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

“Why do you cry? I see now you are not a malicious witch

but a normal girl. You are so beautiful that I have fallen in love with you,” said Ula. “Do you know what? Promise to be good and I will take you with us, and I’ll marry you. We’ll live together and I’ll be a good husband to you.”

The end of this fairy tale was happy. Ula, his father, and the girl returned home together. Ula’s mother met them with a big smile and a warm hospitality that only she could provide as a real mother. She liked the girl at first sight. There was a big, merry wedding, and all 77 hunters were invited with their families. They celebrated seven days and seven nights.

And from that time on hunters are not scared to go back

to the Valley of Flowers because now hundreds of red flowers grow there, blossom, and dance gracefully at sunrise. They murmur and share the peoples’ secrets with the wind, and

sing marvelous songs, known only to them alone.

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When I think about this old folk tale, I feel that it is surprisingly compatible with the real life we lead. Albert Einstein said, not by chance, that if we want our children to be brilliant, we should read them fairy tales. He said so from his observations and his own experience. We can trust his suggestion; he was a brilliant man and a genius scientist himself. Perhaps his mother read him a lot of fairy tales.

I believe we must find time in our busy lives to read to our children as much as we can—good children’s literature, kind and wise stories, folk tales and fairy tales. As all mothers do, I am sure if we “put” anything good in our children by planting fine “seeds” from the first day of their appearance on Earth, it will give great results in the future. Our children will lead healthy lives, and not “thorny paths,” and they will not get hurt easily, if they will choose good actions, and inspire the same in others.

Doesn’t the Valley of Flowers remind you too of our everyday life and the fascinating world around that we explore all the time? The place where we and our children share love, joy and appreciation for each other, and the great satisfaction of knowing we should continue our life journey with the best intentions we can?

Our life, our Valley of Flowers, is where millions of peoples’ destinies grow and blossom like flowers, dance gracefully at sunrise, and murmur with the wind. Some of these flowers and their neighbors—herbs, trees, fruits, and vegetables—can enhance our health and emotions. Respect them and take advantage of how they can help you and others.

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Chapter 14

Nature’s Green Clinic:

Useful Herbs, Plants, Fruits

and Vegetables

Medicine is an art to imitate the healing power of nature. Hippocrates (c.460-c.377 B.C.), Greek physician

and the “Father of Medicine.”

This chapter charts the healing power of our green friends, used in remedies in this book, and how they can be our lifesavers. They come from centuries of people’s wisdom and from flora of the earth—an endless treasure of natural healers. Even the most primitive tribes on Earth knew medicinal characteristics of herbs and how to use them. In search of food, human beings observed the faultless instincts of animals, saving themselves with green plants, and they began to recognize the medicinal properties of herbs.

Humans have long studied about how to find and use herbs. One of the important precepts of Hippocrates doctrine was based on the “the healing power of nature,” or in Latin, vis mediatrix naturae. Theophrastus, Greek philosopher and a student of Aristotle and Dioscorides (circa 372-287 B.C.), wrote Medicinal Matters, in which he prescribed the experiences of ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians and the use of 600 plants or herbs. His Nature’s Green Clinic: Useful Herbs, Plants, Fruits and Vegetables @ 275

book was translated into Latin with the name Materia Medica and served as a guide to doctors and pharmacists for 15 centuries. From that time, Latin names of herbs have become well known and used throughout European countries, Russia, and almost everywhere in the world. Names of herbs, trees, and other plants are given in English and Latin versions.

Chapter 1: Rose Hips Tea Party

Coffee (beans) – Coffea arabica

Dandelion – Taraxacum officinale

Rose hips – Rosa canina

Dried grape (raisin) – Vitis vinifera

Chapter 2:

Evening primrose oil – Oenothera biennis

“Even the Badger Knows…”

Garden radish – Raphanus sativis

Garlic – Allium sativum

Almond – Amygdalis dulcis

Grape, Grapeseed oil – Vitis vinifera

Aloe – Aloe vera

Grapeseed oil – Vitis vinifera

Barley – Hordeum vulgare

Lemon – Citrus limon

Beet – Beta vulgaris

Olive (oil) – Olea europaea

Black radish – Raphanus sativus

Plum – Prunus domestica

Cabbage – Brassica oleracea

Potato – Solanum tuberosum

Carrot – Daucus carota

Prune (dried plum) – Prunus domestica

Garlic – Allium sativum

Rose hips oil –Rosa canina

Ginger – Zingiber officinale

Tomato – Solanum lycopersicum

Olive (oil ) –