1801 home remedies : trustworthy treatments for everyday health problems /

Shares doctor-approved remedies for such everyday health problems as asthma, sinusitis, dandruff, hives, earaches, varicose veins, and morning sickness, and profiles twenty healing products and foods commonly found in the home. Using materials that are often inexpensive and readily available, this b...

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Main Author: Reader's Digest Association issuing body 8349
Format: text
Language:eng
Published: Ultimo, N.S.W. : Reader's Digest, 2007
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Summary:Shares doctor-approved remedies for such everyday health problems as asthma, sinusitis, dandruff, hives, earaches, varicose veins, and morning sickness, and profiles twenty healing products and foods commonly found in the home. 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.