An Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children or Better than I Ever Expected

An Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children

Author: Mary Bov

Treat common childhood ailments safely and naturally. This comprehensive, user-friendly volume by one of the nation's most highly trained medical herbalists has all the information that concerned parents need to safeguard and improve the health of their children. An Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children and Infants features new material on topics of particular interest to today's health-conscious parent, such as environmental allergies and the use of antibiotics.

Mary Bove, N.D., is a world-renowned herbalist and educator with a private practice in family medicine and natural childbirth in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: The Herbal Approach to Healing	1
Pt. I	Using Herbal Remedies for Infants and Children	9
Pt. II	Work with the Young Immune System	23
Pt. III	Nutrition for Infants and Children	43
Pt. IV	Common Childhood Illnesses	77
Pt. V	The Child's Herbal Medicine Chest	209
Pt. VI	The Herbal Pharmacy	255
Pt. VII	Appendices	279
	Bibliography	289
	Index	291

See also: Grow Young with HGH or Judes Herbal Home Remedies

Better than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex after 60

Author: Joan Pric

Better Than I Ever Expected is a warm, witty, and honest book that contends with the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality. It asserts that women over sixty are at the top of their game when it comes to enjoying sex.

Joan Price's woman-to-woman straight talk transcends the self-help style of other books in this field. Yes, there are challenges to sex after menopause and beyond, says Price, but there are also creative solutions. She is on a mission to let women her age and older know that they can, in fact, have the best sex of their lives. Price gets personal and stays positive, combining her own story with candid comments, tips, and sassy tales from sexually seasoned women. She acknowledges the gritty issues that older women confront in their sexual lives, noting that it's not easy, but it certainly isn't over.

At age 61, Price is newly engaged to the man she's been looking for her whole life. Her discovery of how great "well-seasoned" sex can be was the inspiration for this book. Sidebars present candid and friendly sex tips; fitness, exercise, and lifestyle information; and women's erotic vignettes—both real-life experiences and fantasies.

Library Journal

Our third senior sexpert, health writer Price focuses on a smaller number of women of the 1960s "love generation" who are still having happy and wonderful sex. Drawing on data from emailed questionnaires and telephone interviews, the author shares personal stories and a wealth of insightful information about having good sex; dating; staying sexy; coping with hormonal, physical, and medical problems (including vaginal atrophy); and keeping erotic warmth alive in a long-term marriage. Many of these women have been adventurous and continue to be-their stories are not for the monogamy-at-all-costs crowd. Yet this is the book's strength: reassuring senior-aged women who feel abandoned by the numerous "coupled through life" books (and perhaps distanced from "vanilla" friends) that they are not freakish or alone. One quibble: it could've been more inclusive about safe(r) sex, though there's an excellent reading list and even footnotes. For large collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.