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Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) 

It is the symbol of the month of April. We should eat 5-10 stems, on empty stomach, 15 minutes before dinner; the cure should last for 10-14 days. 
Warning: Do not eat it while in bloom!

Fresh dandelion syrup
- pick up both stem and leaves, without harming the root. Wash it well with cold water and let it dry out. Slice it on a wooden plate and keep it into a sealed jar; add liquid honey. Mix it well and let it soak at room temperature. Drink the syrup before each meal - 1/3 teaspoons, for at least 12 days.

Salad - dandelion leaves
- take a hadful of fresh leaves, wash and slice them well. Mix it with sliced vegetables - dill and parsley - add little oil and half teaspoon of apple vinegar. Let it soak for 5 minutes and eat it. Eat only a slice of black bread. Eat salad 2-3 times/day, as appetizer.

Therapeutic use:
- diabetes - a cure of several weeks with dandelion stems and leaves and natural food improves health and diabetes. Half of the people suffering from diabetes reduced gradually the insuline dose, meanwhile the other half stopped taking it. One should use only leaves and stems for making a salad; syrup is not recommended (since it is sweetened with honey). 
- chronical kidney shortage - syrup and salad are highly recommended. Except for springtime, when they should drink a litre of tea: dandelion, maize, beans. 
- eczemas - a two weeks-cure of salad and vegetables; eat only uncooked food. Drink one litre of Viola tricolor tea.
- acnea - syrup helps body dis intoxicate and improves the balance of hormones; also eat fresh onions (green leaves), green salad, celery leaves, raddish - all uncooked.
- anemia - dandelion salad, 200 ml of beet and 50 ml nettle juice/day.
- constipation, hemoroids, fatness - drink only fresh dandelion juice; it is good for improving intestinal and liver activity, losing weight, cleaning out blood vessels.
- biliary dyskinesy, hepatitis - eat dandelion stems as salad because it helps cleaning out liver and stimulate its activity; it is a perfect remedy against liver cirrhosis and biliary lithiasis.
- milkleg - for internal use: fresh stems and syrup; for external use - fresh dandelion cures eczema and milkleg.
Receipt: take a handful of freshly washed stems, crash them well and mix them with grease - use it directly on the wound, like any other gel. Change the compress three times/day and cover the wound with a bandage. After several weeks, the wounds are healed. 

Oxalis acetosella

It grows in shady forests, under fir trees, spruce fir and beech trees. It is often mistaken for trifoil, but its leaves are smaller and taste sore. The leaves are soft and easy to digest. It is a perfect stimulent for digestion and refreshing. It also contains vitamin C and minerals.
- juice - take a handful of fresh leaves and wash them well; crush them and add 50 ml of water; mix it well and filter it. Drink it on empty stomach or use it externally.
- eat fresh leaves or make a salad - add a little oil and sliced vegetables; use it for spicing up your food.

Therapeutical use:
- lack of vitamins, scurvy - drink 50-100 ml of juice daily, on empty stomach, before eating.
- springtime asthenia, inapetence - drink juice daily, eat salad - it is very refreshing and improves appetite since it eliminates toxins.
- arsenic or mercury intoxication - drink 100-150 ml of juice without eating anything else. Take it every 15 minutes: 1-2 teaspoons.
- cancer - it diminishes digestion, helps eliminating waste, increases appetite and prevents any sensation of vomiting. Drink a small quantity before eating - 50 ml of fresh juice. Combine it with Oshawa treatment (whole-meal cereals).
- slow digestion - eat salad before meals: it fastens up digestion, stimulates saliva and gastric juice. The cure should last for a week.
- chronical liver disease - drink juice mixed with dandelion juice (fresh stems and roots): it cleans the liver; drink the mixture every morning: 50 ml of Oxalis acetosella juice and 50 ml of dandelion juice.
- fever - drink a few zips or eat some leaves. When fever is very high, we recommend willow skin. Mill them fine and take one teaspoon. Keep the powder underneath your tongue for ten mintes then, swallow it with 50 ml of Oxalis acetosella juice.
- thrist - chew some fresh leaves.
- skin cancer - infusion of Oxalis acetosella juice and blackwork comfrey, four-five times/day.
Dose: eat 50-80 g for an adult; half - over 12 years-old children; a quarter for children between 4 and 12 years-old.

