Hands-On Healing Remedies

Keep your family healthy and chemical free by making your own natural remedies. Stephanie Tourles offers 150 original recipes for herbal balms, oils, salves, liniments, and other topical ointments to treat a wide range of conditions. This comprehensive guide is filled with safe and effective cures for scores of common ailments, including headaches, backaches, arthritis, insomnia, splinters, and more. Take control of your well-being and stock your family's medicine cabinet with gentle, all-natural homemade healing formulations. Treat physical ailments and skin conditions naturally, with chemical-free, make-at-home herbal therapies for everything from arthritis to psoriasis.

Introduction

Part 1: Making Your Own Healing Formulas
1 An Introduction to Traditional Healing
2 The Herbal Home Apothecary
3 Tools of the Trade

Part 2: A Collection of Herbal Remedies
Alopecia (Balding)
Anxiety (Nervous Tension)
Arthritis (Osteoarthritis)
Athlete's Foot
Backache
Bedsores and Pressure Sores (Skin Ulcers)
Blemishes
Blisters (Friction)
Body Odor
Boils (Furuncles)
Bruises (Contusions)
Burns (Minor)
Children's Illnesses and Discomforts
Cold and Flu Symptoms
Cold Hands and Feet
Cold Sores and Genital Sores (Herpes Simplex)
Cracked Skin (Severely Dry Hands and Feet)
Cuts and Scrapes
Dandruff (Seborrheic Dermatitis)
Dermatitis, Contact (Rashes)
Dry Skin
Eczema
Elder Care Concerns (70+ Years)
Environmentally Damaged Skin
Fatigue
Foot Therapy
Gout
Hand and Nail Therapy
Headaches (Tension)
Hemorrhoids (External)
Hives (Urticaria)
Infections of the Skin (Minor to Moderate)
Insect Bites and Stings
Insomnia
Lip Therapy
Memory Enhancement
Men's Concerns
Mental Fatigue
Muscle Stiffness and Soreness
Poison Plant Rashes
Psoriasis
Respiratory Congestion
Scars
Splinters
Stress
Stretch Marks
Sunburn
Warts (Common)
Women's Intimate Concerns

Part 3: The Ingredient Dictionary

Resources
Recommended Reading
Metric Conversions
Index
The Natural Cure for What Ails You

Clean out your medicine cabinet and replace artificial commercial balms and liniments with all-natural handmade herbal remedies. Stephanie Tourles's recipes are easy to prepare from readily available ingredients, and they will soothe everything from backaches and blisters to insect bites and insomnia.

Sweet Annie Serenity Body Oil relieves anxiety, Lavender Ice reduces the pain, swelling, and discoloration of bruises, Essential Skin Conditioner smoothes stretch marks, and Coconut-Honey Bliss Lip Butter moisturizes chapped, dry lips. With 150 original recipes, this is the essential resource for making topical herbal treatments at home.