Homeopathy Books

If you're looking for an easy home handbook of natural remedies simpler than most yet filled with the essentials, here's a handbook of nearly two hundred illnesses, injuries, and physical conditions ranging from flu and headache to food poisoning remedies and tick bites. Symptoms outlines are followed by prevention tips, then natural remedies in a book very simple to follow and perfect for newcomers to the subject.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

I was totally blown away with all of the material that this book offers. After reading the whole book, I was amazed with all of the information that I had attained; moreover, followed that knowledge and healed myself and a few people! I take my hat off to the author! Thanks Mr. Alan Schmukler, for a remarkable job well done!!!

L. P., LMT

I have purchased many herbal and homeopathic books, but this one is my new favorite. It's very easy to understand. The author explains how to choose the right remedy and gives real-life situations which is great for moms like me who's kids are constantly bumping or scraping themselves! Thank you Mr. Schmukler! You've made my job as a mom a lot easier! Arnica is a wonderful thing to know about with little ones!

Finally. An uncomplicated yet comprehensive tool for us lay folks.This book is easy to negotiate and so chock-full of simple to obtain and use remedies that it will no doubt find its way to most everyone's home library. The author's clarity of vision and empathetic approach to the reader is welcome and most refreshing.

A wonderful guide. Not preachy. Gives you a sense of how effective and/or risky the recommended remedies are. Lots of footnotes to scholarly articles, if you want to read more about a particular condition or remedy. Covers vitamins, herbs & homeopathy. If you don't know your lysine from your licorice, or you have a medical condition that isn't responding to anything, this is a great place to look.

This is a great starter book for people who are interested in natural remedies for common ailments. It is very easy to use, easy to read, and unintimidating. For every ailment or illness, it gives the usual natural remedies I have found in other books. And it has a pretty good list of vitamins, herbs and homeopathic remedies. However, it isn't the most comprehensive book I've seen. There are some herbs that I couldn't find. But overall, if you want a basic guide, this is a good one to start with.

Walk into a bookstore and you can be overwhelmed with the HEALTH information thrown at you . . . particularly if you are interested in understanding how you can play a more active role in your own prevention, treatment and cure of disease. The Natural Pharmacy gives you just the right balance of useful information without insulting your intelligence or burying you in biochemistry. The book is organized around health concerns - in English, not medical-ese, the authors provide you with dietary & lifestyle changes that maybe helpful before they tell you about other approaches - including nutritional supplements and herbs. They cover side effects and interactions as well. They also provide a tremendous resource for insomniacs by listing more than 3,500 references! You can also look up specific nutritional supplements, herbs and homeopathic remedies as well. A nicely done work!

Wonderful book that explains all those pills you hear about on the news and in magazines. No hype - just great information. This book ROCKS for people who want info on what the heck all those vitamin/pill things are at the grocery store.

I am familiar with Homeopathy which has been my family's main source of health care for over 20 years. However, I was thrilled when I happened to read this book and learn that Homeopathy keeps evolving and expanding with new ideas. In some way, this book not only provided me a further insight into Homeopathy, but also affected my internal being with a kind of awakening sensation.

Unbelievably interesting, informing and opening knew understanding of human soul and its dis-eases (as author says)! It looks like the author is both a psychologist, medical doctor, and a successful parent. If one considers to study homeopathy or receive homeopathic help I would certainty contact with the author. I read the book in 2 days.

I really enjoyed reading this book and seeing how the homeopathic interview process works. I would recommend it for all those who are interested in homeopathy.

What a fascinating book about the decoding of the expressions
of the human soul! It lets us have an understanding of the
newest methodology of homeopathy and peek into the mind of the
homeopath who, by using the map of Dr. Sankaran's Sensation
Method, is able to match these expressions with a deeply
healing remedy. This is an excellent starting point for those
who wish to understand Dr. Sankaran's method.

This is a wonderfully written book! I have a son with Asperger's Syndrome and, I have not found a book that compares with this one. There is so much information and real positive steps toward curing, or at the very least dramatically improving your child with Asperger's. I even believe that a lot of this information would also be very helpful to anyone with any form of autism. Must read for teachers, parents, and anyone who knows anyone with autism or Asperger's syndrome!

