The Natural Remedies Encyclopedia Home remedies for over 500 diseases and disorders. Back in the old days, the pioneers were practical-minded people. They knew how to make-do with what they had. They combined folk remedies from centuries earlier in other lands, with herbal formulas borrowed from the Indians. Since then, even more has been discovered about physiology and nutrition. You will find a lot in this disease encyclopedia. The God of heaven, who created us, has given us the simple things of nature for our healing. It is our prayer that this encyclopedia will help bring back the sunshine into someone's life. INDEX PAGE Introduction Read the instructions first! Disclaimer Use at your own risk! NOW IN PRINT! The entire encyclopedia is available from Harvestime Books. Major section headings INTRODUCTORY HEALTH INFORMATION - Read This Material First. An ounce of prevention. 0 - PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH Introduction Maintaining Health Rebuilding Health The Eight Laws of Health 1 - GENERAL PROBLEMS 2 - SKIN Fatigue Wounds, Bruising Nausea and Fainting Sores, Ulcers, Burns Colds Skin Spots Infections Boils Fevers Chapping, Cracking, Itching Immune Problems Growths Aging Other Minor Skin Problems Major Dermal Problems 3 - EXTREMITIES 4 - HEAD AND THROAT Extremities Head Nails Hair Feet Eye Smell and Taste Ear Throat 5 - GASTRO-INTESTINAL 6 - URINARY Teeth and Gums Urine Mouth Kidney Gas and Vomiting Bladder Stomach Pancreas Liver 7 - RESPIRATORY Gall Bladder Breathing Intestines, Appendix Bronchials Bowel Lungs Anus Pleura Abdominal Cavity Digestive Nutritional Weight 8 - CARDIOVASCULAR Heart Circulatory Blood 9 - NEURO-MENTAL 10 - MUSCULAR-SKELETAL Miscellaneous Bones Stress, Anxiety, Pain Joints Convulsions Tendons Paralysis Muscles Memory Problems Sprains Emotional, Mental Spine Abdominal 11 - ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 12 - LYMPHATICS Adrenals Lymph System Pancreas Thyroid 13 - REPRODUCTIVE 14 - CHILDBIRTH Breast Fertility Menstrual Problems Pregnancy and Childbirth Female Pelvic Problems Birth Defects Male Pelvic Problems Infant Problems Childhood Diseases Later Problems 15 - SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES 16 - POISONS (BITES, PARASITES, METAL Sexually Transmitted Diseases TOXICITY, ETC.) Bites, Stings Transmitted Diseases 17 - TUMORS AND CANCER Allergies Tumors and Cancer Infestations Cancer Prevention Poisoning Addictions "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." —Thomas Edison This information is arranged topically, so you can more easily find similar physical problems. # —Items marked # do not discuss diseases. [Kellogg] —Items marked Kellogg in brackets are natural healing prescriptions by J.H. Kellogg, M.D., medical director of the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium from 1876 to 1942. —Also see . and Which see . —These indicate related topics which are listed under a different category. Each major section shown in the master index will also have an index. Click on the one you are interested in, and it will take you to a more detailed disease index. When you find the desired physical problem, click on it—and you will go to a wealth of information on that disease. Try it and see! Then give God the praise, for He provides the remedies in nature and food. DISCLAIMER The information in this encyclopedia was NOT written by a medical doctor, nurse, scientist, or medical practitioner. So BEWARE; use this information at your own risk! It is a distillation of a large quantity of old-fashioned folk remedies, plus modern nutritional information. This information is not intended to diagnose medical problems, prescribe remedies for illness, or treat disease. It's intention is solely educational. We would strongly encourage you to use this information in cooperation with a medical or health professional. Your grandparents could not afford the chemicals and surgery the big-city folks got, so they had to get well at home, with the aid of simple remedies and trust in God. If you cannot afford to go to the doctors, with the help of God, you may be able to solve some problems at home. - Section 0 - Section 0 Principles of Health Principles of Health Part 1 Introduction Read this DISCLAIMER first! We have included the statements of a number of different natural healing pioneers in this volume. Here are insightful comments from the writings of Ellen INTRODUCTION G. White, who had a profound understanding of the origin and transmission of pathological problems. "The transgression of physical law is the transgression of God's law. Our Creator is Jesus Christ. He is the author of our being. He has created the human structure. MAINTAINING He is the author of the physical laws, as He is the author of the moral law. And HEALTH the human being who is careless and reckless of the habits and practices that concern his physical life and health, sins against God."