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The Amish Remedy BookOld-world remedies kept in the family · Lancaster County
The keeper of the book
The remedies the pharmacy hoped you'd never read
For seventy years I watched my people stay light, clear and steady on their feet well past eighty — on remedies that never came from a pharmacy. No daily pills. No “adjusting the dose.” Just what grows in the garden and the drainage rituals passed hand to hand.
When the women in our community turned 40 and the puffiness, the heavy legs and the bloated bellies crept in, these are the remedies we reached for first — and they worked.
My grandmother never wrote a word of it down. So I did every remedy, every step before it was lost for good.
This book is that work. The same 53 remedies, written plainly, so a woman who has tried everything else can finally try the old way tonight.
The Amish Remedy BookAMISH DRAINAGE REMEDIES