Salt in Your Sock: and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies

by Lillian Beard, Linda Lee Small

When your child is seriously ill, nothing but the front line of modern medicine will do. But for all those minor ailments that children seem to pick up just by breathing, there are safe, effective, and inexpensive home remedies.

In Salt in Your Sock and Other Tried-and-True Home Remedies , veteran pediatrician Dr. Lillian Beard presents more than one hundred of her patients’ favorite all-natural treatments from around the world, collected over the twenty-five years of her practice. For each ailment, Dr. Beard offers a medical explanation, warning signs for when to call the doctor, conventional treatments, and a colorful array of folk remedies to try, such

• For cold sores, apply cool, wet teabags (Earl Grey preferred).
• For nosebleeds, have your child sniff a pinch of cayenne pepper.
• For earaches, fill a sock with salt warmed in a frying pan, then hold the sock against the affected ear.

The perfect marriage of folk wisdom and state-of-the-art medicine, this book will surely become your most-thumbed family resource.

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2003

Reviews

[Harbour for the Arts · Rating 5 out of 5]

I must admit, my daughter's pediatrician wrote this book. She is an amazing doctor. Her book has great remedies in it. Many of which I have tried!

[Brandy · Rating 3 out of 5]

a useful little book for a mama who likes to try natural remedies before resorting to western meds.