Old Herbal Tonic Recipes
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Ingredients: 1 apple (peeled) 1 beet (fresh or canned) 1 orange (peeled) 3 carrots (peeled) Place all ingredients in a blender. Mix until well blended. Refrigerate until well chilled. This makes 1 serving. This is good for adults and children. You may add a touch of honey to the drink. Take one ounce of washed pearl barley. Boil the barley for 20 minutes in water. This was used a a mild laxative. Put 10 drams of raw coffee berries into 8 ounces of water and boil. Boil till the water evaporates to 5 ounces. Give in 3 doses during the intermission of intermittent fever. Take 2 ounces of bruised dandelion root and place it in 1 pint of boiling water. Steep for 2 hours and strain. This is a tonic, resilient and stimulant. Dosage: Take a wine glassful 3 times a day! Old Remedy to Cure those who Drink too much Wine! In a large pot, put in 3 large live eels. Cover with enough wine to cover the eels. Leave the pot with the eels until the eels are quite dead. Now, you can offer your wine loving friend a drink of wine! He/she will be so disgusted with the taste, they will never want to drink wine again... This remedy above is a 200 year old remedy. I do not know how safe it would be for the health, and therefore, cannot recommend using this method...Use at your own risk.  Back to Herbs and Spices |
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Old Folk Remedies about the Potato The Incas used raw slices of potatoes to place on broken broken bones to promote healing. They also carried potatoes in the belief that it prevented rheumatism. It was also believed that if you ate potatoes with other foods, it would prevent indigestion! Help a toothache by carrying a potato in your pocket! Ease a sore throat by putting a slice of baked potato
in
a stocking and tying it around your throat.
Ease aches and pains by rubbing the affected area with
the water potatoes have been boiled in.
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