The beginner's guide to making and using herbal oils, salves, and tinctures for everyday ailments with step by step photos. Make herbal remedies like alcohol tinctures, non alcohol glycerin tinctures, syrups, and honey and vinegar remedies called oxymels. Make Throat Soothers to soothe an irritated, scratchy throat or an herbal spray to numb a painful sore throat as effective as a chlorhexidine/lidocaine throat spray. Who needs Tamiflu when you can make elderberry syrup? Poultices for insect and spider bites, and ease rashes. Salves and balms for burns and skin irritations. If you are the caregiver in your family or your are prepping for the future, learning to make herb medicine for the future this a first step in learning to make herbal remedies. For some this may be be overly simplistic. From classes she has taught, she has learned to start at the most basic level so that all will understand.

Carolyn fell in love with herbs in the 1970's, making her first herbal tea, as she studied and learned about the medical benefits of herbs. Carolyn has been making and using herbal remedies since the 1980's. She now shares her favorite recipes and remedies and puts safe natural healing into the hands of the family. She honors God the Father and not his creations.