Live and Be Well: New Age and Age-Old Folk Remedies

A compendium of home remedies--ranging from the old fashioned to the New Age--offers a wide variety of cures for such problems as arthritis, warts, cystitis, ulcers, burns, dieting, quitting smoking, hangovers, and more

Wilen, Joan

Wilen, Lydia

Medical Books

Harpercollins

From the popular authors of Chicken Soup &amp; Other Folk Remedies, this updated and revised edition of Live and Be Well features a range of remedies to cure whatever ails you, including a new section on the popular kombucha tea mushroom. Folk Remedies That Work offer a wide variety of helpful solutions for everything from arthritis to headaches to wrinkles -- with an emphasis on natural medicine that is practical, time-test, and doctor approved.
Inside you'll find remedies that will help you to:
<ul>
<li>Lose weight safely</li>
<li>Give up smoking</li>
<li>Get a better night's sleep</li>
<li>Get rid of a canker sore in 48 hours</li>
<li>Ease the pain of arthritis</li>
<li>Improve your sex life</li>
</ul>

Folk Remedies That Work: By Joan and Lydia Wilen, Authors of Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

William Morrow Paperbacks

Drawing on information old and new, this collection is filled with simple, safe, and practical home remedies for everything from arthritis and warts to cystitis and ulcers. By the authors of Chicken Soup &amp; Other Folk Remedies. Original.

Perennial

Garlic is proven to increase your energy level, improve memory, strengthen your immune system, prevent serious heart problems ... and that's not all. Here's your step-by-step guide for using Nature's Super Healer to help you treat virtually any health condition. Plus, Garlic: Nature's Super Healer provides tips for selecting, storing, and preparing garlic for medicinal use in odor-free capsules, oils, poultices, and teas ... tips for reaping the benefits of eating raw garlic without suffering side effects like burning pain or garlic breath ... as well as fascinating case histories of men and women who achieved relief from their health problem with this incredible herb.

Garlic: Nature's Super Healer

Diets & Weight Loss

Prentice Hall Direct

This monograph argues that garlic can be used to treat a variety of illnesses such as hypertension, sore throats and yeast infections. It examines the "healing powers" of garlic and its use in recipes and remedies. Case histories are included.

Prentice Hall Pr

Can colorless nail polish stop a cold sore from blossoming? How can silverware be used to make a leg cramp subside? Do kiwi fruit, carrots, apples and avocados lower cholesterol? Will ankle-pinching relieve stress? Why not? We all know that chicken soup really does help when you have a cold--and so do the rest of the remedies in this amazing collection of practical, easy-to-use, doctor-approved treatments for a wide variety of ailments. Turn the pages and find age-old wisdom, common sense advice, and up-to-date information, plus an all-new chapter on weight control--everything to help you help yourself feel good. As the authors' grandmother would say, "What could be bad?"

Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Ballantine Books

A PRACTICAL, SAFE, TIME-TESTED, AND EFFECTIVE A-TO-Z GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING REMEDIES For years, sisters Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen have been collecting and incredible home remedies. These range from old treatments that have been passed down for centuries (but forgotten by modern medicine) to methods recently uncovered by doctors and medical researchers. Healing Remedies combines the best entries from the Wilens’ Chicken Soup &amp; Other Folk Remedies books, plus a significant amount of new material, including sections on diabetes, osteoporosis, ADD, anxiety, and children’s common ailments–from colic and diaper rash to tantrums and teething. Also, check out these other remarkable remedies: • Eating two pectin-packed apples a day may help lower blood pressure. • For an energy boost, slap the inside of your elbows and the back of your knees. • Eating one-half avocado a day may lower cholesterol by upto 42 percent. • Vaporize a headache by bringing a cup of apple cider vinegar to a slow boil, then put a towel over your head, bend over the pot at a safe distance, and inhale/exhale through your nose for about 10 minutes. • To tone up your circulatory system and strengthen your heart, pretend to vigorously conduct an orchestra for 10 minutes a day. • To improve your memory, pop six raw almonds a day. • Add pizzazz to your sex life by consuming any fruit beginning with p: peaches, plums, pears, pineapple, papaya, and persimmon. • Practice “girth control” by killing your cravings with pure grape juice. Though not meant as a substitute for doctor’s visits, this amazing guide also features special sections on men’s health challenges, especially prostate concerns, and women’s symptom relief, from cramps and morning sickness to vaginitis and hot flashes. Remedies galore–and more–are at your fingertips!

Healing Remedies: More Than 1,000 Natural Ways to Relieve Common Ailments, from Arthritis and Allergies to Diabetes, Osteoporosis, and Many Others!

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Random House Publishing Group

Name Me, I'm Yours!

Reference

For generations, people have believed that nature's gifts have an important place in treating all kinds of ailments. Whether it's horseradish and honey for coughing, ginger for memory, or balding medicine, this helpful practical book, contains easy-to-prepare medicines, age-old wisdom and common-sense advice.

Practical, informative, and great fun to read, Shoes in the Freezer, Beer in the Flower Bed offers hundreds of time- and money-saving tips for preparing, cleaning, organizing, and maintaining your house and garden. And interspersed throughout the pages are folk beliefs and suggestions from every culture: for example, if you eat chocolate right before bed, you'll have romantic dreams; and if a cat appears at your wedding, your union will be blessed.

Shoes in the Freezer, Beer in the Flower Bed: And Other Down-Home Tips for House and Garden

Parenting & Relationships

Touchstone

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Books by Wilen, Joan

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Live and Be Well: New Age and Age-Old Folk Remedies

Folk Remedies That Work: By Joan and Lydia Wilen, Authors of Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies

Live and Be Well: New Age and Age-Old Folk Remedies

Garlic: Nature's Super Healer

Garlic: Nature's Super Healer

Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies

Healing Remedies: More Than 1,000 Natural Ways to Relieve Common Ailments, from Arthritis and Allergies to Diabetes, Osteoporosis, and Many Others!

Name Me, I'm Yours!

Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies

Shoes in the Freezer, Beer in the Flower Bed: And Other Down-Home Tips for House and Garden