Best Remedies: Breakthrough Prescriptions that Blend Conventional and Natural Medicine

by Reader's Digest Association

Draws on up-to-date medical research and ancient healing traditions to provide recommendations for treating 103 common ailments, in a reference that includes coverage of age-related diseases while discussing the benefits of home care that combines traditional and alternative therapies.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company based in Chappaqua, New York, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest. The company's headquarters are in New York City, where it moved from Pleasantville, New York.

The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.

Reviews

[Dan Stern]

One could learn a lot from this book. I learned that vitamin C can alleviate asthma symptoms, 700mg St John's Wort is better for motivation than coffee, Nizoral is good for dandruff, etc. Unfortunately this book also plugs homeopathic remedies at several points and gives other perhaps questionable advice (like listing benzos under insomnia remedies. Maybe, but would be nice to include a disclaimer that this should be a last resort and that benzo withdrawal has been said to be on par with or worse than heroin withdrawal. Not the only things I would've done differently, but just some examples that popped out.) Overall glad to have this book in my librar