Prescription for Nutritional Healing

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Penguin, 2006 - 869 pages
Natural health's number-one bestseller for more than twenty years, completely revised and updated.

With more than five million copies sold, Prescription for Nutritional Healing is the most trusted, comprehensive source on dietary supplements, vitamins, minerals, and herbs. A pioneer in the field of nutritional healing, Phyllis Balch passionately and meticulously researched and compiled this groundbreaking book. Now, a generation later, her message has more relevance than ever: consume fresh foods, avoid processed foods and those high in saturated fat, and optimize your intake of essential nutrients with the right supplements. Today's well-stocked vitamin and natural-health stores can be confusing, and people need Balch's clear, concise, landmark guide.

To help them make sense of the mind-numbing array of choices that are available, readers of Prescription for Nutritional Healing will:

- learn the basics of good nutrition;
- find out how to balance vitamins and minerals so that the body can properly absorb both;
- determine how best to treat 250 problems-from abscesses to wrinkles-using herbs, nutrition, and supplements; and
- get the facts on other complementary therapies, like ayurveda, biofeedback, chiropractic care, and more. Prescription for Nutritional Healing is an essential resource for every health-minded consumer.
 

Contents

Nutrition Diet and Wellness
5
Vitamins
15
Minerals
30
Air
41
Troubleshooting for Disorders
136
Chemical Poisoning
317
Circulatory Problems
325
Common Cold
332
Narcolepsy
590
Oily Skin
603
Pagets Disease of Bone
610
Peptic Ulcer
617
Pneumonia
624
Poisoning
631
Schizophrenia
682
Senility Dementia
688

Copper Deficiency
339
Croup
346
Dermatitis
357
Diarrhea
370
Drug Addiction Substance Abuse
378
Ear Infection
384
Endometriosis
390
Epilepsy
397
Lead Poisoning
540
Lupus
547
ManicDepressive DisorderBipolar
555
Ménières Disease
562
Mercury Toxicity
570
Motion Sickness
577
Mumps
583
Sinusitis
696
Skin Rash 705
754
Part Three Remedies and Therapies
771
Ayurvedic Remedies
777
Color Therapy Chromatherapy
783
Glandular Therapy
790
Juicing
796
Breathing Exercises
802
Sitz Bath
808
Introduction
817
Manufacturer and Distributor
829
Health and Medical
840
Suggested Reading
851
About the Author 870
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About the author (2006)

Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, was a leading nutritional counselor for more than two decades. Convinced that nutrition was, in many cases, the answer to regaining and maintaining health, Ms. Balch testified before Congress on the efficacy of natural healing.

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