99 Favorite Amish Home Remedies

Bestselling author Georgia Varozza takes the difficulty out of creating healing teas, general cleaning items, and personal care products. Her recipes, which have served generations of Plain people, contain common household ingredients and are easy to make and use. You'll find 99 creative ways to clean your home and heal your body with salves, ointments, and tonics for aches and pains teas for colds, flu, allergies, and headaches cleaning solutions for around the house (inside and out) You don't have to forego electricity or drive a horse and buggy to have your life and house benefit from the sweet simplicity of Amish remedies. You will find these home remedies to be so much easier and less expensive that you will wonder why you've been using chemicals for all of these years. You will also find information about Amish and Mennonite stores in case you wish to order practical products Plain people use and enjoy. Let these old-fashioned but eminently useful and effective options bring the simple life into your home every day.

OVER 500 Remedies in Baby Care, Health Care, Salves and Weight Loss!

Emphasizing Amish values of faith, simplicity, and self-sufficiency, author Georgia Varozza (Homestyle Amish Kitchen Cookbook) offers fresh ideas to make faith, serenity, and healthy living a stronger presence in everyday life. Drawing on her family's Plain roots, she provides innovative suggestions and easy-to-follow instructions to help readerscreate a home atmosphere that promotes faith and familysimplify their lives by controlling technologyenjoy the satisfaction of successful do-it-yourself projectsdiscover the benefits of growing and raising their own foodgenerate less waste by repurposing, reusing, and recyclingPractical and hands-on, this book is a great resource for people who want to make a few simple changes or fully embrace a more wholesome lifestyle.

From asafetida bags which warded off social contact as much as disease, to teas, tinctures and potions, we had them all back in the Good Old Days, along with those mysterious healers who could stop bleeding and make warts disappear. You'll be amazed at the home remedies brought to mind by these recollections of a time when the medicine show still made stops in small towns and the country doctor was paid in chickens and geese.

Byler, an Old Order Amish from Middlefield, Ohio, offers an autobiographical medicine diary and recipe book, that's been over 50 years in the making. Here are recipes for general tonics, poultices, plasters, and remedies for specific ills, instructions for making soap, furniture polish, glue, and varnish remover, plus recipes for everything from cherry pie to Rivvel Soup. Illustrations.

A compendium of practical and inexpensive ways to treat common health problems at home. Offers detailed information about the causes and symptoms of each condition or ailment, from acne to warts. Provides remedies for coping with current problems as well as preventative techniques and suggestions. Includes easy-to-follow recipes, instructions, and advice that will help you reduce your reliance on some prescription drugs.

Do Amish people know something that doctors don't? -- Reveals Amish home remedies using foods, herbs and vitamins. -- Folk medicine for common health problems such as allergies, arthritis pain, colds, and many more. -- An encyclopedia of natural health secrets. Learn the health secrets that keep the Amish people so healthy and robust, well into their senior years. An extraordinary encyclopedia of Amish natural health remedies for many common health problems. Organized by malady, these home remedies use simple items found in your home, such as vinegar, salt, soda, onions and even olive oil, to speed healing and reduce suffering. I am impressed by the research Dr. Quillin has conducted to gather this book. My personal projection on the direction of the healing arts is that we will eventually weave together the best of modern science with the best of ancient cures. Together they will form a hybrid method of clinically effective and cost-effective means of treating diseases. This book represents a milestone in that pursuit. -- Dr. A. Gordon Reynolds, Co-Author The La Costa Book of Nutrition