DISCLAIMER FOR HERBAL RECIPES/REMEDIES:
To all people who come to our site and uses any of our herbal recipes, we are not responsible for any allergic reactions, or any adverse reactions thereof after the treatments. You are responsible for having complete knowledge, of what you can use and cannot for your physical bodies.
We will only post safe and beneficial recipes for you and your families, we are not prescribing doses or treating you as patients as a medical physician.
These are just old remedies of older times, they may work for you or they may not. They are recipes that have been past down through the generations, and are still very much used in some family circles of native and non-native communities.
Homeopathic/herbal remedies are being sought out again, because of the increasing scare of some medical prescriptions on the market.
We are not here to put down the medical professionals in any way, or try to lead people to an alterative medical path.
It is and always will be your individual choice what to use, and how to treat your physical bodies, we only offer what was used by our elders before us and passed down.
We can only hope and pray, we can maybe help some one along the way, where nothing else seemed to work before for their particular ailment.
RedNation of the Cherokee
ATTENTION:
Many have been asking where can I purchase herbs?...
There are several herbal stores around the country, the one we personally are able to get top quality is as follows:
AMERI-HERB
803 EAST LINCOLNWAY
AMES, IA 50010
(OFFICE) 1-800-267-6141
(VOICE): 515-232-8614
(FAX): 515-232-8615
CHEROKEE (Internal) PURIFICATION:
WARNING!!!! Do this very EARLY in the Day, and DO NOT PLAN TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE ALL DAY OR NIGHT After you start to ingest the mixture into your system! IT WILL CLEANSE YOUR BODY OF ALL INPURITYS!
Ingredients:
Epsom Salts (4 teaspoons)
Distilled Water (2-qts)
Grapefruit Juice (1-cup)
Light Olive Oil (1/2-cup)
1/8 Teaspoon Crushed up as possible
of each of the Tree Barks Listed:
Cherry
Dogwood
Oak
Persimmon
Redbud
Sassafras
Sycamore
1st Day: Combine (4) teaspoons of Epsom Salts with one quart of water is equal to (One Complete Dose).
Take (One Complete Dose) in the morning, and (One Complete Dose) in the evening.
2nd Day: Get a medium sauce pan, pour (1 Cup) of Distilled water adding each of the (1/8 teaspoon) of crushed Tree Barks into the water on high and to bring to a full boil. (Remove from Heat Immediately) as soon as it does start to boil! and let steep for (1-Hour).
Take and mix: (1-Cup) of Grapefruit Juice, (1/2 Cup) of Light Olive Oil, (2-Heaping Tablespoons) of the Steeped Tree Bark Liquid.
WARNING!!!! STAY VERY CLOSE TO THE BATHROOM FOR THE REST OF THE DAY AND MOST OF THE NIGHT!
HERBAL FIRST AIDE KIT:
NOTE: ALWAYS CARRY AND USE RUBBER GLOVES IN YOUR KIT! IT IS FOR YOUR SAFETY AND YOUR PATIENT!!!!
1. BLEEDING: Cover the wound with powdered Lobelia and bandage. If the bleeding is severe and doesn't stop, then cover with a soaked bandage of 50/50 mixture of powered cayenne pepper and powered sulphur. The clotting should begin almost immediately.
Note: Anytime you use cayenne in any form, use gloves! It can literally blind a person or animal, if it enters they eye!
2. INSECT BITES: Make an oil consisting of 1 teaspoon of essential oil of lavender with 1 Tablespoon of vegetable oil. Store in a dark bottle with a tight lid.
Also, you could use crushed Jewel Weed in a glass bottle and smearing it on the area afflicted.
A Poultice, salve, or ointment of Plantain Leaf is good too.
3. WASP AND BEE STINGS: Combine 1 Tablespoon of Tincture of Echinacea, 6-drops of pure essence of lavender, and 1 Tablespoon of distilled or purified water, to 1 Tablespoon of Bentonite Clay. Stir slowly until the mixture becomes a paste.
15-30 drops by an eye dropper of tincture of OSHA Root (Bear Root) in a 8 oz glass of water.
OR) peel back the bark off a whole piece of OSHA Root (Bear Root) after the stinger(s) are removed. Crush the central part and make a poultice and place it on the stung area and wrap with a cloth for 24 hours.
4. SNAKE BITE: After sucking out as much poison as possible, poultice made with either plantain leaf or greenbrier leaf, if both is available use together for greater results.
