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The most of Everybody’s Guide to Homeopathic Medicines you should know.

The trend towards healthy living and the use of natural products is now widespread, and more people than ever before are turning to homoeopathy as an alternative to conventional medicine. Rather than administering drugs to attack the symptoms of disease, homoeopathy aims to stimulate the body’s own healing forces to combat the deep-seated causes. This guide to the principles and practice of homoeopathy tells readers how they can treat themselves and their families. It explains “casetaking” and prescribing for such ailments as colds, digestive problems, headaches, cystitis and menstrual cramps; and how to administer first-aid for such injuries as burns and fractures. Instructions accompanying each set of medicines advise when outside medical help should be sought.

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The story of Emergency Dermatology : A Rapid Treatment Guide you must to learn.

Organized alphabetically, this concise guide gives emergency room and primary care clinicians the information needed to rapidly screen, identify, treat, and refer problems related to the skin. For each condition, the book provides history, physical exam, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, management/follow-up, and codes.

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Must read The Worrywart’s Companion: Twenty-One Ways to Soothe Yourself and Worry Smart you have to understand.

Worry smarter and reclaim the joy in your life

Do you lie awake at night agonizing over things that could happen? Do you automatically expect the worst? Have you worried obsessively about things only to have everything turn out okay? Instead of worrying yourself sick, let the The Worrywart’s Companion show you how to worry smart and soothe yourself so that you can think more clearly, deal with the worry at hand, and then let it go.

Try these simple ideas and start worrying smarter right now: Talk to yourself the way a friend would • Take a warm bath • Practice “underreacting” • Imagine a happy ending • Do a good deed • Watch a funny movie

With these tips and many more, you will be able to release yourself from worry and learn to enjoy every moment–no matter where your life takes you.

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More Doctor Mom’s Book of Home Remedies you should know.

Here is a practical guide for all who are interested in herbal and natural healing, a useful reference for the commonest ailments and complaints and minor injuries.

This guide includes herbal and natural remedies for more than 50 common ailments, including acne, arthritis, asthma, athlete’s foot, bad back, bedwetting, bronchitis, chicken pox, cold sores, colds and flu, corns and calluses, diarrhea, cysts, ganglion cysts, dislocated wrist in toddlers, diverticulitis, dyspepsia, ear infections, eczema, flu, gallstones, gout, growing pains, heart disease, hemorrhoids, impetigo, kidney problems, leg and foot cramps, lice, menopause, menstrual problems, migraine, moles, nasal sores, pink eye, poison ivy, postpartum depression, psoriasis, ringworm, rough hands, runny eyes in infants, scabies, shingles, spurs, thrush, toothache, ulcers, vomiting, warts, plantar warts, yeast infections, and minor hurts.

Most of the suggested herbs and other preparations are readily available from herb dealers and health food stores, or online, and are inexpensive alternatives to conventional medicine.

I have used many, if not most of the suggested remedies, myself, with success. Others are remedies that I have known others to use with success, and still others were carefully researched.

Many of the herbs suggested are not just inexpensive, but free, if collected from fields and roadsides—and sometimes even from your yard. Many herbs, too, are easily grown in the garden.

Directions are included for preparing infusions, decoctions, tinctures, syrups, ointments, and salves. Specific directions are included for making several of the most useful remedies: mullein oil, black walnut hull tincture, Echinacea tincture, wild cherry cough syrup, slippery elm tea, elderberry juice, elecampane syrup, castor oil pack, camphorated oil, balm of Gilead bud ointment, and skin creams and other skin applications.

All these preparations—and many more for which general directions are given—are easily made at home. These directions make it easy to make tinctures, syrups, and other medicinal preparations that would be very costly to purchase–and they are fun to make at home!

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Something of Minor Emergencies: Expert Consult – Online and Print, 3e you have to learn.

2013 BMA Medical Book Awards 1st Prize Award Winner in Surgery!

Minor Emergencies gives you the practical how-tos you need to handle a wide range of non-life-threatening medical crises with speed and expertise. Completely updated with the latest equipment, devices, dosages, and techniques, this compact and portable medical reference book delivers fast, efficient guidance just when you need it. With Minor Emergencies on hand, you’ll always be prepared!

  • Find guidance at a glance with “What to Do” and “What NOT to Do” checklists.
  • Effectively respond to medical crises at the point of care with Minor Emergencies!
  • Consult this critical guide online wherever you go! At http://www.expertconsult.com you can navigate the complete text, follow links to PubMed, browse images, and view 60 procedural videos, including:
  • Removing foreign body from skin
  • Upper facial injury-fracture examination
  • Upper facial injury-fracture examination, and much more!
  • Stay on top of the latest procedures and treatment guidelines with updated coverage of 184 topics, including Swimmer’s Ear, Dental Pain, Broken Rib, Locked Knee, Puncture Wounds, and Sunburn.
  • Get procedural sedation recommendations from Dr. Alfred Sacchetti, MD, FACEP.
  • An essential quick reference with all the instructions you need to handle common, non-life-threatening emergencies with speed and expertise.

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    The story of Menopause Matters: Your Guide to a Long and Healthy Life (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) you should know.

    Menopause Matters is a complete guide for improving a woman’s physical and mental health from age 35 and on.

    Gynecologist and menopause specialist Dr. Julia Schlam Edelman has helped thousands of women feel better and enjoy healthier lives. Scientifically sound and clinically tested, Dr. Edelman’s advice is a welcome alternative to the often misleading, conflicting, and confusing sound bites in media reports on women’s health issues. Menopause Matters covers the full spectrum of topics of vital interest to perimenopausal and postmenopausal women: hot flashes, vaginal dryness, memory loss, mood changes, depression, hormone replacement therapy, sleep, diet, exercise, healthy sex, and contraception.

    In a class by itself when it comes to menopause books, Menopause Matters:

    • promotes informed collaboration between women and their doctors,• advises women to improve their health based on findings in respected research studies,• provides clear explanations of physiology and anatomy, and• relates stories from real women who have experienced all stages of menopause.

    Dr. Edelman includes prevention strategies for lowering the risks of heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. And her practical hints about how to take supplements and medication for maximum benefit are invaluable.

    Menopause Matters empowers women to be active partners with their physicians during midlife and beyond. No woman will read the book without experiencing at least one big wake-up call about how to live a happier, healthier life.

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    Must read Tumours of the Hand you have to read.

    Tumours of the hand are highly varied, their only common feature being their location in an organ in which preservation of sensation and mobility must be our primary concern. Although the subject of numerous studies, they are not well known to the majority of practitioners, as most of these studies deal with only one type of tumour. Now, however, we have a book devoted entirely to these tumours as a whole, with a clear and logical approach to the clini­ cal features, histology, differential diagnosis and treatment of each type, together with an extensive bibliography. The need for such a work – one I believe to be unique of its kind – has long been felt, for tumours of the hand often raise difficult problems of diagno­ sis, prognosis and treatment. As regards differential diagnosis, this book is plainly very useful; it can be consulted like a classification. In recent years, diagnosis has been improved by new methods of investigation, such as ther­ mography, scintigraphy, arteriography and serial angiography, etc. Though very expensive, the use of these sophisticated techniques sometimes proves valuable for the diagnosis of certain bony or vascular tumours that would otherwise be difficult to approach. Such methods should not be overused; when the lesion is easily accessible, biopsy is the correct procedure. In every case, biopsy provides the only certain method of diagnosis, even though histo­ logical interpretation may be difficult and calls for great experi­ ence; the penalties of error can be very serious.

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