Shortly before I began research for this book on alternative and complementary medicine, I informed a dear friend of the pending task. His first comment was “How many volumes?” Those three words would haunt me throughout the project. One book hardly scratches the surface; therefore my objectives were to compile up-to-date information on and explanations of as many alternative, complementary…
An encyclopedia of allergies provides an overview of the field of allergy and many topics of general interest on an anomaly that emerges in infinite forms all over the world, from an innocent sneeze at the whiff of a minute troublemaker called pollen to a life threatening swelling of air passages at the mere taste of a peanut. That millions of people have experienced adverse effects of hypersen…