I really enjoyed this guide. The information is comprehensive and the photos are impressive. The recipes are clean and concise and include directions for thier use and application.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC!

This a beautifully laid out guide to home remedies! It's perfect for anyone that is interested in home remedies including beginners. The book is laid out be sections and the recipes are easy to follow. I tried some of the recipes myself and they did help. I look forward to adding this book to my collection and using it in the future.

This is an amazing addition to my collection of natural remedies. It vey informative and well laid out. The recipes were easy to follow and the ones i have tried so far, work very well.

If you have an interest in herbalism and don't know how to get started, this is a solid choice for a primer. The instructions for making each remedy are clear as are the methods for obtaining key ingredients and the benefits to health. There are plenty of photos to aid as well.

A nice and simple guide to creating useful remedies with natural herbs and ingredients at home. Unless you are an absolute beginner to this subject though, with no prior knowledge, then this book will most likely not give you much in the way of new information. It's also mostly herbal teas and infusions. Plus a dependence on beeswax and honey - animal ingredients which we really do not need from healing. It's a nice little guide, but only for someone completely new.

I really enjoyed Complete Guide to Natural Home Remedies! I learned a lot about herbs and tinctures that are beneficial to the body. I would have been interested in reading about more specific experiences from the author and real-life experiences. Another helpful idea would be to explain how to obtain the herbs mentioned; as I was very interested in utilizing them, however I know they are not available at a typical grocery store. I would love to read more information on this topic, just a deeper dive into it! Thanks to Melissa Corkhill, Fox Chapel publishinf and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book prior to publishing.

Thank you NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!

This was helpful. I will continue to try more of the recipes, but this would be a solid addition to anyone's home remedies collection.

Been finding this book really interesting and it was well laid out. As I am getting to a certain age looking for new things to try rather than relying on standard medication. Working well so far.

This was SO GOOD! It was full of so much information! I’m a big fan of trying things holistically ever since my Hashimoto’s thyroiditis diagnosis after my daughter was born, I’ve looked into more natural remedies. This book has everything! Melissa Corkhill did a wonderful job discussing all the wonderful properties of so many plants. I especially liked how thorough she was in the plant profile of all the plants she suggested. I find myself wishing for a hardcopy because I know I will be referencing this book often, especially with having two growing kids. I would easily recommend this book to family and friends!

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a copy.

I am so curious about natural and herbal remedies but unfortunately I can't tell you if any of them work since I am discovering a vast majority contain things I am severely allergic to.

4.5 ⭐️
A must-have for beginners looking for natural healing quick reference!

This book offers recipes for healing lotions, tea infusions, bath blends and tinctures. Topics range from bodily ailments to women’s health for the most common ailments. I’m already planning to use some for digestive and respiratory health as well as acne.

Some beautiful images are included through as well.

✅ It starts with a list of essentials to have on-hand like lavender and honey, a few herbal basics to grow in your garden, and an emergency kit quick reference. All of this is perfect as I plan to build up my herbal garden this year.

🌿 Not only does the author offer healing plant remedies, but there is plenty of holistic wisdom sprinkled throughout, like tips for de-stressing and preventing back pain, as well as plant profiles with tips on growing harvesting and uses.

Thank you to NetGalley, Fox Chapel Publishing, and Melissa Corkhill for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I am always looking for recipes that are more natural and ways to save money! This book gave me both of those. Super excited to try some of these out!

What a great book! Broken down into sections, you can go right to the body part that needs to be treated. Love the section on women’s health. Plenty of pictures and recipes.

Melissa Corkhill's COMPLETE GUIDE TO NATURAL HOME REMEDIES was disappointing. Major and minor health issues are treated with the same blithe, surface assurances that this tea, that tincture, this particular perspective will solve what ails you. The book itself is a beautiful, with photographs and a layout that are mouthwatering. I wonder if the book might have been better focused on areas that are more common annoyances not needing professional medical attention. I would have liked more of the author's own expertise and point of view rather than the arms length approach to essential, life-changing information. I received a copy of this book and these opinions are my own, unbiased thoughts.

The recipes are straightforward and the pictures are beautiful. The format is a little strange where it gives a summary of a disease or ailment and then a recipe that would maybe help with symptoms of that disease but certainly isn't a remedy for it. It would feel a little better if just symptoms were listed rather than saying this was a remedy for specific medical diseases.

A Great Book on Herbal Remedies

The author states that she divided this book up into bodily systems, so readers will find remedies for the respiratory system in one chapter and how to heal disorders of the digestive system in another. She, further, states that she prefers to work with the body as a whole rather than just the symptoms, but for ease of use and understanding she has chosen to organize the book in this way.

The author states that having an essential home remedy kit to learn about natural remedies, and it is a good idea to build up a toolkit of home medicines that you can try out on yourself, your family, and friends. Thus, she has listed the below basic tool kit basics:
1. Garlic
2. Lemon Juice
3. Aloe Vera
4. Cloves
5. Ginger
6. Honey
7. Lavender oil
8. Chamomile
9. Calendula
10. Peppermint
11. Comfrey

There are other items listed in the above listed tool kit. Additionally, she provides a list of herbal first aid Kit, and information on how to grow your own herbal garden.

I truly enjoyed reading this book because of the tremendous amount of herbal information and remedies and recipes for a vast and variety of health issues.

I highly recommend this book for anyone embarking on their natural remedy journey.

How to collect and process the natural ingredients in your surrounding habitat to provide natural remedies that have been used by our ancestors for many generations. Melissa Corkhill shares her knowledge to allow us to safely utilize what Mother Nature provides. Her skills are easy to duplicate and produce excellent results without the drugs so many have used to little avail. We've tried many of the recipes with great success and have plans to gather and build what we need from nature.

For books like this, I tend to make a beeline for the studies that show the effectiveness of the remedies discussed. Unfortunately this one does not have any. I also confess to being rather skeptical when I saw that remedies for some serious ailments were included.

I was glad to try the simple recipe for eye irritation though, and actually felt some relief. I will keep using the lavender-infused warm water to see how effective it will be overnight. Can’t cause any harm, at least.

The book is beautifully illustrated and nicely written. The author has a lot of experience using the remedies for her friends and family. But I want to see studies.


3 stars.

Great reference book! The author talks about using herbs, teas, yoga, homeopathics, essential oils to help with so many issues. I like the idea of doing a body scan - as she describes in the 1st chapter -to determine where the cause of discomfort lies. We truly do know our bodies better than any practitioner! The book is broken down into sections like mental/emotional, skin, heart&blood to name a few. It covers conditions from minor ailments to mumps, measles etc.
So much great, practical advice thats easy to do and so much better for us than toxic chemicals. I strongly recommend this book for everyone!

I was really torn between 2 and 3 stars for this book. I love this topic and have been using natural remedies for decades, but the book is all over the place and does read quite a lot like someone collected random things from the internet. Again and again, Corkhill recommended something very mild as a remedy for a rather serious illness, and in every case I knew of better remedies. She also provided no citations or studies, even though they abound. The focus is on essential oils, herbs and homeopathy. I personally avoid essential oils for the most part, since they are not sustainable and I find that herbs in their natural state work much better. There were a few things I made note of here, but very little. Much better books are out there, I’m sorry to say. Also, I’m the crunchiest person I know but I am not treating myself with my own (or anyone else’s) urine.

The author seems like a genuine person who certainly found ways to support her own health and her children’s over the years, but I would recommend a much more complete book to those who are new to natural remedies.

I read a digital copy of this book via NetGalley.