Showing posts with label Herbal Remedies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herbal Remedies. Show all posts

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Old Fashioned Herbal Medicine, Culpeper's English Physician



Culpepper's English Herbal Medicines from Chuck Thompson

From days long ago, this is a digital copy of Culpeper's English Physician loaded with herbal remedies.  Natural health from days long gone by.  This volume is very extensive with over 700 pages.  To read this book here online, left click the icon at the very bottom right hand side of the container and it will open to full screen view.  To get out of full screen mode, hit your escape key.

Free downloads are available on this ebook by visiting our SlideShare site.  You will have to log in with either a Facebook account or a LinkedIn account.  You can also set up a free account as well.

The above book was originally published back in 1652.  It is one of the most extensive books of it's kind and still highly researched today.




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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Natural Health Tips - Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) and Moss (Bryophyta)
Liverworts (Marchantiophyta) and Moss (Bryophyta) (Photo credit: Futureman1)
SK
WA´LǏ=Hepatica acutiloba--Liverwort, Heartleaf: Used for
coughs either in tea or by chewing root. Those who dream of snakes
drink a decoction of this herb and I´natû Ga´n‘ka=“snake tongue”
(Camptosorus rhizophyllus or Walking Fern) to produce vomiting, after
which the dreams do not return. The traders buy large quantities of
liverwort from the Cherokees, who may thus have learned to esteem it
more highly than they otherwise would. The appearance of the other
plant, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, has evidently determined its Cherokee
name and the use to which it is applied. Dispensatory: “Liverwort is a
very mild demulcent tonic and astringent, supposed by some to possess
diuretic an
English: Collage of Cherokee men and women fro...
English: Collage of Cherokee men and women from public domain sources. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
d deobstruent virtues. It was formerly used in Europe
in various complaints, especially chronic hepatic affections, but
has fallen into entire neglect. In this country, some years since,
it acquired considerable reputation, which, however, it has not
maintained as a remedy in hæmoptysis and chronic coughs.” The other
plant is not named.

Reprinted from an historical book from 1885-1886 
The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886,
Government Printing Office, Washington,
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