Kitchen cupboards, bathroom cabinets, gardens and the bush, and neighbourhood are storehouses packed with vegetables, fruits, herbs and minerals - all common, inexpensive healing ingredients that can be found easily and used quickly and effectively at the first signs of illness. Some examples from within the home are nutmeg for boils, white pepper for sores, bicarbonate of soda for heartburn, onion or vinegar for stings and raw meat for warts. Suggestions from the garden include nettles for hypertension, burdock for hair loss and eczema, and dandelion for liverishness. There is also general preparation advice for both external and internal use. This book gathers together the most reliable and successful cures that Australian heritage has to offer, and presents them in an easy-to-use, remedy-by-remedy style. The book features 12 great healers, for example - garlic, lavender and evening primrose.