The Doctors Book of Home Remedies: Quick Fixes, Clever Techniques, and Uncommon Cures to Get You Feeling Better Fast

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Harmony/Rodale, Mar 2, 2010 - Health & Fitness - 704 pages
What do doctors do when they get sick? The editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books asked more than 500 of the nations top specialists to recommend their best doctor-tested and easy-to-follow remedies for 138 illnesses and maladies. This complete, practical guide contains the distilled experience of health professionals who offer more than 2300 accessible healing tips for the most common medical complaints.

In this handy reference you will find curative techniques and symptom-relieving treatments for bladder infections, depression, emphysema, headaches, premenstrual syndrome, toothaches, and much more.

Here are invaluable at-home solutions for annoying afflictions such as canker sores, dandruff, and snoring as well as methods for coping with more serious health problems such as high cholesterol, ulcers, and backaches. The Doctors Book Of Home Remedies is like having a doctor on call 24 hours a day. So treat yourself to this prescription for health and stay well.
 

Contents

ADDICTION
6
ALLERGIES
14
ANAL FISSURES
20
ANXIETY
27
ATHLETES FOOT
39
BAD BREATH
48
BELCHING
55
BLACK EYE
64
IRRITABLE BOWEL
372
JET LAG
379
KNEE PAIN
385
LACTOSE INTOLERANCE
391
LEG PAIN
397
MEMORY PROBLEMS
405
MENOPAUSE
411
MOTION SICKNESS
420

BODY ODOR
71
BREAST DISCOMFORT
77
BRONCHITIS
85
BURNOUT
91
BURNS
97
CALLUSES AND CORNS
105
CARPAL TUNNEL
113
CHAPPED HANDS
120
COLDS
128
COLD SORES
136
CONJUNCTIVITIS
144
COUGH
152
CUTS AND SCRAPES
158
DANDRUFF
165
EARACHE
229
EARWAX
235
ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
241
FATIGUE
249
FEVER
255
FLU
262
FOOT ACHES
272
FROSTBITE
278
GINGIVITIS
287
HANGOVER
302
HEARTBURN
313
INCONTINENCE
353
INGROWN HAIR
361
NAIL BRITTLENESS
433
NAIL RIDGES
440
OILY HAIR
457
OSTEOARTHRITIS
463
PHLEBITIS
475
PIZZA BURN
484
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
490
PSORIASIS
501
RASHES
507
RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME
515
ROSACEA
525
SCIATICA
532
SHINGLES
540
SIDE STITCHES
548
SNORING
554
SPLINTERS
562
TACHYCARDIA
579
TEMPOROMANDIBULAR
585
TINNITUS
592
TOOTH STAINS
599
URINARY TRACT
606
VARICOSE VEINS
611
WEIGHT PROBLEMS
620
WRINKLES
628
INDEX
647
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