Note: In Central and Eastern Oklahoma and in the upper regions of the Appalachian mountains, both tend to grow during and after snake season.
5. ANT BITES, STINGING NETTLES AND OTHER FORMIC ACID INJURIES:
Combine 1 teaspoon of Baking soda with 1/2 teaspoon of tincture of yellow dock, and cover the injury with the resulting paste.
6. INSECT REPELLANT: Combine 12 drops of pure essence of Citronella with pure Olive Oil.
Sulphur Powder around the feet, ankles and waist, also helps avoid ticks and chiggers. Used on Outdoor pets, also repels fleas. Do not get around eye area on either human or animal.
7. BRUISES: Arnica and Lobelia in a liniment with Oil of Cloves, OR) Rice Bran Oil and Powdered Cayenne Pepper apply liberally and often.
Warning and Note: Remember always use gloves when using Cayenne! And stay away from the eyes!!! It is never to be used on the face for any reason in powder or liquid form!
8. BURNS AND SUNBURNS: Use salve of Comfrey, Raw Honey and Wheat Germ Oil on the outside, and (for adults) take internally 800 IU of Vitamin E and 3,000mg of Flaxseed Oil twice daily. For children take 1/2 the amount.
Note: Vitamin E Oil can be used directly on the burn.
Aloe Vera is still the number one healer for burns! The fresh pulp from the plant is the best, if not available, the lotion made from the plant.
9. CUTS AND SCRAPES: Clean thoroughly, and sprinkle with Lobelia Powder mixed with Sulphur. Bandage as needed. Or cover with fresh pulp from the Aloe Vera Plant and cover.
10. RESPIRATORY AND (INTERNAL) BACTERIAL INFECTIONS: In a medium sauce pan Boil 2-3 big (whole) chunks of OSHA Root (Bear Root) in about 5 cups of spring or distilled water till it comes to a full boil, then remove from heat. Let sit for about 30 minutes and cool (Remove Root(s) at this time, can be saved for another batch later on. Pour into a glass container with a tight fitting lid. After 24 hours, the tincture can be administered 3 times a day for 14 days as a (Hot Tea) with 1-2 Tablespoons of Clover Honey. ONLY Honey can be used as a sweetener NEVER Graduated, CLOVER HONEY IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! It is a more soothing and more effective healer for the respiratory system than Raw Honey.
11. COLDS AND HAY FEVER: Put a few drops of pure essence of Lavender and Tea Tree Oil on a couple of handkerchiefs. Carry one to inhale from, and leave one close under your pillow in your bedroom, also place one in your car closed up, the heat of the sun will fill your car with the sinus relieving aroma. A heating pad is excellent to place a handkerchief with the ingredients on it, and place it near you or on you with a towel between you and the pad.
Refresh as often as needed
12. FROST BITE: (First Aide) Give hot tea to drink and bathe the affected area with LUKEWARM WATER. Sprinkle with Ginger and Cayenne mixture once area begins to thaw.
13. FAINTING AND DIZZINESS: 5 Drops of pure essence of Lavender in 2 cups of water. Compress to the forehead and neck.
Smelling Salts can be made by adding 5 Drops of Lavender to 1/2 teaspoon of Rock Salt.
14. FUNGAL AILMENTS: (Jungle Rot, Athlete Feet, Ringworm) Swab the area with Black Walnut Hull Tincture twice daily.
15. HEAT EXHAUSTION AND SUNSTROKE: For heat exhaustion, elevate the victim's feet and give water mixed with salt to drink (1/2 teaspoon salt per 5oz water). Follow with 30 drops of Tincture of equal parts of Mulberry Leaves, Peony Root Bark, Peppermint Leaves, Licorice Root and Ginseng Root.
This can also be used as a preventative aid. Follow with broth soup and 1-2 bananas.
16. POISON IVY, OAK AND SUMAC: Make a basic remedy by combining 2 Tablespoons of tinctures of: Jewel Weed Leaves and Comfrey Leaves, 1/4 cup of white distilled vinegar, 10 drops of tincture of Lobelia, 3 drops of peppermint oil, and 1/2 teaspoon of Sea Salt, SHAKE WELL, apply as needed.
(BATH) 4 drops each of pure Essences of Lavender and Peppermint, 1 cup Epsom Salts, 4 cups Powdered Oatmeal and 1 Tablespoon tincture or powdered Lobelia.
17. SPRAINS AND STRAINS: (RICE METHOD)...
REST
ICE
COMPRESS with 2 teaspoons tincture of Arnica and Lobelia and tincture of St. John's Wort and 1 cup of COLD WATER.
