Healthy Traveler

By Susan W. Kramer

Book Overview

We still have to travel, it's just harder than it used to be.... The Healthy Traveler tells you how to locate and use remedies from pharmacies, health food stores, kitchens --- and even your own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971343152
• ISBN13: 9780971343153
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Aspen Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.2"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

The Healthy Traveler

"A wonderful little tart of a book. Whitty, comprehensive and indispensable. The perfect size for traveling. I wouldn't leave home without it."

Jim Reinhart RPh

What a fantastic piece of work that finally addresses some of the common things one can do, not only while traveling but in your own home, when illness or trauma prevails. As a pharmacist one historically looks to the medicine cabinet for western modalities in treating many illnesses. Many are mentioned in this book, but also one is exposed to many natural herbal and homeopathic remedies that work just as well if not better than many of the western medicines without some of the pronounced side effects. As an example the first chapter deals with altitude sickness which my son and I had experienced a couple of years ago. Symtoms were a very severe headache with the nause and vomiting. We had gone up into the mountains for a brief camping trip. Being the pharmacist that I am we used acetaminophen - did noting. We descended a few hundred feet and the headache finally got better. Now, had we pretreated with ginkgo biloba things would have been much different. This is an example of what is available to the reader of this book. Lots of examples of being able to treat oneself when medical facilities are far and few inbetween.

The Healthy Traveler

This is a handy, packable and easy-to-use book filled with easy to follow directions for most any travel ailment. This compact book covers everything from altitude sickness to parasites, with remedies from herbs to homeopathy and essential oils. I will certainly pack it along on all of my journeys.-- Mary Wulff-Tilford, DiHom.; Professional Herbalist, AHG (...)