Reader's Digest Trusted Home Remedies

More Than a Thousand Remedies at Your Fingertips! 

Long before the age of high-tech medicine—and health insurance companies—people healed themselves at home using timetested techniques, many of which are still valuable today. With the help of our board of medical advisors and modern-day scientific research, we’ve selected the very best herbs, foods, and household healers to help you feel better fast, without expensive drugs and with fewer side effects.

You don’t have to run to the doctor for every bruise, backache, cut, or cold. Chances are the solution you need is right at hand. From blisters to bronchitis, heartburn to high cholesterol, warts to wrinkles, here are doctor-approved treatments for 76 common health complaints—remedies that are easy, safe, clever, and effective.

Learn how to use: 

• Coconut oil to relieve sore gums

• Acupressure to soothe constipation

• Zinc to clear your complexion

• A mustard footbath to ease a headache

• Dandelion to flush out kidney stones • Ginger to reduce arthritis pain