Where there is no Doctor

This is a great sourcebook for handling illnesses and injuries when trained medical help is not available.

 

Healthy Healing; a Guide to Self Healing for Everyone

This is an encyclopedic guide to aternative, natural treatments for a wide number of ailments and injuries. But it goes far beyond simply listing treatments. The author discusses the causes of illness, diet supplementation, detoxification and much more. The author draws from a wide variety of alternative medicine practices, including homeopathy, naturopathy, reflexology, aromatherapy and much more.

 

Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health

A classic compendium of folk medicine.

 

Gray's Anatomy

The classic anatomy text. It's always good to know how the human body is constructed, particularly if you are going to attempt treating it.

 

How to Be Your Own Doctor - Sometimes

 

Natural First Aid

This book could easiliy be placed in the herbal medicine section, but it is not strictly an herbal book. Among many other things, it will give you an essential list of hearbs to keep in your herbal first-aid kit, both at home, in the car, in the backpack, and in the purse.

 

Nols Wilderness First Aid

One of the standard books on first aid in a wilderness setting. This book is really intended to help treat patients until professional medical help is available.

 

Naturopathic First Aid

An excellent guide to the naturopathic treatment of minor illnesses and injuries.

 

The Complete Home Medical Encyclopedia

An excellent aid to diagnosing illness and treatment.

 

The Merck Manual

An essential reference of western medicine.

 

The Natural Healer's Acupressure Handbook

 

The Pill Book

What's in those pills you are taking anyway? And what are they doing to you?

 

The People's Pharmacy Guide to Home and Herbal Remedies

This is the closest thing to a physician's desk reference of herbs and home remedies. It gives the chemical analysis of many herbal and folk remedies.

 

 

The People's Pharmacy

The most comprehensive guide to perscription and over-the-counter medicines and other drugstore products.