In this book you will find folk remedies used by Americans since the time of our Founding Fathers to cure: INSECT STINGS -- CHILLS - COLDS CONSTIPATION -- COUGHS -- EARACHES FATIGUE -- INSOMNIA - FLU -- GRIPPE BAD BREATH - ASTHMA -- SPRAINS -- RASHES WOUNDS - BURNS - OVERWEIGHT UNDERWEIGHT -- HEADACHES -- HICCUPS BED-WETTING - CRAMPS AND VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER ILL THE FLESH IS HEIR TO. Among them you will find no manufactured drugs or artificial ingredients. What you will find is the wisdom of people who lived on intimate terms with the natural world around them, and learned how to use what they had on hand to protect and preserve themselves. An impressive compendium of curatives... and a genuinely enchanting catalog of folk materia medica... including an introductory essay that gives us the gutsy flavor of the American folk-medicine traditions...Recommended! -- Library Journal .