5 Amish NATURAL Remedies for Common Ailments

so when it comes to Health and Medical Care the Amish use a variety of solutions including conventional medicine a lot of times it depends on the community or the family what type of treatment they'll use but a lot of Amish do rely on natural remedies so I wanted to share five of those with you today a lot of these it seems to have multiple uses first of all very common plants in many parts of the country and that would be dandelion now I'm not a natural remedy expert I personally have experience with just one of these and I'll share with you how that went for me so I'm not making any recommendation on whether you should use these this is purely an informational video so dandelion is actually mentioned throughout plain and happy living Amish recipes and remedies by an Amish woman named Emma Byler it actually has more entries than any other remedy in the book it's offered as a treatment for diabetes dropsy as a blood purifier and cleanser and for liver problems among other ailments the author of Nature and the environment in Amish life shared an anecdote they spoke with a bishop in the very traditional swordson Trooper Community the bishop told them quote the lowly dandelion has some very powerful attributes I've seen people with a handful of warts and one pound of dandelion leaf powder takes care of them they drink it in a liquid mixture I call it the poor man's medicine so you see what I mean by some of these remedies having a lot of different uses Emma Byler also had a bit on dandelion wine and she wrote that each spring dad would make up a batch of dandelion wine this wine was only used for medicinal purposes such as for hot toddies and so on it was also one of dad's bases for his bitters he would fill a bottle or jar with his own blend of roots berries some dandelion wine and the tea mentioned below referring to another tea in the book dad would drink a few small sips of this Brew to perk up his heart when it was beating too slowly so there you have a sense of how you know just right off the bat how some of these rim these are used for multiple purposes so next remedy would be golden seal what is golden seal well golden seal is a perennial herb whose roots and leaves are used in traditional remedies Goldenseal appears on eight pages in Emma's book so it's another popular one one of the remedies she discusses is a golden sealed tonic and this is something that Emma seems to feel really strongly about to make this she writes put half a teaspoon powdered golden sealed root in one pint of boiling water and stew it a bit but she notes I buy powder from KDP Hershberger who advertises in the budgets the budget is an Amish newspaper this is one of the most valuable home remedies we use it as a hot tea when the first sign of sore mouth and throat appears dad would also chew the root as a remedy for his peptic stomach Emma also suggests using Goldenseal for treating leg sores poison ivy rash and shingles number three and this is the one that I've had some experience with and that would be what's known as supertonic now what is supertonic so Back To Nature in the environment in Amish life the authors write that on one occasion we visited a home where the women were in the midst of making a year's supply of supertonic concocutive garlic horseradish root onions and ginger all cured in vinegar for six months and then strained the woman of the house was effusive in telling us how a teaspoon per person passed around the dinner table every night had kept her family healthy through the winter so you know the way it's described here supertonic seems to be used as an immune system booster now I took something called supertonic when I fell ill while staying with Amish friends in Pennsylvania one winter I had a pretty I would say severe fever chills Etc so probably some kind of a bug or a flu a very similar recipe I I think this maybe can vary a bit I believe the one that I drink had more chili pepper in it because it definitely had a kick to it I drank it it's kind of tough to drink got in a recliner got under a blanket right by the wood stove fell asleep for probably a couple hours and I did feel better when I woke up so I don't know if that was the reason but I figured it couldn't hurt a lot of Amish seemed to really believe in this remedy you even see it for sale now in some Amish run stores for example I've picked this up a couple of times once in Kentucky once in Pennsylvania and I was also using it for I guess these immune boosting purposes taking a few dropper fulls per day so super tonic another one you can make at home so next we have another flowering plant and this is one I hadn't heard of until I came across it in Emma Byler's book it's known as fever few and I kind of like this because right there in the name it seems like to suggest what it does addressing an ailment right in the name there and this is a plant in the daisy family and as the name suggests Emma recommends using it in a tea sweetened with honey to treat coughs colds and flu but what's interesting here here is that uh in a little bit of eyebrow raising for me anyway she also suggests using it as an insect repellent made into a strong tea and then sprayed on Plants again multiple uses why not I did have a look at the NIH National Institute of Health Website there they say that it's also used for treating migraine headaches rheumatoid arthritis allergies and other maladies however they also know that quote only a few Studies have looked into fever fuse use for migraine headache there's little or no evidence about Feverfew for any other health conditions again not to get into the debate between conventional unconventional medicine just for your information finally and this is my favorite name of any of these remedies and that would be what's known as pig's ear leaves you find this one in Emma's section on remedies for sprains bad bruises and swellings so this is something for when you have an injury and she writes that a good soak of the feet once a day for about 20 minutes or half an hour in a mash made of plantain we Amish call this siora blotter or pig's ear leaves and or comfrey leaves will also help this condition it can't hurt you to try one time when my nephew broke his foot falling off a ladder while siding a house his foot became so swollen the doctor couldn't put a cast on nephew didn't want to stay in the hospital till the swelling went down so he came home his mother gathered plantain cut it up and put it in water as hot as he could stand it this Drew all the soreness and swelling out so that the cast could be put right on I definitely like this name pigsier leaves and you can kind of see from the photos why they might be called that so there you have it there are five natural remedies used by Amish interested to hear what you think let me know in the comments have you used any of these or other natural remedies what was your experience like thanks for watching hit that like button for me if you 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Channel: Amish America

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Keywords: Alternative medicine, home remedies, natural remedies, Amish health practices, unconventional medicine

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Length: 7min 7sec (427 seconds)

Published: Mon May 01 2023