Amish Folk 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!

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

This book is a collection of historic Amish folk remedies.

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.

An in-depth study of traditional folk medicine in Vermont, written by a formally trained doctor. Folk medicine is an imperative aspect of many Vermonters’ lives and health. Trained medical doctor D. C. Jarvis set out to investigate this traditional approach to herbal medicine and produced this little guide to provide knowledge and understanding of the nature and long-successful uses of folk medicine. An invaluable read for anyone interested in daily increased vitality. The chapters featured in this volume include: - Vermont Environment and the Life Span - The Animal Laws - Your Beginning - Your Racial Pattern and Vermont Folk Medicine - The First Yardstick of Your Health - The Instincts of Childhood - Potassium and Its Uses - The Usefulness of Honey - The Usefulness of Kelp - The Importance of Iodine - Castor Oil and Corn Oil - Medical Reasoning Behind Vermont Folk Medicine

Intimate view of life in the Amish world with more than 150 letters and journal entries, poems, stories, and riddles.

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.