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Doctor's Reference Guide to Prescription Alternatives: Botanicals, Herbals & Nutritionals

by Jacquie Nelson Walburn

112 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2517; ISBN 1-4251-0759-1; US$12.95, C$14.89, EUR10.10, £6.69

Objective: to provide a quick reference of what is available as alternatives to prescription medications including 100's of botanical, herbal, & nutritional treatments & cures for over 50 conditions

About the Book

Most drugs treat symptoms and are not cures. This information is a quick summary of research I found from reputable institutions of research, medical schools, medical journals, and clinical studies and is provided for the reader to do their own research, discuss options with their doctor, and decide what is best for them. My objective is to provide a quick reference of what is available as alternatives to prescription medication for those who don't have the time and includes botanical, herbal, and nutritional therapies, treatments, and cures with little or no side effects.

About the Author

I am born and raised in So. Cal. I became aware of alternatives when I was 11. I was already an accomplished athlete. In about 1 year, I grew 6 inches causing my bone and muscle structures to go astray causing severe pain in my feet, knees, and back. The regular medical community abandoned me as incurable and pills were to be my life and an end to my athletics. My grandmother stepped in and started my path to recovery with alternative treatments. I responded very quickly to orthotics and chiropractic work. By the time I graduated from high school, I had a 12 yrs old world record, several national age-group titles, traveled around the world competing in track and field. When athletic scholarship offers started coming my way, I decided to major in Biology. I had a good run in track and field up through college (1 national champ/4all -Am/10 top-10 rank). I did change my major several times from Biology to Kinesiology to Public Health increase the span of my knowledge until I decided I wanted a career as a Sports Medicine Dietician to bring my knowledge of nutrition together with my love for high-performance sports. I did my senior thesis on Mineral Losses in Sweat and How They affect Body Balance. Although I received my BS in Nutrition/Food Science from California State Polytechnic University @ Pomona, I was unable financially to pursue my career choice. I still remained hungry to furthering my knowledge, especially in natural cures, which were not part of that curriculum. I did not further that pursuit until several years ago when my father, who, in my youth, was a big, strong, athletic man, became ill and started taking huge numbers of prescription medications. I watched him deteriorate year after year as he was prescribed more and more medications that seemed to just accelerate the declination of his health. I tried to intervene but my father, being old school medicine where doctor's know everything, he was not willing to step on his doctor's toes as they must know more than me. I then, tried to talk to his doctor's and they had no knowledge of any of the alternatives I thought might help him. I explained to them that unless they discussed these options with him, he would not try them. I recommended to my father to seek a naturopathic doctor and he believed he was getting the best care available with conventional medicine. I accelerated my research in his final year continuing to try to help him. In doing so, I discovered there was so much information about so many different ailments that I started making a list. This book is the result of all that accumulation.

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