This popular standard work shows comprehensively and clearly how minor illnesses and everyday complaints can be treated by the patient himself. The various symptoms of the disease are arranged alphabetically and explained in detail. The reader is guided simply and safely from his individual symptoms to the appropriate remedy and the correct dosage. Over 120 of the most important homeopathic remedies are presented: For which diseases has a remedy proved effective and to which type of constitution does it fit? In addition, a first aid chapter provides information about quick help in an emergency.