Warning
! Do not take higher doses - over 100 g, because it might produce lack of calcium, dizziness, liver disorder. Make a stomach wash, take purgatives and calcium.
Unadvisable - in case of kidney lithiasis, serious lung disease, asthma, stomach pains, gout or artritis.

Daisy (Bellis perennis) 

Small daisy has yellow and white petals. It can be picked up from meadows. It helps to dis intoxication. The tea stimulates kidney activity, increases the quantity of urine, stimulates sweating and eliminating toxins. Pick up only the flowers and eat them while fresh.

Tea
Take a handful of fresh flowers and slice them. Let them soak into half litre of water, for 4-5 hours. Then, filter them. Keep the juice and boil the flowers into half litre of boiling water. Cover them with a lid and let them cool down. Combine the two mixtures and you get almost one litre of tea. Drink it into three helpings, on empty stomach.

Food
Eat fresh flowers in salad. Combine them with oil and green onions. Us them for soup, with spanach and nettles or for fruit salad. When you make soup, add them when the soup is cooling off. For internal use, mix them with honey. Use them to cure throat infections or bronchis.

Dry flowers 
Dry them into thin layers, in fresh dark places. Mill it with coffee mill, sift and use it; two years-guarantee for dry flowers and three weeks - for powder.
Therapeutical indication:
- intoxication (food, tobacco, etc.) - drink one litre a day, for 12 days in a row, on empty stomach (in the morning and in the evening). It helps to eliminate toxins. Add 2-3 dandelions (stems and leaves).

It cures:
- chronical kidney shortage: drink tea for 12 days in a row; add fresh dandelion petals and root.
- skin damage: drink tea for 21 days; eat only uncooked food (50-70%), eat celery leaves, rubarb, green garlic and onion, raddish and carrot leaves.
- rheumatism - the cure should last for 2 weeks: tea made of daisy and nettle - it subsides articulations.
- breast cancer - make a mixture of: 4 parts of daisy flowers, four parts of black mullein leaves, four parts of blackwort comfrey, two parts of loosestrife herb, one part of Aristolochia clematitis, two parts of apple or fir mistletoe. Use powder only, two teaspoons-4 times/day; the cure should last for 12-18 months.
- migraines - the cure should last for 2 weeks; it improves headache and prevents any other side effects. In case of people suffering form biliary disorder, add 50 drops of hardhay tincture into a cup of daisy tea.
- kidney lithiasis - drink daisy tea, but add a teaspoon of fresh birch tree leaves. The cure should last for 21 days: drink 1.5-2 litres/day, on empty stomach, two helpings: in the morning and the evening.
 
Licorice - it grows on meadows and dry river beds. It has fine dark-coloured leaves, small white flowers and a powerful root. It is originally from India. It is a perfect remedy since it improves hormonal activity. 
- use the root only: pick it up in the autumn and the beginning of the wintertime. Take the roots, wash them well with cold water and slice them into thin slices (or else it might rotten); store them in warm fresh place. They are dried enough, when they can be easily broken. Keep them into paper bags, in cool dry place.
- Tincture: soak 10 teaspoons of sliced herb, mix it with half litre of alcohol (70%) and keep it for two weeks, in a sealed jar. After that, filter it and keep it into small dark-coloured bottles. Take one teaspoon of tincture, dillute it into half glass of water and drink it 3-4 times/day.
- Powder: mill it with the coffee mill; take half teaspoon of powder, three times/day, on empty stomach. Keep it underneath the tongue for a few minutes then, swallow it with water. It is recommended for people who cannot tolerate alcohol: stomach ulcer, hyperacid gastritis, or serious liver disease. 
- Mixed infusion: soak 3-4 teaspoons of licorice into a cup of water, let it over night, and filter it. Take any other remains and boil them into a cup of boiling water then, let them cool off. Filter it and combine the two mixtures. Use it for both internal and external use. 

