Pamela Hirsch

The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit (eBook, ePUB)

Easy and Effective Remedies for Staying Healthy on the Road

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• A compact guide to assembling a customized travel health kit with natural remedies for relieving many of the traveler's common complaints--from sore feet and jet lag to insomnia and stress. • Offers a variety of simple but effective remedies, including herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and supplements. • Provides specific advice for those traveling by land, air, or sea. In this handy pocket guide, Pamela Hirsch shares her hard-won secrets for getting through your next business or pleasure trip with an easy stomach and a calm mind. Growing up in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, the author was exposed to different healing modalities at an early age and found that these time-tested techniques served her well during worldwide travel. The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit provides gentle but effective help for a wide variety of common complaints, including sore feet, nausea, bug bites, constipation, jet lag, heartburn, headache, and stress. Drawing on herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and supplements, the author shows you how to prepare a lightweight travel kit of remedies especially suited to your trip and your body's individual needs. She also includes home remedies that are easily found in a local market or grocery store and simple exercises that can relieve discomfort. Whether you are traveling by land, air, or sea, this easy-to-reference book is a must-pack essential for your next trip.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781594775475
• Artikelnr.: 49184178

Autorenporträt

Pamela Hirsch, owner of Rowan Mountain Herbals, an herbal body-care business specializing in natural soaps, has worked with medicinal herbs for nearly a decade. Growing up in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, she was exposed to different healing modalities at an early age. She shares her hard-won herbal secrets for staying healthy on the road in The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Shatoiya de la Tour
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Herbal Preparations
Teas
Compresses and Poultices
Oils and Salves
Tinctures and Liniments
Capsules and Syrups
2. Aromatherapy
3. Homeopathy
4. Flower Essences
5. Making a Traveler's Medicine Kit
6. Ailments
Abscesses
Allergies, Hay Fever, and Hives
Anxiety
Athlete's Foot
Bleeding
Blisters
Bloody Nose
Bruises
Bug Bites and Stings
Bunions
Burns
Congestion
Colds and Flu
Constipation
Coughs
Cramps
Crankiness
Cuts, Scrapes, and Abrasions
Cystitis or Urinary Tract Infection
Dehydration
Diarrhea and Vomiting
Earaches
Eye Problems
Fatigue
Fever
Food Poisoning
Headache
Heat Exhaustion and Sunstroke
Indigestion
Insomnia
Itchiness
Jet Lag
Menstrual Cramps
Motion Sickness and Nausea
Muscle Aches
Pain
Poison Oak, Ivy, or Sumac
Sinusitis
Sore Feet
Sore Throat
Splinters
Sprains
Stress
Swollen Feet or Ankles
Trauma
Yeast Infections
Appendices
A. Children's Dosages
B. Resources
Glossary
Bibliography