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The Natural Health First-Aid Guide is a recently published book that covers treament of a variety of first aid problems. The problems covered include allergic reactions, bites and stings, injuries, dizziness and fainting, heat prostration, and poisoning. In addition to conventional first aid advice, it provides information on alternative treatment of these problems where appropriate. The forms of alternative treatment covered are herbalism, Chinese patent medicines, homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, acupressure, aromatherapy, and nutritional supplements. I can’t vouch for the competence of all this advice, but the homeopathic advice is competent, if a bit thin. Because the nature of the nature of first aid problems, the same treatments get recomended again and again. For example, Bach’s Rescue Remedy pops up a lot. And sometimes conventional treatments which are perfectly fine and more readily available than alternative treatments are ignored. For example, food grade clay is recommended for mild food poisoning, but the book fails to mention that Kaopectate, which can be found in any drug store, contains it. Still, this book provides a wider variety of good advice on lay treatment of health problems with alternative medicine than I’ve seen anywhere else. The book is: The Natural Health First-Aid Guide Mark Haywell and the editors of Natural Health Magazine Pocket Books, 1994 ISBN 0-671-79273-3 —

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The author is Mark Mayel. — Len Jacobs

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