The One Minute (or so) Healer

From the Book

In a breezy, practical style crackling with wit and wisdom, renowned homeopath and natural healer Dana Ullman provides more than 500 quick and easy ways to begin the process of healing common ailments...

Along the way, Ullman offers humor, puns cartoons, and the thoughtful advice that is his trademark, which had endeared him to a wide following as one of the most authoritative figures in alternative health today.

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Ullman teaches how to use nutritional supplements, herbal and homeopathic medicines, massage, hypnosis, stress management, and common sense to treat a wide range of maladies that beset most of us.

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Author

Dana Ullman, M.P.H.

(1951 -     )

Dana Ullman, M.P.H. is one of the foremost spokespersons for homeopathic medicine in the United States. He has authored four books, including Discovering Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st Century (North Atlantic, 1991), which includes a foreword by Dr. Ronald W. Davey, Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Dana is the President of the Foundation for Homeopathic Education and Research, an elected Board member of the National Center for Homeopathy, and directs Homeopathic Educational Services.

Dana Ullman has served as an instructor in a course on homeopathy at the University of California at San Francisco for three years. He will also be a member of the Advisory Council of the Alternative Medicine Center at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a consultant to Harvard Medical School's Center to Assess Alternative Therapy for Chronic Illness.

Dana Ullman co-authored Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines (Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, revised 1991) which won the Medical Self-Care Book Award. Dana edited Monograph on Homeopathic Research and served as publisher of 25 major texts in homeopathy by other authors.

He has written over 30 published articles in a variety of respected publications, including Western Journal of Medicine, Social Policy, The Futurist, Medical Self-Care, California Living (the Sunday magazine to the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner), as well as numerous health care and homeopathic journals.

Dana Ullman has been particularly effective in working with major institutions and getting them to change their attitudes and policies towards natural health care. He has organized successful conferences that were sponsored or co-sponsored by the federal Department of Health and Human Services ("Holistic Health: Policies in Action," May, 1980) and U.C. Berkeley ("Conceptualizing Energy Medicine, " March, 1981).

He authored the San Francisco Foundation's Health Report, which changed the funding priorities of this major philanthropic institution. He has recently become a consultant to the World Health Organization.

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Contents

Acknowledgments -- vii
Introduction -- ix

1. Acne -- 1
2. Allergies -- 7
3. Anemia -- 15
4. Arthritis -- 21
5. Asthma -- 33
6. Bladder Infections (Cystitis) -- 43
7. Colds -- 49
8. Constipation -- 57
9. Coughs -- 65
10. Depression -- 73
11. Diarrhea -- 81
12. Earaches -- 89
13. Fatigue -- 99
14. Headaches (Migraine) -- 105
15. Headaches (Tension) -- 111
16. Heart Disease -- 117
17. Hemorrhoids -- 129
18. Herpes -- 137
19. Indigestion -- 145
20. Influenza (Flu) -- 155
21. Insomnia -- 163
22. Irritable Bowel Syndrome -- 171
23. Menopause -- 179
24. Nausea and Vomiting -- 187
25. Osteoporosis -- 193
26. Pain -- 201
27. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) -- 209
28. Sinusitis -- 219
29. Sore Throat -- 227
30. Ulcers -- 235
31. Vaginitis -- 243

A Note about Using Homeopathic Medicines -- 249
Recommended Resources -- 253

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