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Describes home remedies for hundreds of ailments, from acne and backache to warts and yeast infections.

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Publishers Weekly Review

In the helpful tradition of Rodale's health-concerned series comes this book, aiming to cure mostly minor ailments and tell us what's going on when something's going wrong. The board of editors usually keeps their collective feet on the ground: as an antidote, for instance, to a stuffed-up nose, they suggest, ``Eat Mexican,'' and caution on the use of antihistamines, which may cause some surprise. If you stutter and want to stop, they say, ``Nix the sweets,'' ``Bag the coffee,'' and ``Practice natural breathing,'' striking a balance between mandatory good cheer and practical detail. Organized alphabetically in short entries, the book includes correctives for Type A Personalities, panic attacks, warts, chipped teeth and hiccups. All of the advice is backed up by a doctor's name or affidavit. Reassuring, readable and sometimes even entertaining, this is not the last word in fixing the problem, but it's a good beginning. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

The new take on one of the biggest best-selling (10 million copies) health books adds some 100 new complaints and more than 1,000 new remedies to the 130 and 2,300, respectively, in its 1990 forebear. Prevention magazine hit on an idea that had more than reached its time--viz., that people would prefer taking care of garden-variety ills inexpensively at home to shelling out to see a doc--when it compiled that first alphabet of such complaints as nosebleeds, age spots (they're actually sun-caused spots), jet lag, laryngitis, snoring, restless-legs syndrome, and even TV addiction. This substantial expansion, which retains the same familiar, vernacular tone (Kirchheimer, as principal author, is perhaps responsible for this), will probably find as many happy users. (Reviewed Aug. 1993)0875961584Ray Olson