Home Remedies from Amish Country

Home Remedies from Amish Country
Author: Devon Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2001
Genre: Amish
ISBN: 9780967070445

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

99 Favorite Amish Home Remedies

99 Favorite Amish Home Remedies
Author: Georgia Varozza
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0736965939

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.

Plain and Happy Living

Plain and Happy Living
Author: Emma Byler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Amish
ISBN: 9781879863712

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.

Home Remedies from a Country Doctor

Home Remedies from a Country Doctor
Author: Jay Heinrichs
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1602399735

A book of quick, simple, time-proven cures for anything that ails...

Money Secrets of the Amish

Money Secrets of the Amish
Author: Lorilee Craker
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1595554017

Are you ready to take control of your finances, no matter where the market goes? Join Lorilee Craker as she shares the time-tested Amish secrets to enjoying true abundance on a practical budget. When writer Lorilee Craker learned that Amish communities are thriving (not just surviving) during periods of economic downturn, she decided she had to find out why. Along the way, she found a treasure trove of tried-and-true financial habits the Amish have employed for generations that will forever change how you think about money. In Money Secrets of the Amish, Craker gives you the tools you need to: Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without Repurpose, recycle, and reuse what you already have Find the value in delayed gratification and self-control Praise for Money Secrets of the Amish: "Money Secrets of the Amish is a practical, doable guide, and it's such fun to read. Lorilee's voice is as engaging and lively as ever, and the wisdom she shares from the Amish community is both inspiring and instructive. I just finished the last page, and my mind is buzzing with all sorts of ways to waste less, want less, and spend less." --Shauna Niequist, bestselling author of I Guess I Haven't Learned that Yet and Present Over Perfect

Old-Time Home Remedies

Old-Time Home Remedies
Author: Ken Tate
Publisher: Annie's
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781882138302

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.

What the Amish Can Teach Us about the Simple Life

What the Amish Can Teach Us about the Simple Life
Author: Georgia Varozza
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0736952616

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.

The People's Pharmacy Quick and Handy Home Remedies

The People's Pharmacy Quick and Handy Home Remedies
Author: Joe Graedon
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1426208405

This National Geographic guide to healing foods and natural, herbal, home remedies is carefully researched by the authors and conveyed in the same friendly and authoritative personality as in their popular call-in radio show. In the book, organized as Q&As between the general public and the Graedons, they report how and why such treatments work and also offer a dozen new recipes for food so good for you, it serves as preventive medicine. This book contains as much information as a voluminous encyclopedia of home remedies, yet it's quick, easy, inviting, and fun to read. Presented alphabetically by ailment and then, within each of those, by food or remedy, the book offers the basics of three standard diets for health, weight control, and fitness, along with a dozen new recipes for preparing food to match the diets. It includes a helpful index and cross-referencing system, making the book both a good shelf reference and an entertaining browse. This book builds on the reputation of The People's Pharmacy and adds the extra value that comes from a partnership with National Geographic.

Sweet Remedies

Sweet Remedies
Author: Dawn Combs
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1612129927

Taking medicine just got a whole lot sweeter! Honey is well known for its healing properties. When infused with the additional benefits of medicinal herbs and fruits, it turns natural remedies that can be unpleasant tasting into a treat to take. Author Dawn Combs makes these traditional herbal honeys — called “electuaries” — and has created her own formulations for addressing a variety of common health ailments. With Sweet Remedies, readers will learn her methods for making electuaries in their home kitchens, using recipes that range from Ache Ease and Sleep Well to Heartful and Calcium for Kids, along with instructions for making simple honey infusions and oxymels — a combination of herbs, honey, and vinegar. Additional recipes offer creative ways to get a daily dose of healing by using herbal honeys in no-bake cookies, smoothies, cocktails, candies, and more. For those with access to the hive, Combs includes an overview of other bee-produced products with healing properties — including pollen, propolis, and royal jelly — and offers advice on how to harvest them sustainably.

The Country Almanac of Home Remedies

The Country Almanac of Home Remedies
Author: Brigitte Mars
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1610595238

The Country Almanac of Home Remedies presents hundreds of natural and time-tested methods for treating hundreds of common ailments including burns, insect bites, skin rashes, PMS, and upset stomach. The book includes thrifty and easy remedies that can be made from items commonly found in the pantry, refrigerator, and garden. Readers get DIY solutions they can use for quick relief of common ailments through natural alternatives--without a trip to the pharmacy. For example, using a paste of crushed up aspirin and water to calm the inflammation of sunburn. Each remedy references the latest studies and medical advice to tell readers why it works—i.e. valerian root is a mild version of the prescription drug valium thus making a cup of valerian tea the perfect remedy for stress, PMS, and other nervous conditions.