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| Introduction |
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Welcome to the wonderful world of herbs |
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It's normal to feel tired at the end of the day |
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If depression is your habitual state of mind, a settled, permanent gloom impossible to snap out of, you need professional advice |
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Working wonders - when you're wound up like a clockwork toy |
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Worn out by your high-pressure life? Exhausted by the end of the day? Working till late into the night? Too tired to enjoy the weekend? Too wired to sleep? |
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Everybody has experienced a headache at one time or another in their lives |
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Always losing your glasses? Can't remember the names of your friends' children? Forget what you went to your bedroom to pick up? Worried you're getting senile? |
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Everybody remembers the worst hangover they ever had... the nausea, giddiness, crushing headache, distraught stomach and total physical prostration |
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Find yourself dreading bedtime and the long sleepless night ahead? |
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Suffering from indigestion, gas, heartburn and `acidity'? |
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Millions of people in the Western world suffer from irritable bowel syndrome: according to some estimates, as many as one in five of us |
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Everybody gets the runs sometimes, and over the centuries country folk have come up with a dozen different effective remedies |
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Huge numbers of people in Western-style societies suffer from chronic constipation |
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Cuts, scrapes, grazes, sores, burns and scalds are the commonest reason for raiding the first-aid kit |
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Eczema claims growing numbers of victims every year in the Western world |
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Tried everything for that face full of zits? The antibiotics, the dodgy vitamin-A derivatives, the contraceptive pill, the chemical peels? And nothing worked long term? |
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Sunburn is the most easily avoided of all human woes |
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What your best friend won't tell you |
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In an age so painfully aware of body odours, it's hard to love someone with bad breath, rank underarms or smelly feet |
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From time to time low-life creatures such as head lice, amoebas, mites and intestinal worms opt for an easy life in our hair, in our guts or just under our skin |
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Impotence is most men's worst nightmare: the problem they hate to talk about, even to their doctors |
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Failure to conceive spells misery for many couples, who wonder if their dreams will ever come true |
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Periods don't have to be a pain |
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Hot flushes, night sweats, irritability, weepiness, loss of sex drive, the blues, poor sleep-sound familiar? |
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If there's one word guaranteed to bring a thoughtful look to the face of any man over fifty, it's prostate |
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Few of us get through winter without a single cold |
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Who needs bronchitis-the fever, the exhausting cold, the general lassitude? |
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Sore throats can be a painful side effect of colds or bronchitis |
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If you're one of the growing millions of asthmatics, life is a struggle |
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For millions of unhappy people, summer is the start of the hay-fever season and the big sneeze |
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Your nose is stuffed up, with a running leak to it, your mouth is dry and there's a steady dull ache around the bridge of your nose |
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Varicose veins are not only unsightly but also a signal of serious damage |
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As many as one in three of us in the Western world suffers from high blood pressure |
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It's a lot easier to keep your heart healthy than to mend matters once the damage is done |
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When there's flu around, beef up your immune defences with some effective herbs |
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Noticed how there's always `a virus going round' these days? |
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As anyone who has ever suffered it knows, there's not much doctors can do to ease the pain of shingles |
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Convalescence? Now there's an old-fashioned word for you |
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Horrid little mouth ulcers that make eating painful? Blisters on your tongue? Gum infections that give you sleepless nights? |
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If you keep getting bouts of cystitis, the bugs that are responsible are probably becoming resistant to antibiotics |
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Arthritis may be the oldest disease on the planet: typical signs of wear and tear show up even on dinosaur skeletons |
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Ouch! You just pulled a muscle, strained a tendon or sprained an ankle |
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Babies respond very rapidly to both herbal and orthodox medicines |
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The commonest children's ailments are mild fevers, coughs, colds, sore throats, upset tummies and problems getting to sleep |
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Travel sickness, sunburn, hangovers, Spanish tummy, mosquito bites, sleepless nights - who needs them on holiday? |
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If you use herbal remedies yourself, why not try them for your pets too? They're gentle, they're cheap and they're wonderfully effective |
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Soaking in a hot scented bath is one of the nicest ways to unwind |
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Create your own green pharmacy. If you have a garden, a patio, a balcony - or no more than a wide windowsill - you can grow herbs to treat a whole range of minor ailments |
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Soothing storms with a teacup |
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The herbal infusion known simply as tea is drunk all over the planet for its pleasant stimulating effect, but plenty of other herbs make great teas too... |
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You can't be beautiful without beautiful hair, said a famous shampoo ad, and it's hard to disagree |
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It's fashionable to be green - and when it comes to skin care, it might even be life-saving |
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Be good to your feet: they work their socks off for you |
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The family medicine chest |
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For most minor ailments, the family medicine chest is the first port of call |
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| Resources |
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| The End |
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| Or is it a new beginning? |
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| Where it's at |
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| Index |
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