Hands-On Healing Remedies: 150 Recipes for Herbal Balms, Salves, Oils, Liniments & Other Topical Therapies

Great book. Lots of good recipes. Can’t wait to do more of them. Stephanie Tourles tried her recipes before putting them in this book. This book is the second one that I have bought of hers. Both are excellent. Highly recommend her books.

I haven't found a single recipe that did not work as she says they will work. My grandmother, the mother of 9 children, used 95% homemade healing herbals, salves and tinctures for medical uses simply because she was born and raised in the Cherokee Nation and was taught how to make her own medicines and she did not have the money to buy commercial medicines. She used a variation of several recipes I found in this book. Especially her cold healing tonics made using the results of my grandpa's still which worked very well to relieve high fevers and sore throats for both adults and the children.She also used vinegar in many recipes from canning, internal and external body repair, to cleaning the home and killing ants.This author strikes me as authentic and knowledgeable of natural medicines. I am going to look at her other books for my bookshelf. I just wish I had listened to my grandmother a little closer.

Everything I have made from this book has been amazing, plus it is very informative

Really, really like this book. So pleased with the layout, knowledge shared, recipes. I've read dozens (literally) of these books trying to teach myself and this is one of the best and easiest to follow. I've only purchased 5 total over the years and obviously this is one. Very pleased.

I love the content of this book - love the recipes and the layout order. Don't worry - the font used in the book itself is a general typeface and easy to read. The font inside looks nothing like the script font used on the cover. This book makes for a good reference book to have on hand in anyone's home library!

I love this author. And I totally admit that I haven't done any of the recipes, but I enjoy just looking through the book. I'd like to build a basic collection of ingredients so I can regularly start making these types of remedies, which the author helps you do (and was, in my opinion, a super important feature of the book). This is such a fantastic book to have in your collection if you want to use more natural and organic healing remedies rather than pumping your body full of synthetic chemicals (not that I don't do that sometimes, too, but am trying to move away from that). Just get this book and try it out! :)

very good book! lot of great information. would recommend it.

Really like the information included in this book for creating your own oils with the herbs and to make products from that. Learning about ethical wildcrafting and proper storage and how long the products will last. Thank you

Although I thoroughly enjoyed this book, packed with valuable information, I can't say how useful it is because 90% of the plants discussed are not where I live - in northern Canada - so I have no idea on the true value of this information. I wasn't aware of this till I read the book.Many of the plants do not grow in southern Saskatchewan, where I grew up, either.

I got this book out of the library often and used it so much that I decided to buy it for myself. Great resource. This book is full of herbal knowledge. It has so many useful recipes for all kinds of ailments that I know it will be the first resource I go to for information and healing recipes. Good for beginners and seaoned herbalists alike. Highly recommended and worth purchasing.

Just what I needed.

very helpful