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    Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection: Book 1 - Long Lost Herbal Remedies & Kitchen Cures
    Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection: Book 1 - Long Lost Herbal Remedies & Kitchen Cures
    Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection: Book 1 - Long Lost Herbal Remedies & Kitchen Cures
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    Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection: Book 1 - Long Lost Herbal Remedies & Kitchen Cures

    By C. A. Buchanan

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    WHAT DID YOUR GREAT, GREAT-GRANDPARENTS USE FOR MEDICINE?

    Learn about the Old Herbal Remedies and Kitchen Cures your ancestors used when they were sick.

    This unique book is filled with Ancient Cures for many of today's modern diseases, with medicinal recipes that have been passed down through many generations. It includes remedies for rheumatism, gallstones, cancer, tobacco addiction, cold and flu and much, much more.

    Read about the horrific and mostly unknown history of today's modern allopathic medicine, as well as the amazing history of Quinine, the predecessor of today's hydroxychloroquine, the suppressed COVID-19 cure.

    Step back in time and learn about Herbal Medicine and simple Kitchen Cures that served humanity for thousands of years before today's modern pharmaceutical drugs took over medicine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. A. Buchanan
    Release dateJul 29, 2020
    ISBN9781005629458
    Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection: Book 1 - Long Lost Herbal Remedies & Kitchen Cures
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    C. A. Buchanan

    My interest in herbs and natural healing began years ago. I had already used some herbs with great success but still didn't think there was much beyond orthodox medicine when it came to illness and healing. Then I attended a weekend seminar based on the book, "The Medical Mafia" written by a French Canadian doctor. It was an expose of who really controls medicine in the West, and what I learned shocked me and I never looked at regular medicine or allopathic doctors the same again. I began to ponder what previous generations used for illness before "modern medicine" came along. I also began taking herbal courses to expand my knowledge and use herbs for myself and my pets.When I started to hear about how different government agencies were actively suppressing very effective herbs and making them illegal, I couldn't understand why. Why would something natural, that worked and was relatively safe be made illegal, and the pharmaceuticals, with potentially horrible and sometimes lethal side effects, be mostly left alone? I learned that treating illness is a business and a very profitable one at that. Herbs and anything natural cannot be patented and are therefore competition and a threat to the very powerful pharmaceutical industry, which can patent their synthetic drugs and then charge exorbitant prices for them. I also realized that not many people were aware of this.I love books, especially old, out-of-print, unique books. Over the years I went to many antique stores, second-hand book stores, and garage sales to collect them and I found a few very old & crumbling herbal remedy books. I put them away safely, afraid they would completely fall apart if I opened them too much and then forgot about them. I rediscovered them years later when going through some boxes I had packed away. Then I started to go through them and realized what a goldmine of information they contained and that there was much-hidden knowledge in these old herbal books. As I read them, I learned the battle between natural medicine and allopathic medicine is not new and was very prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries. There seemed to be this constant battle between these two schools of thought on what causes disease and how to go about treating illness.As I went through the books I was shocked at how many amazing herbal remedies and kitchen cures were in them. Despite some ingredients being very dated and not in use today because we know better, there was still lots of great information that's relevant today. I didn't want these amazing old herbal remedies to be lost; left in old crumbling books where no one can find them and forgotten forever. So I scanned the books to read them without them falling apart, and went through them. I took out the best old herbal recipes and kitchen cures; as well as some of the strange ones and I combined that with relevant information from today and put them together into a book series.This is the first book of that series filled with these long-lost herbal secrets, Native herbal medicine, and kitchen cures. They are taken from a time era when people didn't run to the doctor regularly like today but helped each other out by sharing their remedies that had been passed down for generations; therefore it includes many old family herbal treasures as well as personal healing testimonials from the people of the time. Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection is a book series on ancient medicine, herbal remedies, and forgotten kitchen cures.I hope you enjoy book 1, Long Lost Herbal Remedies & Kitchen Cures. Please check back later for the second book in the series Long Lost Cold & Flu Remedies, coming soon.Thank you!C. A. Buchanan

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      Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection - C. A. Buchanan

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      Vintage Herbal & Home Remedies Collection

      By C.A. Buchanan

      Copyright © 2020 C.A. Buchanan

      All rights reserved.

