The well-known Ayurveda physician Dr. Vinod Verma presents a home pharmacy with Ayurvedic herbs and spices for the most common ailments. Only ingredients are used that are also used in the kitchen and are available everywhere. These include ginger and cinnamon as well as turmeric and cardamom. With over 100 healing recipes, common everyday ailments can be cured in a natural way. These include colds, digestive problems, skin diseases, headaches or hay fever. Of particular importance are preventive programmes for the intestines, immune system and a good night's sleep, which in Ayurveda are the prerequisites for stable health. An extra chapter offers quick help with children's diseases. A practical reference book for applied self-help from one of the oldest healing traditions in the world - clear and effective.