Hands-On Healing Remedies: 150 Recipes for Herbal Balms, Salves, Oils, Liniments & Other Topical Therapies

by Stephanie L. Tourles

Overview

Keep your family healthy and chemical free by making your own natural remedies. Stephanie Tourles offers 150 original recipes for herbal balms, oils, salves, liniments, and other topical ointments to treat a wide range of conditions. This comprehensive guide is filled with safe and effective cures for scores of common ailments, including headaches, backaches, arthritis, insomnia, splinters, and more. Take control of your well-being and stock your family’s medicine cabinet with gentle, all-natural homemade healing formulations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603428774
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/14/2012
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

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.
 

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

Robin Lander

“Stephanie offers her insightful healing knowledge and delightful descriptions truly from the heart, empowering and inspiring both the beginning natural health enthusiast and the advanced practitioner. Answering the call of consumers wanting to take health into their own hands, this practical go-to guide of easy to follow recipes and accessible ingredients will have you mixing up your own herbal remedies in no time.”

Editorial Reviews

Herbalist Tourles (Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body) offers an introduction to natural wellness in this latest book, the bulk of which is made up of instructions for making topical ointments and poultices from herbs and oils. Her remedies address everything from anxiety to eczema. Tourles writes about the history of herbal remedies and her own family's experience with herbs and holistic remedies. She challenges readers to examine the over-the-counter treatments in their medicine cabinets and compare them with the natural remedies she describes. While Tourles writes that she isn't trying to challenge Western medicine's approach to serious illness or injuries, she does say that many modern ills could be prevented "if we once again relied on our plant friends, the herbs, to influence our health and well-being." VERDICT This herbal remedy recipe book will appeal to readers interested in supplementing traditional care with herbal preparations, as well as to those who would like to take a more active role in their own treatment.—Mindy Rhiger, Minneapolis

Library Journal

Everything readers need to know to create their own healing solutions”

—Book Page

 “This herbal remedy recipe book will appeal to readers interested in supplementing traditional care with herbal preparations, as well as to those who would like to take a more active role in their own treatment.”

“Tourles gives sage advice and topical insight into even the deepest issues compromising the health of women, men, children and elders.”

“Take your health into your own hands by making herbal topical treatments for everyday skin conditions and body ailments.”

From the Publisher

Everything readers need to know to create their own healing solutions”

Book Page

Take your health into your own hands by making herbal topical treatments for everyday skin conditions and body ailments.”

MaryJanes Farm

Everything readers need to know to create their own healing solutions”

Foreword Reviews