Nature’s Medicine: The Everyday Guide to Herbal Remedies & Healing Recipes for Common Ailments: Natural Cures & Herbal Remedies From Your Own Kitchen
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With prescription charges rocketing and evermore drug resistant bugs and germs raising their diseased little heads many people are searching for alternatives to the traditional doctor’s medicine.
But which herbs and plants are safe to use and how can you decipher remedies from urban myth?
“Nature’s Medicine: The Everyday Guide to Herbal Remedies & Healing Recipes for Common Ailments” holds the answer.
- Meander down the garden path to learn how to heal common complaints such as diarrhoea, headaches and eczema.
- Improve your sex life using simple flowers most of us have growing in our own back yards.
- Fight bugs and germs quickly with delicious recipes.
This fail safe book takes you from interested amateur to reassured healer in a few short pages. Simple to use, it comes in three concise sections.
- You’ll learn a bit about how natural medicine evolved and how we apply it today.
- You’ll learn how to make syrups, macerations and tinctures. Explore the tools of the healer’s medicine cabinet and discover easy ways to apply salves and poultices.
- You’ll experiment with preventative medicine and treatments in delicious recipes tailored to specific illnesses and conditions.
Wind your way through weird and wonderful recipes from Auntie Violet’s Sleepy Syrup for insomnia to Baked Papaya and Ginger to chase away those colds and sneezes.
So if you are ready to feel healthier, look better and even step away from aches and pains……
Scroll up and get your copy of “Nature’s Medicine: The Everyday Guide to Herbal Remedies & Healing Recipes for Common Ailments”
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Nature’s Medicine - Elizabeth Fellow
Introduction
With prescription charges rocketing and evermore drug resistant bugs and germs raising their diseased little heads many people are searching for alternatives to the traditional doctor’s medicine. But which herbs and plants are safe to use and how can you decipher remedies from urban myth?
This book holds the answer.
Meander down the garden path to learn how to heal common complaints such as diarrhoea, headaches and eczema. Improve your sex life using simple flowers most of us have growing in our own back yards. Fight bugs and germs quickly with delicious recipes. Every set of ingredients has been chosen for its healing properties and great tasting potential. Heck, the few nasty shockers even come with warnings!
This fail safe book takes you from interested amateur to reassured healer in a few short pages. Simple to use, it comes in three concise sections.
First: dip in and congratulate yourself on the benefits of the contents of your fruit bowl and fridge.
Next: learn how to make syrups, macerations and tinctures. Explore the tools of the healer’s box and discover easy ways to apply salves and poultices.
Finally, experiment with preventative medicine and treatments in delicious recipes. Wind your way through weird and wonderful recipes from Auntie Violet’s Sleepy Syrup for insomnia to Baked Papaya and Ginger Soothing Hug to chase away those colds and sneezes.
So if you are ready to feel healthier, look better and even step away from aches and pains......
Turn the page!
Elizabeth Fellow
The Origins of folk medicine
Whilst the 21st century would seem to herald the new dawn of a natural healing, in fact we can trace folk medicine right through the annals of time. In many ways we are simply going back to the old ways.
As far back as the ancient Egyptians we can find evidence of the use of plant extracts. In excavations of tombs in the Valley of the Kings there have been discoveries of small tears of frankincense and myrrh. Much later the Bible tells of the magi bringing the same precious extracts to a baby in a manger. Frankincense, more valuable than gold, and of course myrrh was for the embalming of kings. Never were there more symbolic gifts given at a birth.
The Ancient Egyptians
The Egyptians had begun to experiment with the use of plant essences way back in the 3rd century BC. These perfumes, herbs and spices were to become some of the most sought after commodities in international trade. Camels pulled massive caravans of fragrant and delicious seasonings across the deserts both for cookery but also for use in healing and prayer. Their commodities were a prized and treasured load.
They understood how the plants separated themselves from their essences and played with ways to make the magic happen. During Cleopatra’s reign (around 40 years before the birth of Christ) rose petals were strewn along the waters of the Nile in preparation for the queen’s procession down the river. As the oils evaporated a heady aroma led her people into blissful ecstasy of her beauty. Legend has it that the like of her beauty had never before been seen anywhere in the world. One wonders how much of the glory came from the magic of