'Women's Trouble', by Kaz Cooke and herbalist Ruth Trickey, covers the first period to the last - and everything that can go wrong in between.
Fun to read yet sensible and thorough, 'Women's Trouble' helps you to make your own decisions about treatment. It explains the self-care, natural therapies and medical solutions for a huge range of "women's troubles".
Period pain and PMS: how to identify and treat the kind you've got.
Puberty and the teen years: moods, pimples, first periods.
Menopause: hot flushes, plant oestrogens, HRT.
Problem periods: too heavy, too light, too erratic, or gone.
Feral hormones: how they work, how to balance them.
Drugs: pros and cons, how they work, easing side effects.
Herbs: what are they, how they work.
Surgery: operations explained, how to prepare and recover.
Screening: when you need it and why, procedures explained.
Ovarian cysts: which cyst is which and how to treat them.
Endometriosis and adenomyosis: what are they, the latest treatments.
Hypoglycaemia: fixing blood sugar fluctuations.
Food: for health and for specific conditions.
Anatomy: where all your girly bits go and what they do.