It cures:
- osteoporosis - the cure should last for 3 weeks and a 2 weeks-break. Take one teaspoon dilluted into a glass of water, 3 times/day. It contains natural estrogen, hormones who help to assimilating calcium and maintaining bone properties. The cure has perfect results if combined with uncooked vegetables.
- specific pre-menopause disorder (sweating, irritability) - the cure should last for 3 months; take 3-4 teaspoons, for 2 weeks, with a week-break; then, repeat the treatment for another 2 weeks, etc. Patients feel better after only a few weeks. 
- A,B,C hepatitis - it prevents infectious hepatitis, cirrhosis, cancer. It also stimulates interferon secretion. Take half teaspoon, 4 times a day; the cure should last for 15 days, if you take 10 days-break.
- hyperacid gastritis, stomach and duodenal ulcer - take powder: half a teaspoon, four times /a day, on empty stomach.
- rheumatism - take tincture, 3-4 times/day, for 21 days and a 10 days-break. It stimulates the secretion of hydrocortizone and reduces tissue swelling. 
- women infertility, frigidity - take 3-4 teaspoons/day, for 14 days and a 14 days-break. The cure improves amenorrhea, infertility, frigidity - in case of increased amount of testosterone to women. It also helps to pregnancy.
- sore throat, acute and chronical bronchitis, cough - make gargle with infusion made of licorice; drink 1-2 cups a day. The cure should last for 10 days: it calms down cough, cleans breathing tract.
- dandruff and scalp damage - after you wash your hair, wet your hair with some infusion of licorice, for five minutes.
- allergy - follow a ten days-cure with tincture of licorice. Take 2-4 teaspoons a day. It stimulates natural cortizone, it is perfect against allergy and swelling.

A few important prescriptions
- mixed infusion with licorice - it counter-balances negative properties of aspirin; it protects the stomach, increases immunity, stops micro-organism production. It is also recommended against fever; it should be taken in case of cold and flu. If we take the tincture, it improves any side-effect of steroids.

Caution!
- it is very powerful and we should be cautious when taking it. Do not take it for a long time. A cure should not last for more than 4-6 weeks. Make a 2-3 weeks-break. In case you take more than 12 g a dose, the cure should not last for more than 3 weeks. Take a 3 weeks-break. It is perfect in case of women following a beauty cure, against menopause and sterility: combine licorice with dill and lion's foot. 

Beauty care
- for big and firm breasts - the cure should last for 15-20 days, beginning with the last day of menstruation. Take 3-4 teaspoons a day, on empty stomach. Dillute it into water. The cure is perfect if adding dill seeds. Licorice produces a lot of estrogen.
- against hirsutism - a cure should last for 21 days; take tincture of licorice, three times a day, before main meals. After the cure, take a 12 days-break then, repeat it. It decreases the amount of testosterone and improves soft skin, perfect waistline, decreased rhythm of pilosity.

Unadvisable
- in case of serious hypertension, tumours, hypotyroid, cirrhosis, acute biliary problems. People who suffer from heart problems, should take licorice and nutritional additives (based on potassium).

Epilobium (Epilobium)
- there are several kinds of this herb: Epilobium hirsutum, with red-purple flowers; Epilobium montana, with delicate white-pink flowers; Epilobium parviflorum, with small flowers; Epilobium angustifolium, with narrow leaves. They all have therapeutic properties.

Harvesting and preparation
- pick up only stems and flowers. Pick it up when it does not rain. Dry it into thin layers, in cool dark place to prevent it from getting mouldy.

Prescription
- tincture: except for serious liver disorder, tumour, etc. - it is easily assimilated and has fast results. You can obtain it from dried herb; take the powder and add alcohol (70 degrees). Seal the jar and let it soak for 10 days. Then, filter it through a lint and keep it into small dark-coloured bottles. Take it on empty stomach, four times/day: one teaspoon dilluted into half cup of water.
- powder - use it for improving liver disorder. Alcohol is forbidden while following the cure. Mill it with coffee machine and take a teaspoon, 3-4 times/day. Keep the powder underneath the tongue, for 10-15 minutes, then swallow it with water. 
- infusion - use it for curing tumours, especially kidney disorder, urinary tract and prostate. The most efficient is when mixing 4 teaspoons of powder with half litre of water. Let it soak over night and filter it. Any remains of the plant, should be boiled into another half a litre of boiling water, let it cool off and filter it. Combine the two mixtures and you will get almost a litre of mixture. Drink it during one day, in 2-3 helpings.

