Reader's Digest Trusted Home Remedies

Book excerpt: Trusted treatments for everyday health problems More Than a Thousand Remedies at Your Fingertips! Long before the age of high-tech medicine—and health insurance companies—people healed themselves at home using timetested techniques, many of which are still valuable today. With the help of our board of medical advisors and modern-day scientific research, we’ve selected the very best herbs, foods, and household healers to help you feel better fast, without expensive drugs and with fewer side effects.