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THE CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF CHICKEN AND CHICKEN FAT – CASE

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:34:32 +0000

And here is another experience with chicken fat which is just as interesting. In a lonely farmstead a young man hurt himself badly while felling a tree. The axe went right into his knee and cracked the knee cap. He dragged himself to the house with difficulty. There was no doctor for miles around and, of course, there was no such thing as a telephone. His father could not think what to do. Meanwhile, the boy’s leg had become very swollen and discoloured. The lymph glands in the groin became swollen and painful. Blood poisoning had already set in. His mother then remembered that her grandmother had always used chicken fat in cases of blood poisoning. So she killed several chickens and spread the raw fat on the whole leg as thickly as possible.

The doctor, whom the family finally succeeded in contacting, could only come the following morning. As an experienced travelling country doctor, he did not consider the chicken fat treatment strange and appeared well satisfied with the young man’s condition. He took the patient with him to the hospital for surgical treatment and in a short time the leg was completely healed. The mother was convinced that she had saved her boy’s life by rubbing on the fat as soon as the blood poisoning became evident.

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VARIOUS DIETS AND TREATMENTS – PAPAIN – ITS ORIGIN AND USES (WHERE DO THESE PLANTS SUDDENLY SPRING FROM?)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:28:18 +0000

The answer escaped me for quite a while, but I found it in the end, and it is actually very simple. You see, birds like papaya too and when they find the fruit growing in clearings they swoop down and pick at them, seeds and all. Off they fly again and on the way their droppings, together with the undigested seeds, fall back onto the jungle floor where they remain dormant for ten, twenty, or perhaps even a hundred years or more, the reason being that the dense forest shuts out all sunlight from the earth, and without light they cannot sprout. However, as soon as a clearing is cut in the jungle the sunlight warms the earth, the seeds begin to germinate and within a year, because their growth is very fast indeed, you have a plant the height of a man.

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VARIOUS DIETS AND TREATMENTS – THE THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF THE SEA; SEA AIR

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:22:24 +0000

People who do not live by the sea dream of the beach and surf, especially when they sit down to plan their holidays. They long to see the play of the waves, how they break on the immovable rocks, roll and foam and then fizzle out on the golden sands. The waves approach the beach, powerful and inexorable, run up on it and disappear, yet in spite of their awesome power they instil a feeling

of being soothed. We never tire of watching them; we are just happy and content to admire their endless movement.

In the morning and evening we feel the urge to stretch our legs and go for a walk along the beach. Some holiday-makers may still be tucked up in bed when we are already up and about, enjoying every minute of the exhilarating experience. The bracing sea air is tangy, salty, high in iodine, and its effect on us is instant. Old and lingering catarrh is loosened. Whatever else is left over from the colds and chills of the previous winter is on its way out because we breathe deeply on our regular walks along the beach.

Let me tell you, sea air is indeed a remedy for our respiratory organs and the endocrine glands; it cleanses and stimulates them marvellously. It has been said before that the thyroid in particular is stimulated by sea air and also by sea water and seaweeds, especially on account of their iodine content. However, if you suffer from Graves’ disease (exophthalmic goitre) or hyperthyroidism, you must be careful to limit your exposure to these stimulants; in other words, if the sea air or bathing in the sea increases your pulse rate or causes a faster heartbeat, you should spend only short periods on the beach every day. Given time, the body will become accustomed to the impact of the marine atmosphere and you may gradually increase your exposure to a few hours daily. The more the disturbing symptoms diminish, the longer you can permit yourself the pleasure of spending time on the beach. So if you take care to do what is sensible and reasonable and not extreme, the therapeutic effect and cure will be much faster.

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SEASONINGS – CULINARY HERBS ARE MEDICINES – ROSEMARY

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:16:01 +0000

Isabella, Queen of Hungary, had much to do with rosemary’s reputation as a rejuvenating tonic. This simple but beautiful shrub with its little leaves and flowers is known everywhere as a sweet herb and a remedy and is used in herbal medicine because of its beneficial effect on the vasomotor nerves and the heart nerves. This aromatic herb should be used much more widely for culinary purposes, to enable us to benefit from its goodness. In fact, famous chefs have been adding rosemary to sauces and gravies, roast meat and saltwater fish for a long time. Vegetarians, too, should not forget to use plenty of this herb.

If you add rosemary to old wine you will get a good heart tonic, which will benefit anyone suffering from low blood pressure or who is always pale and weak, as well as older persons. A glass of rosemary wine is a good pick-me-up for convalescents recovering from a bout of flu or similar infectious disease; it will speed up their recovery.

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WILD FRUITS AND BERRIES – HAWTHORN (CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHA)

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:08:05 +0000

The splendid remedy, Crataegisan, is made from the dark red berries, haws, to be found hanging in small bunches from the thorny hawthorn shrubs by the wayside or in the meadows every autumn. When I was a child, my friends and I called them ‘mealy berries’. We children did not know anything about them, except that they were good to eat (their pulpy inside is not unlike cooked sweet potato) and of course we ate them because there was probably nothing else at that particular moment. Certainly we did not need those berries when we were young, for Crataegus is a heart remedy, and is particularly valuable in cases of weak heart muscles.

When arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and, especially, a hardened and constricted coronary artery are diagnosed, there is

no doubt that Crataegus is the best, the most harmless and the most reliable remedy that can be taken. Arnica, mixed in the right proportion with Crataegus, makes up a compound remedy that has benefited many elderly people, even to the extent of lengthening their lives.

Crataegisan is a successful remedy for angina pectoris, when heart cramps occur. These cramps are usually accompanied by stabbing pains in the region of the heart resulting in difficult breathing and a weak, irregular pulse. In this case, where immediate relief is necessary, take 5-10 drops every half hour. When the pains subside and the cramps have eased, 15-20 drops taken three times a day will suffice.

For cardiac dilatation, the main treatment should consist of heart hormones and Crataegus taken at the same time.

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