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| View Larger Image | Oddball Ointments, Powerful Potions & Fabulous Folk Remedies That'll Cure Almost Anything That Ails You (Jerry Baker Good Health series) | Hardcoverby Jean Karen Thomas (Author), Dan MacBride (Compiler), Laura Wallace (Compiler), Megan Othersen (Compiler), Carol Keough (Compiler), Wayne Michaud (Compiler)
| List Price: | $29.95 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | American Master Products, Inc./Jerry Baker | | Edition: | 1stst Edition | | Page Count: | 470 Pages | | Publication Date: | 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 74,052th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Recipes for homemade tonics, salves, and poultices that can prevent, heal, and cure common health ailments are featured in this reference to folk medicines. Products in the kitchen cabinet, refrigerator, medicine chest, and garden can replace or supplement many expensive medicines through the innovative formulas detailed. Easing arthritis with a hot pepper cream, relieving back pain with a hot tea toddy, and lowering cholesterol with a dash of lemon juice are examples of the benefits of using these home remedies. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 6 reviews)
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good for housekeeping by Violet (IOWA)  3 Stars
September 27, 2009
enjoyed this book. But most of it was common sense. Very excellent for re-purposing and saving money to make 'magic' happy in every space of your life and home. There is a soulfullness, hippie, self-help feel to it. But if your not scared of that then you'll enjoy it.
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Oddball Ointments, Power Potions & fabulous Folk Remedies That'll Cure Almost Anything That Ails You by Linda Baerlocher (New Brunswick) 3 Stars
January 12, 2009
I've only started reading this book but there appears to be some useful information and hints for curing and helping some ailments.
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oddball ointment book by Anna M. Gates (Ohio) 3 Stars
December 17, 2008
This book is interesting. It isn't the way I'd write or talk. Nor is it as powerful and readily available as the title, but it's interesting to read once in awhile. It has ideas you'd perhaps never guess, but anyone that has a good imagination deserves to see this book at least. More articles and warnings than information, perhaps you'll like it and perhaps you won't, but will wish to keep it.
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Well Written but Obscure? by Kimo (Honolulu, HI United States)  1 Stars
August 20, 2008
The book was well written and had a lot of interesting cures and remedies. However, a lot of the obscure remedies contained stuff I had never heard of and the author does not even give a hint as to where to get the items for his recipes --- other than being interesting reading, the book is of little use.
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PERSONAL HEALTH 'MAGNUM OPUS' from THE "MASTER GARDENER" by RBSProds (Deep in the heart of Texas)  5 Stars
November 21, 2005
Five Stars!! HEALTH ADVICE GALORE!! Jerry Baker has done it again. On the heels of his great gardening books, this 450 page book is a winner of personal advice, potions, ointments, and practical aids for your body, your mind, and your general health. No GARDENING advice here!! This is Jerry Baker's 'Magnum Opus' of tips, tricks, and tonics, old fashioned (and new fashioned) advice for YOUR HEALTH. We all know about Jerry's practical advice and 'tonics' for our garden from his nationally syndicated weekend radio "call-in"show "On The Garden Line", and his PBS gardening specials. We also know that the tonics use practical items found around the house to treat and feed plants and trees, while defeating bugs and plant disease: A garden sprayer loaded with ingredients from "A can of beer, a can of cola, a teaspoon of liquid dish soap, etc, etc..." is almost 'The Weekend Gardening National Anthem' to many of us weekend gardeners. Millions of us also know the "tonics" by heart, read the detailed newsletters, and use his garden equipment because they REALLY WORK. Now he tackles our health. So can we trust a gardener with our health?
Jerry's told us a million stories about his "Grandma Putt" and her gardening and personal tips. Using that as a jumping off point, this book is loaded with mountains of information about many health and environmental problems besetting us in life. From allergies to zits to body odor, from angina to rashes to sunburn, from mid-life crises to motion sickness to arthritis, from bug bites to "crows feet" to sprains and "pink eye", Jerry covers a mindboggling amount of topics. Much of this advice is very up to date, like how he addresses the computer-caused problem of "mouse shoulder", with both practical advice and two tonics for us computer finatics. I like how he uses "natural" items, but does not fall into the ardent paranoia that the 'health food gurus' have, that frankly can be scary. For example, for 'mouse shoulder' he readily recommends over-the-counter (OTC) 'Capsaisin', but also gives a powerful alternative using cayenne pepper tincture and olive oil (not to mention the 'tumeric toddy'). Imagine my surprise when I decided to check out the cayenne pepper ingredient on the web and discovered cayenne pepper CONTAINS capsaisin. (score one for Jerry!) And I personally know his advice of OTC Benzyl Peroxide for acne is true because it instantly knocked out a bad case of acne decades ago for me (and the dermatoligist charged a pretty penny to prescribe it. It was actually BP cream and soap). (Score another one for Jerry!)
