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9780609804377: The Pregnancy Herbal: Holistic Remedies, Nutritional Therapies, and Soothing Treatments from Nature's Pharmacy for the Mother to Be
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Explains how to use the healing power of herbs to ease or alleviate the discomfort, anxiety, and other ailments of pregnancy, in a guide that combines diet, exercise, aromatherapy, and massage, presenting a remedies for morning sickness, insomnia, swollen ankles, stretch marks, and other side effects of pregnancy. Original. 15,000 first printing.

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JAQULENE HARPER-ROTH is a certified holistic nutritionist, an accredited homeopathic and color healer, and the author of Beautiful Face, Beautiful Body. Married and the mother of three small children, Harper-Roth lives in North Carolina.
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Thyme for an Introduction

Why another book on pregnancy?

Even more to the point, why a book about herbal pregnancy--a book that equates the health and well-being of you and your growing baby with a reliance on naturally occurring foods, medicinal remedies, and beauty treatments?

Well . . . you are a reflection of what you eat.

That old saying is doubly true when you are pregnant: you and your baby are both what you eat. I believe your skin, general appearance, and health all reflect the food you give your body on a daily basis. When I became pregnant with my first child and realized I would soon be giving life to another growing person, I decided to seek out the purest foods available. To find those foods, I turned to nature.

I'd originally become a vegetarian at the age of nineteen to cure a skin condition that I had suffered since I was a teenager. Simply changing my diet brought that chronic condition under control, and I began immersing myself in the fascinating field of alternative medicine and disease prevention and became a dedicated student of herbal healing.

During those years I was living in the English countryside, where I could easily forage for wild edible foods and native herbs. I soon discovered that regardless of what ailed me, the cure was available for the taking in the fields and hedgerows near my home. The herbs and flowers I used were plentiful in the spring and summer months: soon I learned techniques for preserving their living essences, and I was able to continue using their potent botanical extracts through autumn and winter, as well. I kept abundant supplies of green life in my kitchen and bathroom--trays, jars, and bottles full of sprouting seeds, nuts, beans, and legumes.

The next logical step was using these same foods as my primary source of nutrition. I took a good long look at the things I had stored in my kitchen cabinets and refrigerator--and got rid of them. The more I experimented, the more I realized that I needed only the herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds, nuts, and other natural resources growing outside my door to maintain the healthy lifestyle I sought. Soon my grocery bill for the week was less than twenty dollars. I ate with the seasons: I grew what I could and foraged for the rest.

Nature's pantry provided not only nutrition and health remedies but beauty treatments as well. When I ate fresh fruit, I used the skin or peel for a quick active-enzyme facial. I ground nuts and seeds into fine meal and mixed them with cold-pressed plant oils to make a soothing scrub or hand-washing paste. I stopped washing with commercial soaps (of any brand); instead, I splashed my skin each morning with sparkling mineral water, infused with essential oils rich in nutrients. For a change of pace, I used flower-infused oils and fresh coconut milk to keep my skin supple and lock in moisture.

This simple lifestyle was not only healthy and pleasurable for mind and body but also affordable, even on the very low income I had then. Bringing nature and herbal lore into my life gave me an innate youthfulness, radiant health, and a strong sense of well-being.

And then I got pregnant.

Naturally, I wanted to know more about the experience I was about to have. At local bookstores, I discovered many volumes explaining in great detail what to expect emotionally and physically during pregnancy, and what dietary supplements were required to maintain and promote my health and that of my growing baby, month by month, trimester by trimester. I found books that monitored, informed, and reassured the expectant mother at every turning point. Some talked about what to expect during labor and childbirth, others about how to care for the newborn. Still others talked about finding and/or keeping a loving companionship during pregnancy. I read many of these informative books from cover to cover.

I found almost nothing about nature and herbal lore in any of these books.

To me this was a glaring oversight. I knew that, developmentally, the most important time in my child's life was while he or she was within the womb. I also knew that living naturally had brought me to an optimum state of health: could it do any less for my child?

In the volumes I read, I also found relatively little about the importance of feeling good about yourself and the way you look throughout the nine (plus) months of your pregnancy. I knew how important a positive attitude was toward my own mental well-being: there were times during each of my three pregnancies when I would stare in the mirror and feel a tinge of indignation toward the child growing within me for changing my body.

