Self help can be understood as helping one self at times of need. Self help makes a person escape from a disasters, danger or helping themselves recover. Self help is a treatment at home and is done by the individual himself. These medications are more often on traditional beliefs rather the medicines available in the pharmacies. This self medication is not for dangerous disease, it is more often for a headache, cold, cough, sprains, sore throat and so on. These self help or home medication are usually not recommended or advised a doctor as it may lead to a disastrous health conditions. The treatment to cure a disease or ailment that employs certain spices, vegetables and non-vegetarian items for example one of the most popular home remedy is the use of chicken soup to treat respiratory infections such as a cold or mild flu, according to recent research it is said that these home remedies are actually proven to be effective.