Book recommendation for learning about natural products?!
Question: Book recommendation for learning about natural products!?
The pharmacy I work for will be changing it's focus somewhat in the near future!. We will be featuring a lot more natural and nutritional supplement products!. Unfortunately those of us who already work there do not have a good working knowledge of any these products except as your basic consumer!. Can anyone recommend a good book that is a quick read that can help get us up to speed when we open the new store!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
1) Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Balch and Balch, MD!.
2) Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, and Earl Mindell's Herb Bible by (you guessed it!) Earl Mindell
3) Gaia Herbs (and I believe HerbPharm, too) have their own formularies, which are EXTREMELY helpful to anyone professional attempting to run an herbal apothecary, or just trying to give intellingent answers to those consumers who want them!.
4) Homeopathic Medicine at Home by Panos & Heimlich (my personal fav) and Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicine by Dana Ullman, et al!. If you're going to be dealing with and selling homeopathic medicines, you will also want (and need) to get your hands on a Materia Medica at some point and do some further research on homeopathy and Samuel Hahnemann
5) Staying Healthy With the Seasons by Elson Haas
6) Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin (and every other book or article she's ever written\
7) The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine by Mowrey
8) anything by Diane Stein, (especially All Women Are Healers); Candis Cantin-Packard, Kathi Keville, Christopher Hobbs, Michael Tierra, Michael Moore, Rosemary Gladstar, Susun Weed, and many, many others!.
9) a guide of some type to the Bach Flower Remedies
10) The Fourfold Path to Healing by Thomas Cowan, MD
11) Michael's of Texas has AMAZING products, and an excellent product guide to go with those products!. I recommend them both highly!.
12) The Flower Essence Society (FES) out of Nevada City, CA, makes incredible North American Flower Essences!. Their guide is exceptional!. I recommend it to anyone using or even contemplating using flower or gem essences!.
13) Vibrational Medicine by Gerber
14) The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted KaptchukWww@Answer-Health@Com
2) Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, and Earl Mindell's Herb Bible by (you guessed it!) Earl Mindell
3) Gaia Herbs (and I believe HerbPharm, too) have their own formularies, which are EXTREMELY helpful to anyone professional attempting to run an herbal apothecary, or just trying to give intellingent answers to those consumers who want them!.
4) Homeopathic Medicine at Home by Panos & Heimlich (my personal fav) and Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicine by Dana Ullman, et al!. If you're going to be dealing with and selling homeopathic medicines, you will also want (and need) to get your hands on a Materia Medica at some point and do some further research on homeopathy and Samuel Hahnemann
5) Staying Healthy With the Seasons by Elson Haas
6) Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin (and every other book or article she's ever written\
7) The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine by Mowrey
8) anything by Diane Stein, (especially All Women Are Healers); Candis Cantin-Packard, Kathi Keville, Christopher Hobbs, Michael Tierra, Michael Moore, Rosemary Gladstar, Susun Weed, and many, many others!.
9) a guide of some type to the Bach Flower Remedies
10) The Fourfold Path to Healing by Thomas Cowan, MD
11) Michael's of Texas has AMAZING products, and an excellent product guide to go with those products!. I recommend them both highly!.
12) The Flower Essence Society (FES) out of Nevada City, CA, makes incredible North American Flower Essences!. Their guide is exceptional!. I recommend it to anyone using or even contemplating using flower or gem essences!.
13) Vibrational Medicine by Gerber
14) The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted KaptchukWww@Answer-Health@Com
The people who run quackwatch have direct links to the FDA who will do everything in their power to supress any and all information on alternative treatments that truly work!.
The reason there is no scientific evidence for alternative treatments is that they are not highly profitable to big pharma!. It is impossible by law for a substance to be considered to have scientific evidence unless big pharma submits it to the FDA,and they will only submit things that are very very profitable to them!. So the many thousands of studies of natural substances that have cured or treated cancer are ignored by our government because they were not done under the control of big pharma!.
Since most alternative cancer treatments are very inexpensive and non-patentable,they do not provide the cancer industry with a single penny of revenue so they are relatively obscure!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The reason there is no scientific evidence for alternative treatments is that they are not highly profitable to big pharma!. It is impossible by law for a substance to be considered to have scientific evidence unless big pharma submits it to the FDA,and they will only submit things that are very very profitable to them!. So the many thousands of studies of natural substances that have cured or treated cancer are ignored by our government because they were not done under the control of big pharma!.
Since most alternative cancer treatments are very inexpensive and non-patentable,they do not provide the cancer industry with a single penny of revenue so they are relatively obscure!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I'd like to know what pharmacy is doing this so that I can boycott them!. They're going from medicine with scientific research behind it to stuff wtih either no research or research suggesting there is harm in using it!.
I suggest you learn more about supplements and natural remedies at www!.quackwatch!.org
It is too bad your pharmacy is doing this!. There is a decent body of literature out there in the journals that shows vitamin supplementation is mostly harmful barring one or two exceptions!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I suggest you learn more about supplements and natural remedies at www!.quackwatch!.org
It is too bad your pharmacy is doing this!. There is a decent body of literature out there in the journals that shows vitamin supplementation is mostly harmful barring one or two exceptions!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
You might look at Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition by Pizzorno!. and The Natural Pharmacy Revised and Updated 3rd Edition by Gaby!. There are also sites like http://www!.cncahealth!.com/health-notes!.h!.!.!. and http://www!.pdrhealth!.com/home/home!.aspxWww@Answer-Health@Com
Jordan Rubin's book "The Maker's Diet" gives an overview of a lot of different approaches to alternative health!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Prescription for Nutritional Healing and Prescription for Herbal Healing both by Balch and Balch MD!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I am sure you will be able to get some of these books in your country too, maybe on-line at Amazon!. I include the links because they contain excellent suggestions:
http://www!.altmeduniversity!.com/products!.!.!.
http://www!.healingbooks!.co!.uk/links!.html
I think a book on Bach Flower Remedies is a good place to start!.
http://www!.altmeduniversity!.com/products!.!.!.
http://www!.healingbooks!.co!.uk/links!.html
I think a book on Bach Flower Remedies is a good place to start!.
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