The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit: Easy and Effective Remedies for Staying Healthy on the Road• A compact guide to assembling a customized travel health kit with natural remedies for relieving many of the traveler's common complaints--from sore feet and jet lag to insomnia and stress. • Offers a variety of simple but effective remedies, including herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and supplements. • Provides specific advice for those traveling by land, air, or sea. In this handy pocket guide, Pamela Hirsch shares her hard-won secrets for getting through your next business or pleasure trip with an easy stomach and a calm mind. Growing up in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, the author was exposed to different healing modalities at an early age and found that these time-tested techniques served her well during worldwide travel. The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit provides gentle but effective help for a wide variety of common complaints, including sore feet, nausea, bug bites, constipation, jet lag, heartburn, headache, and stress. Drawing on herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and supplements, the author shows you how to prepare a lightweight travel kit of remedies especially suited to your trip and your body's individual needs. She also includes home remedies that are easily found in a local market or grocery store and simple exercises that can relieve discomfort. Whether you are traveling by land, air, or sea, this easy-to-reference book is a must-pack essential for your next trip. |
Contents
HERBAL PREPARATIONS | 8 |
TEAS | 9 |
COMPRESSES AND POULTICES | 11 |
OILS AND SALVES | 15 |
TINCTURES AND LINIMENTS | 20 |
CAPSULES AND SYRUPS | 26 |
AROMATHERAPY | 29 |
HOMEOPATHY | 32 |
EARACHES | 102 |
EYE PROBLEMS | 104 |
FATIGUE | 106 |
FEVER | 107 |
FOOD POISONING | 109 |
HEADACHE | 111 |
HEAT EXHAUSTION AND SUNSTROKE | 112 |
INDIGESTION | 113 |
FLOWER ESSENCES | 34 |
MAKING A TRAVELERS MEDICINE KIT | 38 |
AILMENTS | 52 |
ALLERGIES HAY FEVER AND HIVES | 55 |
ANXIETY | 62 |
ATHLETES FOOT | 69 |
BLEEDING | 71 |
BLISTERS | 73 |
BLOODY NOSE | 75 |
BUG BITES AND STINGS | 77 |
BUNIONS | 79 |
BURNS | 80 |
CONGESTION | 83 |
COLDS AND FLU | 86 |
CONSTIPATION | 90 |
COUGHS | 91 |
CRAMPS | 93 |
CRANKINESS | 94 |
CUTS SCRAPES AND ABRASIONS | 95 |
CYSTITIS OR URINARY TRACT INFECTION | 97 |
DEHYDRATION | 99 |
DIARRHEA AND VOMITING | 101 |
INSOMNIA | 116 |
ITCHINESS | 119 |
JET LAG | 120 |
MENSTRUAL CRAMPS | 123 |
MOTION SICKNESS AND NAUSEA | 125 |
MUSCLE ACHES | 126 |
PAIN | 127 |
POISON OAK IVY OR SUMAC | 129 |
SINUSITIS | 131 |
SORE FEET | 132 |
SORE THROAT | 133 |
SPLINTERS | 135 |
SPRAINS | 136 |
STRESS | 138 |
SWOLLEN FEET OR ANKLES | 141 |
TRAUMA | 142 |
YEAST INFECTIONS | 143 |
CHILDRENS DOSAGES | 148 |
RESOURCES | 150 |
GLOSSARY | 156 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 158 |
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