·Spotlights 100+ recipes for natural home remedies and 67+ applications to treat, relieve, heal, ease, and aid ailments and conditions affecting one's health. ·Features redesign from Self-Sufficiency Series original edition, color photos of ingredients replace the illustrations. ·Easy to reference and follow. Chapters are broken up into body systems - including the Skin, Respiratory, Digestive and Urinary systems, as well as women's health, babies and children's health, bones, muscles and joints, and more! ·Full color photos of herbs, essential oils and other natural ingredients illustrate the core appeal of non-toxic, chemical free care, and prevention of pain and illness. ·Recipes are the main focus of the book and are presented with notes regarding their effective use. Each ailment includes 1 - 2 organic recipes. ·Recipes include Yarrow or Rosemary tea, Dill infusion, garlic tincture, apple cider vinegar compress, deodorant powder, anti-fungal footbath, Hawthorn berry brandy, Cayenne oil and more! ·Provides the history of using herbs as medicine with the ingredients for the first herbal first aid kit: plantain, aconite, ignatia, tea tree, hypericum, rosemary, feverfew, peppermint, ginger root, mustard, ylang ylang, dandelion, milk thistle, and nettle. ·Author Melissa Corkhill is the founder of natural parenting magazine, "The Green Parent.
" She is passionate about self-sufficiency and natural remedies and has been writing on the topic for years.