The Amish Medicines and Nuts
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Alec Jones provides a book entitled “The Wisdom of Amish Folk Medicine” by Patrick Quillan, which notes the use of nuts and their byproducts in a number of remedies....

An Amish cereal recipe high in roughage: 6 cups oatmeal; 1 c. shredded coconut; 3 c. wheat germ; 1⁄2 c. chopped almonds; 1⁄2c. chopped pecans; 1.5 c. brown sugar; 1⁄2 tsp. salt;
1⁄2 c. vegetable oil. Mix in bowl and toast till crunchy.

For coughs: Steep four chestnut leaves in one pint boiling water; sweeten with honey; drink 5-6 times daily. And: mix 1⁄4 oz. lobelia, black cohosh root and chestnut leaves in a jar; pour 1⁄2 pint boiling water and let stand 30 minutes; strain, add 1 lb sugar, and bring to a boil; remove scum; give 1 tsp. every hour to children.

For diabetes: in addition to the doctor’s directions, consider: drink 3 cups daily of tea made from 1⁄4 avocado leaf, one eucalyptus leaf and one walnut leaf.

For diarrhea: Brew a tea from white oak bark.

To rid the body of worms: a syrup of fennel seed, black walnut hulls {the green hulls}, senna leaves, male fern, tansey, tame sage and wormwood.

A tea made from chestnut leaves for menopause.

For the memory: eat hazel nuts for nine days; six on the first day; then add an extra nut each day. Ed note: another recipe calls for ‘muscot nuts’. Anyone know what these are??

Ginkgo biloba extract dramatically increases blood flow and thus improves memory on older adults Make a tea from: white oak bark, comfrey root, marshmallow root, mullein, black walnut hulls, gravel root, wormwood, lobelia, and skullcap; drink daily to speed the healing of a broken bone.

All squirrel photos provided by (c)Jay Goldtrap 2002

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