This compact book is designed to provide a practical, quick, clinical reference guide that birth attendants can easily slip into their birth bags. Seventy-five key remedies are briefly summarized for their applications in midwifery practice or self care. Prenatal problems, complications arising during labor and birth, and postpartum complaints of both mom and baby are covered. The newly updated 5th edition features an expanded therapeutic applications or repertory section designed to facilitate expedient choice of a remedy during labor. Written by a midwife for midwives, mothers, and anyone who works with pregnant, birthing, or breastfeeding moms and their babies.
The book is about Midwifery assistance, principally a home or birth center setting, but also in a hospital. The focus is on spiritual preparation for mothers and fathers, as well as conducting birth in a spiritual atmosphere during and following delivery. Contains nutritional advice for pregnant women as well as post-partum for mother and baby. Contains breastfeeding tips and advice. All anatomical and medical details are given, including necessary midwifery supplies, and preparations, both pre and post delivery. Many actual situations are described from the author's many years of experience. A number of first-person testimonials and birth experience descriptions are also given by mothers giving birth naturally, and consciously, with the assistance of a midwife. Includes many Bible quotations and references. Ideal for parents and for midwives seeing a spiritual approach to childbearing.
From first aid to preventive medicine, a comprehensive reference to health care for the entire family. Lockie presents a concise and enlightening explanation of how homeopathy works and shows readers how to incorporate its principles in their life-styles, diets, and exercise programs. 13 line drawings.
Access the most reliable information on herbs and alternative medicines from trusted author, Linda Skidmore-Roth, in Mosby's Handbook of Herbs and Natural Supplements! Reviewed by nurses and herbalists alike, this authoritative resource presents herb and supplement profiles in a convenient, A-Z format for fast reference. This edition's updated, streamlined design helps you find information quickly, and a new systematic pregnancy and breastfeeding classification offers the latest guidelines for this special client population. - Detailed monographs for 300 commonly used herbal products and natural supplements include vital information on the products you'll encounter with your clients. - Updated references and information from new studies make this a reliable source for herbal content. - Alert icons warn you of potentially dangerous reactions that could threaten your clients' health. - Popular Herb, Pregnancy, and Pediatric icons help you find relevant content quickly for common herbs and herbs for special populations. - Quick-reference format presents consistent monographs for each herb and makes it easy to find the information you need. - Herbal Resource appendix, Drug/Herb Interaction appendix, Pediatric Herbal Use appendix, and a list of abbreviations provide essential resources and expanded herbal material in one convenient spot. - A comprehensive index of herbal terms allows you to look up an herb by its common or scientific name, as well as by condition. - A pregnancy classification system from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration allows you to analyze herbs individually and provides a consistent formula to decide which herbs should be used. - Updated content throughout includes the latest uses, actions, dosages, contraindications, side effects/adverse reactions, interactions, pharmacology, alerts, and references. - Pediatric Herbal Use appendix covers uses, guidelines, and expanded pediatric and adolescent information for 32 herbs. - Drug/Herb Interaction appendix lists known drug and herb interactions for herbs included in the handbook to ensure client safety.
No period in a woman's life is as filled with special concerns as pregnancy and new motherhood. Among the many discomforts and ailments treatable with the homeopathic remedies explained in this book are: For the mother: anemia, back pain, breastfeeding problems, constipation, exhaustion, hemorrhoids, insomnia, morning sickness, post-partum depression, sinusitis, varicose veins, yeast infections For the baby: breathing difficulties, chicken pox, constipation, cough, diaper rash, diarrhea, ear infection, hiccups, mumps, sleep problems, teething pains, vomiting In Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Your Baby's First Year, practicing homeopath, Mirando Castro introduces readers to the many safe, effective, inexpensive, and nonmedical remedies that homeopathy has to offer women in this very important period. With reassuring, easy-to-read text, the book explains the principles of homeopathy and tells readers how to select the remedies that correlate to hundreds of common symptoms of physical and emotional distress. The book also offers natural ways to make labor and birth as relaxed as possible, using homeopathic methods. Complete with case histories, materia medica, and supportive and helpful tips throughout, this guidebook offers a wealth of natural-health information every expentant mother should consider.
By triggering the body's own self-healing abilities, homeopathetic treatments are a safe and effective way to treat acute and chronic symptoms of body and mind. This book offers a comprehensive resource to the vast array of products and services available, and answers consumers' questions about this powerful, accessible system of health and healing.
