New here so I hope I am posting in the right place.... The wife gave me this book for Christmas and it is flippin 100% awesome!!! It was just published in 2024. Nearly 300 pages of everything natural you could possibly imagine.
I have a large number of glass apothecary jars on my shelves, filled with a variety of herbs and roots for teas that I drink daily with a dollop of raw honey and unfiltered cider vinegar. I hunt them in woods, fields, streams, gardens, and shopping malls. I am a firm believer in herbal and traditional medicines and their worth.
In my mind there are two types of medicinal herbs. One is used for medical purposes to treat an illness, as this book apparently describes. The second type is the one that will prevent illness. Dandelions for vitamins etc in early spring, elderberries to boost immune system, wheat germ in whole wheat flour that is freshly milled for all of its good effects. People have over time survived on diets that we would consider bad by adapting foods and methods of preparation that are extreme. I have yet to see a good book on the things we need to survive in a healthy manner without the input of modern foods and drugs. While oranges may be good, they are rather rarely grown in NH. What are other sources of vitamin c? Extreme Nutrition: The Diet of Eskimos* - Forks Over Knives
Good one Chell. Middle east is heavy in parsley and melons. Mexico and south America are heavy in peppers. Grand mother was heavy in rose hip tea and dandelions. She said sauerkraut and cabbages were good also. 8 Surprising Benefits of Sauerkraut (Plus How to Make It) Ten Things You Might Not Know About Dandelions - Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Surprising Health Perks of Peppers Parsley: Health Benefits, facts, and research While the LDS diet for long term survival is good. Beans, wheat, rice, etc. Your long term survival might well depend on what you use to make it taste good. Peppers, dandelions, parsley, rose hips, etc. The old timers ate the way they did as the ones without proper vitamins etc, died. Thus sauerkraut and variations, kimchee, etc are found thru out the world. If you had vitamin c in the middle of the winter your immune system fought off the flu, if not, your body was stored in a crypt until the ground could be dug for a grave. Don't know if there is a post on the food values of the add ons in the food section or survival section, but there should be. Dandelions are a weed and cabbage grows like one. Rose hips are found in our woods in winter. Be good to know that if you are trying to stay alive on beans and rice.
