This comprehensive guide includes more than 100 recipes and 70 applications of herbs and oils that help the mind, body and soul. Herbal remedies - teas, ointments, tonics and tinctures - can ease ailments ranging from bug bites and stings to food poisoning, insomnia, shingles, sore throats, acne and even arthritis. Chapters are divided in to the body's primary systems including digestive, nervous, respiratory and skin as well as sections on the remedies to soothe the heart and mind.