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The People's Pharmacy Quick and Handy Home Remedies

Q&As for Your Common Ailments

by Joe Graedon
Terry Graedon
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This National Geographic guide to healing foods and natural, herbal, home remedies is carefully researched by the authors and conveyed in the same friendly and authoritative personality as in their popular call-in radio show. In the book, organized as Q&As between the general public and the Graedons, they report how and why such treatments work and also offer a dozen new recipes for food so good for you, it serves as preventive medicine. This book contains as much information as a voluminous encyclopedia of home remedies, yet it's quick, easy, inviting, and fun to read.

Presented alphabetically by ailment and then, within each of those, by food or remedy, the book offers the basics of three standard diets for health, weight control, and fitness, along with a dozen new recipes for preparing food to match the diets. It includes a helpful index and cross-referencing system, making the book both a good shelf reference and an entertaining browse.

This book builds on the reputation of The People's Pharmacy and adds the extra value that comes from a partnership with National Geographic.

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  • Release date

    May 17, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781426208409

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      • ISBN: 9781426208409
      • File size: 548 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 15, 2011

      The Graedons (Joe is a pharmacologist and Terry has a Ph.D. in medical anthropology), well-known radio speakers and authors of more than 14 books (e.g., Best Choices from the People's Pharmacy), offer down-to-earth, inexpensive, practical ways to deal with 62 common ailments, from acne and rosacea to wound care. Ailments are presented with a short description of the problem then a Q&A format list of remedies. These remedies include suggestions or queries from readers and listeners, e.g., raw onion for bug bites and stings or pickle juice for hiccups. As the Graedons note, many of the remedies have no scientific support, but where available they list the publication. The favorite-food section focuses on 24 foods found to be especially beneficial in illness prevention and health maintenance. Sidebars list health-promoting foods. VERDICT Very readable as well as entertaining, this is a great resource for those interested in home remedies for everyday woes. This book, however, is not as comprehensive as The Complete German Commission E Monographs or the PDR for Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs.--Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn.

      Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2012

      A former pharmacologist and a medical anthropologist, respectively, the Graedons combine their skills as well as their celebrity (they write a syndicated column, The People's Pharmacy, and cohost a health talk show on public radio) to gather from fans the best Q&As on ailments and proposed remedies. They then provide either scientific evidence to back them up or refute them accordingly. (LJ 5/15/11)

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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