First, let me say that I love Dr. Lawton's style of writing. She doesn't fill up space with repetitive fluff. She clearly knows her stuff and doesn't mince words while offering an impressive amount of evidence to support her claims. Dr. Lawton expertly blends both the human and clinical aspects of AS with compassion and clarity.

If you are serious about helping yourself or someone in your life with AS, this book will change your life.

Thank you Dr. Lawton! I received your book in the mail yesterday afternoon. I opened the book and read the first five chapters without a break. What a wonderful book! I have learned so much useful information reading your book! This book is a very valuable resource for those with AS, and for friends and family of persons with AS. I'm taking a copy to my therapist - I know she will love it!!!

Julian Barnard's lyrical narrative of Bach's discovery of the remedies reads like an engaging novel and a scholarly textbook at the same time. It's an unexpected page-turner that evokes the excitement Bach must have experienced over 75 years ago, and illuminates Bach's personal evolution of consciousness that lead to his role as a radical healer.

But Barnard's innovative thinking breaks new ground, while faithfully building upon the foundation of Bach's seminal work -- delivering penetrating insights into the mystery of why and how flower essences can and do heal.

One of the most compelling aspects of this book is the revelation of spiritual truths that can now be openly broadcast to a more accepting spiritual culture. Bach prudently and cleverly curbed his message to conform to an early 20th-century level of consciousness.

Julian Barnard truly embodies the spiritual legacy of Dr. Bach. His contribution is a seamless continuation of Bach's mission and revolutionary message about healing.

Moreover, in 1988 Barnard created HEALING HERBS, a company that produces remedies that are prepared precisely according to the original directions of Dr Edward Bach. I have used these remedies and know them to be effective ... and after reading this book, I understand why they are among the finest flower essences available!

Flower Essences are not as well known as they should be.

Though there is precious little scientific research to support their use, there is a great deal of practical experience to show that they can be often be very useful complements to other forms of therapy.

This is an excellent book on the original Bach Essences. One would have thought that there is little new to be said about them, but there is much in the book that is new and original.

Highly recommended.

This book is fantastic. This book helped me a lot to understand the flowers. He details the plant and all the characteristics that really help you understand how that particular flower works.

I've got a lot of books on the Bach flowers, but could not put this one down.

The author writes poetically and can add a lot of depth to your understanding of the remedies.

It was easy to settle into this book. As soon as I had read my remedy profile, I was just as eager to read the rest. There is an underlying theme of compassion in all of Mati's work, which is exactly what I am looking for in my own relationships. Extremely insightful. Well done!

Marcia Heusted
Assistant Professor of Holistic Health
Trinidad State Junior College

I work with couples each and every day, this homeopathic relationship guide is unique and helps to faciliate couple's journeys with one another. This two volume book combo is essential for anyone in intimate relationships or for working with couples in relationship, easy to read and find solutions to dilemmas found in interpersonal dynamics. I have also personally used Mati's expertise in client situaitons and each time, finding the right remedy has been easy and has worked every time!

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in finding out more about themselves and those in their lives!

Childbirth Educator
& Traditioanl Midwife

I have a very short attention span, can't plod through boring books....I read both volumes of this book straight through! I totally recommend it for all homeopaths! Best Materia Medica ever! Extremely enlightening!

Elaine, you out did yourself on this book.

It is a great guide for beginners as well as advanced practitioners in the world of homeopathy. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the subject. It is a great reference guide. Very easy to understand and yet, has volumes of information for care givers, as well.

This has been one of the best books I have ever read on this topic. Using humor, which flows natural throughout, the author makes the subject matter of homeopathy not only enjoyable, but thoroughly understandable.

The glossary is wonderful. The author is very adept in describing symptoms in order for the reader to find his/her problem easily.
Her thorough knowledge on this topic is apparant. Along with recommendations for a cure, the author spends a good amount of time on prevention and maintaining your health.

Without the least hesitation, I highly recommend this first-rate book on this subject of Homeopathy for the beginner and the advanced. I haven't seen anything this good, on this topic, in a long time.

