For generations, people have believed that nature's gifts have an important place in treating all kinds of ailments. Whether it's horseradish and honey for coughing, ginger for memory, or balding medicine, this helpful practical book, contains easy-to-prepare medicines, age-old wisdom and common-sense advice. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Is there a natural way to soothe dry eyes without eye drops? Can you relieve stress by using clothespins on your fingers? Is there a simple exercise to ease carpal tunnel pain? Can raisins soaked in gin relieve arthritis pain? The answer is yes! All those remedies--and more!--are at your fingertips, including an all-new chapter on the top ten foods most essential to your health and well-being. Everyone who loved the Wilen Sisters' first book will want to have this sequel in their home. That is, if you want a healthier heart; need to boost your immune system; care to lose weight, stop smoking, become more attractive, and improve your sex life! Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen will have you using the kitchen as your pharmacy; the fridge as your medicine cabinet; and the supermarket, greengrocer, and health food store as your dispensaries.
From the popular authors of Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies, this updated and revised edition of Live and Be Well features a range of remedies to cure whatever ails you, including a new section on the popular kombucha tea mushroom. Folk Remedies That Work offer a wide variety of helpful solutions for everything from arthritis to headaches to wrinkles -- with an emphasis on natural medicine that is practical, time-test, and doctor approved. Inside you'll find remedies that will help you to: Lose weight safely Give up smoking Get a better night's sleep Get rid of a canker sore in 48 hours Ease the pain of arthritis Improve your sex life
A PRACTICAL, SAFE, TIME-TESTED, AND EFFECTIVE A-TO-Z GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING REMEDIES For years, sisters Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen have been collecting and incredible home remedies. These range from old treatments that have been passed down for centuries (but forgotten by modern medicine) to methods recently uncovered by doctors and medical researchers. Healing Remedies combines the best entries from the Wilens’ Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies books, plus a significant amount of new material, including sections on diabetes, osteoporosis, ADD, anxiety, and children’s common ailments–from colic and diaper rash to tantrums and teething. Also, check out these other remarkable remedies: • Eating two pectin-packed apples a day may help lower blood pressure. • For an energy boost, slap the inside of your elbows and the back of your knees. • Eating one-half avocado a day may lower cholesterol by up to 42 percent. • Vaporize a headache by bringing a cup of apple cider vinegar to a slow boil, then put a towel over your head, bend over the pot at a safe distance, and inhale/exhale through your nose for about 10 minutes. • To tone up your circulatory system and strengthen your heart, pretend to vigorously conduct an orchestra for 10 minutes a day. • To improve your memory, pop six raw almonds a day. • Add pizzazz to your sex life by consuming any fruit beginning with p: peaches, plums, pears, pineapple, papaya, and persimmon. • Practice “girth control” by killing your cravings with pure grape juice. Though not meant as a substitute for doctor’s visits, this amazing guide also features special sections on men’s health challenges, especially prostate concerns, and women’s symptom relief, from cramps and morning sickness to vaginitis and hot flashes. Remedies galore–and more–are at your fingertips!
2022 IACP Award Nominee Longlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2020 Celebrating the universal joy of chicken soup. This is a celebration of one of the most widely interpreted, and beloved dishes the world over. With more than 100 recipes dedicated to this one special, often humble, meal, James Beard-nominee Jenn Louis shows readers how chicken soup is not only a source of heart-warming sustenance, but also a cure-all and the ultimate expression of love. With chapters broken down by region and country, The Chicken Soup Manifesto includes everything from Algerian Chorba Bayda, Colombian and Panamanian Sancocho and Thai Kao Tom Gai to Spanish Sopa de Picadillo. Along with the recipes, Jenn also covers essential chicken know-how, from selecting and storing, to stock 101 and brining. The book is fully photographed with a design that establishes it as a collectible object as much as a hard-working guide to the world's favorite soup.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope & Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey will encourage comfort and encourage breast cancer patients and survivors with its inspiring stories and helpful medical information. A support group from breast cancer diagnosis through treatment to rehabilitation and recovery, this book combines inspiring Chicken Soup for the Soul stories written just for this book and accessible leading-edge medical information from Dr. Julie Silver of Harvard Medical School. Patients and survivors will find comfort, strength and hope.
The debut cookbook by the creator of the wildly popular blog Damn Delicious proves that quick and easy doesn't have to mean boring.Blogger Chungah Rhee has attracted millions of devoted fans with recipes that are undeniable 'keepers'-each one so simple, so easy, and so flavor-packed, that you reach for them busy night after busy night. In Damn Delicious, she shares exclusive new recipes as well as her most beloved dishes, all designed to bring fun and excitement into everyday cooking. From five-ingredient Mini Deep Dish Pizzas to no-fuss Sheet Pan Steak & Veggies and 20-minute Spaghetti Carbonara, the recipes will help even the most inexperienced cooks spend less time in the kitchen and more time around the table.Packed with quickie breakfasts, 30-minute skillet sprints, and speedy takeout copycats, this cookbook is guaranteed to inspire readers to whip up fast, healthy, homemade meals that are truly 'damn delicious!'
Gluten-free, dairy-free, and grain-free recipes that sound and look way too delicious to be healthy from The Defined Dish blog, fully endorsed by Whole30.
Presents a collection of popular, all-natural, traditional remedies for a variety of common ailments, ranging from backache and sunburns to ear infections and gout.
