Learn how to use herbs and oils to support your health and well-being!
- 100+ recipes for natural home remedies to treat, relieve, heal, ease, and aid ailments and conditions affecting your health
- Arranged by body system including skin, respiratory, digestive, urinary, women's health, babies and children's health, bones, and muscles and joints
- Identification guide to herbs, plants, essential oils, and other natural ingredients for creating non-toxic, chemical-free care and prevention of pain and illness
- How to create an herbal first aid kit with plantain, aloe vera, aconite, ignatia, tea tree oil, hypericum, and more
- Growing your own medicine with details on calendula, rosemary, lavender, chamomile, borage, lemon balm, and more
- Recipes include teas like yarrow and rosemary, dill infusion, garlic tincture, apple cider vinegar compress, deodorant powder, anti-fungal footbath, hawthorn berry brandy, cayenne oil, and more
- Author Melissa Corkhill is passionate about self-sufficiency and natural remedies and is the founder of natural parenting magazine The Green Parent
This comprehensive guide to natural health remedies provides recipes and applications to help you use herbs and oils to live a better life — naturally!
There is a long history of using herbs as medicine, and holistic remedies include everything from teas and ointments to tonics and tinctures. They can help with ailments such as bug bites and stings, food poisoning, insomnia, shingles, sore throat, acne, arthritis, and so much more!
Inside these pages, easy-to-follow chapters are divided by the body's primary systems including digestive, nervous, respiratory, urinary, and skin, as well sections on remedies to help the heart and mind. The women's health section includes the menstrual cycle, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause, while a section specific to healing babies and children provides recipes for colds, croup, earaches, eczema, measles, diaper rash, teething, and more. Each ailment covered includes super-simple organic recipes to help — with two common ingredients and three steps — along with notes regarding their effective use and plant profiles to help you increase your plant knowledge, making this book your go-to guide for home remedies.
The 106 recipes utilize plants and herbs (some from your own backyard) like feverfew, peppermint, ginger root, mustard, ylang ylang, dandelion, milk thistle, and nettle, and can remedy many common ailments for all body systems, including:
- Comfrey ointment for cuts and burns
- Oat water to help with addiction
- Nurturing tea for anxiety
- Plantain tincture for shingles
- Dill infusion for indigestion
- Celery seed tonic for kidney stones
- And so much more!
You'll also find growing and harvesting tips, detailed ingredient lists, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, and recommended usage and dosage amounts.
Author, natural health writer, and wellness advocate Melissa Corkhill is passionate about self-sufficiency and natural remedies and has been writing on the topic for many years. She is also the founder of natural parenting magazine The Green Parent.
Learn to ease, soothe, and heal common aches and pains with natural ingredients, working with nature to feel better, with Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies!
"I was blown away by the wealth of knowledge and practical tips in this book. A must-have for any serious armchair herbalist."
—Nick Meyer, Founder of Alt Health Works
Melissa Corkhill is passionate about self-sufficiency and natural remedies and has been writing about green issues for several years. She is the author of Green Parenting: The Best for You, Your Children and the Environment. She is also the founder of a natural parenting magazine The Green Parent.
