Took a free webinar on creating your own herbal pharmacy.
Basically, she only told us how to organize it and then wanted payment for another class later, which I am not paying for since I already feel confident about how to set it up and use it. You start by listing YOUR families health issues, then start by buying one or two of the books below and then just say you want remedies for the common cold, look that up in the book, then buy just one of the suggested herbs and use a high grade vodka, or follow the instructions in the recipe in the book to make just ONE herbal and buy bottles and labels and label it with the following information. You can design a label and print it and put it on your bottle. Put the Name of the herbal and it can be ANYTHING like Grandmas Snake Oil or whatever you chose. Put the ingredients used, the date made, the symptoms you would have with it, the dosage, and steps that help and how to use it. Then, slowly once a month, you will pick another health issue you or your family have, look it up, and gather the ingredients and make it, and have a dedicated medicine cabinet that is reachable by those authorized to use it and not by littles. Anyway, look for books that show you recipes on how to make the remedies.
You can then make a document with all of the different remedies, what they are for and laminate it and put it in the medicine cabinet. Take the remedy at the first sign of distress like fatigue or sore throat.
Chose one or two:
Herbal Antivirals book BY Stephen Bohner:
Practical Herbalism: Ordinary Plants with Extraordinary Powers by Philip Fritchey
The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide by Thomas Easley and Steven Horne (picking this)
Be Your Own Doctor BY Rachael Weaver
Backyard Pharmacy BY Rachael Weaver
Materia Medica of Western Herbs by Carole Fisher (this is one I'm picking).
