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

then ready to eat. Separate into four portions. Eat one part and store the rest in your refrigerator for up to seven days.

Farmer’s cheese gives you a fair dose of calcium to keep bones and teeth strong and balances the metabolism, which creates a solid foundation to help resist allergies.

You can add hot oatmeal to your breakfast menu to clean blood vessels and impart a healthy, fresh appearance to your skin. I have observed for many years that people who suffer from an allergy also suffer from a calcium deficiency, so to keep allergies at bay, it is a good idea to maintain the proper level of calcium in our bodies.

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r 4. Every two to three days make one glass (eight ounces) of fresh carrot juice and drink (chew as if you were chewing food) it before any meal. Parsley can be added to carrot juice as a strong blood purifier.

r 5. Eat your homemade cheese or three ounces of organic farmer’s cheese, al natural, no salt added. It contains vitamins A and C, calcium, and iron. Add one tablespoon of organic sour cream. Mix it and eat as is, or add fresh berries, raisins, and one teaspoon of honey or cherry preserves.

r 6. Make one cup of hot green tea with orange, passion fruit and jasmine, Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Prince of Wales, or Ceylon with orange pekoe.

r 7. Make one glass of hot chamomile tea and drink it to wash out impurities in the blood vessels.

r 8. Make a hot oatmeal kasha with a banana sliced into it. Drink a cup of hot herbal tea along with it.

Usually in allergy treatments doctors recommend strong drugs or steroids. I do not recommend such strong measures, but prefer instead alternative medicine.

The following are Russian folk remedies that can help you strengthen and clean the immune and respiratory systems from toxins so allergens will not find a beneficial environment in which to “blossom” into allergic diseases. Vitamin teas:

r 9. Combine one teaspoon black currants (fresh or dry) and one teaspoon rose hips (fresh or dry) in a glass pitcher with two cups boiling water. Steep for one hour, filter, and add one teaspoon honey. Drink four ounces three to four times a day.

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r 10. Mix one teaspoon black currants, two teaspoons nettle leaf, and three teaspoons rose hips. Fol ow directions in #9.

r 11. Wash two pounds of fresh black currant berries and put into an enamel bowl. Add two pounds of sugar. Mix, rub with a wooden spoon, and mix again. Store in refrigerator, and eat one teaspoon every day or add to hot tea. This mixture keeps vitamins, including vitamin C, fresh for a long time. Herbal compositions in hot teas

r 12. one teaspoon rose hips

one teaspoon black currants

r 13. one teaspoon rose hips

one teaspoon cranberries

r 14. one teaspoon rose hips

one teaspoon blueberries

r 15. three teaspoons nettle leaves

three teaspoons blueberries

three teaspoons rose hips

r16. seven teaspoons mountain ash berries

three teaspoons nettle leaves

r 17. one teaspoon rose hips

one teaspoon mountain ash berries

Put one tablespoon of herbs and berries in a pot. Add one cup of water and boil for 10 minutes. Steep for four hours and then cover with a smal cloth to keep this liquid warm. Take ½ of a glass two to three times a day.

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r 18. Cut 5–10 strawberry leaves (dry or fresh) into smal pieces. Add one cup boiling water. Steep for 10–15 minutes and drink as a vitamin tea.

Restoration remedies

r 19. Thinly slice two lemons and place layer by layer in a glass jar. Add raw brown sugar or honey to cover each layer of lemon. Eat three to four pieces every day.

r 20. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables.

r 21. Eat lots of organic yelow onions. Try this “Mama’s Onion Salad.” Grind 15 baby carrots; add one onion and one green apple cut in smal pieces. Add a pinch of salt and two tablespoons of sour cream. Olive oil can substitute for sour cream. It is important to eat at least three times a day always at the same time to keep your metabolism in balance.

r 22. After 6:00 p.m., eat a green apple and drink six to eight ounces of organic buttermilk. Drink one cup of hot chamomile or apricot tea before you go to bed. You wil sleep soundly after eating lightly in the evening.

r 23. Try to fal asleep between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. to assure that you get a good sound sleep for at least eight hours. This is enough to restore your nervous system and energy for the next day. By following the above suggestions, you can say that you have done the best you can in preventing allergic irritants from making you sick. The following is a list of remedies to use when prevention measures fail. 98 ^ Mama’s Home Remedies

Ailments: al ergic skin blisters, spots, red swel ings, rashes, eczema, acne.

Remedies:

Cabbage is the first and easiest useful natural tool in emergencies. Cabbage has been used since Dioscorides’ time to treat skin and digestive problems, fevers, muscle aches, varicose veins, chronic bowel syndrome, and mastitis. It is known in folk medicine as colewort, which was always ready as a natural medicine for all family sicknesses for many generations. r 24. Cut a fresh leaf from a head of cabbage. Wash, beat the leaf to soften, and bind it to the affected area with gauze.

r 25. Take ¼ head of cabbage, cut into