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The FDA requires a disclaimer to be added that the information in this book is not intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat or prevent any disease. According to the FDA, only drugs can make those kinds of claims. The following book is designed to entertain and inform, not provide medical advice. Always consult with your doctor when it comes to your personal health, or before you start any treatment. Also bear in mind the remedies in this book are taken from very old books that were written with the conventional wisdom dating back to the mid-19th century. This should be taken into account as some of the information may now be considered inaccurate, or not in accordance with modern medicine or even with modern herbal medicine.

      TABLE of CONTENTS

      PART 1

      INTRODUCTION

      How To Take Medicine

      Apothecary’s weights & Measures

      AGUE

      AIR PURIFIER

      APPENDICITIS

      ASTHMA

      BABIES & CHILDREN

      BLOOD PURIFYING TEA

      BOWEL TROUBLES

      BRONCHOCELE or THYROID

      BURNS

      CANCER

      CARMINATIVES

      CATHARTICS

      CORNS

      COLIC IN ADULTS

      COUGHS & COLDS

      CROUP, DIPHTHERIA

      DELIRIUM TREMENS (Alcohol Withdrawal)

      DIABETES MELLITUS

      DISCUTIENTS (To Scatter Swellings)

      DIURETICS

      DYSPEPSIA (Indigestion)

      EPILEPSY

      EYES

      FEVER

      FEVER SORES and AMPUTATION

      GALL STONES

      GARGLE for SORE THROAT

      GENERAL DEBILITY

      GOUT

      GRAVEL or KIDNEY STONES

      HEADACHE

      HYDROPHOBIA and SNAKE BITES

      KIDNEYS

      LA’ GRIPPE and the FLU

      LARYNGITIS and SUBSTITUTE for TOBACCO

      MEASLES

      MOTHERS’ HERB TEA

      NERVOUS DEBILITY

      OINTMENTS

      PAIN KILLER

      PILES

      POISONS

      RECEIPTS for PARASITES

      RHEUMATISM

      SEXUAL DEBILITY or SPERMATORRHOEA

      SLEEPLESSNESS

      STOMACH

      TEETH

      TOBACCO HABIT REMEDY

      TONIC and ALTERATIVE

      ULCER

      UTERINE TONIC and NERVINE

      VARICOSE VEINS

      WARTS and CORNS

      PART 2

      HERBS and their MEDICINAL uses

      TERMINOLOGY

      DEFINITIONS

      A BRIEF HISTORY of ALLOPATHIC and ECLECTIC MEDICINE

      CONCLUSION

      PRELUDE to BOOK 2

      INDEX

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      References

      INTRODUCTION

      Have you ever wondered what your great, great, Grandparents and their forefathers used for medicine? How did people stay healthy? What did they do when they were sick and what was in the medicine cabinet? Obviously not a bottle of antibiotics or Tylenol that we take for granted today. So, what did people do when they were sick with the flu or had a more serious illness? These are questions we often don’t think about or ask.

      In this day and age of the glorification of pharmaceutical drugs, we have been conditioned as a society to believe that we cannot survive without modern medicine. This has been programmed into most people since childhood with advertising and the daily influence that large pharmaceutical companies have on the lives and minds of the general population through the media and elsewhere. Considering that prescription drugs are a relatively new addition to humanity’s evolution, there must have been a vast wealth of healing knowledge that has gotten us this far.

      Although many people used allopathic medicine in the 19th century, many did not trust the methods of regular allopathic doctors, which included bloodletting, leeches, mercury, lead, and many other barbaric treatments. ¹ The herbalist, Native healers, and Eclectic doctors of the time used a different approach than the orthodox doctors, mostly relying on food, herbs, homeopathy, and anything that would bring the body back into balance. They were much like today’s naturopaths and herbalists. Some of their methods were questionable by today’s standards and there were also snake oil salesmen peddling magic potions. However, there were also skilled herbalists, Native herbal medicine, Grandmother’s home remedies, and kitchen cures that were used regularly. Their methods were generally much safer than what the allopathic or regular orthodox doctors were using at the time.

