Like a natural woman : the black woman's guide to alternative healing / Ziba Kashef.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kashef, Ziba.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine.

African American women--Health and hygiene.

African American women.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 269 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2001]

Summary:

Good health doesn't come in a prescription bottle. In fact, all you need to start feeling better is an open mind, a new attitude, and this remarkable, one-of-a-kind book.

In Like a Natural Woman, Ziba Kashef, award-winning senior editor and health writer at ESSENCE magazine, brings you a comprehensive guide to alternative techniques and therapies that can put you on the road to wellness. Drawing on her interviews with a variety of alternative health practitioners, as well as the time-tested folk remedies of our African ancestors and exciting new methods that address the unique health issues of black women, she gives you the tools you need to cope with everything from PMS, weight problems, and diabetes to hypertension, Lupus, and cancer.

Contents:

Livin' Healthy

Eating Right and Light

Some Added Insurance: Supplements

Back to Our Roots: Healing with Herbs

Mind-Body Methods

Laying on of Hands

Your Periods and PMS

Freedom from Fibroids

In the Family Way: Pregnancy and Childbirth

Time for the Change: Menopause

Living with Lupus

Confronting Cancer

Coping with Chronic Conditions: Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart Disease

Emotional Healing: Stress, Depression, Phobias.

Notes:

"Dafina Books"

"Dafina Books and the Dafina logo are trademarks of Kensington Publishing Corp."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy is "First Printing. January 2001."

ISBN:

1575666308

9781575666303

OCLC:

45699868