Traditional medicine & herbal remedies
Grandma's natural medicines
by Diana Calcagno
Throughout its pages you will be able to know the 55 most effective and easiest plants to obtain: garlic, basil, chamomile, carrot, chicory, onion, lemon, mint, walnut, thyme, valerian, etc. Special attention is also paid to honey and the other products of the hive: pollen, propolis, royal jelly, etc. The precise indications are described and given to prepare all the herbal teas, infusions, decoctions, medicinal wines, tinctures, ointments, elixirs, syrups and poultices used for the most varied disorders and diseases. As you can see from the explanations you will find in the book, acne and asthma, bronchitis and headache, fever and hemorrhoids, abscesses and liver diseases, insomnia and neuralgia, colds and constipation are easy to cure diseases: thus, you can combat headaches by smelling wine vinegar, relieve stomach pain with a nettle tisane or cure the liver with a decoction of lettuce. The place and time of harvest, the remedy that can be prepared and the dose with which it should be administered is described for each plant.
