Healthy Solutions

Consumer health text offers an alternative way to approach healing. Topics include cultural perspectives of medical practice, health and disease, symptoms and causes of disease, the language of science in medical models, remedy preparation techniques, ailments and therapies, the nature and nutritional effects of common foods, and more. Softcover.

Acknowledgments

vii

Foreword

ix

Robert Sardello

Introduction

1

(6)

PART ONE The Nature of Health

Cultural Perspectives of Medical Practice

7

(5)

Life and the Body

12

(6)

Health and Disease

18

(5)

Symptoms and Causes of Diseases

23

(5)

The Whole Person

28

(9)

The Language of Science in Medical Models

37

(252)

PART TWO Therapies for Common Ailments

How to Use the Therapy Section

45

(6)

Remedy Preparation Techniques

51

(5)

Ailments & Therapies

Accidents and Trauma

56

(9)

Aging: Care of the Elderly

65

(7)

Cleansing the Body

72

(4)

Colds and Flu

76

(11)

Coughs and Respiratory Ailments

87

(18)

Dental Health

105

(7)

Digestive Dysfunction

112

(30)

Ear Ailments

142

(16)

Eye and Vision Problems

158

(6)

Fever

164

(6)

Headache

170

(4)

Heart Ailments

174

(5)

Infant Care

179

(13)

Muscle and Joint Pain

192

(9)

Pain

201

(4)

Pregnancy and Birth

205

(4)

Psychological Issues

209

(15)

Reproductive Health

224

(11)

Skin Problems

235

(15)

Sleep Disorders

250

(4)

Urinary System Difficulties

254

(9)

PART THREE The Therapeutic Nature of Foods

The Nature and Nutritional Effects of Common Foods

263

(6)

Special Diets

269

(10)

Materia Medica

279

(10)

Bibliography

289

(6)

Index

295

(12)

About the Authors

307

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