How to Stock Your Natural Medicine Cabinet
I love using natural remedies when someone is sick. Here’s what’s inside our natural medicine cabinet.
When someone in our family is sick, my husband and I reach for our favorite natural and herbal remedies.
We won’t hesitate to seek medical care if there’s a serious emergency, but for everyday ailments such as headaches, bee stings, fevers, and sore throats, we try natural medicine first.
Natural Medicine Cabinet
We keep all of our natural remedies in an antique pie safe in the kitchen.
I previously had things stored in various locations, but moving everything to a central location made it so much easier to keep organized.
It looks a bit disorderly in the photo above, but it just looks that way. 🙂
The top shelf has bins that hold various items. The bin on the far left has pain relievers and fever reducers, the next one has cough drops and cough syrup, and then the other two bins contain ointments, creams, and various things.
What I Keep in Our Natural Medicine Cabinet
Here’s a detailed look at what’s inside our natural medicine cabinet.
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Sore Throat and Cough Relief
- Zarbee’s Naturals Cough + Throat Relief
- Olba’s Pastilles (my favorite cough drops ever)
- Zarbee’s Cough Syrup
- Olba’s Inhaler (another favorite Olba’s product)
Basic First Aid Supplies
- ace bandages, band-aids, gauze rolls, splints, bandage tape, scissors (for tape), and steri-strips (a first aid kit like this is helpful)
- hot water bottle, heating pad, and rice “sock”
- Epsom salt (has many uses such as baths, drawing out splinters, and a laxative)
- splinter remover
- cotton flannel (for making poultices)
- Redmond Clay (former known as First Aid Clay)
- Manuka honey (I’ve used this successfully on burns)
- colloidal silver spray
Essential Oils
We use essential oils for so many health-related things. Here are the main ones I use regularly:
Not sure how to use essential oils? This is my favorite essential oil reference book.
I keep our main natural health reference books right in the pie safe so they’re easy to find.
Salves and Creams
- various salves (chickweed, calendula, comfrey salve)
- B&W Burn Ointment (highly recommended for burns)
- Prid Drawing Salve
Immune Boosters, Teas and Tinctures
- activated charcoal powder
- aloe vera gel (in the refrigerator), and we also have an aloe plant for fresh aloe
- fresh garlic
- ginger powder and fresh ginger (in the freezer)
- medicinal raw honey
- Slippery Elm powder
- arnica tablets (great for sore or inflamed muscles)
- elderberry syrup (Learn how to make your own elderberry syrup)
- echinacea tincture
- goldenseal tinture
- colloidal silver
- Vitamin C, in the form of pills, powder, and also Emergen-C
- clove oil (great for toothache and sore muscles)
- coconut oil
- cayenne pepper
- zinc lozenges
- astragalus tincture
- Umcka
- black seed oil (my husband prefers liquid but the capsules avoid the strong flavor)
- chicken bone broth (in the freezer)
- and a large selection of herbal teas, including chamomile, echinacea, immune tea, red raspberry, Throat Coat, etc.
Two of my favorite resources are the herbal remedies from Earthley and TriLight Herbs. They both have excellent products for cough, pain and more!
My favorite products from TriLight Herbs are LymhaRub (great for soothing swollen lymph nodes) and Yummy Yarrow (perfect for fevers in kids and adults).
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Some great ideas here! I love how you organized everything. I keep meaning to get all my stuff in one place. One of these days…
Thanks, Rheagan!
Thanks for sharing this! I’m just starting out making my own remedies for my family very helpful to see what works for another family!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for stopping by, Virginia!
oh, Joy, thank you so much! This is such a wonderful, comprehensive list that is DO-ABLE! I’m pinning this and I’m going to sit down this weekend and write out a plan for re-building my own medicine cabinet. Since moving last year, I’ve let it go and have not taken time to replace and revive things I should. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation!
You’re welcome, Linda! I’m so glad it was helpful! 🙂
I feel like you just took all the guesswork out of it for me! My collection is a bit of a hodge podge, and although my intentions are good, my knowledge needs bit of help. Thank you!
So glad it was helpful, Crystal! 🙂
It’s always wonderful to see what other women have created for medical needs. I have many natural things in my cabinet as well. I love to see my family learning and using what is there.
Thank you for sharing!
I agree, I always like to see what others use for natural remedies! Thanks for stopping by, Jennifer!
Great information, Thanks for sharing! Visiting from Teaching whats Good, link up! Pinning! Many Thanks! 8)
So glad you stopped by, Debra!