Your Vital Child: A Natural Healing Guide for Caring Parents

Popular natural health experts Mark and Angela Stengler deliver just what every parent and parent-to-be needs: a comprehensive book that shows how they can be their child's necessitate using conventional medical treatment, and this book gives parents the confidence and wisdom to identify and treat ailments naturally.

With a strong emphasis on the positive impact that good nutrition, exercise, and a caring emotional environment can have on a child's health, Your Vital Child tells parents how to be proactive and keep their children on a naturally healthy course, and how to safely administer natural remedies for everything from back eyes to stuffy noses to tonsillitis. The authors include detailed case histories of children who have responded successfully to their treatment. The most complete natural child health-care book on the market, this volume also addresses behavioral issues such as ADD, depression, and preadolescent sexuality and offers proven treatments. Your Vital Child is all parents need to feel confident in their ability to give their child a smart start to a long healthy life.

My daughter's complete recovery, after 1 1/2 years of being constantly sick, speaks for itself. Dr. Stengler really cares about healing children naturally, and maintaining their natural vitality. Personally I'm hooked and will use natural health cures as a first choice... and conventional medicine last!


All you need to be your child's best health advocate!   May 29, 2002
Kym (Roaming the US)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

With my ever-growing addiction to natural parenting tomes, I already have quite a collection of child care reference books. But something about this book beckoned me to take another look, and I'm so very glad I did.

Your Vital Child is written in easy-to-understand terms, careful to explain the basics of alternative therapies such as herbals, homeopathics, accupressure and even hydrotherapy. What I really love is that the authors have obviously worked so hard to create a comprehensive, one-stop reference guide with all the vital information any parent could possibly need - in short paragraphs with simple instructions on how to implement various treatments and what to expect after treatment.

There is more vital information here than in all my other natural health care books combined! Really. Facts that I had to learn from friends or the Internet (such as not to give astragalus when your child has a fever, or that some aromatherapies counteract the effect of herbal remedies) were all in this book, and I'm still discovering new information as I dig deeper into the book. You'll also appreciate the vast range of A to Z ailments that you can quickly look up, including common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, chickenpox and many others (over 150 ailments to look-up). Other chapters include incredibly helpful information about what you can do to keep your child from getting sick not only now but for the rest of his life. Truly a one-stop holistic pediatrician shop!

Thick with an abundance of resources, remedies, treatment options and descriptions, this is absolutely the very best whole-child health care material I have ever had the pleasure to place on my bookshelves. It is my new standard baby shower gift and one that every parent and caretaker should not be without. The next time your child gets sick, you'll have all your options at your fingertips, then *you* choose what you feel comfortable with. A very worthwhile book and one that you won't be disappointed with!


Every parent should have one!   March 17, 2007
Andrea Rude (Detroit, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Every time my children get a little sick, I check this book for the best remedy. My children never get the illness to the degree other children do if they get it at all. This book tells you how to support their bodies in getting rid of the illness with their own immune system, with no side effects or harmful medicines. With homeopathic remedies, children get stronger. My kids haven't needed antibiotics. This book also gives you the conventional treatment, as well as other remedies that have been lost in modern medicine. I LOVE this book!! I can't believe it's out of print! That's sad.


EVERYTHING you'll ever need is in this book!!   May 7, 2007
makydoo (Fountain, CO)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a must have for any parent, especially those who prefer natural care before seeing a doctor! It has been a tremendous help in so many ways. We would recommend it to EVERY parent!!!


The best book ever   November 5, 2008
Steven Blackmur (Cal.)
I bought this book when it first came out. Is the best book I ever bought for my two children. I even used it for us, my husband and myself. Thats all I used when my children are sick. The book "my vital child".