Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies: Over 100 Recipes – Essential Oils, Herbs, and Natural Ingredients to Treat Common Aches and Pains (IMM Lifestyle Books) Holistic, Herbal Self-Sufficiency

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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

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Live Life the Natural Way!

Over 100 recipes await you in this helpful guide to using natural ingredients to help alleviate daily ailments like insomnia, sore throat, arthritis, acne, and so much more.

Easy-to-follow chapters are divided by the body’s primary systems, including digestive, nervous, respiratory, urinary, and skin, as well as sections for heart and mind. Organic recipes include teas, ointments, tonics, tinctures, and more. Learn how to let nature help you feel better with this irreplaceable guide, which includes:

Over 100 recipes for home remedies offering aid to help you feel and live better
Arranged by body systems, women’s health, babies and children’s health, and more
Full color photos of herbs, essential oils, and natural ingredients for chemical-free care
Recipes include teas, infusions, tinctures, lotions, powders, oils, and many more

Holistic Treatments for Your Whole Body

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Begin learning about the plants in your area, building a home remedy kit, using basics like dandelions, nettle, and thistle (pictured), then see how you can apply them to help with daily ailments like sunstroke, burns, bites and stings, and more. You’ll even learn how to create an Herb Spiral to maximize growing space in your herb garden!

Mind, Emotions, and Nervous System

Nurturing Tea: anxiety
Herbal Bath Bag: insomnia
St. John’s Wort Oil (pictured): neuralgia
Plantain Tincture: shingles

Respiratory, Digestive, and Urinary

Celery Seed Tonic: kidney stones
Barley Water: flu
Elderflower Tea: hay fever
Carrot Juice (pictured): diarrhea

Heart, Blood, and Skin

Nettle Tea: anemia
Comfrey Ointment (pictured): cuts and wounds
Hawthorn Infusion: angina
Cabbage Poultice: cuts and sores

Bones, Muscles, Joints, Eyes, and Ears

Calendula Tincture (pictured): styes
Massage Oil for Sprains
Comfrey Tea: osteoporosis
Comfrey Oil: arthritis
Yarrow Infusion: middle ear infection

Menstrual Cycle and Menopause

Moontime Massage Oil (pictured)
Nettle Tonic: menopause

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Soothing Massage Oil: pregnancy backache
Fennel Tea: pregnancy indigestion
Growing Bump Oil: stretch marks (pictured)

Babies and Children’s Health

Ginger Tea: colds
Cleaver Infusion: mumps
Rehydration Drink (pictured): fever

Publisher ‏ : ‎ IMM Lifestyle Books; First Edition (February 6, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1504801377
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1504801379
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.47 x 9 inches