Medical & 1st Aid

Originally published in 1875, this is one of the preeminent books on spiritual healing. When her own prayers and the prayers of her congregation had failed to heal Mary Baker Eddy of a chronic illness, she turned repeatedly to the Bible. Seeking solace and understanding, she feels that she received divine inspiration for a deeper spiritual interpretation of Jesus’ words and the process that he used to heal without material medicines or manipulations. Many thousands claim to have been physically healed simply by reading her book and applying its spiritual healing principles. Her book supports her beliefs with selections from the Bible, offers a deeper explanation of her spiritual healing methods, and gives numerous testimonials to the effectiveness of these methods of healing.

If you live in a metropolitan area, chances are that there is a cell tower somewhere nearby that is bombarding you with unhealthy concentrations of microwaves, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Use this book to help determine the extent of your local EMF hazards, and what you can do about it. This book contains a collection of useful information that is hard to find elsewhere, and is from PhDs, MDs, and other experts in this field that assembled for a technical conference sponsored by a concerned citizen’s group.

This book provides information on the preparation and use of Essiac, many personal testimonials, and several lists of herbal sources and alternative medical treatment centers. It also tells the story of Rene Caisse’s work and struggles with the government and the medical industry to offer to the public this powerful cancer fighting formula of Native American healing herbs.

This is a great book for the inexperienced forager. It covers a few hundred of the most common and useful edible and medicinal plants in North America. It is not exhaustive, but very usable and practical. Folk wisdom, first-hand practical experience, and scientific fact are blended with humorous and interesting anecdotes that help make this a very readable guide. Its main drawback is the lack of color photos for plant identification (relies on beautiful black-and-white drawings), so you may wish to combine with one or two of the other recommended guides.

Whether you plan on collecting wild medicinal herbs, or cultivating your own herb garden, this gorgeous book will be a valuable addition to your herbal library. Provides information on medicinal properties, uses, cultivation and preparation of a huge number of herbs, but lacks any treatment or dosage information of practical value.

A practical and fascinating modern therapist’s manual for using hypnosis to deal with many different psychological problems, including multiple personalities and spirit possession. These therapies are powerful tools for spiritual and emotional healing. They even have the capacity to return apparently “crazy” people from insanity to fully functional “normal” human beings.

An excellent guide from a man who spends a lot of time in the back woods of Northern Canada. Dr. Forgey is president of the Wilderness Medical Society and assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. His guide offers valuable information for field treatment of injuries, infection and illnesses, both for the trained medical practitioner and the layman, offering materials and methods alternatives to suit your medicine bag and training. He offers his recommendations for lists of first aid materials to bring along, custom tailored for various types of back country exposure, and includes both non-prescription based kits as well as those for people with access to prescription medicines.

One of the best books out there for dealing with grief, Transcending Loss is a compassionate, poignant, and practical guide that not only covers the short-term crisis of dealing with the loss of a loved one, but the long-term process of living with and transcending grief. We found this book very helpful for dealing with the loss of a beloved family member.

This is an excellent guide for dealing with yeast and other fungus related health issues using natural supplements and diet. In addition to diet and supplement recommendations, it provides detailed dosage information for natural yeast killing remedies, including referenced comparisons with specific prescription drugs that, in many cases, are less effective and have more negative side effects that their herbal alternatives. Dr. Murray is a leading researcher and lecturer in the field of natural medicine, has a thriving private practice, and is the author of more than 20 books.

This is an excellent reference for the serious herbalist or physician seeking to integrate herbs and modern medicine, or for anyone seeking significant self-treatment with herbs. It exhaustively covers potentially harmful herbal interactions with other herbs and medical conditions, and with modern pharmaceutical drugs. If you are currently taking pharmaceutical prescriptions, and wish to improve your health with herbs, I highly recommend you pick up this book to help you avoid potentially harmful drug-herb interactions.