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. Treat physical ailments and skin conditions naturally, with chemical-free, make-at-home herbal therapies for everything from arthritis to psoriasis. 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 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's recipes are easy to prepare from readily available ingredients, and they will soothe everything from backaches and blisters to insect bites and insomnia.