Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Revised and updated edition)

Now in its second edition, the Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine contains everything a woman needs to know about the twenty most common health problems. Each chapter looks at how to prevent the problems occurring in the first place and how to treat them the natural way. This timely encyclopedia minimizes medical jargon and uses language that the general public can understand, while still providing detailed coverage that will benefit healthcare professionals.

Alternative medicine has come to be the popular term used to distinguish natural, non‐invasive therapies from conventional medicine. Whether the terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, natural medicine or...