Jerry readily advises you see a real medical doctor for persistent problems. Some of these techniques will have you running for your food pantry to get ingredients to try them out right away, the same way he has us whipping up a 'tonic' to feed plants, kill ants or weeds in the garden. Some oddball ointments may cause some understandable wariness, because obviously some things don't work for everyone and some things may trigger allergic reactions unknown to us beforehand. But that's true of anything in life: always exercise caution in everything you put 'on' or 'in' your body (or mind, for that matter). 'Egg whites as an alternative acne treatment?': sounds strange until you see a dermatogist agreeing. I haven't come anywhere near trying them all, but many techniques sound very intriguing: like the bay leaves treatment for eliminating warts. Trust me, it's loaded with advice, like his treatise on the importance of Calcium and many alternative calcium sources for those who are lactose intolerant.
I recommend reading this book from cover to cover, but his detailed 20 odd page Index will allow 'poaching' on very specific topics. Some of the ingredients may cause you to extend yourself to find them, but I have found the hardest on the web. This is my third Jerry Baker book (I love the "Backyard Problem Solver") and all are winners of levelheadedness, practicality, and usefullness. Thanks, Jerry! Five "Healthful" Stars!!
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures: 117 Foods That Fight Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Memory Loss, Bad Digestion and Hundreds ... Problems! (Jerry Baker Good Health series)
by Karen Cicero (Author), Colleen Pierre MS RD (Author), Jerry Baker (Editor)
The healing powers of favorite foods are leveraged in the recipes and cooking tips in this guide to using food to alleviate serious diseases and common ailments. Fighting colon cancer with cheese, preventing heart disease with green beans and chocolate, and curing urinary tract infections with blueberries are examples of the preventative measures and homemade cures that will help readers slash medical expenses and minimize doctor visits. Shopping advice and menu recommendations are provided...
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| Jerry Baker's Supermarket Super Products!: 2,568 Super Solutions, Terrific Tips & Remarkable Recipes for Great Health, a Happy Home, and a Beautiful Garden (Jerry Baker's Good Home series)
by Jerry Baker (Author)
What do antacids, baby shampoo, and vodka have in common? They are all super powerful, money-saving solutions described in this home-improvement guide to solving common health, home, and garden problems with products found on any supermarket's shelves. Aside from their traditional usage, these and other well-known supermarket products have secret lives as health and beauty aids, household cleaners, stain removers, and bug killers. Readers will learn how to heal a headache with a lime, unclog a...
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| Jerry Baker's It Pays to Be Cheap!: 1,973 of the Niftiest, Swiftiest, and Thriftiest Secrets on Earth for Spendin' Less and Savin' More on . . . Food, ... Everything! (Jerry Baker's Good Home series)
by Jerry Baker (Author)
Fun and innovative ways to save money on items such as groceries, electronics, pet care, travel, and clothing are revealed in this indispensable savings handbook. Features such as "Online Steals & Deals," "Bargain Alerts," and "Fantastic Formulas" uncover easy ways for anyone to become a thrift expert without sacrificing personal pleasures or undergoing excessive belt-tightening. Money-saving ideas for cutting pet food bills by 25 percent, flying major airlines for free, and creating an...
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| The Anti-Pain Plan: 467 No-Nonsense Ways to Avoid Arthritis, Heal a Headache, Beat a Backache, Trounce Carpal Tunnel, Relieve Sore Joints, and More! (Jerry Baker Good Health series)
by Rick Chillot (Author), Jerry Baker (Editor)
Providing fast pain relief for everything from stiff knees and migraines to muscle spasms and hemorrhoids, the treatments in this health guide use natural and inexpensive products to alleviate common discomforts. Pain specialists and practioners of natural health offer suggestions for relieving angina with garlic and onions, tendinitis with ginger, and back pain with water. More than 100 kinds of pain are discussed with remedies and treatments that offer comfort quickly.
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| Jerry Baker's Supermarket Super Remedies: 1,649 Shopping Cart Solutions to Ease Everything from an Aching Back and Arthritic Knees to a Grumpy Gut, High ... Much More! (Jerry Baker Good Health series)
by Matthew Hoffman (Author)
Discover the amazing healing powers of ordinary household products in this guide to treating common ailments without a trip to the doctor’s office or the pharmacy. Learn to beat a backache with beans, clobber high cholesterol with chocolate, halt hay fever with honey, and stop a sore throat with sage using this helpful book to conquer more than 370 common complaints with foods and products found in the home. Additional features such as "Fabulous Food...
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