Kitchen Medicine: Household Remedies for Common Ailments and Domestic Emergencies

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• Bruton-Seal, Julie

Most accidents happen in the kitchen. But the average kitchen also contains the many handy but forgotten or overlooked remedies for treating comon ailments and household emergencies.

These simple remedies include herbs and spices, fruit and vegetables, condiments and dressings, oils and vinegars, and other common and familiar ingredients. In Kitchen Medicine the authors describe the wealth of healing and emergency remedies that sit unused and idle in the kitchen. Superb illustrations adorn a lively text. The ingredients are all easily found in most every home kitchen, although they are often exotic in origin--think of tea, coffee, and chocolate. The ailments and illnesses are comprehensively listed, making diagnosis and cure both immediate and easy.