— Letter, May 19, 1897. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH "God's law is written by His own finger upon every nerve, every muscle, every faculty which has been entrusted to man."— Letter, August 30, 1896. Seventeen factors which will keep you in better health "Health, strength, and happiness depend upon immutable laws; but these laws FRUITS cannot be obeyed where there is no anxiety to become acquainted with them."— Healthful Living, 18. Five facts about fruits VEGETABLES "The Lord has made it a part of His plan that man's reaping shall be according to Eight principles to his sowing."— Letter, May 19, 1897. keep in mind GRAINS "To make plain natural law, and urge the obedience of it, is the work that Six aspects of grain accompanies the third angel's message to prepare a people for the coming of the utilization Lord."— 3 Testimonies, 161 [CDF, 69]. NUTS AND SEEDS Three basic principles "There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but there is only one way FATS that Heaven approves. God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature, that will Two principles when not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties. Pure air and using fats and oils water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are SWEETENING remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are Two more principles going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not OTHER NUTRIENTS appreciate."— 5 Testimonies, 443. Five items which can help you "It is the duty of every human being, for his own sake and for the sake of VITAMINS AND humanity, to inform himself or herself in regard to the laws of organic life, and MINERALS conscientiously to obey them . It is the duty of every person to become Eleven special facts intelligent in regard to disease and its causes."— Letter, December 4, 1896. about these substances "God has formed laws to govern every part of our constitutions, and these laws SUMMARY which He has placed in our being are divine, and for every transgression there is Certain foods to keep a fixed penalty, which sooner or later must be realized."— Healthful Living, 20. in mind THINGS TO AVOID "Our first duty, one which we owe to God, to ourselves, and to our fellow men, Twenty-two things to is to obey the laws of God, which include the laws of health." —3 Testimonies, stay away from 164. NON-DIETETIC FACTORS "The laws governing the physical nature are as truly divine in their origin and Thirty principles that character as the law of the Ten Commandments. Man is fearfully and can help you wonderfully made; for Jehovah has inscribed His law by His own mighty hand on every part of the human body."— Letter, August 5, 1896. " `Have I not a right to do as I please with my own body?' —No, you have no REBUILDING HEALTH moral right, because you are violating the laws of life and health which God has given you. You are the Lord's property,—His by creation and His by redemption. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF Every human being is under obligation to preserve the living machinery that is HEALING so fearfully and wonderfully made."— Letter, May 19, 1897. Twenty-two underlying principles "Our very bodies are not our own, to treat as we please, to cripple by habits that RECOVERY FROM lead to decay, making it impossible to render to God perfect service. Our lives and all our faculties belong to Him. He is caring for us every moment; He keeps DISEASE the living machinery in action. If we were left to run it for one moment, we Sixteen healing should die. We are absolutely dependent upon God."— Letter, October 12, 1896. agencies, based on the methods used by John "The health should be as sacredly guarded as the character."— Christian H. Tilden, M.D. Temperance, 82. SIX TILDEN FORMULAS "Proportionally as nature's laws are transgressed, mind and soul become enfeebled . Physical suffering of every type is seen . Suffering must follow ● Common Cold this course of action. The vital force of the system cannot bear up under the tax ● Asthma placed upon it, and it finally breaks down."— Letter, August 30, 1896. ● Pernicious Anemia ● Diabetes "Sickness is caused by violating the laws of health; it is the result of violating ● Tonsillitis nature's laws."— 3 Testimonies, 164. ● Alcoholism "Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession that mortals can have. THE KELLOGG Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly purchased, if it be at the loss of the vigor of FORMULAS health. None of these attainments can secure happiness if health is wanting."— Christian Education, 35. Introduction to ninety- seven Kellogg formulas found in this "That time is well spent which is directed to the establishment and preservation book of sound physical and mental health .