Althea Press - Home Remedies Rx: DIY Prescriptions When You Need Them Most

When youre not feeling quite up to par and want a remedy that works and is made with ingredients you already have around the house, its time to reach for Home Remedies Rx. Especially if the last thing you want to fit into your day is a trip to the doctor or pharmacy. Inside these pages youll find help for common everyday ailments, personal and body care, baby and childcare, techniques for prenatal wellness, and even remedies for your pets.

This easy-to-use book will help you sort out the difference between old wives tales, urban legends, and real remedies that workwith explanations of the science behind the most effective treatments for common ailments.

Home Remedies Rx is divided into three sections:

Part I: Understanding Home Remedies ( see )

Here youll learn the basics of home remedies, from their origins in the earliest days of recorded history to how to use the vast availability of ingredients youll need today.

Part II: Healing Foods, Household Products, and Essential Oils ( see )

In this section, youll discover what to keep on hand in your kitchen cupboard or medicine cabinet, so you can reach for the right herb, spice, essence, or object when you need relief. Youll be surprised at the number of items you already have around the house that have healing properties. With this knowledge in hand, you will spend less money to feel better faster.

Part III: Everyday Home Remedies ( see )

What should you use for a headache, earache, tummy ache, or eyestrain? How should you treat a common cold, the flu, or your childs case of croup? What are the best beauty remedies for acne, puffy eyes, and wrinkles? This book gives you more than 500 simple remedies to treat what ails you and your family, making this your go-to guide whenever someone in your household needs a little help to feel better.

Home Remedies Rx may revolutionize the way you approach wellness and healing in your family, providing the instructions you need to eliminate many expensive over-the-counter medicines and replace them with natural tools that work.

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Natural remedies are truly amazing. Not only will they save you time and money, but you will also be impressed by how well they actually work! Its incredible how a few things from your pantry can alleviate an upset stomach, a runny nose, bug bites, migraines, and even tangled hair.

I am truly impressed with Home Remedies Rx. It is a wealth of information, covering everything from using essential oils responsibly to dealing with daily aches and pains; there is even a section with natural remedies for your pets! A few personal favorites of mine include using peppermint, which can ease a headache, and ginger root, which can be made into tea to calm an upset stomach.

Natural remedies are great alternatives to conventional treatment since you know exactly what you are putting on or into your body. This wisdom from generations before us has been passed down for a reason: because it works.

This book is a responsible guide for beginners, a great resource for natural remedy veterans, and a perfect addition to your healthy living bookshelf!

Healthy wishes to you and yours,

Katie Peters

GIRLMEETSNOURISHMENT.COM

Its 3 a.m., and your little one wakes up with all the symptoms of an ear infection. She cant go back to sleep. Theres nowhere to go in the middle of the night to get a prescription filledeven if you could reach your pediatrician. With your child whimpering in your arms, you head to the kitchen. What can you do to make her feel better?

Inside the pantry you find your answer. You pour a little olive oil in a glass bowl and heat it up for twenty seconds in the microwave oven. Using an eyedropper, you place just a few drops of the warm liquid in your daughters ear. The soothing oil works its way into her ear canal, and in a few minutes, your child is looking around for something to do. The pain is gone! She sits up and you let the oil drain out onto a cotton ball. Minutes later, shes back in bed and going to sleep... and so are you. No emergency room visit, no doctor bills, and no prescriptions.

Simple home remedies like this one have been passed down for generationsperhaps for millennia. Since humans began making tools and gathering roots and berries, home remedies have been a necessary and valuable part of our existence. Many may seem like homespun traditions, but a remarkable number of home remedies have a solid basis in science, and laboratory research has borne out the healing properties both in plants and plant-based substances like herbs and spices, essential oils derived from natural sources, and in the most basic health advice: get more rest, more exercise, and more nutrients from the food you eat.