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66% of the U.S. population consults alternative health care providers and over 70% take supplements, but many people don’t know how to use these methods effectively.  This family health companion shows you how to address: Acne, Bed-wetting, Childhood vaccinations, Colds, Depression, Diabetes, Fatigue, Food allergies, Headaches, Insomnia, Low libido, Low thyroid, Menstrual cramps, Prostatitis, Teething, and much more.

Both scholarly and soulful, both intellectual and entertaining, this gem of a book has inspiring information for general readers, as well as enough scientific rigor to appeal to health care professionals.  Keep this on hand in the family library, or on the waiting room table for your patients.  Highly recommended!” – Dr Jillian Stansbury, N.D.

It’s rare to find a non-fiction book about self care that reads like a good collection of short stories.  Dr. Boice has such a warm and friendly voice, and the information she relays is thorough and practical in every sense of the word. I keep The Green Medicine Chest close at hand so when I hear the first sneeze, complaints of fatigue, or of encounters with poison ivy, I can come to the rescue with the types of treatments I prefer.   – Leigh Fortson, Embrace, Release, Heal

I’ve started reading your book and it’s so intelligent and so profound. I want to read it just for the corroboration it brings in terms of my own intuitive path of health and health. It’s just SO SENSIBLE, like yourself. Wildly innovative, radical and absolutely sensible. Vicki Noble, author of Motherpeace Tarot, Shakti Woman, The Double Goddess and more

I made it to page 28 only, having already cried about 5 times, before I decided that, as much as I wished to read it straight through, this was a book meant to be savored, very very slowly.
David Cavagnaro, photographer and author of This Living Earth, Living Water, and The Luna Moth Papers

I LOVED your book.  Holy cow—-couldn’t put it down—-read it on a 5-hour flight two weekends ago!  Beautiful writings made me hunger for just stopping for a moment to reflect. Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, LAc, FABNO

“This book is an incredibly personal sharing from the ‘mental terrain’ of a natural medicine doctor and mother. Some of it is poetic, some haunting, and much of it fascinating and insightful.” Dr. Rick Kirshner, Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Dr. Judith Boice’s book “Soul Medicine” is aptly named as it touches and soothes the spirit.  She writes with the heart of a philosopher and the voice of a poet. Every chapter is like a bite of a delicious meal, to be savored.  Take your time and let her words nourish you. Louise Edwards, ND, Faculty, National University of Health Sciences

Dr. Boice shares much wisdom beyond her years on this Earth.  Judith writes from the heart, with clarity, passion and lyrical prose.  It’s a real treat with which to read, reflect and soar. The insights Dr. Boice conveys are profoundly moving and recognizable in all the cycles of life. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to drink deeply of spirit-centered, grounded words that will deeply nourish the reader’s soul. Dr. Beverly Yates, ND Author, Speaker, Naturopathic Physician DrBeverlyYates.com

Healing for the soul, my Judith (we worked together, fellow Physicians), creates a calm harbor in the pandemonium of daily life. She shares with us the wonderment, mystery, and awe of her vision of our earth, as well as the spirit/spiritual world that surrounds us, constantly, silently begging for recognition with signs and premonitions, and grace.
Her candle gives a lovely light as she explores her universe.
This collection of Essays, metaphorically separated into the seasons of the year, and of life, will bring you joy, L. River, MD, FACP, Medical Oncologist, Tulsa, OK

“Judith’s book is the essence of story-telling as medicine.  Each vignette evokes in us something that calls out to be healed.  The reader will be carried down the stream of their own past with the assurance that they are not alone. Her vulnerable and open-hearted narrative reminds us what it is to be human and to aspire towards wholeness. I want to read it slowly…again and again.” Dr. Yvonne Farrell, DAOM, Psycho-Emotional Pain and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels

In this honest and tender collection of reflections and stories, Dr. Boice inspires our own consideration of life’s gifts, challenges and discoveries. These essays, and the stories that they envelope, evoke emotion and contemplation, and, in so doing, are an offering of healing, hope and compassion. Soul Medicine is indeed sustenance for all those seeking to live lives with greater meaning, understanding and love. Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, Co-Author, Definitive Guide to Cancer and Definitive Guide to Thriving After Cancer

On the continuum of menopause books, this title lies somewhere between Susun Weed’s New Menopausal Years and Christiane Northrup’s The Wisdom of Menopause with its blend of spirituality, holistic health, and user-friendly women’s health advice.

Defining menopause as a journey rather than a phase, or, worse yet, a crisis, naturopathic physician Boice outlines strategies to help women develop healthful habits and make informed choices that will enrich every aspect of their lives. Whether discussing phytoestrogens, hormone-replacement therapy, or nutrition, Boice maintains her spiritual focus by emphasizing transformation and including personal reflections that reveal diverse menopausal experiences. In the chapter on bone health, Boice compares the physical support provided by the skeletal system to the moral support provided by our belief systems, still succeeding in delivery an especially lucid explanation of how high-protein diets affect calcium levels. Moreover, this book has the power to motivate even the most skeptical read to meditate and practice creative visualization. Recommended for large public libraries and health collections. Blanche Angelo, Livermore P.L., CA

I found this book on the “menopause” shelf at the library. It was the only menopause book that called me. The others were so technical, medical. This one has poetry, story, ritual, depth. EXACTLY what I need. I’m going to buy myself, my dear little ravaged self, my changing self, my aching self, my sad suffering self…a little copy of this book. Sara Bryan

Your book gave me so much practical and spiritual understanding … so much gained from hearing other women’s experiences. I now feel affirmed, with a much better understanding and appreciation for the process I am going through and a much deeper acceptance of myself. Several books I read on the subject covered possibly physical symptoms and possible cures …and a few touched on changing emotions and lifestyle…but overall they were generally depressing.
I didn’t realize how hungry I was to hear about this in a positive, enlightening way and to hear the experiences of other women. We are so isolated when it comes to women’s personal, yet universal passages through life in this culture. I loved that you included stories from women of different cultures and spiritual paths! And I loved the way that the stories were woven into the ways we can take care of ourselves, and the value we still have. Somehow your book made me FEEL valuable…not just the buzz words that say we are now “wise crones,” and that that has value. Being a “crone” isn’t at the top of the list for me in terms of how I want to see myself! So again, Thank you! Ami Linden

Through a great love of life, which shines on every page, you motivate the reader to seek healthy functioning, to honor this marvelous body we have, to experience actually feeling good! And to support health rather than “fight” disease/trauma. Both for ourselves and for our amazing planet.
Lively, clear, easy to understand and relate to. You are not “on a pedestal, looking down.” You are on eye level. Above all you empower the reader to take responsibility for her own health and life.
Elizabeth Robinson, Springfield, Oregon

Mother Earth: Through the eyes of women photographers and writers (now out of print) 1992; 2002 (10th anniversary edition)

I finished a slow and lovely reading of Mother Earth last night and went to sleep smiling. What a beautiful job of choosing quotes and what marvelous pictures – but the result is still more than the sum of the parts…Your belief in beauty shines through your face as well as your words. If we could bottle and dispense that mein, we could cure the world of most of its ills. You make beauty where you walk.
Ann Zwinger, naturalist and author of Run, River, Run and Land Above the Tree