Gentle Healing for Baby and Child A Parent's Guide to Child-Friendly Herbs and Other Natural Remedies for Common Ailments and Injuries

by Candee, Andrea; Andrusia, David

• ISBN13: 9780743497251
• ISBN10: 0743497252
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-24
• Publisher: Gallery Books

Summary

Give your child the gift of natural health 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, and 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 and approach that helps you teach you children the benefits of proventing illness -- not just treating it.

Author Biography

Andrea Candee, M.H., M.S.C., is a master herbalist with a consultation practice in Westchester County, New York. She lectures at the New York Botanical Garden and throughout the country on how to use nautre's pharmacy for regaining health and maintaining wellness. She consults with physicians and other health-care practitioners, designing protocols of botanical medicine for their patients. She has been featured in many publications, including the Sunday New York Times, Self, and New Woman magazines, and has made numerous television and radio appearances.

Table of Contents

Foreword

A Word from the Author

A Brief History of Herbs

Dosing Guidelines

How to Dose Your Child Adult Doses Reduce Quantity, Not Frequency

How to Dose Eardrops Cayenne Dosing Garlic Dosing

How to Administer Herbs to A Child

Herbs to the Rescue!Splinters

The Banana Trick

The Sticky Tape Trick From Cuts and Scrapes to Bleeding Wounds

The Disappearing Blood Trick Nature''s Soothers Honey: Nature''s Skin Healer Antiseptic Washes

The Brown Paper Bag Trick Cayenne Pepper to the Rescue Rescue Remedy Comfrey Garlic

Garlic Poultice

Burns When to Seek Emergency Help Natural Remedies for Burns Dr. Christopher''s Burn Ointment

Baby Bear''s Burn Remedy Amazing Aloe Cure

Sunburn Apple Cider

Vinegar Bath Yogurt Skin Healer Baking Soda Sunburn Soother

Aloe Vera Plant Soupy, Goopy Burn Gel Broken Bones Calming the Nerves Dr. Christopher''s BF&C Healing Visualizations Bone-Loving Tea

Bruises, Sprains, Strains, Sports Injuries Smelly Yellow

Onion Debruiser and Sprain Remedy Castor Oil St. John''s Wort Bruiseaway

Arnica Oil Dr. Christopher''s BF&C Ointment Comfrey Poultice Inflammation and Pain Analgesic Herbs

Anti-Inflammatory Herbs Antiseptic Herbs Nervine Herbs Muscle Stress and SpasmsRestless Leg SyndromeChiropractic/OsteopathyStiff Neck

The Tension-Taming Neck Game Yoga Nosebleeds Quick & Easy Remedies

The Healer of All Healers Insect Bites and Stings Plantain, Comfrey, Chickweed Aloe Lavender Peppermint Yellow Onion Tea

Tree Oil Calendula Vitamin E Castor Oil Dr. Christopher''s CMM Ointment Chamomile Compress

Baking Soda Mud Banana Apis Be Fragrance Free

A Word About Insect Repellents Pennyroyal Mosquito Repellent Lyme DiseaseJellyfish Stings

Poison Ivy Catch That Dot Dry It Up Herbal First Aid Kit Personalize

Your Kit Keep the Kit Portable! Standard First Aid Supplies

Andrea''s First Aid Kit First Aid Home Herbal Pack

The Upper Respiratory SystemSore Throats Gargle Without the Giggle Salty

Lemon Gargle Grapefruit Seed Gargle Throat-Healing Herbs Ear Infections Diet, Herbs, and Chiropractic Earaches

The Onion Pain Reliever Cell Salt Therapy Itchy Ears Tea Tree and Garlic Waxy Build-Up Peppermint De-Clogger

Eye Irritations Calendula/Chamomile

Eye Therapy Compress Calendula/Chamomile Eyedrop Therapy Dr. Christopher''s Herbal Eyebright Formula Digestive

Headaches Soothing Peppermint Tea #1 Soothing Peppermint Tea #2 More Headache-Relieving Remedies

Sinus-Related Headaches Decongesting Herbs Emotionally Based Headaches

Lovely Lavender Spirit Soothers Chamomile Bath

Fever-Related Headaches

Fever-Reducing Herbs Headache

Imagery Nasal Congestion

The Eucalyptus Inhaler

The Eucalyptus Vapor

The Eucalyptus Bath

The Eucalyptus Dot Herbal Snuff Head-Clearing Tea Swollen Glands Carrot Poultice Lymph-Cleansing Tea

The Castor Oil Pack

The Common Cold Herbal Teas Echinacea Garlic Fluids Inhalations

Herbal Remedies for the Mouth and Lips Castor Oil Lip Salve Herbal Salves and Lipsticks Calendula

Mouth Rinse Cold Sores Nutritional Support Herbal Healers

Aloe Leaf Remedy Raspberry Leaf Mouth Rinse Bleeding Gums Flossing Can Be Fun Astringent Mouthwash Tea

Tree/Peppermint Mouthwash Toothaches Ouch-tooth! Remedy

The Lower Respiratory SystemCoughs/Laryngitis/Lung Congestion Onion/Honey Cough Syrup

Thyme/Honey Syrup Thyme/Eucalyptus Bath Heavy-Duty Onion Poultice

The Onion Pack Chest-Relaxing

Ginger Rub Aromatic Congestion Oil Echinacea Cold and Flu Tea

Garlic: Nature''s Antibiotic CMG Syrup Garlic Fever Reducer Dr. Christopher''s Anti-Plague Syrup

Lung Formula Tea Fluids Cell Salts Suggested Protocol

Asthma Environmental Toxins Food Intolerance Empower Your Child!

To Restore Emotional Balance Physical Exertion/Adrenal Nourishment Infection Herbal Therapies for Asthmatic Attacks Honegar Pressure Points

The Integrated Approach

Skin-Loving Herbs

How Herbs Penetrate the Skin

The Simple Pimple Fix Hives Nature''s Pharmacy Insect

Bites/StingsHead Lice Preventive Measures Rosemary Hair Juice Anise Lice Be-Gone

Tea Tree Oil Overnight Lice Treatment Garlic and Echinacea

Rashes Soothing Applications

Dry It Up

Chicken Pox Skin Relief

Support the Immune System Infected Skin

Sage Wash Tea Tree Oil Echinacea Paste Warts

The Castor Oil Wart Chaser Eczema and Chronic Rashes

Chickweed Chickweed Bath Inner Cleansing

Itchy-Skin Reliever Prickly Heat Rash 120

Cysts Magical Castor Oil Internal Cleansers Boils/Infected Skin/Pustules Drawing

Poultices Instant

Drawing Poultice PsoriasisSkin Ulcers

Inflamed Skin and Poison

Plant Rashes Soothe-All Poultice ImpetigoAnxiety-Reducing Herbs

Dandruff

Fungal Infections Pau D''Arco Tea Tree Oil Andrea''s Anti-Fungal Oil Athlete''s Foot Remedy

Warm Hands and Feet Ginger Hand-and-Foot Warmer Cayenne Foot Warmer

The Gastrointestinal SystemTummyachesGas, Bloating, and Digestive Upset Food Issues H

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