Books & Book Reviews, Health and Fitness

Book Review: Nature’s Best Remedies

While I’m all for going to the doctor when needed, it’s good to know what remedies can help with which ailments. Our whole household has been battling rounds of the winter crud, so getting to review Nature’s Best Remedies, published by National Geographic, made perfect sense.

The book is arranged by use – respiratory remedies, GI remedies, oral and dental care, first aid, etc. This makes it handy to find what you’re looking for without resorting to the index. As is typical for National Geographic’s publications, This book is filled with great images and illustrations, and it’s printed on heavy, nice paper. This means it will hold up to a lot of use – important when talking about reference materials. Following a by use guide, is a “pharmacopeia” arranged by herbs, spices, oils, pantry items, and home helpers. Want to know what health benefits a kiwi has? Just turn to the page that talks about it. The end of the book has a handy checklist for each chapter and a thorough index.

Even if you’re like me, and barely “crunchy,” Nature’s Best Remedies is a handy reference item to keep on hand.

About Nature’s Best Remedies

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: National Geographic (February 5, 2019)

A guide to the world’s most therapeutic foods, herbs, spices, and essential oils will allow the healing power of nature to energize your body and enrich your life, providing a surefire path to good health and well-being.

This authoritative guide to the foods, herbs, spices, essential oils, and other natural substances that alleviate common ailments will enhance your life–from treating illness to sharpening the mind, losing weight, cleaning the home, enhancing pregnancy, and reducing the effects of aging. Divided into two sections–Nature’s Cures and Nature’s Pharmacopoeia–this beautifully illustrated guide provides up-to-date information on such timely topics as the perils of packaged foods and the benefits of phytochemicals, how to achieve major results with minor alterations in your food choices, the soothing benefits of essential oils, and the most effective methods for maximizing such natural home helpers as salts, vinegars, oils, and more. Innovative recipes offer easy, effective dishes that utilize multiple herbs, spices, and fresh foods for powerhouse results.

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Purchase Links

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Ronda Bowen

Ronda Bowen is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She has a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in Philosophy, Pre-Graduate Option, Honors in the Major from California State University, Chico. When she is not working on client projects from her editorial consulting business, she is writing a novel. In her free time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, wine, martinis, copious amounts of coffee, reading, watching movies, sewing, crocheting, crafts, hanging out with her husband, and spending time with their teenage son and infant daughter.

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