The best recipes

Tyrolean herb fairies and their healing schnapps

Having grown up in a region with many distillers, herb fairy Thöni-Kohler knows all about the possibilities for health-promoting distillates.(Bild: Kary Wilhelm)

There are many high-proof home remedies, and not just for cold and flu season. Tyrolean Michaela Thöni-Kohler has collected recipes for delicious health elixirs from all over the Alps and reveals a few tricks for DIY enthusiasts. 

A look in grandma's medicine cabinet: it contains many a miracle cure containing alcohol. Herbal liqueurs, tinctures, rubbing alcohol. For health and well-being, people have been turning to nature for ages and mixing herbal cocktails with amazing effects.