A primer of natural and inexpensive herbal remedies.

Open your medicine cabinet and take a look inside. How many pills, tablets, and bottles of syrups do you have that contain chemicals you can't even pronounce? For every ache and ailment, there is a medical prescription. But what about the cures that have been working for centuries? What about nature's medicines? The Natural Medicine Chest is a beautifully illustrated guide which provides the history, descriptions, research, and uses of over 100 healing herbs, foods, and nutrients.

The Nautilus Book Award–winning, comprehensive guide to natural, family health care remedies, by a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist. Are pharmaceutical drugs making you or your family sick? Do you want to use safe, earth-friendly medicine? Do you know how to effectively use supplements and natural remedies to build optimal health? Sixty-six percent of the U.S. population consults alternative health care providers, and over seventy percent take supplements. But many people don’t know how to use these methods effectively. The Green Medicine Chest offers a well-organized, straightforward guide for effectively using natural remedies, reducing your doctor bills, and improving your overall health. This family health companion shows you how to address: acne, bed-wetting, childhood vaccinations, colds, depression, diabetes, fatigue, food allergies, headaches, insomnia, low libido, low thyroid, menstrual cramps, prostatitis, teething, and much more. “Both scholarly and soulful, bot intellectual and entertaining, this gem of a book has inspiring information for general readers, as well as enough scientific rigor to appeal to health care professionals. Keep this on hand in the family library, or on the waiting room table for your patients. Highly recommended!” —Dr. Jillian Stansbury, N.D. “Reads like a good collection of short stories. Dr. Boice has such a warm and friendly voice, and the information she relays is thorough and practical in every sense of the word. I keep The Green Medicine Chest close at hand so when I hear the first sneeze, complaints of fatigue, or of encounters with poison ivy, I can come to the rescue with the types of treatments I prefer.” —Leigh Fortson, author of Embrace, Release, Heal

CNS, New York Times bestselling author of The Fat Flush Plan Your Natural Medicine Cabinet features the most important and up-to-date information for healing nearly 200 common ailments using the most effective, fastest-acting, and affordable natural remedies available today. Its concise, user-friendly format is ideal for overworked moms, stressed-out dads, and anyone interested in simple, natural, drug-free alternatives for themselves and their children. This hip, easy-to-understand A-to-Z guide provides “best practices” for the speedy and effective treatment of key health problems. You will learn how to save money on health care, safely treat yourself and your family, and enhance your overall health and energy with supplements, superfoods, homeopathics, cell salts and flower essences. The author also recommends related books and web-based resources, carefully researched for your further, in-depth study. She outlines healthy foods to eat and those to avoid, shares effective energy-based exercises, and shows when craniosacral and chiropractic techniques are an effective adjunct to her recommended treatments. Your Natural Medicine Cabinet is an indispensable health resource that you can refer to time and time again.

Rosemary Gladstar, one of the world's foremost herbalists, shows you how to create your own all-natural first-aid kit, customized to your family's particular needs. With her concise, simple instructions, you'll learn how to make healing teas, syrups, salves, pills, and baths to safely and effectively treat common ailments, such as colds, flus, sore throats, burns, cuts, headaches, heartburn, digestive problems, and more.

Details how to create a natural first-aid kit using herbs such as chamomile, echinacea, and garlic

The herbal medecine cabinet: preparing natural remedies at home.

An Updated and Expanded New Edition of Backyard Medicine! Modern medicine is truly a blessing. Advances are made with astonishing speed every day, using both science and technology to make our lives longer and healthier. But if the era of modern medicine began less than two hundred years ago, how did people treat sickness and poor health before then? This book holds the answer. Researched and written by a practicing medical herbalist and natural healer, and now with even more herbs and medicinal plants, Backyard Medicine is the basis for a veritable natural pharmacy that anyone can create. Featuring more than 120 easily made herbal home remedies and fully illustrated with nearly three hundred color photographs, this book offers fascinating insights into the literary, historic, and global applications of fifty common wild plants and herbs that can be used in medicines, including: Comfrey Dandelion Honeysuckle Yarrow And so much more! Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in a completely natural way will find this book to be an absolute must-have for his or her home—and garden.

The Most Thorough Compilation of Home Cures and Remedies Yet! Years ago, every household practiced natural healing by using what they had. Plants grow abundantly all over our roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard, and though once valued and widely used, they've fallen out of fashion over time as people forget the numerous medicinal uses at our fingertips. This book brings alternative medicine back to the forefront. Researched and written by a practicing medical herbalist and natural healer, and now with even more herbs and medicinal plants, The Big Book of Backyard Medicine is the basis for a veritable natural pharmacy that anyone can create. Featuring one hundred specific plants and their associated remedies, and fully illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, this book offers fascinating insights into the literary, historic, botanical, and global applications of common wild plants and herbs that can be used in medicines, including: Ash Chicory Dandelion Forget-me-not Gypsywort Horseradish Mint Red Poppy Thistle Wild carrot Willow And so much more! Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in a completely natural way will find this book to be an absolute must-have for his or her home—and garden.