Complementary therapies, healing & health

  • Mustn’t grumble

    £12.99

    One of the many strange effects of the 2020 pandemic has been to make us much more vigilant about the state of our health in general and about minor symptoms in particular. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time; maybe even every day. This book is not about what happens when we’re ill with something sufficiently serious to send us to the doctor or confine us to bed. Instead, it focuses on the multitude of mild, irksome, distracting illnesses, aches and pains with which we all put up with constantly. Covering 120 ailments, Graham explains the latest scientific thinking about everything from blackheads to chilblains; dead legs to haemorrhoids; ear wax to hiccups; and hay fever to heat stroke. It’s a mixture of science and history, with a light touch, and provides practical information about each ailment for the reader.

  • The Royal Marsden cancer cookbook

    £26.00

    This text is divided into three sections: a detailed section on diet and cancer and the problems you may face during treatment (such as loss of appetite, nausea, sore mouth, change of taste); recipes to cook during treatment, which are nutritionally beneficial and wholesome enough to keep you strong even if you can’t eat too much; and a section of recipes for after treatment aimed at keeping you healthy. These recipes are designed to serve smaller portions and two people as well as for families, and there are lots of tips about budgeting, leftovers and freezing.

  • Body

    £20.00

    The Sunday Times bestseller with all the strategies you need to prevent pain and fuel your body to its fullest health potential.

    ‘James is incredible – he has played a huge role in helping me manage my fitness and recover from injury over the years’ David Beckham

  • The Little Book of Self-Love

    £9.99

    This simple and uplifting book is filled with fun self-care practices, witchcraft, spells, tips and recipes designed to promote self-love.

  • The Breathing Revolution

    £12.99

    Learn to breathe correctly and you will be calmer, lose weight, sleep better. Yolanda Barker is a yoga teacher and film maker. She has developed a seven day breathing programme for anyone and everyone to re-teach us how to breathe and experience the benefits of harnessing our breath.

  • Why We Swim

    £9.99

    Take a dive into the deep with writer and swimmer Bonnie Tsui and discover what it is about water that seduces us, heals us and brings us together. Our evolutionary ancestors swam for survival. Now we swim in freezing Arctic waters, wide channels, and piranha-infested rivers just because they are there. Swimming is an introspective and quiet sport in a chaotic age. It is therapeutic for those who are injured and it is one route to that elusive, ecstatic state of Flow. Propelled by stories of polar swim champions, a Baghdad swim club, Olympian athletes, modern-day samurai swimmers and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survived a six-hour swim in the wintry Atlantic, ‘Why We Swim’ takes us around the globe in a remarkable, all-encompassing account of the world of swimming.

  • Cured

    £9.99

    Against better advice, Dr Jeffrey Rediger, a Harvard Medical Faculty member, has spent nearly 20 years investigating so-called medical miracles. Here, he unveils the science behind ‘spontaneous’ healing and lays out the physical and mental principles of recovery, through breath-taking stories of remission. Long after she’s supposed to be dead, a woman with aggressive pancreatic cancer finds herself cured. A teenage girl suddenly and unexpectedly overcomes the cerebral palsy she’s had since birth. An 85-year-old man stuns doctors when his CT scan shows that the tumours on his kidneys have inexplicably vanished. What can we learn from these incredible, yet true, case studies? Dr Rediger offers clear, practical advice on how we can improve our health, from diet and relaxation to a positive mindset when facing illness.

  • 100 Plants That Heal

    £19.99

    Discover 100 medicinal plants and how to use them for self-care with this sumptuously illustrated guide. Thanks to photographs showing detailed views of the plant, you’ll quickly learn to recognise them. Discover their history, therapeutic properties, and learn how to prepare safe herbal remedies including infusions, tinctures, oils and lotions.

  • Oneness with all life

    £9.99

    Harness your inner peace one step at a time with this pocket collection of nearly 200 life-changing and inspirational passages. It is for dipping into and reflecting upon, wherever you are.

  • Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

    £14.99

    ‘The Poetry Pharmacy’ is one of the best-selling (and most giftable) poetry anthologies of recent decades. Now, after huge demand for more prescriptions from readers and ‘patients’ alike, William Sieghart is back. This time, tried-and-true classics from his in-person pharmacies are joined by readers’ favourite poems and the new conditions most requested by the public – all accompanied by his trademark meditations on the 58 spiritual ailments he seeks to cure.

  • By the Sea: The therapeutic benefits of being in, on and by the water

    £14.99

    In this book, intuition and instinct meet modern science as the therapeutic benefits of being in, on or by the sea are explained and explored, and how, if we look after the oceans they will, in turn, look after us. There is something about the vastness of the oceans, which are significantly larger than the continents combined, that has drawn humans in a significant way since the beginning of coastal communities. Throughout history, people have gravitated to live near the sea, it is part of the survival instinct. Water also has huge cultural and spiritual significance for people through the ages and for centuries we looked to the sand and surf as a fully-stocked medicine cabinet. Despite the widespread intuitive feeling that being by the water makes us happier and healthier, there hasn’t been much scientific evidence to quantify this connection. Until now.

  • The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

    The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul

    £14.99

    Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all; a space for reflection, and that precious realisation – I’m not the only one who feels like this. In the years since he first had the idea of prescribing short, powerful poems for all manner of spiritual ailments, William Sieghart has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television, honing his prescriptions all the time. This pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work.

Nomad Books