Essential Guide to Natural Home Remedies: Making, Buying and Using Healing Plants

by Penelope Ody

Natural remedies are increasingly available over the counter, not just in specialist health shops, but in mainstream pharmacies and supermarkets. Despite their growing popularity, some ingredients are unfamiliar and the labelling doesn't always help. Many remedies can also be made - safely and cheaply - at home, using herbs, wild flowers or even the contents of the larder. But which of these simple remedies is helpful for which condition; are they best in teas, capsules or tinctures; and how much of them should you take? Essential Guide to Natural Home Remedies steers the reader through these twin minefields. The book is divided into three main Using Herbs for Common Ailments, A Directory of Herbs and Healing Plants, and Making and Buying Natural Remedies, including advice on growing your own herbs. Advice on what to keep in the home herbal medicine chest and a herbal first-aid kit; healthy houseplants; and consulting a herbalist complete an accessible but authoritative guide to preparing, buying and taking safe and effective remedies.

Genres: Health

256 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Shandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative!

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am rating this in terms of its herbal information, this information only makes up about half of this book so people interested in learning more about preparation might get more use out of this book than I did.

There was a good amount of herbs and a good amount of detail but there are better books in both regards if you are only interested in increasing herbal knowledge. That being said, it is an above average herbal.