With the number of natural and human-caused disasters increasing dramatically these days, as are dire predictions for the future, you might consider learning how to treat illness yourself when medicines and hospitals are no longer available and you or a family member becomes acutely ill, or, for example, has contracted an infection—a deadly problem without antibiotics. With homeopathy, you can make your own medicines and treat yourself, your family and pets. This book will show you how. You and your family can become independent of medical assistance for most acute illnesses by learning the basic, simple methods presented in this book of how to use homeopathic remedies. Treat acute illnesses yourself at hardly any cost, without needing expensive, toxic and side-effect producing chemical drugs, while improving the general health level and life quality of yourself and those close to you. Here are some specific benefits you can enjoy: Nip the flu in the bud with just one pill as soon as you notice flu symptoms. You are on your way home on a warm day after a long day’s work in an air-conditioned office and notice a sore throat coming on, and that you feel a bit out of sorts. Realizing that a cold is building up, you reach into your homeopathic remedy kit and take an Aconitum 200 C pill. By the time you arrive home, the budding cold is gone. Recover quickly from injuries, operations, childbirth and dental work. After a tooth extraction at the dentist’s, your wife comes home complaining of pain. Naturally she has refused an antibiotic from the dentist, knowing that you will deal with the problem using homeopathic means. She has already taken Arnica 200C from her remedy kit after leaving the dentist’s office. You give her another suitable homeopathic remedy, such as Staphysagria, and the next day there is hardly any pain at all—no antibiotics needed. Cure fear of flying before you travel. You are at the airport going on a business trip, when you meet a friend. She tells you she is afraid of flying and quite anxious regarding her pending flight. You offer to help her with a homeopathic pill, which you tell her contains no chemicals—only information that will stimulate the body to cure itself. She is willing to give it a try. Some weeks later you see her again on the street and she thanks you profusely, as her fear of flying had vanished like magic before boarding the plane. Greatly speed up your child’s recovery from childhood illnesses such as the measles. Your young son tells you that his friend and others at the school have come down with the measles. You implement the homeopathic immunization programmed of giving Pulsatilla 200C once a week while the epidemic lasts, and your son avoids the measles and acquires immunity to the disease. Help your dog or cat, or other pet, recover rapidly from injuries, bites and other traumas. You bring a young cat into the family as a companion for an older cat named Toby you have. However, Toby does not receive the newcomer very well. He hisses and strikes out at your new cat called Sweetie. Not a very pleasant situation, but you know how to deal with it. You add the homeopathic remedy Hyoscyamus 1M to Toby’s drinking bowl one day and two days later on arriving home, to your surprise, you see the two cats cuddled up together on the bed, the best of friends. In extreme survival situations you will be able to treat yourself and your loved ones by making your own homeopathic remedies. Suppose you and your family find yourselves isolated, civilization around you has collapsed, perhaps you are out in the wild to escape deteriorated and hostile city conditions. Your son has cut himself on a rusty metal part while looking for food and he is running a fever. You have learned how to make the correct homeopathic antibiotic remedy for this using a proven method taught in this book. Rather than passing on to another plane, your son recovers completely in some days. Your wife is extremely grateful. Bird flu, or any other lethal flu, strikes and there are thousands of sick and dying people in your town, while waiting for the medical authorities to produce a sufficient quantity of a possibly effective vaccine in six months’ time. With the information contained in this book you prepare a homeopathic remedy in your kitchen to treat your sick daughter and neighbors, some of which are in very bad shape. They all recover after a very difficult bout with the bird or whatever flu, but they are alive. There you are. Considering the times we are living in, purchasing this book will be a prudent investment that can save your life as well as the lives of your family members, friends and pets. It will certainly improve their health and life quality. This is cutting-edge technology, way ahead of the current level at which medicine is practiced. This book contains information never presented in this concise and practical manner, including advances in the creation and transmission of homeopathic remedies not mentioned in standard literature on homeopathy. A new and simpler approach to treating illness awaits your discovery. Homeopathy has been around for more than 200 years and has a proven track record as practiced by medical doctors and laymen alike, with an enviable record of cures in epidemics. You can join the ranks of vanguard practitioners of the medicine of the future. Purchase Family Homeopathy and Survival Guide (pdf, US or UK English), by clicking HERE. You, your family and pets will benefit from it.
"This important and long-awaited guidebook brings together information and advice about the homeopathic treatment of a full range of gynecological disorders. The author, a well-known practicing homeopath and psychiatrist, gives a clear description of each disorder and its causes and symptoms. He discusses the conventional treatment of the complaint, and provides a list of homeopathic remedies, indicating exactly how each remedy is to be applied to specific physical and psychological symptoms. Dr. Smith is the author of several books on homeopathy, including Homeopathic Medicine and Homeopathic Medicine for Mental Illness. In this book he covers topics such as painful and irregular menstruation, menopause, infection, and infertility. He also addresses the issues of rape, contraception, and sexual problems, including the related male problems of premature ejaculation and impotence. Most importantly, he shows how women can use homeopathy as an important primary treatment in caring for their own health" -- Back cover.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery & Women's Health, Fifth Edition is an accessible and easy-to-use quick reference guide for midwives and women’s healthcare providers. Completely updated and revised to reflect the changing clinical environment, it offers current evidence-based practice, updated approaches, and opportunities for midwifery leadership in every practice setting. Also included are integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies. The Fifth Edition examines the transition to the use of ICD-10 codes, women’s health policy and advocacy, risk assessment and decision-making in practice, and inspiring trust in midwifery care. New clinical practice guidelines include health promotion and primary care practice, such as promoting restorative sleep, optimizing oral health, promoting a healthy weight, and caring for the woman with a substance abuse disorder.
With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page, offering up the first week-by-week natural pregnancy book for soon-to-be moms. For the last half-century, control over childbirth has been in favor of doctors. Many pregnancy guidebooks are conventional, fear-based, and written by male physicians deeply entrenched in the old-school medical model of birth. But change is underway. A groundswell of women are taking back their pregnancy and childbirth and embracing a natural way. Genevieve Howland, the woman behind the enormously popular Mama Natural blog and YouTube channel, has created an inspiring, fun, and informative guide that demystifies natural pregnancy and walks mom through the process one week at a time. The Mama Natural's Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth is the modern (and yet ancient) approach to pregnancy and childbirth. "Natural" recognizes that pregnancy and birth are normal, and that having a baby is a wondrous biological process and rite of passage--not a medical condition. This book draws upon the latest research showing how beneficial and life-changing natural birth is for both babies and moms. Full of weekly advice and tips for a healthy pregnancy, Howland details vital nutrition to take, natural remedies for common and troublesome symptoms, as well as the appropriate (and inappropriate) use of interventions. Peppered throughout are positive birth and pregnancy stories from women of all backgrounds (and all stages of their natural journey) along with advice and insights from a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) plus a Registered Nurse (RN), doula, and lactation consultant. Encouraging, well-researched, and fun, The Mama Natural's Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth will be an essential companion for women everywhere to embrace natural pregnancy and reap all the benefits for both baby and mama.