My children were born a year apart from each other. Throughout each of those pregnancies and birth experiences, I turned to nature and herbal lore for both nutritional and medicinal remedies for minor ailments and discomforts. I created a green pharmacy using homegrown and wild herbs, compresses, poultices, and tinctures. My medicinal garden grew in the bathroom, my herbal tea garden in the kitchen; in planters along the kitchen and bedroom window sills, I grew edible weeds and flowers. What I couldn't grow, I found in my local supermarket and health-food store.

Each of my pregnancies furthered my journey into the realm of an herbal lifestyle. I studied macrobiotics, herbalism, vegetarianism, color energy, and sprout nutrition. I was developing the philosophy that forms the core of this book--a unique combination of diet, exercise, spa treatments, and aromatherapy that not only relaxed and invigorated me but also made me feel good about myself at every stage of pregnancy. After my children were born, the importance of bathing rituals, massage, and safe, nontoxic earth remedies was self-evident and something I encouraged for the whole family.

In 1992 I received three higher national diplomas (HNDs) in nutritional medicine (a therapy that adapts a person's diet in order to improve both mental and physical health), chromopsychology and healing (the study and application of colored-light energy to heal diseases of the mind and body), naturopathy (a system of therapy that depends on the healing powers of sleep, exercise, and food), herbalism (also known as medical pharmacology, the use of plants to prevent or cure disease), and homeopathy (a system of care that uses minerals and herbs to treat a wide variety of acute health problems brought about by stress). I then went to work spreading the word about the benefits of living within nature and her laws.

The book you now hold in your hands, The Pregnancy Herbal, is the culmination of those many years of experimentation and study. The recipes and techniques contained herein constitute a holistic approach to pregnancy, an approach that focuses on healing with nutrition and herbal remedies, an approach that also provides techniques for pampering, relaxing, and boosting the self-confidence of the expectant mother.

With The Pregnancy Herbal as your guide, you will discover how to nourish your own body (and thus, your growing baby's), and how to satisfy your desires, needs, and passions on a daily basis. You will begin feeling revitalized and full of energy, with a refreshed complexion and elastic, toned skin all over your body.

You will be delighted to discover that there is a natural way of being an expectant mother that brings with it the potential for a united body, mind, and spirit. It is a world of sensual wonders where the mother to be is the center of attention--a world full of delicious, appetizing menus to delight the senses of the most exacting gourmands and to satisfy the concerns of the most experienced nutritionists. It is a world of aromatherapy and massage, where you can learn how to make and use earth-herbal body treatments for your complexion and your growing, stretching body suit; where you can learn to prepare and cook herbal feasts for your yourself and your family.

The Pregnancy Herbal provides you with easy-to-follow instructions for making herbal preparations for your own use and the care and health of your newborn. The book also offers a quick-reference herbal pharmacy with living remedies from the countryside and from your own garden.

To use this book, you need only the most basic cooking and gardening skills. (I am not a gourmet chef--my children will vouch for that! And I am an impatient gardener, too.) The herbs you will use require no maintenance (they are easy to grow and they take care of themselves), and the recipes and remedies contained herein call for only a few flowers or leaves, a handful of berries or fruit, and the ability to stir, mash, chop or grind. Simple. If you have a garden, great: you are in for a wonderful adventure of planting, harvesting, eating, and applying. If you don't have a garden or an outdoor space to plant, make an indoor greenhouse using the instructions provided in this book. If gardening is simply not to your taste, all the ingredients can easily be purchased from your local grocery or health-food store, or through mail-order sources. (See Resources, page 301.) In addition to this volume, you should have a trusted botanical reference book on herbs. The Little Herb Encyclopedia, by Jack Ritchason, M.D. (Woodland Publishing Inc.), and The New Age Herbalist, by Richard Mabey (Fireside Books), are two great guides, in case some of the herbs I suggest are unfamiliar to you.

The homemade recipes contained herein for whole body pampering--earth-herbal remedies for yourself and your newborn--are 100 percent pure, natural, and living. They can be tailor-made to suit individual tastes and needs. Fragrances and colors that are included in some recipes for aesthetic purposes can be omitted. There are no preservatives. Either the ingredients are naturally preserving, or a recipe will yield only enough for one application.

Aside from the obvious monetary savings to be gained by making your own beauty and health preparations, there are other advantages to using only pure, living, natural ingredients that ar...

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  • Data di pubblicazione2001
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  • ISBN 13 9780609804377
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  • Numero di pagine310
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