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9780863155413

Home Nursing for Carers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780863155413

  • ISBN10:

    0863155413

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-04-30
  • Publisher: Floris Books

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Summary

Caring for a sick child or relative at home can be a daunting task, especially if longer-term care is involved. Advice on the best remedies and how to structure your care can be invaluable.This book covers all aspects of general home nursing, including the arrangement of the patient's room, meals, taking a temperature, and washing the patient. It also details numerous holistic treatments including herbal and plant remedies, baths, foot-baths, compresses and poultices. There are specific sections on pregnancy, birth, sleep, nursing the terminally ill and death.This is a comprehensive guide to holistic home care for those nursing children and adults through an illness.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7(6)
I. Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy and Theory of Nursing
Caring, Mediating, Supervising: Three Aspects of Nursing
13(12)
Caring
15(4)
Mediating
19(3)
Supervision
22(3)
Rudolf Steiner's View of the Human Being
25(9)
The fourfold structure of man
25(3)
The threefold structure of man
28(4)
Summary
32(2)
Plants and the Body
34(7)
II. Treatment
The General Care of the Patient
41(20)
Furnishing the sick room
41(3)
Daily care
44(10)
Some nursing aids
54(2)
Complications resulting from confinement to bed
56(5)
External Treatments
61(6)
Outline
61(1)
Materials
62(1)
Herbal extracts
63(2)
General remarks
65(2)
Plant Treatments
67(47)
Arnica (Arnica montana)
67(2)
Stinging nettle (Urtica urens)
69(5)
Lemons (Citrus media)
74(9)
The marigold (Calendula officinalis)
83
Camomile (Matricaria chamomilla)
55(40)
Horseradish (Cochlearia armoracia)
95(5)
The mustard plant (Sinapis alba and nigra)
100(9)
Onion (Allium cepa)
109(5)
Other External Treatments
114(19)
Curd cheese (quark)
114(4)
Salt water wash
118(2)
Baths
120(5)
Rubbing the whole body
125(2)
Foot-baths
127(2)
Poultice
129(4)
III. Birth, Illness and Death
Pregnancy and Birth
133(6)
Pregnancy
133(3)
Birth and confinement
136(3)
Sleep
139(5)
Sickness and Destiny
144(3)
Nursing the Critically and Terminally III
147(6)
Remedies to Keep at Home 153(3)
Endnotes 156(1)
Index 157

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