A book written by Rosita Arvigo and Nadine Epstein, “Rainforest Home Remedies”, was published in 2000. This is a treasure of simple and safe home remedies with ingredients from your kitchen, garden, or local grocery store. Addressing over 50 common ailments, its purpose is not to replace good medical attention from medical practitioners, but rather to put more control and confidence in home remedies for minor or simple complaints. This has been a common practice for centuries all over the world. Our mothers and grandmothers knew how to use herbs and other non-toxic ingredients to prepare cough syrup with no side effects, etc. Many other simple suggestions are included in this book to help people who want choices. To not know you have a choice, is like having no choice! This book was written with the intention of restoring home remedies to their rightful place in the home and bestow confidence in self-help with tried and true information.