Book Info
This Award Winning guide will ease your
mind and help you to heal your whole family
in the most natural gentle way possible.
When your children are sick or injured, you want them to feel better — fast. Although in some cases there is no substitute for traditional medical care, prescription drugs are not always the best answer. Countless parents are discovering that natural, health-promoting substances can often be both safer and more effective. Now, a master herbalist with more than twenty-five years of experience who is also a mother of two shares her natural approach to wellness. Inside you’ll find easy holistic therapies for common childhood injuries and ailments.
What You’ll Learn…
- How a banana can remove a splinter.
- Which herbs help reduce fever.
- How an onion helps both bruises and earaches.
- Why garlic is nature’s antibiotic.
- How a spritz of rosemary hair juice prevents lice.
- Why peppermint tea relieves both headaches and stomachaches.
- How gargling with lemon juice and table salt can ease a sore throat.
- Why ginger root can ease motion sickness.
- and many other intelligent uses of foods and therapeutic plants — nature’s own medicine — to alleviate discomforts.
Best of all, this invaluable reference stresses an approach that helps you teach your children the benefits of preventing illness — not just treating it.
What Others are Saying…
Here’s what Vegetarian Baby and Child said about the book: …the definitive guide for parents looking for an alternative…
“Written by a Master Herbalist who has worked with physicians and in her own private practice for the past 25 years, Gentle Healing for Baby and Child is to common treatments for everyday problems. In an accessible format, this guide includes solutions to ailments that occur both inside and outside the body. Got acne? Try an herbal detoxification, an herbal steam, or some Herbal Zinc Zapper. The Zapper recipe contains a mixture of zinc oxide, peppermint, and comfrey. Got a stressed out teen? Dose him with some Honegar – a mixture of honey and vinegar – to restore his chemical balance. In this book, the authors explain that the “floral nectars that comprise honey contain B vitamins and minerals which are calming to the nervous system.” While you’ve got the honey jar out, don’t forget to layer it over your little one’s skinned knee before applying a bandage. Honey contains natural “anti-microbial properties.”
Also included are sections that address subjects such as “Healing Imagery,” as well as instructions for dosing herbs, where to find a local natural health practitioner, how to deal with toxicity, and even testing for food reactions. Herbalist Candee has created a helpful, easy to use guide to natural healing for parents.”
Dianne from Chelsea, MA had to say about the book: “It has been a great reference book…As a fairly young herbalist myself, I am very pleased with all the informative and varied remedies suggested in this book. It is very easy to reference and very user friendly; nothing complicated. Andrea Candee offers a gentle manner in her representation of suggested remedies. I have bought three extra copies to give as baby shower gifts! It’s really nice to see such a variation of alternative remedies/treatment talked about in this book, such as homeopathic, chiropractic, essential oils, onion poultices, and of course herbal preparations. It’s nice to be able to make your own decision on a few different suggestions in many cases. It has been a great reference book for myself and other friends with babies as well. I highly recommend this book!!”
Andrea’s practice in South Salem, NY includes individualized health consultations as well as Face Rejuvenation treatments ~ very special herbal/aromatherapy facials.