Rediscovering Natural Homemade Remedies

Long before the discovery of modern medicines, families used natural homemade remedies based on plants to treat everyday illness.

Most of these home health remedies were handed down through the generations, until fast acting antibiotics and analgesics became available and folk medicine gradually fell into disuse.

Now theres a tremendous revival of interest in these remedies. Not only are they often more gentle than manufactured drugs, but many of them are now known to be very affective too.

Traditional medicines are based on natural plants rather than isolated chemicals, and often for good reason. Dandelions, for example, can help prevent water retention.

But unlike other diuretics, which can deplete the body's potassium supplies, dandelions contain stores of this valuable mineral to make sure the correct balance is maintained.

In the United States alone approximate 80 % of ailments can and are treated with home remedies in the "folk" domain.

Obviously there are many serious illnesses that cannot be treated by a home remedy, but for the less severe problems, some free home remedies and good old common sense may often offer the best approach.

The Home Remedy Basics

Natural home health remedies also known as folk medicine are very much the same throughout the world. There are many simple homemade remedies that can be taken straight from the cupboard or garden that have superb healing properties.

Take ginger for example. By filling a small jar (about the size of an herb or spice jar) with freshly grated root ginger, covering it with vodka and leaving it to sit for two weeks before straining.

You have made yourself a great little tincture that will treat chills, nausea, travel sickness, spasmodic pains, and all those unpleasant aches and pains you get due to having a cold.

This remedy keeps for up to two years if stored in a cool dark place, and all you need to do is add about 4 or 5 drops to any herbal tea.

 

Let's Explore Homemade Remedies In More Detail

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  Making Homemade Ointments and Creams
  Here you will find out how to make homemade creams and homemade ointments for home health remedies that can be kept in the first aid cupboard or the refrigerator ready for use...



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  Making Herbal Infusions or Decoctions
  A herbal infusion is a very easy and simple way to use herbs, and is made pretty much like making tea. A herbal decoction gives a more vigorous extraction of the herbs active ingredients than an infusion and is particularly good when working with roots, twigs or seeds...



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  Making Herbal Tinctures or Vinegars
  A herbal tincture is made by steeping dried or fresh herbs in a mixture of alcohol and water, and Vinegars are very similar but made without the alcohol...



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  Making A Herbal Compress or Poultice
  A homemade herbal compress or poultice is often used to accelerate the healing of wounds and muscle injuries. A compress is simply a pad or cloth made from soft cotton or linen, cotton wool or surgical gauze soaked in an herbal extract and applied to the affected area...

Homemade Remedies

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  50 Quick Homemade Herbal Remedies
  Long before the discovery of modern medicines, families used simple homemade herbal remedies based on plants to treat everyday illness. Here we list 50 natural or home made herbal remedies...



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  Make Homemade Acne Treatments  » Home Remedies For Clear Skin
  To give all your homemade acne treatments a special healing boost, add vitamins to the mix...Simply grind one Vitamin A capsule to...



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  Relaxing Herbal Pillows
  If you've been having trouble sleeping, try using herbal pillows to help you relax you and drift off to sleep...



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  Home Remedies For Stretch Marks
  You can easily make up a few home remedies for stretch marks in less than a couple minutes using a few essential oils and a little know how. Essential oils are excellent for treating any kind of skin problems and stretch marks are no exception...



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  Arthritis Home Remedy
  As there are two different types of Arthritis, Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis. I'd recommend you read though all of these home remedies, just to make sure you choose the best arthritis home remedy to suit your individual needs.
  
  
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  Home Remedies for Heartburn
  Before rushing down to the remedies section in your local store, check out home health remedies for heartburn can ease, or maybe even cure that discomfort...



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  Cold Sore Home Remedies
  There is nothing worse than that tingling feeling telling you there's a cold sore breakout on its way. Fortunately there are a few home health remedies to quicken the healing process up...



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  Home Remedies for Athletes Foot
  Essential oils are extremely good at treating fungal infections, so we tend to use them often in these home remedies for Athletes foot...



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  Hemorrhoid Home Remedies
  If you do need a bit of release from the constant aching of haemorrhoids, take a look through our home remedies for hemorrhiod relief section bellow...



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  Home Remedies For Constipation
  If you are looking for a bit of advice or home health remedies for constipation you've come to the right place. The main thing to keep in mind is that certain home health remedies for constipation can affect individual people in different ways...



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  Home Remedy For Grey Hair
  If your hair is beginning to grey at the roots or temples, this home remedy for grey hair is for you. It's a treatment for darkening grey hair that comes in two parts...



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  Homemade Remedy For Hair Loss
  Excessive hair loss can be caused by a number of conditions, stress being but one of them. Why not try this great homemade remedy for hair loss...

 

One of the true pleasures when learning about natural free home remedies is rediscovering the forgotten art of making medicines for you and your family. You'll be surprised how easy and cost efficient it is to make your own creams, ointment, tinctures, teas, compresses and poultices.

Do you have a home remedy? Can you make your own homemade ointments, herbal infusions, dedoctions or tinctures Etc... These things are a living link to the past, and if something works for you we want to know about it!