Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Livin, Svetlana Konnikova [classic fiction .TXT] 📗

potatoes and keep in the same pot. Cover your head with a towel and breathe in the potato steam for 10 minutes. Repeat the same procedure three to four times every two to three hours to ease breathing. The potato is called in Italy tartufolli or “devil’s apple.” The potato came to Europe about four

centuries ago when Pedro Cieza de Leon, 13, stowed away aboard a ship of Spanish sailors, who were to be the

first conquerors of South America. He eventually found himself together with them in a wonderful country called Peru. While Spanish soldiers searched for gold, killed the Peruvians, and burned their homes, little Pedro was mesmerized by the people of Peru. Their strange-looking buildings and well-made furnishings fascinated him. He wanted to learn more about the lifestyles of the bronzed inhabitants of Peru, so he wrote down everything he saw.

In 1553 in the Spanish city of Seville, he published the Chronica del Perú. In this book we find his early reference to the potato. He wrote,

“Pappa is a special kind of ground nut. It becomes soft when cooked, like a baked chestnut with skin no thicker than a truffle (mushroom).”

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Spanish sailors were the first to try potatoes. Later the potato made its way to Italy, where the Peruvian pappa was renamed tartufol i. From there it gravitated to other countries.

By the end of the eighteenth century women in France were obsessed with the potato as a design accessory. They made potato flower bouquets and decorated their hair with single blooms. The popularity of potato flowers was booming. It seemed that there were not enough to go around, and people begin making artificial potato flowers. Only at the beginning of the nineteenth century did French farmers begin to cultivate potatoes for food under the enthusiastic support and promotion of French pharmacist, Antoine Parmantié. Around the same time the potato flower became a favorite

in Germany and was planted in flowerbeds adorning palaces. More than a hundred years ago a Russian tsar gave an order to farmers to cultivate potatoes. This order provoked so-called potato rebellions because Russian farmers did not want to

plant the “devil’s apple.” But today the potato is popular in Russia, as it is everywhere in the world. Each nation

considers it as their own native plant.

R 16. Potato in a Dress Uniform. Wash a potato wel and bake it in its skin. Cook one beet in water until soft. Peel the skin off both vegetables. Mince the beet and mix with the potato flesh and with one teaspoon olive oil or sour cream. Then eat it. It helps to reduce high blood pressure.

R 17. Wash one organic potato and dry. Make a fresh juice in a juicer from this potato and its skin. Drink it to normalize stomach acidity and to regulate the digestive system. It wil also treat stomach and intestinal cramps. Potato juice is also helpful in treating heartburn, dizziness, and vomiting.

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R 18. Drink ¾ cup fresh potato juice before breakfast. Then lie down for 30 minutes. You can eat one hour later. Do it for 10 days, then take a break for 10 days. Continue the same procedure for another 10 days.

Fresh potato juice helps people with duodenal ulcers and stomach and gastritis problems. R 19. Fresh organic potato juice is a welknown recipe in folk medicine for Remember:

treating headaches. Take ¼ cup

potato juice two times a day—in

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Fresh organic potato juice helps those

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suffering from tuberculosis. European

scientists confirmed that the potato

at once. Never store it.

contains a highly valuable substance—

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tuberose, which destroys micro-bacteria

as needed.

and combats tuberculosis. The Latin

name for potato is Solanum tuberosum.

R 20. As a preventive measure, people with stomach and duodenal ulcers can drink fresh potato juice twice a year—in the spring and in the fal . Take ¼ cup potato juice two times a day before meals for two weeks. Make a fresh portion every day.

R 21. Raw potato helps to treat hemorrhoids (piles). Cut in a tubular shape and use as a suppository at night.

R 22. Peel the skin of one raw potato, cut the potato into chunks, cover with water, and cook without salt in an enamel pot. When the potato is soft, strain through a nylon sieve into a teacup and drink ½ cup or one tablespoon of the concoction three times a day. This is a good home remedy for treating a sore throat or a cold.

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R 23. Wash one organic potato and chop with its skin in a food processor for a few seconds. Spread potato poultice on the affected area. Apply three layers of gauze or cotton strips to hold the poultice