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

Juice fresh black currants and drink two ounces three times a day for chronic headaches. Do this for at least one week and the headaches should cease.

r 61. Prepare calendula tincture. Calendula is not bur marigold,

which is toxic if taken internally. To one ounce of calendula add three ounces vodka and steep for two weeks. Take 20–30 drops three times a day. Your headaches should disappear, your sleep should improve, and your efficiency should increase. Calendula tincture rapidly quel s inflammation, speeds the regeneration of tissues, and aids in healing wounds.

r 62. Peppermint oil rubbed on the forehead, temples, and neck and behind the ears eases headaches related to colds and sinus congestion.

Headaches provoked by colds

r 63. Rub forehead and temples with the grated rind of a lemon. r 64. Add a pinch of cinnamon to one pint of hot water and steep for 30

minutes. Add sugar or honey. Take two tablespoons every hour. r 65. Add ½ teaspoon cinnamon to one tablespoon hot water. Steep for 30 minutes. Use as a lotion to rub on the temples.

r 66. To alter the fragrance of cinnamon, add to it one drop of mint or lavender oil.

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r 67. To one quart of boiling water, add eight ounces freshly mashed hawthorn berries. Add sugar or honey and steep for 30 minutes. Drink two mugs before bed to ease headache and provide sound sleep.

r 68. To one tablespoon thyme (leaves and flowers) add eight ounces boiling water. Steep for 10 minutes. Drink two ounces three times a day.

r 69. People who suffer from hypertension very often have headaches because of high blood pressure. A simple remedy is to add to 24

ounces of boiling water the dried peel of two red onions. Leave to infuse for one hour. Drink one glass three times a day one hour before eating.

r 70. People’s medicine in Russia and other European countries tel us that the best way to treat headaches and pain in the hands is by listening to the gentle, healing tinkling of a bel .

I suffered with chronic headaches for a period in my life when I was not eating at the right times. I worked many hours and was under a tremendous amount of stress. I got rid of these painful and bothersome headaches for a long time.

How I believe I got rid of them and how I keep them at bay today may sound a bit unusual, but I believe it is true. I wear Baltic amber around my neck. When I was plagued by those terrible, throbbing headaches, I wore my favorite stone for two weeks 24 hours a day. The recurring headaches disappeared. No kidding!

Since ancient times in various parts of the world, amber has been called, among other things, tears of the gods, gold of the North, gold of the sea, and stones of the sun. It is said to clean the environment in which it rests. It is believed to be a symbol of renewal in troubled marriages and a generator of new love relationships. It is also said to stimulate the intellect, clear thinking, activate unconditional love in people, and open the crown chakra. 146 ^ Mama’s Home Remedies

Generation after generation searched for the origin of the discovery of amber, and it is said that the first sunny stone was found near the Sunset (Baltic) Sea. Sometime around the fifteenth century amber

began to make itself known. In the eighteenth cenRemember: tury Swedish scientist C. Linnaeus (1707–1778)

was the first to indicate that amber has a natural

Baltic amber has the

origin. Later in the nineteenth century Michael

highest healing power

Lomonosov, a prominent Russian scientist,

during the first hours

confirmed his theory. In 1812 a rare amber

of a new moon.

stone was found which contained a smal tree

Amber needs a day off.

twig. This find proved the theory that amber

Give your necklace, ring,

is not just a fossilized resin as many sources

earrings, or bracelet a

cite today, but it is the resin that turned into

rest at the end of each

amber because of a chemical process going on

month—preferably

for centuries, the influence and interaction of

on the night before

the air and water on the resin, and then “hida new moon.

ing” many years under ground until the stone was

Here’s how:

found in the thick, green forest.

Soak the amber overnight

These forests stretched widely around the

in a crystal bowl filled

Baltic Sea many centuries ago. Some believe that

with water and a pinch of

these forests started near the small town of Nida in

sea salt. The next morning

Lithuania and then reached the Bornholm Island in

remove the stones from

Denmark in the west and came to Tallinn (Estonia)

the bowl, wrap in a flax

and Stockholm (Sweden) in the north.

napkin, and dry outside

Many times while traveling in the Baltic States,

in the sun.

I saw these huge trees, resinous and aromatic near

crystal-clear blue rivers that carried amber stones

to other rivers, lakes, and seas through the centuries. This natural waterway brought amber to England and Ukraine, but amber’s favorite destination seemed to be the Kaliningrad region in Russia. The small town of Yantarny (amber is yantar in Russian) once held the title of the biggest amber field in the world.

In ancient times, amber was worth its weight in gold. The demand for it spread throughout many countries. Caravans carried it from the Baltic region to Rome. Stone Age people wore amber for adornment and as a talisman to fend off evil spirits and disease. Long ago Native Americans discovered amber’s magic and it became a sacred stone for them. They used it in rituals to manifest desires into reality.

Clever Remedies to Outsmart Headaches