ELEVATE
REMEDIES FOR MANY ALIMENTS:
ANTI FLU: 2 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, or common salt, 1 cup boiling water, 1 cup apple cider vinegar
Grind together the cayenne pepper and salt to form a paste. Add boiling water, (or some strong, strained chamomile tea). Steep and cool. Add vinegar to water. Most adults, can take between a teaspoon to a Tablespoon every half hour. If it seems too strong. Dilute it.
ANTI PAIN: Use a Tablespoon of powdered Ginger, or slice the fresh root and simmer until there is yellowish water. Add this to a nice hot bath! You will stay warm for hours with little or no pain in your muscles and joints!
To make a compresses for direct application to the body for pain, soak cloths into the brewed mixture instead of using the mixture for a bath.
SORE THROATS: Drink Sage Tea for a sore throat, inhale sage-infused steam (Add tea to a Vaporizer). Sage helps in opening nasal and head passages.
Vinegar (Apple Cider) compress to the throat and bind it with a larger wool compress.
A combination to use with Apple Cider Vinegar 1/2 cup is, a teaspoon of wintergreen oil and a tiny bit of cayenne pepper. Soak strips of brown paper bag (in case no cloths are available). Place strips or cloth around neck. Apply another dry wool cloth or, if that is not available, a large, double strip of brown paper bag.
EARS: (WILD GINGER) Ginger has antimicrobial properties. Crush and simmered the root as an ear poultice.
ONION: Roast the onion to collect its oil, then apply it hot to the ear on a cotton ball and place in the ear to relieve pain and control discharge from the ear.
MULLEIN: The yellow flowers of mullein provide an excellent earache oil which relieves both external and internal pain. Steep the flowers in the sunlight for twenty-one days. Strain out the oil. Keep adding mullein flowers several times to produce a fair amount of oil.
GARLIC: Peel the skin from the bud. Cut the bud into the right size to fit into the ear canal, if it is sore or inflamed. Encase the garlic in gauze to prevent blistering.
CHAMOMILE: Steep enough flowers in a medium sauce pan 1/2 full of water, to cover a thin layer on the top of the water. Bring to a full boil, let boil for about 10 minutes maximum. Strain out the water, Place hot flowers in cloth tie top of cloth, then lay down, and apply to the outside of the ear. Lay in place till you feel the heat dissipate completely. You can repeat this procedure at least 3-4 times.
CARAWAY: Heat a slice of unsliced bread loaf in oven. Throw away the crust and pound together the soft bread and a handful of bruised caraway seeds. Add some hot brandy and apply the paste as a hot poultice to the ear or any other inflammation.
YARROW: Steep the whole yarrow plant in a medium sauce pan half full of water, about 10 minutes in a full boil. Remove from heat and let cool to a warm temp.. then pour the liquid into the aching ear cannel. Absorb extra liquid with a towel or cotton ball, let sit in ear for as long as needed for pain.
EYES: Apples roasted in the oven and apply the pulp-as warm as you can comfortably stand to relieve inflamed or tired eyes.
YOUNG BORAGE LEAVES: In a salad, or use strong borage tea to strengthen the eyes.
CABBAGE LEAVES JUICE: With honey added also relieves sore and runny eyes in adults.
Runny eyes with infants: can be dealt with cabbage leaves bruised fresh to a soft pulp, apply a cabbage pack to the closed eyes. Cleanse the eyes every 1/2 hour with warm water. The pack will tend to increase the flow for a few days, but will cure the condition after a shot while thereafter.
CUCUMBER: is the best remedy for the Pink Eye! Sunburn, and eye strain. May all be relieved by application of cucumber slices directly to the closed eyes.
FEVER: LOTS AND LOTS OF WATER TO DRINK!
APPLE WATER: is excellent for fevers. Prepare it by slicing 3 washed unpeeled apples; simmer them in very little water until they are soft. Strain the apples through a fine strainer or cloth, and add a piece of lemon for flavor. Drink it cold.
BARLEY WATER: has been used for centuries! Wash 2oz of barley and discard the water. Boil this barley in 1 pint of fresh water for a brief time about 10 minutes. Discard this water. Place in 4 pints of fresh water and this time add washed lemon peel: Boil the contents down to 2 pints. Strain this and add 2oz of Clover Honey. Use this freely for children and feeble invalids.
