Trusted treatments for everyday health problems More Than a Thousand Remedies at Your Fingertips! Long before the age of high-tech medicine—and health insurance companies—people healed themselves at home using timetested techniques, many of which are still valuable today. With the help of our board of medical advisors and modern-day scientific research, we’ve selected the very best herbs, foods, and household healers to help you feel better fast, without expensive drugs and with fewer side effects.

Using materials that are often inexpensive and readily available, this book will help you to help yourself, without recourse to expensive drugs and visits to the doctor. It provides information on the most appropriate, practical and sound health suggestions available, while at the same time ensuring 'first do no harm'. While we owe a lot to modern-day medicine, there is a place in our lives for tried-and true traditional home remedies. Many remedies were developed out of need - there were no alternatives - while nowadays people turn to these treatments out of a desire to be self-sufficient. From bee stings to burns, heat rash to hiccups, warts to wrinkles, here are medically approved treatments for more than 100 health problems, with remedies that are easy, safe, clever and effective.

"From home remedies to cutting-edge science, here are the world's best health secrets..."--Publisher description.

Trusted treatments for everyday health problems More Than a Thousand Remedies at Your Fingertips! Long before the age of high-tech medicine—and health insurance companies—people healed themselves at home using timetested techniques, many of which are still valuable today. With the help of our board of medical advisors and modern-day scientific research, we’ve selected the very best herbs, foods, and household healers to help you feel better fast, without expensive drugs and with fewer side effects.

There's no need to run to a doctor for every cut, graze or cold. Long before the age of hi-tech medicine, people healed themselves at home using time-tested techniques, many of which are still valuable today. 1,001 Home Remedies shows you how to treat common ailments and health complaints safely, effectively and cheaply - and at home. From bee stings to bunions, heat rash to hiccups, warts to wrinkles, 1,001 Home Remedies contains safe, easy and effective treatments for more than 120 common ailments and injuries. With trustworthy advice from doctors and health experts, 1,001 Home Remedies contains the very best herbs, foods and household healers to help you feel better fast, without expensive drugs and with fewer side effects. The introductory material includes sensible precautions and notes on growing herbs such as aloe vera, garlic and rosemary and using home remedies.

A full color illustrated guide to growing and using herbs to enhance your health and your cooking. This beautifully illustrated, complete guide to herbs unlocks the secrets of these wonder plants—from planting and harvesting to cooking and storing—including their health benefits. Now you can discover the joy and pleasure of growing your own herbs—for spicing up meals, creating crafts, treating ailments, and more. In this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated herbal guide you’ll find information on their history, cultivation, propagation, and harvesting, along with a wealth of great ideas for using herbs everyday in a variety of ways. This guide unravels the mysteries of these versatile plants, with savvy tips and simple formulas for maximizing their powers. Did you know? · Mint can repel ants, flies, mice, and moths · Garlic can seriously lower cholesterol · Chives, fennel, tarragon, thyme, oregano, and winter savory are perennials · Rosemary was used in the Middle Ages for its tranquilizing effects, and it is still a digestion aid

Practice natural health and healing the modern way with more than 740 of the world’s best home remedies—cures that work using ingredients located right in your kitchen cabinet. Did you know that chewing gum can prevent ear infections? That green tea can erase pimples? That olive oil can lower cholesterol levels? Research continues to reveal new and more effective ways to use hundreds of timeless kitchen staples for health and healing—in much the same way our grandparentsonce did. Kitchen Cures provides you with hundreds of these proven remedies of yesteryear, helping you to save money, save time, and heal faster and more safely.