John B. Lust - The Natural Remedy Bible

REVISED & UPDATED

MICHAEL TIERRA, CA., O.M.D.
and JOHN LUST, N.D.

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THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE

Easy, inexpensive methods of treatment for every day

Did you know

You can relieve a headache by pressing your thumb against the roof of your mouth?

Foot odor can be treatedand curedwith pine needle extract?

Cayenne pepper combined with echinacea root can help relieve a toothache?

Varicose vein ulcerations that refuse to heal respond very well to the effects of brewer's yeast?

Everything you need to know naturally.

JOHN LUST, N.D., is the author of the bestselling The Herb Book, a classic credited with launching the herbal renaissance in America. He was encouraged by his father, Benedict Lust, M.D., N.D., who was known as The Father of Natural Medicine and wrote many important books in the field.

MICHAEL TIERRA, C.A., N.D., is one of the nation's most respected herbalists, a pioneer in the integration of Eastern and Western principles of herbal medicine. He is the author of several books, including The Natural Remedy Bible and Planetary Herbology.

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The information and treatments in this book are not intended to replace the services of a qualified health professional or to serve as a replacement for medical care. They are simply offered to describe the possibilities that exist beyond the normal range of orthodox medicine.

Thus, in describing the various self-treatments of disease in this book, we are aware of the obvious fact that, prior to commencing any course of treatment prescribed in this book, you should consult a qualified healthcare professional. It is our opinion that seeking such consultation is in line with the gentle, non-invasive natural health care described in this book.

Any application of the treatments set forth in this book is at the readers sole discretion and sole risk.

THE
NATURAL
REMEDY BIBLE

REVISED & U PDATED

MICHAEL TIERRA, CA., O.M.D.
AND JOHN LUST, N.D.

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Nature and Neo-Nature

PART TWO : NATURAL REMEDIES FOR
COMMON AILMENTS

From the time The Herb Book was published, I wanted to write its companion worka reference book about herbal remedies, organized according to ailments. Here in the Natural Remedy Bible, you will find information about common illnesses and their natural treatments, as well as various combinations of herbal preparations and methods of applying them. The emphasis is on the use of herbs (broadly designed to mean any form of plant material), water, and nutritional substances. This information is presented to help you develop informed self-reliance in the area of your personal health.

My intent is to promote a modified life-style that respects our fundamental relationship with nature and helps us make the most out of life. My earnest wish is that this book will encourage and enable you to follow nature's path to health and happiness.

JOHN B. LUST
Greenwich, Connecticut
May 1985

by John Lust

The words heal, health, and whole all came from a Germanic ancestral word that means whole or intact. In one sense, the words are still closely connected in meaning: to heal is to make whole. But in another sense, a more profound connection has been largely lost, in practice if not in principle. It is that health is the harmonious functioning of one's whole beingbody, mind, and spirit.

In Western cultures, the health care empire is neatly carved up among specialists in physical, mental, and spiritual illnesses. The problem is that people and their problems can't be so neatly divided. In the living human being, body, mind, and spirit are closely interrelated parts that form a single entity. Whatever happens to one part of us intimately affects the other parts also.

Ideally, we should always be well. But how we get well and stay well depends not only on our own nature but also on the environment in which we exist. Each of us has both internal and external physical, mental, and spiritual realities, which are constantly changing. Total health is the harmonious function of all these elements in a complex and dynamic balance.

Health in this sense is the normal condition of human life. If the body is able to function at all, for example, it automatically tries to repair any damage done to it. Quite literally where there's life there's hope. Most of the history of medicine consists of attempts to promote these natural healing processes with help from magic, prayer, plants, animals, minerals, sunshine, water, exercise, rest, surgery, manipulation, and other materials and methods. Some of the more drastic interventions, though well-intentioned, turned out to be misguided and interfered with healing instead of helping it. The practices of bleeding patients and of cauterizing wounds are two well-known examples from the past. Today, when drastic intervention is the rule rather than the exception, doctors are still finding that time and nature can be better healers than their most current treatments. For example, a fingertip that has been amputated can grow a fingernail and even a fingerprint if it is kept clean and bandaged, but it heals as a stump if it is surgically sewn up. Less dramatic but just as miraculously, a razor nick can disappear without a trace from one morning to the next. Repair and healing are inherent in every living thing.

The basic methods described here apply to all three sectors of healing: preventive, curative, and regenerative. They also have the special advantage that they can be practiced at home.

The emphasis in this book is on the following three methods of treatment:

1.