Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick & Easy Guide For The Whole Family by ROBERT ULLMAN ND & JUDYTH REICHENBERG-ULLMAN ND, MSW [#ULLQUI]

Description  Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick & Easy Guide for the Whole Family By Robert Ullman, ND and Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, ND, MSW You will learn to easily recognize and treat more than 70 acute and first-aid conditions, from allergic reactions, to cold, flu, sore throat, diarrhea, and more. The Ullmans’ step-by-step approach, enhanced with icons and tables, makes this the most user-friendly and practical book of its kind. Contents Foreword to the Revised Edition… xi Foreword to the First Edition… xiii Why We Wrote This Book… xv Part 1: What You Need to Know to Self-Prescribe As Easy as One, Two, Three: How to Make the Most of This Book… 3 Jenny Needs Your Help… 3 Quick and Easy Homeopathy… 3 What You Will Find in This Book… 5 Homeopathy: Safe, Effective Family Medicine… 7 The Fascinating Evolution of Homeopathy… 7 The Healing Power of the Vital Force… 9 Homeopathy Treats the Whole Person as a Unique Individual… 10 Homeopathy Treats the Person, Not the Disease… 10 A Unique Match: One Medicine at a Time… 11 Clinical Success Stories… 12 A Growing Body of Homeopathic Research… 13 Why Choose Homeopathy over Conventional Medicine?… 14 Which Conditions You Can Treat Yourself and Which You Should Not… 14 The Success of Homeopathy in Treating Chronic Disease… 16 The Homeopathic Medicine Chest… 20 What Are the Sources of Homeopathic Medicines?… 20 What Makes a Medicine Homeopathic?… 20 How Does One Take a Homeopathic Medicine?… 21 Where Can One Find Homeopathic Medicine?… 22 Topical Preparations… 22 Storing and Handling Homeopathic Medicines… 23 Your Homeopathic Self-Care Medicine Kit… 24 Don’t Leave Home without it!… 24 What to Include in Your Kit… 25 Taking the Homeopathic Case… 26 Practice Makes Perfect… 26 Using the Medical Conditions Chapter and the Look, Listen, and Ask Sections… 26 The State of the Person… 31 A Model Case-taking… 31 Putting it Down on Paper… 32 Keeping a Permanent Homeopathic Self-Treatment Record… 33 Analyzing the Case and Selecting the Medicine… 34 Analyzing the Case… 34 Choosing the Best Medicine… 35 Administering the Homeopathic Medicine… 37 What to Expect from a Homeopathic Medicine… 37 Repetition of the Dose… 40 Changing the Medicine… 41 Antidoting Factors… 42 Practice Cases for Homeopathic Self-Care… 44 Pucture Wound Ear Infection Common Cold Burn Fever Minor Collision Flu Abdominal Pain Heatstroke Cough Sore Throat Shock After a Blood Draw Bladder Infection Bronchitis Hay Fever Part 2: Medical Conditions You Can Treat Yourself The Medical Conditions… 51 Using this Section Effectively… 51 Abscesses… 54 Allergic Reactions… 58 Amebic Dysentery (Amebiasis)… 64 Back Pain, Acute… 72 Bladder Infections (Cystitis)… 76 Bleeding… 82 Bruises… 88 Burns… 92 Canker Sores… 96 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome… 100 Chicken Pox… 104 Cold Sores (Herpes Simplex)… 108 Colic… 112 Common Cold… 118 Conjunctivitis (Pink-eye)… 126 Constipation… 132 Coughs and Bronchitis… 138 Cuts, Scrapes, and Puncture Wounds… 148 Diaper Rash… 152 Diarrhea, Acute… 156 Dizziness… 164 Ear Infections (Otitis Media)… 170 Fainting… 180 Fear of Flying… 186 Fever… 190 Flu (Influenza)… 194 Food Poisoning… 200 Fractures… 206 Fright… 210 Frostbite… 216 Gas… 220 Grief, Acute… 226 Hay Fever… 230 Headache… 236 Head Injury… 242 Hemorrhoids… 248 Hepatitis, Acute (Hepatitis A)… 254 Hives… 262 Indigestion and Heartburn… 266 Insect Bites and Stings… 272 Insomnia… 276 Leg Cramps and Growing Pains… 282 Mastitis (Breast Inflammation)… 286 Measles… 292 Menstrual Cramps (Dysmenorrhoea)… 298 Morning Sickness (Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy)… 304 Motion Sickness… 310 Mumps… 314 Nausea and Vomiting… 318 Nosebleeds (Epistaxis)… 324 Pinworms… 328 Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac (Contact Dermatitis)… 332 Sciatica… 336 Shock… 342 Sinusitis… 348 Skin Infections: Boils, Folliculitis, and Carbuncles… 352 Sore Throats (Pharyngitis)… 358 Sprains and Strains… 364 Stage Fright (Performance Anxiety)… 368 Stomach Aches and Acute Abdominal pain… 372 Styes… 380 Sunstroke, Heatstroke, and Heat Exhaustion… 384 Surgery… 388 Swollen Glands… 392 Teething… 398 Tendinitis… 402 Thrush… 406 Toothache… 410 Vaginitis, Acute… 414 Part 3: Materia Medica… 423 Answers to the Practice Cases… 464 Glossary… 466 Bibliography… 468 Index… 470 About the Authors… 485 Paperback, 490 pages ISBN: 978-0-9640654-8-2 Revised Third Edition 2013