulate restful sleep, kill germs and clean wounds, treat injuries, calm nerves, and reduce the physical signs of aging.

Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques

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By Barbara Emerson

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9781583940358 | Frog Ltd, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.95

Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

Product Description: This book contains essays by leading scholars and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine. It explores the diversity of the health belief systems individuals construct. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Erika Brady (editor)

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9780874214116 | Utah State Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicineâsuch as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issuesâthan ever before.

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9780874214109 | Utah State Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This book contains essays by leading scholars and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.

The Practice of Chinese Medicine

Product Description: A foremost Western expert on Chinese Medicine demonstrates how acupuncture and Chinese herbs are used in everyday clinical practice. He integrates extensive research with abundant direct clinical experience.

By Giovanni MacIocia

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9780443078217 | Hardcover with CD edition (Churchill Livingstone, September 30, 1996), cover price $269.00 | About this edition: A foremost Western expert on Chinese Medicine demonstrates how acupuncture and Chinese herbs are used in everyday clinical practice.

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

Product Description: People have always been curious about the plants and animals with which they coexist. Primitive cultures identified edible and poisonous plants largely by trial and error, and then used them for hunting, executions, euthanasia, and magico-religious rites, as well as for their medicinal properties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Mann

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9780198555612 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 10, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This absorbing account of the evolution of modern medicine from its roots in folk culture will entertain and inform both scientists and general readers alike.

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9780198507444, titled "Murder, Magic and Medicine" | Rev sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: People have always been curious about the plants and animals with which they coexist.

9780198558545 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 30, 1994), cover price $24.50 | About this edition: People have always been curious about the plants and animals with which they coexist.

Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health

Explores traditional Mexican healing arts while offering insights into the soul-diminishing forces of modern society and suggestions for coping strategies for balancing one's life. (view table of contents)

By Elena Avila and Joy Parker

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9780874779585 | J P Tarcher, March 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores traditional Mexican healing arts while offering insights into the soul-diminishing forces of modern society and offering coping strategies for balancing one's life

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9781585420223 | Reprint edition (J P Tarcher, July 1, 2000), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explores traditional Mexican healing arts while offering insights into the soul-diminishing forces of modern society and suggestions for coping strategies for balancing one's life.

Chinese Bodywork: A Complete Manual of Chinese Therapeutic Massage

By Sun Chengnan (editor)

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9781881896067 | Pacific View Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $50.00

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9781881896234 | Pacific View Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $50.00

Folk Remedies from Around the World: Traditional Cures for 300 Common Ailments

Product Description: John Heinerman has travelled around the globe hunting down remedies for more than 400 ailments that have plagued human beings for centuries. The result is this practical manual of folk remedies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Heinerman

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9780735201705 | Prentice Hall Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: John Heinerman has travelled around the globe hunting down remedies for more than 400 ailments that have plagued human beings for centuries.

Memory, Wisdom and Healing: The History of Domestic Plant Medicine

Product Description: The author gathers together a wealth of material from mmanuscripts, letters, diaries and personal interviews which collectively reveal a detailed picture of the use of domestic remedies in Britain. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gabrielle Hatfield

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9780750919456 | Sutton Pub Ltd, February 1, 2000, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The author gathers together a wealth of material from mmanuscripts, letters, diaries and personal interviews which collectively reveal a detailed picture of the use of domestic remedies in Britain.

Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine

Looks at the theory and practice of Mayan medicine, and compares it to Chinese medicine (view table of contents)

By Gilberto Balam, Jeff Conant (trans), Hernan Garcia and Antonio Sierra

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9781556433047 | North Atlantic Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Looks at the theory and practice of Mayan medicine, and compares it to Chinese medicine

Southern Folk Medicine: 1750-1820

Product Description: Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kay Moss

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9781570032899 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs.

Texas Folk Medicine: 1,333 Cures, Remedies, Preventives, & Health Practices

Product Description: Many of these folk medical practices are older than scientific medicine. Some reflect a belief in magic. Seldom written down, this oral lore has been passed down from generation to generation from the time of the first settlements in this country...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Q. Anderson

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9781574410563 | Univ of North Texas Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Many of these folk medical practices are older than scientific medicine.

Herbal

Product Description: Book by Krutch, Joseph Wood

By Joseph Wood Krutch

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9780879231651 | David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Krutch, Joseph Wood

Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales

Surveys alternative medicine from the ancient past to the present and from around the world

By Michele Root-Bernstein and Robert Root-Bernstein

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9780395822982, titled "Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Surveys alternative medicine from the ancient past to the present and from around the world

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9780395924921, titled "Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales" | 1 edition (Mariner Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $13.00

Esoteric Anatomy: The Body As Consciousness

Product Description: Esoteric Anatomy offers a spiritual approach to massage, bodywork, and somatic psychology, demystifying an ancient transpersonal model for understanding energy in nature and working with consciousness in the healing arts. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bruce Burger

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9781556432248 | North Atlantic Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Esoteric Anatomy offers a spiritual approach to massage, bodywork, and somatic psychology, demystifying an ancient transpersonal model for understanding energy in nature and working with consciousness in the healing arts.

Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing

A Stanford-trained doctor tells how he gave up the promise of a lucrative practice to learn more about the Native American healing arts his ancestors used and describes his efforts to incorporate the benefits of modern and ancient medicine (view table of contents)

By Lewis Mehl-Madrona

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9780684839974 | Touchstone Books, August 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A Stanford-trained doctor tells how he gave up the promise of a lucrative practice to learn more about the Native American healing arts his ancestors used and describes his efforts to incorporate the benefits of modern and ancient medicine

Secrets of the Sacred White Buffalo: Native American Healing Remedies, Rites & Rituals

An illustrated, holistic guide to making and safely using hundreds of all-natural healing potions also includes interviews with Native American healers and an examination of the rituals that once involved song, dance, story-telling, and sacred artifacts. Original. 15,000 first printing.

By Gary Null

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9780735200081 | Prentice Hall Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Provides the cultural foundations for specific Native American healing practices, including plant remedies, cleansing diets, purification rituals, and astrology

Inculturation and African Religion: Indigenous and Western Approaches to Medical Practice

Product Description: The devastating conditions prevailing in Africa continue to intrigue observers. This study argues that understanding the conditions requires setting them within a broad contextual framework of development of the peoples' cultural, economic, political, religious, and social systems from pre-colonial times to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Owoahene-Acheampong

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9780820431291 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: The devastating conditions prevailing in Africa continue to intrigue observers.

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