The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit

• A compact guide to assembling a customized travel health kit with natural remedies for relieving many of the traveler's common complaints--from sore feet and jet lag to insomnia and stress. • Offers a variety of simple but effective remedies, including herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and supplements. • Provides specific advice for those traveling by land, air, or sea. In this handy pocket guide, Pamela Hirsch shares her hard-won secrets for getting through your next business or pleasure trip with an easy stomach and a calm mind. Growing up in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, the author was exposed to different healing modalities at an early age and found that these time-tested techniques served her well during worldwide travel. The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit provides gentle but effective help for a wide variety of common complaints, including sore feet, nausea, bug bites, constipation, jet lag, heartburn, headache, and stress. Drawing on herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and supplements, the author shows you how to prepare a lightweight travel kit of remedies especially suited to your trip and your body's individual needs. She also includes home remedies that are easily found in a local market or grocery store and simple exercises that can relieve discomfort. Whether you are traveling by land, air, or sea, this easy-to-reference book is a must-pack essential for your next trip.

Pamela Hirsch, owner of Rowan Mountain Herbals, has worked with medicinal herbs for nearly a decade. She is the coeditor, with Rosemary Gladstar, of Planting the Future: Saving Our Medicinal Herbs.

Foreword by Shatoiya de la Tour Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Herbal Preparations Teas Compresses and Poultices Oils and Salves Tinctures and Liniments Capsules and Syrups 2. Aromatherapy 3. Homeopathy 4. Flower Essences 5. Making a Traveler's Medicine Kit 6. Ailments Abscesses Allergies, Hay Fever, and Hives Anxiety Athlete's Foot Bleeding Blisters Bloody Nose Bruises Bug Bites and Stings Bunions Burns Congestion Colds and Flu Constipation Coughs Cramps Crankiness Cuts, Scrapes, and Abrasions Cystitis or Urinary Tract Infection Dehydration Diarrhea and Vomiting Earaches Eye Problems Fatigue Fever Food Poisoning Headache Heat Exhaustion and Sunstroke Indigestion Insomnia Itchiness Jet Lag Menstrual Cramps Motion Sickness and Nausea Muscle Aches Pain Poison Oak, Ivy, or Sumac Sinusitis Sore Feet Sore Throat Splinters Sprains Stress Swollen Feet or Ankles Trauma Yeast Infections Appendices A. Children's Dosages B. Resources Glossary Bibliography