CAYENNE PEPPER: is used by all Original Peoples and various African tribes to cure all kinds of fever. Add a pinch or more to any herbal tea or drink.
GINSENG POWDER: will help to regulate the body temperature. Add to chicken soup nature own natural remedy!
GRAPES: grapes or diluted grape juice act on the kidneys to increase the flow of urine. This will help dramatically in the body! Just remember to also increase the flow of water through your body also!
LEMON: The juice from an unpeeled washed lemon, cut into thin slices, add 3 large cups of water, and simmer the slices in a non-aluminum pot. Reduce the juice to 1 cup, strain it, then give to the patient.
RICE: cooked with lots of water, then strain the water and drink. It also is a very nutritious drink. It is used for inflammation of the lungs and bowels.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: (YELLOW DOCK) make up dock seed or dock herb tea and drink several cups a day for high blood pressure. Watch your Monitor! For you to return to normal!
LOW BLOOD PRESSURE: GARLIC (RAW) It sometimes only takes a few days of (Raw Garlic Tea) or Raw Garlic-Carrot Sandwiches, to bring your blood pressure back up to par where it is suppose to be! So watch your monitor! till you return to normal!
RHEUMATISM LINIMENT: 1 qt apple cider, 4ozs of garlic juice, 1/2 oz grated horseradish root
Add garlic and horseradish to the cider. Place the cider in a warm place for twelve hours. Shake the container often. Then remove it to a cool place. Let stand another twelve hours. Strain the liquid and place it in a labeled jar. Keep it in a cool place or in the refrigerator
ASTHMA: The dose of this mixture is I teaspoon with or without water every 15 minutes until the asthma spasm is controlled. Afterwards, one teaspoon every two to three hours for the rest of the day. After everything is quite again, and the crest of the attack is over, give 1 teaspoon three times a day.
1/2 pound peeled garlic buds, equal amounts vinegar and distilled water(enough to cover the garlic buds) 1/2 pint of glycerin, 1 1/2 pounds of honey
Peel the garlic. Add equal amounts of vinegar and distilled water to cover the garlic. Use a wide-mouth jar; close tightly, and shake well. Stand it in a cool place for four days. Shake it once or twice a day. Add the glycerin. Shake the jar and let it stand another day. Strain the liquid with pressure through a sieve. Blend in the honey, and place the liquid in a labeled jar. Store in a cool place.
FATIGUE: To fight fatigue is in the power of Honey, water and Apple Cider Vinegar!
This ancient remedy has been used by warriors and fighters and people of all walks of life for centuries. The natural sugars in honey are immediately absorbed by the body, which gives an immediate lift! Now, to rebalance the entire body from fatigue, you add 1 teaspoon each of apple cider vinegar, and honey to 1 8oz glass of water. It is also widely known to help in several types of arthritic problems if taken at least 2-3 times a day.
PINE SOUP:
Taken from American Survival Guide 2/1990 Subscription address is: American Survival Guide Subscription Dept. McMullen Publishing P.O. Box 70015 Anaheim, CA 92825-0015 714-635-9040 Can be downloaded as PINESOUP.ZIP In 1535, the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his men were in desperate condition after a particularly severe winter in Newfoundland. Already 25 lay dead and not one of the remaining survivors was not suffering from the ravages of Scurvy. Fortunately for history a group of local Indians took pity on them, and told Cartier that their medicine man had the perfect cure. Shoving their prejudices aside, they went to the medicine man. The miracle brew of this wise man was so simple that Cartier and his men nearly rejected it at first. Without any hocus-pocus, the medicine man simply plucked a hand full of pine needles from a nearby tree and boiled them in a pot for a few minutes. Then he gave each one a cup of "soup". Although skeptical, they did as they were told and the soup transformed their health in a matter of 6 days. This is recorded because they lived to tell the tale. Pine needles contain 5 times the vitamin C found in lemons. Think of it as a herbal tea. A handful of pine needles, or 1/4 cup fresh chopped needles steeped in boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes provide 100% of the U.S.R.D.A. of vitamin C. Pine soup (or tea) tastes like the pine forest smells, or add a squeeze of lemon and a little honey to liven it up a bit. In the southwestern deserts of the U.S. grows the Pinion Pine. (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.) Every few years when comes an abundant rainfall, the trees produce a bumper crop of cones bearing the delicately flavored seeds. They can best be foraged by raiding the messy looking nests of wood rats, who hoard many of the seeds. Certain Indian tribes used to peel young shoots of pine and use them as a green vegetable. The colonists used to make a candy out of these same shoots by boiling them in heavy sugar syrup until they were nearly transparent and thoroughly crystallized. Ojibwa Indians made use of the young staminate catkins (little pine cone like growths, covered in soft brown scales and growing at the terminal end of the needle clusters) by cooking them with a chunk of meat. Don't throw on the steak yet. Some varieties of pine have a heavy turpentine flavor. Try some by just boiling before you ruin a piece of meat. When you find a tasty variety, then throw the steak in with them for a really good experience. PINE BARK do not make the mistake of trying to eat the dead outer layer of the pine tree bark. It is the moist white living inner bark (cambium layer) we are after. The cambium is located just underneath the dead outer layer and it is here where the tree’s girth growth occurs. The best way to get a supply is to peel off some large chunks of bark, being careful not to girdle the tree lest you destroy it, the carefully fillet the moist layer of cambium clinging to the inside of that. You can prepare it immediately or dry it for later use. If dried, be sure to soak a couple of hours before cooking. Late spring is the best time, when the tree is richest in sugars. Use the largest trees possible. Width is more important than height, the wider the tree, and the thicker the cambium layer. The best way is to find a logging operation and obtain permission to peel the stumps. This is where the cambium is thickest and best, and you can get the most food with the least work. Boil for a half hour, or until the water turns red from resins. Change water and boil a second time for a half hour. Change water and boil a third time for a half hour. On the last boiling, the bark will be fairly tender and the water will only be light pink. The "bark" will have a color like fresh ham, with a texture exactly like cooked turkey breast. The bark has no particular flavor at all, which makes it an excellent meat substitute with the proper seasonings. After the last cooking and draining, add four cups of chicken stock (made by dissolving four chicken bullion cubes in four cups of water) and simmer for one hour. To half of the pine chicken add some Chinese noodles, some green onions, a dash of soy sauce, and a beaten egg to make a superb "Pine Ramen" soup. From the other half, remove the pine bark and set aside. Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a skillet and add 4 tablespoons of white flour to make a thick past. Into this add 2 cups of pine chicken broth, adding slowly and stirring in to nice lump less gravy. Take an uncooked pie shell and heap it full of the leftover pine bark. Add cooked potatoes and carrots, a coarsely chopped onion, and a handful of peas. Cover it all with the gravy, put a pie shell lid on top, and cook in the oven at 400 for about 40 minutes, or until nicely browned. When I gave a slice to some relatives one of them remarked that the chicken was very good, but where was the pine bark. Nutritional analysis reveals that this bark is high in carbohydrates and is an excellent source of fiber. The medicinal value of the pine goes beyond the vitamin C in its needles. The White Pine (Pines Strobes) is officially recognized in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. The cambium layer of the bark is an effective cough remedy, and still finds it's way into cough syrups. To make your own, put a tablespoons of crushed pieces into a jar with 2/3 cup of boiling water. Cover with a loose plastic lid (not metal) and let steep for 2 hours. Add a half-cup of brandy and seal. Let the infusion sit overnight. In the morning strain out the bark and add 1 cup of honey to the liquid. Seal and use 2 tablespoons at a time, as needed.
ESSIAC TEA:
NOTE: This tea is well known by past and present to be a major helpmate in healing the entire body from many internal aliments.
Remember: 1-part = 1 teaspoon
52 parts Burdock Root (by weight) 1 part Red Clover
16 parts Sheep Soral (powdered) 1 part Blessed Thistle
2 parts Domestic Rhubarb 4 parts Watercress
4 parts Slippery Elm Bark (powdered) 2 parts Mullein Leaf
2 parts Kelp 1 part Lobelia
Put all these ingredients into a 5 quart pot of water and bring to a boil.
Turn heat off, and let it sit on the stove and steep for about 30 minutes.
Have a large strainer to pour the tea through to catch all the loose herbs and only allow the rest pour into another large 5 quart size container with a lid to seal up for at least 4 weeks.
After 4 weeks the tea can be used 3x daily heated back up (Not Microwaved).
You can sweeten it only with clover honey if needed (NO Granulated).
STROKE INFORMATION:
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters.. S.T.R.
My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously.. Please read:
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this...
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE
(Coherently) (i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their
tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other
that is also an indication of a stroke. If he or she has trouble with
ANY ONE of these tasks, call 911 immediately !! and describe the
symptoms to the dispatcher.
If you have or know of someone who has medicine or herb recipes related to our culture,
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