This is not only a tremendously useful book, but it is also fun to read. The author does not assume any previous homeopathic knowledge by the reader, so includes an excellent short history of homeopathy and its principles.

Then she delineates symptoms and regimens, including excellent descriptions of the remedies. The book has an extensive glossary and goes into some pretty subtle decriptions of symptoms, so the patient can zero in on his or her particular problem.

And there are some excellent recommendations for prevention and maintenance.

The author gives the subject the serious attention it deserves, but also manages to inject some delightful humor along the way.
There are clear tables to aid in diagnosis and treatment.

The best so far that I have read on this topic.

This book is amazing. The writer takes a complex subject and makes it understandable and enjoyable. I found the links between cultures and tradtions to be fascinating--especially the geographic and plant connections between China and Appalachia. I can't wait for David's next book.

Great book, full of colorful characters and interesting stories and facts. The author obviously enjoyed talking with all these people (diggers and traders, herbalists and doctors, smugglers and park rangers and many more) and I really enjoyed reading about them and about ginseng. Fascinating book and plant. I need to go plant me some!

Let's see, what do I know about ginseng? It's a supposed herbal panacea, from China (or was that Korea?). It began invading New Age consciousness and health food stores around the time of Woodstock. It has quite a nasty, bitter taste. Oh, and didn't some clever American farmers recently start growing ginseng and selling it back to the Chinese? Clearly what I knew was not a lot, and after reading Ginseng, the Divine Root, I realized half of that was completely wrong. Two facts underpin David A. Taylor's fascinating book: ginseng has been growing in North America for 70 million years; and North Americans have been selling ginseng to the Chinese for almost 300 years.

Treasured by Chinese as a tonic for thousands of years, ginseng had been pushed towards extinction in China when half way around the globe a Jesuit missionary made a fortuitous discovery. In Quebec Joseph-François Lafitau was ministering to Mohawk converts, but in that great theology/science duality so characteristic of his order, he was also intently studying the Iroquois. While there he happened on an article by a fellow French missionary who had travelled extensively in China. Lafitau was intrigued. The article described ginseng, its use and value in Chinese medicine. He then, rather remarkably, set out to see if he could find the plant locally. In 1716 after only three months of searching, Lafitau with the help of the Mohawk, had identified Panax quinquefolium, American ginseng, virtually identical to Asian ginseng. The root had long been used medicinally by the Mohawk and other Native Americans but never with the same passion as the Chinese.

So began a rush for 'forest gold' as thousands in Canada combed the woodlands for wild roots, all destined for a lucrative market on the far edges of the Pacific Ocean. As ginseng fever spread, even Daniel Boone was later involved in the trade down in West Virginia. Ginseng, writes the author, became the United States' first major export to China.

Taylor weaves together the many threads of the ginseng story, a tale that straddles two continents with vastly contrasting cultures. This is reflected, in the differing ways ginseng is valued and used in each. "In Chinese medicine," writes the author, "it's an all-purpose tonic, often blended with more toxic herbs to mellow their effects. In Western medicine it's gaining converts for relieving severe fatigue."

The book reads like an adventure as Taylor follows the American ginseng trail throughout one season, meeting farmers, traders, and various experts, even joining a ranger on a night stakeout in a national park trying to nab poachers of wild ginseng. The story is perhaps most interesting when Taylor joins diggers in the 'hunt' for the root in Appalachia. Wild ginseng is such an idiosyncratic plant that the search for it is considered more akin to hunting - it can, for instance remain dormant underground for several years, waiting for the right conditions before sending up a new shoot. Some diggers claim the plant can camouflage itself or even move! What is more certain is that its relative scarcity these days only adds to the challenge of finding it, and no doubt, to its market value.

It was not until the Seventies, more than 250 years after Lafitau identified the plant that ginseng started to become widely known in the United States. Now Americans spend more than $100 million annually on products listing it as an ingredient.

