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Essential oils, known for their healing properties as far back as ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia, have reached their zenith in Madagascar, says Dr. Georges M. Halpern, author of The Healing Trail: Essential Oils of Madagascar. This interesting, informative, and clearly written new book is well-documented, with entertaining historical stories sprinkled throughout, including how eighteenth-century botanists succeeded in making this land a garden for botanical study. Madagascar, the planet's fourth largest island, has long been famous for the individuality of its flora and fauna, and for the essential oils that many consider the best in the world. This book explains why and tells us what makes these oils so potent and effective. It details their use in aromatherapy, a healing method almost as old as medicine itself, and their many benefits to the perfume, cosmetic, and food industries; it describes the successful efforts of villagers to create a sustainable economy around them without having to cut down the rainforest, and offers practical advice for people wishing to visit this lushly beautiful island, "the naturalist's promised land." Dr. Halpern gives the history and the chemical and botanical makeup of eight essential oils (for example, tropical basil, cinnamon leaf and bark, geranium leaf, ginger, and vanilla) and tells how they are best used to promote physical and emotional health. We learn where they are grown on the island, how they are cultivated, what studies are being conducted, and what scientists believe might be future uses for them.The Healing Trail: Essential Oils of Madagascar is an essential resource for learning how the unique aspects of this island have coalescedto create superior essential oils like no others on earth, and how these oils can be put to use for maximum benefit.

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Throughout life, DNA reproduces and replaces itself continually. In optimal conditions, the copies are perfect, but as environment, diet and stress begin to take their toll, so the DNA becomes damaged and this leads to aging and disease.

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Many men are entering middle-age overweight and out of shape, with increasing sugar intolerance (pre-diabetes), hypertension, lacking energy and drive and experiencing falling libido. Men have a choice to make: continue their current lifestyle with those extra pounds and decreased energy or choose to reinvent themselves - to become a 'WellMan' full of renewed energy and passion, with a greater sense of well-being. The key to successful aging is the control of hidden or 'silent' inflammation. Some inflammation is beneficial, serving to immobilise an area of injury as the immune system responds. But silent inflammation has a more insidious nature - it's a chronic, systemic inflammation that goes on inside the body year after year. Researchers now recognise that silent inflammation is responsible for most chronic diseases, including heart disease, Alzheimer's and cancer. In fact, it is now understood as the primary cause of aging itself. The powerful integral health programme outlined in this book provides a comprehensive way of controlling silent inflammation so that each man can optimise his health. · Diet and nutritional advice for reducing inflammation · Advice on detoxifying the body · Natural hormone replacement for renewed vigour · Mind-body therapies for reducing stress · Exercise tips to feel younger

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Many books on the Bach Flower Remedies are written by nutritionists, herbalists and practitioners of traditional Western or allopathic medicine. THE HEALING BOUQUET has been written by Vinton McCabe, a teacher with more than a quarter century of experience in homoeopathy and the author of seven books on the subject of homoeopathy, health and healing. In this companion volume to The Healing Enigma, in which he explored and, ultimately, demystified the complex principles of homoeopathy, McCabe now seeks to place the Bach Flower Remedies within their natural context - that of homoeopathic medicine. As the author comments, "We have to remember that Edward Bach was an allopathic doctor and a highly successful one who, after reading the writings of Samuel Hahnemann, began to incorporate homoeopathic philosophy in his practice of medicine. His evolution as a physician ultimately led him to close his medical practice in order to dedicate the last part of his life to the creation of a new pharmacy of healing tools, which today we call the Bach Flower Remedies. Given his background as both an allopath and a homoeopath, the remedies he created are totally unique. They represent the perfect balancing point between homeopathic and herbal medicine." He, also, explains Bach's own philosophy of healing, one that stresses the need for emotional healing and the role that it plays in physical health. More importantly, he gives in-depth portraits of the guiding symptoms for each of Bach's thirty-eight remedies, portraits created with insight, humour and an understanding of human emotions and behaviours that will allow readers to identify themselves and those who are part of their lives within these pages.

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People are often dissatisfied with the success of their exercise programmes or activities, but they may simply have been the wrong programmes for their muscular structure. Exercise For Your Muscle Type eliminates this frustration by showing readers how they are built and by helping them put together an appropriate personalised comprehensive exercise programme. With a better understanding of ones own body, anyone can achieve his or her fitness goals more quickly.

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Our bodies need the right amount of blood flow to keep our hearts pumping, our legs moving and our brains functioning. Good circulation is clearly critical to our existence. Over our lifetime, our veins absorb a lot of wear and tear - excess weight, sedentary lifestyles, dietary indiscretions, pregnancy and other factors can cause veins to swell and bulge, break and leak, while contributing to spider and varicose veins, haemorrhoids, leg ulcers and many other vein problems. By middle age, half of us will manifest some type of vein condition. Standard treatments include lubricants, warm baths and other less effective procedures or laser surgery and sclerotherapy injections, which, although highly successful, come with side effects. Yet a safe, natural and effective solution is right under our nose. In the rind of the trillions of sweet oranges we consume each year, there is a little known vein-protecting, anti-inflammatory bioflavonoid called diosmin. Backed by clinical research, this citrus bioflavonoid has been recommended by European doctors to treat circulatory and vascular conditions for more than thirty years! HEALTH BENEFITS DERIVED FROM SWEET ORANGES discusses the eight most common vein complications: varicose veins, haemorrhoids, diabetes, leg ulcers, ankle swelling, capillary fragility, leg cramps and phlebitis (inflammation of a vein) For each condition the reader will learn what causes it, what damages it inflicts on the vein, its physical signs and symptoms and nitty-gritty details from clinical studies proving the diosmin promotes strong veins, healthy legs and sound circulation.

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The six-pack diet is a long-term weight-loss solution that specifically targets problem areas like the abdominal region. This plan uses your body's natural components, such as hormones, to help you win the battle of the bulge and create an environment in your body that is fat-loss friendly.

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