Most of my recipes are part of my cooking. If we are feeling yucky I make sure dinner has onions and garlic as well as home canned chicken stock. The show added the idea of chilis and gobi berries. I may start adding the chilis but the gobi berries will have to wait until I am growing them. I could see adding elderberry as well.
One of the first steps to using these remedies is to realize that it doesn't have to be pills. We've been feeling yucky for over a week now and I'm not quite sure what we've got because the symptoms keep changing. So I've been using some simple stuff to handle it but we're still sitting on that edge of "might be getting something". So today there is a whole chicken going in the crockpot with homemade stock and seasonings. Lots of onions and garlic. And most likely some potatoes and other veggies. I might actually take a sliver off on one of the ghost peppers and toss that in (really, really, small sliver but heck they have such a great flavor!). I'll debone it all at the end and we'll have a really really rich flavored soup that should toss off the last of whatever this is that is trying to hold on. But I'll use fresh garlic so that it still has all the goodies we need. Same for onions (although I have home dried on hand as well). Thyme and oregano will probably be part of the seasonings because they both have properties that will help. You can use dried but if you can get fresh it would be better.
The second step is realizing one of the things he points out - there are a lot of things that you already use or can get easily that will help you. No need to go spend a fortune on hard to find or expensive things. Your grandmother's chicken soup recipe probably already includes a lot of those things. Or your great grandmother's. If this doesn't kick our "yuckies" then I'll head out to get elderberries to make a new batch of syrup. But I doubt I'll have to go that far. Sometimes it's as simple as realizing that your body needs the stuff in oranges and buying them. Or drinking extra doses of orange juice. That's actually the only time I can drink orange juice! Listen to your body and try to figure out what it's craving.
One last example, when I was pregnant I craved cherries. Really, really craved cherries. I would buy them with the last of the money I had even if it left me broke for days. Turns out I was anemic. My body was getting the iron it needed from the cherries. I didn't even know they had that much iron in them. You would be surprised what your body will tell you if you listen. And if something new suddenly smells good and your body is suddenly craving it - try it. It may have something your body needs.
I'm just now getting back into making simple salves. I went through a period where I was popping herbal pills like crazy when I first started. Then I realized that there were better ways to get it and made many things a part of our everyday life. But salves do have a purpose as part of a medicine kit.
