This self-help text for women offers natural strategies for combatting the physical and emotional stresses of modern life. It explores the whole care of mind, body and spirit and offers herbal treatment plans for a comprehensive range of physical ailments and emotional crises. The book provides specific recommendations for using herbs to protect you and your family from pollution. It emphasizes preventative medicine, explaining how women in good health can stay that way. The book also shows how to choose herbal remedies from chemists or health food shops, as well as how to prepare your own. This text should be useful for women of all ages, from childhood through to old age, but particularly for times of hormonal upheaval - puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause and ageing.