Americans are increasingly using natural remedies to treat physical ailments, buying herbs like St. John's wort, echinacea, and ginkgo biloba in record quantities, and spending over $27 billion per year on alternative heath care. Now Modern Ailments, Ancient Remedies brings alternative medicine home. This easy-to-follow, beautifully illustrated A-to-Z healing manual is filled with descriptions, history, uses, and helpful hints about using over 30 popular herbs -- from alfalfa to yarrow -- to treat over 40 contemporary ailments, from allergies to varicose veins. Consumers everywhere will want to add this terrific book to their reference shelf.