It cures:
- prostate adenoma - take teaspoon of tincture into half cup of water, four times/day, on empty stomach. The cure should last for 3 months.
- auxiliary against prostate, genital, kidney cancer - take infusion, for at least half an year, three times/day, on empty stomach. It is recommended for immunity-stimulation and against tumour. 
- infectious A, B, C hepatitis, chronical hepatitis, cirrhosis - it is recommended to mix it with bitter herbs since it is perfect for liver activity. In case of hepatitis, mix epilobium with common celandine and dillute it into half glass of water, before each meal. In case of cirrhosis, take the powder mixed with artichoke (Cinara scolymus) and wormwood (Artemisia sp.): a teaspoon/four times a day, on empty stomach.
- stomach ulcer, enteritis - drink 2-3 cups of infusion during one day.
- cistitis, nephritis, pyelo-nephritis, urinary lithiasis - drink 2-3 cups of infusion during one day.

Thistle (Xanthium spinosum)

It grows up to one metre in height. It has a stem, full of twigs and thistles. It resists to drough and rain, pollution and any other type of weather aggression. It is a perfect cure for infectious disease, cancer and degenerative disease/illness.

Harvesting and preparation
- use only the part growing above the soil, crush it a little and keep it into cloth bags. Dry it in dark place, into thin layers. From one kilo of fresh herb, you get 200-300 g of dried product.

Cure:
- tincture - let it soak for 14-15 days. The rest of the procedure is similar to that in case of epilobium.
- powder and infusion - perepare and take it similarly to epilobium.

It is useful for curing:
- prostate adenoma - take one teaspoon, dilluted with water, four times a day. Mix epilobium with thisstle and the results will be surprising: use equal quantities. The first results can be seen after the first ten days; after a month, patients will no longer suffer from urinary disorder or other problems. The cure should last for 10 days/month in order to have results. Also follow a ballanced diet - no alcohol, meat, spicy or salty, canned food.
- auxiliary in the cure against prostate cancer - drink one litre of infusion/day. Combine it with uncooked food and you will soon see the results. It is recommended against male genital cancer, kidney or bladder cancer.
- kidney lithiasis - combine tincture of epilobium and thistle; drink two teaspoons/twice a day. Mix it with water. The cure shall have good results, in case of micro-lithiasis, nephritis, pyelo-nephritis, cysto-pyelitis. It also cures kidney stone if the patients shall follow at least six weeks of cure.
- biliary micro-lithiasis - prepare a litre of infusion of thistle (we have just explained the procedure previously), but add 2 teaspoons of artichoke. Drink the entire quantity, on empty stomach, ten days in a row.
- hyper-tyroid - drink three teaspoons of powder/day; one cure should last for three weeks and one week-break. It regulates tyroid activity, nodes and tyroid cancer.

In the following, we shall point out other receipts of tincture:
1. Savory tincture
- use flowers, harvested at noon; fill one bottle with flowers, add fruit brandy (350-400 ml) and let it in the sun for 14 days. It is recommended for curing slim children and people suffering from different wounds.
2. Horse tail tincture
- take 10 g of horse tail, let it soak into 50 ml of fruit brandy and keep it in the sun for 14 days. Stir it daily.
It is recommended for bathing your feet, in case of exceeded perspiration. Drink it daily, in the morning, on empty stomach. Drink one cup of tea. During the cure, follow a diet based on fruits and vegetables. The cure should last for 2 months. In the morning, make an enema with 2 litres of warm camomile tincture; drink 3x50 ml of green barley juice or birch juice daily. Also follow a cure with juniper seeds. We recommend a steam bath, for 25 minutes: bath your feet, then take a cold shower. For people who can tollerate cold bath, we recommend cold feet bath, for 15 minutes, twice a day. Mix it with apple vinegar. Swedish tincture is very good: you should keep your feet into the water for 15 minutes. Powder your socks and shoes with zinc oxide.
3. Milfoil tincture
- use only flowers; put them into a bottle, add hot brandy and let it soak for 15 days, in the sunshine. It is recommended against spine disorders, hematopoesis, osteoporosis, lung haemorrhage and lung cancer.
4. Marigold tincture
- take a handful of flowers, add 1 l of brandy, let it soak in the sunshine for 2 weeks. Stir it well in the meantime. Dilute it with hot water and use it for compress, in case of: wounds, concussion, hematoms, muscle disorder, suppurating ulceration, open wounds, abscess, pustule, etc.


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