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.

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

Stephanie L. Tourles is the best-selling author of Pure Skin Care,Stephanie Tourles's Essential Oils: A Beginner's Guide, Organic Body Care Recipes, Hands-On Healing Remedies, and Raw Energy. She is a certified foot and hand reflexologist and aromatherapist—and a licensed massage therapist and holistic esthetician. Tourles also has a strong background in Western and Ayurvedic herbalism. She lives in Marble Falls, Texas.