      Our ancestors had a wealth of healing knowledge that was passed down through many generations. In today’s fast-paced world with modern medical technology it is easy to lose sight of the simple healing methods that they used; cures that were used for thousands of years and were often straight from the garden or kitchen pantry.

      This book is a compilation of medicinal herbal recipes and home remedies that were used for medicine and healing before today’s modern medicine came along; sourced directly from old herbal books, catalogues, recipe books, newspaper clippings and magazines dating back to the mid-1800’s. It also includes treasured recipes passed down through the generations and personal cures testimonials from people long gone, as well as advice on how to use herbs.

      Today pharmaceutical corporations & the F.D.A. control so much of what we call health care and through their influence any claim of a cure is banned in natural health books today as only pharmaceutical drugs, approved by the FDA, can claim a cure.² Many of the recipes here are taken from literary works and personal testimonials well over 100 years old and before the FDA existed, therefore claims of cures appear several times. Take a walk back in time and learn what was commonly used for medicine; nature’s amazing healers, the herbal remedies, and kitchen cures used by our ancestors.

      "Why Use Poisonous Drugs

      When nature in her wisdom and beneficence has provided, in her great vegetable laboratory, the forest, a cure for most of the ills of man. Work and study have perfected the compounding of these botanical medicine and we herewith place them at your disposal." 1879

      How To Take Medicine

      One level teaspoonful of any powdered herb mentioned in this book may be steeped in a cup of hot water on the back of stove for 30 minutes. The water should not boil but must be kept near the boiling point for 30 minutes. Then strain and sweeten with honey whenever possible. Drink all during the day, cold, except when otherwise stated. Alternatively, from 6 – 12 tsp of any of powdered herbs herein mentioned may be steeped in a pint of water for 30 minutes; strain; add a cupful of whiskey or best brandy. Dose-Two tablespoonful’s two to four times a day. These proportions may be varied to suit your constitution. Some may require double strength.

      The strength of a medicine may be judged by its taste. Strong medicine is never good. It is better to take a large cupful of a weak tea than a small dose of strong tea. Therefore, if a medicine appears strong to the taste be sure to dilute it with water before taking.

      All of the teas in this book should be taken cold, except when otherwise stated.

      One person wrote he spent thousands of dollars on doctors and patent medicines without relief and sent us 25c to give our herbs a trial. What do you think of him? There is a reason to be shy of doctors and their drugs, but there is no good reason why a person should not try one or a dozen different kinds of nature’s pure herbs in an endeavor to find a cure of serious disease. You cannot be cheap when your health is at stake. Health is the most precious thing you have.

      Do not expect a 25c box of herbs to CURE a thousand-dollar disease.

      Today that would read more like Do not expect a $25.00 box of herbs to cure a million-dollar disease.

      Apothecary’s weights & Measures

      Liquid measure used in this book:

      Sixty drops make about 1 teaspoon

      2 teaspoonful’s equal 1 tablespoonful *

      2 tablespoonful’s equal 1 ounce

      One ounce contains about 8 fluid drachms (drs.)

      One fluid drachm (dr.) equals 3.55 ml

      16 ounces fluid equal 1 pint

      32 tablespoonful’s equal 1 pint

      64 teaspoonful’s equal 1 pint

      One Gill equals 4 ounces

      Weight Measurements

      One ounce (oz.) contains 8 drachms.

      One drachm (dr.) contains 3 scruples

      Three scruples contain 60 grains

      One scruple (scru.) contains 20 grains (gr.)

      * Note this difference in measurements compared to today’s measurement of 5 ml per teaspoon, whereas in this book a teaspoon is equal to 7.5 ml or 1.5 teaspoons, or half a

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