Discover Everything You Need to Know about Health and Herbs

Let Master Herbalist Mary Bodel take you on a journey of healing home remedies, unlike you will find anywhere!

Here you will find articles, videos, recipes and ebooks to help you avoid common problems when choosing herbs and other aspects of alternative remedies.

If you are suffering from any of the following conditions:

• Gout  The eBook available on this site covers many aspects of gout, including causes, treatment options and how to avoid another flare-up.  Some of the tips explain how to use fruit and juices to get over an attack. 
• The Flu  H1N1 has made many of us look at the flu and how to handle it anew.  Here are tips to avoid it and what you can do at home to get over it.  This applies to both the seasonal flu and H1N1.
• Backpain  All of us will most likely have to deal with back pain at some point in our lives.  It can be caused by a large number of things.  Tips on getting over several causes are in the eBook offered on this site.
• Stress  We live in a fast-paced, stressful world.  This eBook offers information that will help you cope without taking medications that may make you groggy.
• Hypothyroidism:  This article is a sample of the chapter covering hypothyroidism in the eBook, the Complete Guide to complementary Remedies.
• depression Several types of depression are discussed in that chapter of the Complete Guide to Complementary Remedies, along with tips on how to deal with it at home.  It also explains when it’s time to consult a doctor.
• cardiovascular disease:  It can be a shock to find out you have something wrong with your heart and cardiovascular system, but there are things you can do.  Some may prevent you from developing the problem and others may help you deal with it should you already suffer from it.  There is a chapter on cardiovascular disease as well as some heart healthy recipes in my eBook.  The link above will lead you to a small amount of the information in the book.
• Diabetes:  Whether it’s caused by heredity, poor diet or other diseases, diabetes can utterly change your life.  It can also end it in a variety of ways.  In the chapter about the disease, there are both explanations of the condition, herbs that may help and more importantly herbs that could cause dangerous fluxuations in blood sugar.  This link may help get you started.
• Defining complementary care will explain how doctors and those who practice alternative remedies are beginnig to work together.  This breakthrough in communication will be key to giving the best care to you, the patient.
• How to read a nutrition label can help you decide which foods are going to work with your diet and which foods won’t.  The labels can be a little confusing at first, because they use two different calculations.  This article may help you decipher them.
• Strokes:  There are some surprising things about strokes, one being the current average age of having one.  This article is meant to be a companion to the segment in the Complete Guide to Complementary Remedies on that topic.
• Eldercare is not a new discipline in medicine, but it is becoming more and more a matter everyday families have to cope with.  Here are some tips.  There are more tips in my eBook on Stress.
• Diets:  Why don’t some diets work?  Here are a few answers to that question.  You may also be interested in how calories work.  There is a chapter on this topic in the eBook.

Then here you will find tons of valuable Herbal solutions to these and many other conditions.  So before you take another pill or fill another prescription, please read on to discover what options you have.

Because most people do not have access to a qualified herbal practitioner, I decided to build this site. For more in depth information about herbs and the conditions that may be helped by them, I have started a series of e-books. The information in these books, along with the help of your doctor and/or pharmacist may assist you in choosing the best care for your needs.

Included in each book is a description of the herbs discussed, along with any precautions, side effects and herb/drug interactions.  This information may not be found in many other books on herbal remedies, which makes these books unique in approach and detail.

For those who have read our ebooks we welcome your comments.