At home remedies for ...

Everyday ailments.
Here are some effective treatments for a selection of common health complaints - simple remedies, mostly based on ingredients that are readily available or already to hand in your home. Because of their many benefits, natural remedies - also commonly referred to as "home remedies" - are enjoying immense popularity once more.

Using home remedies

People have always turned to what they could find around about them to cure their ills - whether it be healing muds and salts, plants or common foodstuffs. Some plants were thought to have magic powers, often based on the shape of their roots or leaves. But simple scientific observation eventually led to the identification of what actually worked. This was vital - some substances that are perfectly safe when used externally can be fatal if eaten. This is just as true today. Don't forget that home remedies and herbs, like pharmaceutical drugs, can contain powerful compounds - and just because something is 'natural' does not necessarily make it 'safe'. And even though most home remedies ARE safe, people often take them for the wrong reasons.

I say this not to put you off using natural home remedies, but to make the point that these natural 'at home' remedies can be powerful and effective when used correctly. That is to say that They Work, and work well. That is, after all, why many of them have been around for centuries - even thousands of years.
But you do need to know what to take, how to take it and when to take it.

That is why I recommend The Home Made Medicine E-Book.

Written by a leading expert in the field, The Home Made Medicine E-Book is the result of all his years of research and experience as a naturopathic doctor, condensed it into a home remedy encyclopedia of the most powerful, and more importantly - proven - home remedies available. To find out the full story of natural medicine and "at home remedies", click this link.

There are links on this website to a selection of just some of the more common ailments and their treatments with natural remedies. You will probably recognize some of them and maybe remember tried-and-trusted healing methods from your own family's past. But today, we have become so used to blood-tests, x-rays, potent prescription drugs and all the other trappings of modern medicine that we tend to forget, or neglect, our amazing legacy of home cures. Time-tested remedies that are just as useful today as they ever were.
The tricks you learnt from your parents and grandparents, like dabbing bicarb on a bee sting, putting a soothing cool wet tea bag on tired eyes, or applying a warm cooked cabbage leaf to draw out a boil, aren't replacements for high-tech treatments, of course. But you can count on them to make you feel better fast - and, in many cases, to prevent small problems turning into bigger ones.

There's something very satisfying about watching a burn heal, almost like magic, when you apply a dab of aloe vera gel. Or when you inhale the scent of lavender and feel the anxiety melt away. But sweet nostalgia isn't the reason doctors continue to advocate home treatments. They recommend them because they work.

Did you know that at least 25 percent of the drugs in your medicine cabinet contain active ingredients that are similar or identical to those found in plants? The active substance in asprin - one of the worlds most widely used medications - was first derived from white willow bark. The decongestant ephedrine is based on chemicals in the ephedra plant. The heart drug digitalis is derived from the foxglove. The cancer drug paclitaxel come from the Pacific yew tree. In fact, big drug companies often send teams of scientists to remote locations to hunt for medicinally promising chemicals.

So click the links to read about the natural treatments to some of the more common ailments that I have included here. Remember though, this is just a very small selection. The Home Made Medicine E-Book has many, many more and is a comprehensive encyclopaedia collated from the years of research and experience of a naturopathic doctor, condensed it into a home remedy guide of the most powerful, and more importantly - proven - home remedies available. To find out the full story of natural medicine and "at home remedies", click this link.