A treat-yourself handbook for all the family by the medical columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. Over the years, Le Fanu has collected many self-help remedies sent in by readers of his columns, remedies based on simple, age-old principles that do not require a trip to the doctor nor the purchase of expensive medicines. The self-help remedies address the majority of minor ailments, from coughs and colds to aching joints, cramps, sores or infections. Almost every home has most of the remedies already to hand - hot and cold water, alcohol and salt, Vaseline, tea bags, yoghurts and creams for infections, everyday foodstuffs, for use in poultices, even superglue for binding skin fissures.