Echinacea and gingko biloba are well-known herbal remedies for common ailments such as colds and memory loss. But the vast majority of herbal aids are underused as treatments or preventatives for everything from insomnia to arthritis to heart disease. In THE COMPLETE HOME GUIDE TO HERBS, NATURAL HEALTH, AND NUTRITION, herbal practitioner Jill Rosemary Davies explains how to promote good health by understanding the body and how it is affected by a wide range of healing plants. She teaches you how to use herbs as potent tools for natural healing as well as how to combine them with nutrition and exercise for a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, you'll find: Sections on cleansings, immunity, life stages, and body systems; a complete A to Z of diseases and treatments; and a section on first aid. Instructions for making your own herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, ointments, oils, and more. And because the herbs used in this book are widely available in health food stores, drug stores, and grocery stores-some you'll even find growing in your own backyard-incorporating a greater range of beneficial herbs into your life will be all the more simple. Open the book to any page and you'll feel like you've stumbled upon Mother Nature's best-kept secrets.
This thorough resource for practitioners of self-healing outlines the fundamentals of herbalism, with sections devoted to plants and herbs, food and nutrition, natural healing methods, cleansing and detoxification, and understanding the body's systems. Recipes for herbal remedies, information on food combining, and natural ways to enhance the immune system are also covered.
Il existe une large variété de ginseng, chacune répondant à des besoins spécifiques. On les trouve en Chine, en Corée, en Russie, au Canada et aux États-Unis. La plus répandue et la mieux équilibrée est sans doute Eteutherococcus senticosus ou ginseng de Sibérie auquel nous consacrons ce livre. Bien qu'il n'appartienne pas vraiment à la famille botanique du ginseng, le ginseng de Sibérie en possède toutes les vertus. Il stimule le système immunitaire et agit comme tonique général de l'organisme, sans aucun effet secondaire. Il permet également de faire face et de s'adapter aux situations difficiles : stress quotidien physique ou psychique.
Echinacea and gingko biloba are well-known herbal remedies for common ailments such as colds and memory loss. But the vast majority of herbal aids are underused as treatments or preventatives for everything from insomnia to arthritis to heart disease. In THE COMPLETE HOME GUIDE TO HERBS, NATURAL HEALTH, AND NUTRITION, herbal practitioner Jill Rosemary Davies explains how to promote good health by understanding the body and how it is affected by a wide range of healing plants. She teaches you how to use herbs as potent tools for natural healing as well as how to combine them with nutrition and exercise for a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, you'll find: Sections on cleansings, immunity, life stages, and body systems; a complete A to Z of diseases and treatments; and a section on first aid. Instructions for making your own herbal teas, decoctions, tinctures, ointments, oils, and more. And because the herbs used in this book are widely available in health food stores, drug stores, and grocery stores-some you'll even find growing in your own backyard-incorporating a greater range of beneficial herbs into your life will be all the more simple. Open the book to any page and you'll feel like you've stumbled upon Mother Nature's best-kept secrets.
Tremendously popular in recent years, echinacea boosts and strengthens the body's immunse system and helps in the prevention and treatment of colds, flu, infections, insect bites, and cystitis.
Safety Planning with Battered Women introduces a new model of ôwoman-definedö advocacy that is designed to bridge the gap that sometimes occurs between a battered womanÆs perspective and a victim advocateÆs perception. Created to improve service delivery to women who are victims of domestic violence, this new model emphasizes placing attention on the victimÆs assessment of the risk in a violent relationship and in her decision making. Authors Jill Davies, Eleanor Lyon, and Diane Monti-Catania strive to help advocates better understand battered womenÆs decisions, including the decision to remain in an abusive relationship; to improve advocacy for victims with varying cultural backgrounds and experiences; and to provide advocates with assistance in redesigning their services, so they may better meet the needs of battered women. Since there are no quick fixes to the problems encountered in cases of domestic violence, it is vital that victims be provided with a real understanding of their options and the opportunity to implement those safety plans they deem most feasible. Safety Planning with Battered Women helps advocates tailor alternatives that will enhance the safety of battered women based on the individual realities of battered women. This book is both enlightening and highly practical and is a must read for anyone working with domestic violence victims. By introducing a woman-defined model and offering a new approach to advocacy, Safety Planning with Battered Women will compel readers to reexamine current approaches and examine the future provision of services to domestic violence victims, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics, professionals, and practitioners.
First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis of Turkish she realized that alignment constraints alone could not account for one central aspect of the Shona case: the priority of initial syllable features in determining the outcome of harmony. This volume of research outlines the authirs discoveries.
More than a thousand personally inspected accommodations are listed in this fully updated guide. From Scottish highland inns to manor houses on the Cornish coast, every residence has been carefully selected to meet the qualifications for membership in the Worldwide Bed & Breakfast Association. Includes hundreds of color photos, detailed maps, updated information on rates and amenities, and more.
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. THE CHRISTMAS COURTSHIP by Emma Miller Caught up in a scandal in her Amish community, Phoebe Miller moves to her cousin’s farm in Delaware hoping for forgiveness and a fresh start. The last thing Phoebe expects is to fall for bachelor Joshua Miller. But can their love survive her secret? WESTERN CHRISTMAS WISHES by Brenda Minton and Jill Kemerer Homecomings bring love for two cowboys in these holiday novellas, where a woman gets more than she bargained for with a foster teen to care for and a handsome cowboy next door, and a bachelor finds an instant family with a single mom and her little girl. HIS CHRISTMAS REDEMPTION Three Sisters Ranch by Danica Favorite Injured at Christmastime, Erin Drummond must rely on her ex-husband’s help caring for her nephews. But as they stay on the ranch together, can Erin and Lance find a way to put their tragic past behind them and reclaim their love?
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