Hands-On Healing Remedies, by Stephanie L. Tourles

Clean out your medicine cabinet and replace artificial commercial balms and liniments with all-natural handmade herbal remedies. Stephanie Tourles' recipes are easy to prepare from readily available ingredients and they will sooth everything from backaches and blisters to insect bites and insomnia.

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Hands-On Healing Remedies: 150 Recipes For Herbal Balms, Salves, Oils, Liniments, and Other Topical Therapies–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' recipes are easy to prepare from readily available ingredients and they will sooth everything from backaches and blisters to insect bites and insomnia.

Sweet Annie Serenity Body Oil relieves anxiety; Lavender Ice reduces pain swelling and discoloration of bruises; Essential Skin Conditioner smooths stretch marks; and Coconut-Honey Bliss Lip Butter moisturizes chapped dry lips. With 150 original recipes this is the essential resources for making topical herbal treatments at home.

"Answering the call of consumers wanting to take health care into their own hands this practical guide of easy-to-follow recipes and accessible ingredients will have you mixing up your own herbal remedies in no time." –Robin Lander, certified herbalist & aromatherapist; Director of Education, Simplers Botanical Company

"A lovely and beautifully illustrated way to take basic health and beauty matters into your own hands." –Yoga International

Objective: Educational. (Click here for information on the difference between Educational and Marketing materials.)

Publication: 2012.

Pages: 319.

Binding: Softcover.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephanie Tourles is the best-selling author of eight books on natural health including Organic Body Care Recipes Raw Energy and Naturally Healthy Skin. She lives in Maine and is a licensed holistic esthetician certified aromatherapist and gardener with training in Western and Ayurvedic herbalism.

Features

Introduction

Part 1: Making Your Own Healing Formulas

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Traditional Healing

Chapter 2: The Herbal Home Apothecary

Chapter 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