Homeopathy For The Modern Pregnant Woman And Her Infant: A Therapeutic Practice Guidebook For Midwives, Physicians And Practitioners

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This comprehensive 446 page hard-back book is an invaluable aid for those who practice the mild yet powerful science of homeopathy. In its pages you will find effective ways to solve a host of complications and potentially serious situations which can and often do arise during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, as well as post-partum problems and the critical first weeks and months of neonatal life. Review Dr. Perko has written a thoroughly informative and easily usable text covering almost all conceivable clinical topics concerning pregnancy, labor, the post-partum period, ailments of the newborn child, and breast and nursing problems. Remedy descriptions are clear, succinct, and highly practical. The organization of the book is impeccable. Information can be easily and quickly accessed, a quality many birthing attendants will find of immense value when emergencies arise. The ample differential materia medica is organized according to remedies frequency of utility. The Table of Contents is expanded and a Quick Keynote Reference is provided for faster access to information. This book is the most thorough and usable working homeopath's reference to homeopathic obstetrics that I have seen to date. I highly recommend it to all homeopaths who maintain an obstetrics practice, or who tend to pregnant women and nursing mothers. -- George Guess, M.D., D. Ht., Journal of The American Institute of Homeopathy, Autumn 1997 Finally a concise but comprehensive therapeutic handbook which is precisely what midwives and health care providers familiar with classical homeopathy need to help them differentiate between many choices of homeopathic medicines available to treat the many medical problems of pregnant women or their infants. This is the book midwives and those caring for pregnant women and their infants will take to the clinic, birthing room and home to help them choose the homeopathic medicine for their patients problems of pregnancy. Jacquelyn J Wilson, MD., D Ht, 1997