Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Living (42 page)

PHYSICAL THERAPY (PHYSIOTHERAPY
): a system of prevention, promotion, treatment and rehabilitation, helping people to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout the lifespan.

PHYTOTHERAPY
(
HERBALISM, HERBAL MEDICINE
): a folk and traditional medicinal practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts.
PREVENTION:
any activity that avoids the development of a disease.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:
a part of medicine engaged with preventing disease rather than curing it.

REGENERATION:
the ability to recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs.

REJUVENATION:
to restore to youthful vigor.

RESPIRATORY:
a system of humans and other mammals comprising the lungs and other organs involved in breathing.

SENSITIVITY:
rapid perception with the senses, reacting to small changes, degree of susceptibility to stimulation.

STRESS:
the sum of physical and mental responses to an unacceptable imparity between real or imagined personal experience and personal expectations.
TANNINS:
astringent, bitter-tasting plant polyphenols (a group of chemical substances found in plants) that bind and precipitate proteins.
TINCTURE:
a solution made by steeping the dried or fresh herbs in a mixture of alcohol and water.

TONIC:
nourishing, restoring, and supporting for the whole body.
TOXIN:
a poisonous substance produced by living cells or organisms.
YOGA:
means
Union
in Sanskrit, a system of ancient spiritual practices that originated in India and remains a vibrant tradition as the means of enlightenment of life.

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All folk tales, fairy tales, myths, stories and ancient legends included in this book have been adapted by the author from her family’s foretelling, diaries and notes. The following tales have been translated and retold by Svetlana Konnikova:

A Little Story about My Grandpa and His Grapevine of Happiness Ampelos, a Remarkable Daughter

How a Boy “Ampel” Became a Magnificent Grape Star

How Brave Storks Saved Soldiers from Death

Twelve Months

One Hundred Brains

Green Savior

How God Created 70 Medicinal Herbs

Masha, a Little Scarlet Flower and the Beast

Chamomile, a Passenger without a Ticket

On the Ruins of Jurate’s Amber Castle

A Sunny Stone with a Silver Snake Inside

The Tale of the Firebird, Tsarevich Ivan and the Gray Wolf How Goddess Flora Created a Name for One Tiny Flower

Pan and Syringe

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The Snowdrop, 1863

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Useful Addresses / Herbal Suppliers

You can buy and learn more about herbs, nutritional supplements and natural foods by contacting the companies and organizations below. Many of them have Web addresses. Keep in mind that these addresses may change without notice. Inclusion in the following list doesn’t indicate endorsement of any company or organization by the author or publisher.

Avena Botanicals,
219 Mill St.

Diamond Organics,
1272 Highway 1

Rockport, ME 04856

Moss Landing, CA 95039

tel: 207.594.0694 M fax: 866.282.8362

tel: 888.674.2642 M fax: 888.888.6777

http://www.avenaherbs.com

http://www.diamondorganics.com

Blessed Herbs,
109 Bare Plains Road

Herb Pharm

Oakham, MA 01068

202260 Williams Hwy

tel: 1-800-489-HERB (4372)

Williams, OR 97544

fax: 508-882-3755

tel: 541.846.6262 M fax: 800.545.7392

http://www.blessedherbs.com

http://www.herb-pharm.com

Blessed Maine Herb Farm,
257

Mayway Corporation

Chapman Ridge

1338 Mandela Street,

Athens, ME 04912

Oakland, CA 94607

tel: 207.654.2879

tel: 800-262-9929 or 510-208-3113

http://www.blessedmaineherbs.com

fax: 800-909-2828 or 510-208-3069

http://www.mayway.com

Classic Soap Shoppe,
1804 Hwy 206

Cisco, TX 76437

Frontier Natural Products Co-op

tel: 254.442.2630

P.O. Box 299, 3021 78th St.

http://www.classicsoapshoppe.com

Norway, IA 52318

tel: 800-669-3275 M fax: 800-717-4372

http://www.frontiercoop.com

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Index

A

almonds, for cleansing, 18,

animal instincts, 8–9, 10,

abrasions, 30.

38, 87

19–20

See also
wound remedies

aloe vera, 12–13, 220, 245

animals: as irritants, 88, 103–4,

acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), 77

alternative medicine, 7–8, 11,

112, 120–22; as pets, 199

acne remedies, 9, 30, 99

16–17, 28

anise and anise seeds: for

Adam, Eve, and the snowdrops,

Alzheimer’s disease, 177

asthma, 218, 220; for colds,

195

amber: about, 146–48, 254;

77; essential oil from, 223;

Adams, Richard, 175