The Natural Menopause Handbook: Herbs, Nutrition, & Other Natural Therapies

by Amanda Mcquade Crawford

The Natural Menopause Handbook bases its healing advice on the belief that menopause is a natural process-one that does not necessarily require medication. This revised edition focuses on herbs, nutrition, and other natural health approaches such as exercise, aromatherapy, and visualization to offer a holistic plan for wellness during perimenopause (the time leading up to and including menopause) and the postmenopausal years. Experienced medical herbalist and author Amanda McQuade Crawford examines both the age-old wisdom of nature and new research on natural therapies to address a wide range of menopausal symptoms and bodily issues.

This comprehensive handbook features an extensive collection of healing remedies, such as "Tea for Restorative Sleep," "Ten-Minute Visualization," and "Elixir for Healthy Joints," as well as appendices on making your own custom herbal formula and creating an herbal home medicine chest. In clear, supportive language, McQuade Crawford explains the nature and physiology of the most common health concerns and provides more than fifty herbal therapies to ease all stages of this natural transition in every woman's life.

208 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2009

Reviews

[Megan Chapman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great info if you ignore the occasional New-Age-like mantras, and don’t ignore your own knowledge about yourself. There is no “one size fits all” solution.

[Tina Milledge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some useful info about menopause symptoms and nutrition but mostly recipes for someone wanting to make their own herbal teas. Too much effort for me to go and track down the herbs and difficult to know which to use if you are oestrogen dominant or are having ovaries surgically removed as it focuses on natural progression into menopause not surgical. Only 3 pages about hysterectomy and not hysterectomy with oophorectomy so limited usefulness to me.