There are three types of ginseng (in descending order of value): wild, wild simulated, and cultivated. Such is the value of ginseng that 'ginsengers' protect their plants like gold prospectors defend a claim. Even cultivated ginseng, the most common form, is difficult to work with and requires six to eight years to reach the size desired by Asian markets. Wisconsin-grown ginseng is now considered the world's best, and fetches a correspondingly high price. Wisconsin is also the leading exporter.

As quickly as the newer markets for ginseng are growing, China will likely remain the primary market, and not just because of China's huge population and expanding economy. In the West, for every ginseng buff there is a cynic, and five others who couldn't care less. In China by contrast, so strong is the underlying traditional belief in the restorative powers of ginseng. that just about everyone is at least an occasional user.

The book is aimed at the general reader, but industry types might also learn a thing or two given the secretive nature of the business Taylor describes. Readers who are not utter ginseng devotees might find the middle section of Ginseng a little slow, but most of us will be swept through anyway by Taylor's enthusiasm. One chapter though, Served by the Finest Chefs, focusing on ginseng and food, somewhat misses its mark because the central figure, celebrity chef Ming Tsai unlike the other major characters in the book, is not strongly connected to ginseng, at least professionally. He does not cook with the root in his own restaurant, and is surprisingly, unaware of American ginseng.

Taylor winds up this highly engrossing trawl through the history and business of ginseng in Hong Kong and China, meeting with ginseng merchants and visiting specialist markets. We learn, somewhat fittingly for the times, that in China both Asian and American ginseng is now cultivated using modern American methods. That is good news for consumers, but the lasting allure of 'forest gold' has placed the wild root under threat in America, as well as China.

The book arrived very quickly and was in excellent condition (brand new?). Thank you!

This is an absolutely fantastic introduction to the complexities of ayurveda. The narration is clear and concise and more importantly it is easily accessible to those with little or no understanding of the subject. From the outset Dr Godagama highlights the importance of ayurveda in the modern western world, and provides practical advice and tips which can be incorporated into the modern lifetsyle. In addition, throughout the book Dr.Godagama's draws on his own personal wealth of experience in treating patients with numerous conditions, stemming from irritable bowel syndrome to diabetes. This is a must read book for anyone requiring an easy to understand introduction to this fascinating science.....I found it a pleasure to read.

I am an alternative practitioner and have been interested in ayurveda for a number of years. Out of the numerous books I have explored in the field, this has to be one of the most concise introductions. The first few chapters lay the foundation to what turned out to be a very fascinating read. The book demonstrates the importance of ayurveda in a modern lifestyle which makes it all the more relevant in this day and age. Included are numerous case studies and preactical tips. The book is well illustrated and included contact details for further information.

I am an MIT engineer (BSME MIT, 1978) and Author of When Technology Fails, and I highly recommend this book. Meticulously researched, this book provides the best information that I have found anywhere on the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, Bird Flu, and the use of homeopathic medicines for fighting influenza of all kinds. A valuable book to have on hand in any flu season, this book might save your life should the future repeat the past when some new flu virus mutates into a virulent form that spreads across the world in a global pandemic. Highly recommended!

I read this book with great interest. It offers a great historical background as well as covers the symptoms of influenza very well. Liked how it covered for instance coughs in many different ways - under the sounds, expectoration, etc. for quick reference under the individual headings for those symptoms rather than just naming the individual remedies. Very good reference book which is easy to turn to in case of fevers, coughs, body aches, etc. to differentiate. I would not necessarily recommend this to someone without homeopathic training as they might not know how to properly use the remedies and might be overwhelming, but I would recommend to other practitioners to add to their book shelf. Glad I bought it.

This book provides the most detailed information on how Homeopathy helped save lives during the 1918 Spanish Flu and will be invaluable in finding remedies to treat symptoms of the next pandemic. This book is for anyone that is convinced the traditional medical community will not be ready to treat the next outbreak of Influenza that is being predicted. Anyone interested in protecting their families from the high mortality rate of an influenza pandemic should have this book in their home. It is reported that even if a vaccine is found for the ever changing virus, it will be months before it could be produced and distributed. Homeopathy is readily available and since most people of the Spanish Flu era died within 24-48 hours, immediate treatment is essential.