Home Remedy Books

**della92** · 05-06-2008, 01:35 PM

Can anyone recommend a good home remedy book? I have stopped purchased books lately. I only purchase if it is one that I will read over and over (and sometimes I still purchase cheapos from yard sales). But I would like to get a good reference book about home remedies. I'd like for it to use easily available ingredients. I can read the reviews at Amazon, but I'd like to hear from some of the ladies here that have one they adore.

Thanks in advance,

Della

**Frugal Cook** · 05-06-2008, 07:33 PM

I'm too frugal to waste money on such books, especially since I've found much better and more current remedies just by searching the internet, or just asking for a solution on the forums.

**ShawnaRae** · 05-07-2008, 12:17 PM

I'll buy book if it is a book I will refer to often. I have found some good books at thrift and yard sales. Also, know the title of a book and you can request it from the library. I could recomend a good herb book, but you may be looking for something more general. There are a lot of remedies other than herbal remedies! But I like, 'The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants' by Andrew Chevallier. There are lots of good ones, that's just one I happen to have. I would get on your libraries website and search home remedies. Then you can request a few and pick them up with your library card. On line info is good too. I could fill a binder with remedies that you find and make you own home remedy book! I think I might do that!

**shortstack** · 05-07-2008, 03:04 PM

I have this one and LOVE it! I even give it to mommy's to be for shower gifts.
It is a collection of home remidies gathered by a Dr. and he explains why they work in medical terms

Andrea

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Your-Sock-Tried-True/dp/0812933125/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210187015&sr=8-1"]Amazon.com: Salt in Your Sock: and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies: Lillian Md Beard, Linda Lee Small: Books[/ame]

**della92** · 05-07-2008, 04:01 PM

Thanks for the advice.

What I wanted was a basic reference book, just for "just in case"...we are at a time or place that we dont have immediate access to medical care, etc.. I don't really have to time to make a binder from the internet. I hadn't even thought to use the library to preview before purchasing and I will look in to the book linked. Thank you!

**acidcookie** · 05-07-2008, 06:57 PM

Oh, I'm guessing you mean in terms of medicine right? When I first clicked this thread I instantly thought of a broader "home-made" book I'm reading and love called [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Green-Housekeeping-Ellen-Sandbeck/dp/1416544550/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210201051&sr=8-2"]Green Housekeeping[/ame] which is full of how to pretty much live more simply and cleanly at home with simple homemade solutions for everything (bathroom cleaning, doing laundry, keeping food)...

Well, regardless, that's a book I'd recommend too!!