Traditional Home Remedies: Time-Tested Methods for Staying Well-The Natural Way

by Martha White

Book Overview

Nostalgic, entertaining collections of home-bred wisdom, from the Editors of The Old Farmer's Almanac. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0783548680
• ISBN13: 9780783548685
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Home Remedies

The way things are going with this ecomony and health care I felt that I needed a backup plan. Great book.

Homesteaders Treasure

Traditional Home Remedies is exactly as the title claims. This fantastic book is filled with remedies, healing folklore, and basic how-to instructions for nearly every ailment under the sun. It's a valuable resource for those of us who consider doctors the very last measure. The chapters cover: Kitchen Gardens & Medicinal Herbs, Infusions, Decoctions & Tinctures, Poultices, Salves & Ointments, Elixirs, Tonics & Aphrodisiacs, Food for Health & Well-Being, Women's Complaints, Midwifery & the Moon, Aromatics to Calm & Revive, Caution & Common Sense This book has remedies for earaches, kidney complaints, menstrual cramps, yeast infections, and so on. A definate must have for families large and small.