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

day one hour before meals. During the sixth week take two cups three times a day one hour before meals. The complete treatment is recommended for six weeks. Grapes contain sugar-glucose and fructose, which are easily absorbed by the body. It is very useful in a treatment of many diseases. Your physician or health-care practitioner should determine your treatment with ampelotherapy, based on your medical history. Russian and A Healthy Spirit Lives in a chapter

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Ukrainian physicians usually prescribe ampelotherapy for two to six weeks. The length of time is determined by the doctor for each patient individually. r 35. A patient enroled in ampelotherapy treatment eats the bulk of the grapes in the morning 30 minutes before breakfast. The remaining grapes (up to four pounds) are eaten over the course of the day. The grapes should be ripe and thin-skinned for this treatment. See #36.

r 36. As a natural healer and preventive, one bunch of grapes could be eaten two to three times a day one hour before meals. This is enough time for the body to absorb al nutritious elements provided by this plant.

Usual y grape treatment begins with a smal dosage: 300 grams or about 10

ounces a day and gradual y increases to two kilograms or about four pounds. It is recommended to stop eating fatty foods and dairy products, including raw milk, when using this treatment. Kasha or porridge is permissible if it is made from whole grains such as organic steel-cut oatmeal, buckWarning: wheat, mil et, barley, or roasted wheat cereal

and cooked with water. Raisins (1–1½ ounces)

Don’t drink grape juice

or honey (one teaspoon) can be added to these

in large quantities if

porridges.

you are diarrhea

Grape therapy is not recommended

sensitive or you have

for people with obesity and serious heart

diabetes, obesity,

problems, high blood pressure, critical forms

stomach ulcer, or

of tuberculosis and abscesses, inflammation in

chronic inflammatory

the lungs, and other sicknesses in acute stages.

processes in the lungs.

Consult your doctor. Don’t make independent

Consult your physician

decisions without consulting a professional healthor health-care care specialist.

practitioner.

What kind of grapes are used in ampelo-

therapy? Vitis-Isabella and Muscat are beneficial for chronic bronchitis. Semillon and Riesling heal patients vulnerable to infections in their rehabilitation period from viral and bacterial infections (persistent 44 ^ Mama’s Home Remedies

colds, repeated flu) or those suffering cardiac,

vascular, kidney, and liver problems. Tender

and juicy Muscat and Silvaner are effective

Do not eat raisins in

in treating metabolism disorders.

large quantities

Don’t take more than 1 to 1½ quarts of

(more than two pounds)!

grape juice per day.

They can provoke

Now you know that grapes can treat

intestinal disorders.

people with different diseases, but grapes and

the juice of this berry of life have also saved thousands of young and healthy soldiers on the battlefield with the help of birds well known to all of us. These birds are snow-white storks.

ong, long ago during the Russian-Turkish war, the

Fortress Gorodeshty in Moldova was under siege

Lby the Turks. Thousands of defenders of the fortress courageously fought the enemies. All their reserves of food and fresh water came to an end and they began to lose their energy and couldn’t bear the siege anymore. The Russian and Moldavian soldiers were close to death. Their hopes were dashed, and the enemies were already celebrating their victory.

Suddenly a flock of white storks flew in to the hills, where the vines grew under the sun. They took bunches of sun-ripened grapes in their beaks and brought them to the people in the fortress. Dying from starvation and thirst, the soldiers ate these life-giving berries and were immediately refreshed. They became strong and brave with

renewed vigor and held the fortress against enemy attacks. The Turkish soldiers were forced to retreat in confusion.

From that time on, people never forgot these special and kind birds that saved their lives and helped them gain victory in such a difficult battle. Some people still believe that a white stork, bearing a bunch of grapes in his beak, will bring them good luck, happiness, and success. Storks also bring newborn babies to couples, as you know.

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In the villages of Moldova and in the Ukraine, people call white storks

“the sacred birds.” These birds are seen on the roofs on many houses in the countryside there. They bustle about people who want to be happy and have children, and they are more than welcome, as the most desirable guests and messengers of good luck and exciting news.

One morning I went with Grandma to our vineyard. A snow-white stork was already a guest there. But he was not really a guest. On the contrary, we were guests. He was walking like a very important “person” in our vineyard. He walked slowly but surely on the tops of the vines. He looked proudly at us and took wing with one stroke. My breath was taken away. This wonderful creature of Nature—this small, courageous, delicate, and kind bird—was so beautiful and amazing!

I just stopped for a minute and looked at him. He was right there, where the blue sky was bottomless, the hil s were foggy-blue, and a golden sunrise gave a beginning to a new day ful of good luck, a fine mood,