This claims to be a guide to alternative remedies for 200 complaints, and yet omits the source of most remedies, some of which stretch to dozens of ingredients, and offers no evidence to suggest why any one ingredient should be effective.Opening the book at random, I find suggested treatments for a tyroid gland that is over active. These include:
Foods to avoid: Tea, Coffee, Cigarettes and chocolate contain caffeine, theoromine or nicotine which stimulate the release of adrenalin and make and overactive thyroid worse. (says who?)
Useful remedies for an overactive thyroid: Vitamin-B complex, 1-2 grams of vitamin C, 400iu vitamin-E, 30mg Q10, 30mg Zinc, 200mcg selenium, 2mg copper, 500mg Tyroplex, 150 mcg Kelp, 1-3 tablets of Thyro Complex, all of these to be taken daily. Says who?
Anyone with a thyroid problem would be better advised to visit their doctor, who will be able to prescribe a completely safe and provenly successful cure in the form of one tablet.
The book is littered with suggestions that certain propriety compounds are useful, without offering a single shred of evidence why this should be so. And yet it "helpfully" provides details where these products can be purchased.
On the whole, since it fails to back up almost all of it's remedies with any scientific evidence, and yet provides full details where the most bizarre of remedies can be purchased, this book's main aim would appear to be the subtle advertising and promotion of a large number of products that would fail to stand up to the most elementary scientific scrutiny. As such, the author and publisher might find it hard to defend prosecution by the Medicines Control Agency which prohibits the advertising of drugs direct to the general public.
I cannot imagine why anyone should heed any of the advice in this book since it largely fails to back up with solid evidence any of the claims it makes.