Other Old Time Remedies 1. Arthritis: Dissolve 3/4 teaspoon powder pectin (or 1 tablespoon liquid pectin) in a glass of purple grape juice. Drink once a day. This from an Amish doctor near Wooster, Ohio. It helps about 60% of the people who try it. Nobody knows why. The liquid dissolves better than the powder. 2. Poison Ivy (oak, sumac, etc). Make a paste from fels naptha soap and apply. Do not cover. Let it dry and flake off by itself. One application usually does the job. This from the 1930's. 3. Eat 3 almonds a day and you will not die from cancer. An Edgar Cayce reading. 4. Burns. Apply ice wrapped in damp washcloth until pain stops. No scaring will occur. 5. Bee sting. Remove stinger without squeezing poison sac. Apply moist baking soda to neutralize the formic acid poison. 6. Warts. Make a paste of baking soda and spirits of camphor and apply every night. Cover with a bandage. Remove in morning. Removes all kinds of warts, even stubborn planter's warts that resist every and all "medical" treatments. This is from another Edgar Cayce reading. 7. Insomnia? Try a small bowl of warm tomato soup (made with milk), just before bedtime and avoid eating protein. 8. Protecting your eyes. In a study of beer drinkers from England, Germany and Holland; people who drank DARK beer had fewer eye problems in their old age. "To your health," takes on a new meaning. Your eyes need LUTEIN daily. Found in green and yellow fruits and vegetables. You need to eat bushels to get the proper amount. Supplement with 6 to 20 mg every day. 9. Reduce HEART ATTACKS. Eating tomato (in any form) is twice as effective as taking a lycopene supplement. Eating tomato with olive oil improves your protection many fold. 10. Eating PECANS reduces CHOLESTEROL, but Chinese medicine warns not to eat too many. 11. Many suspect that many diseases start in the mouth, and that good dental hygiene is very important to good health. Every day, use a stimulator, floss between teeth, rinse with a plaque remover, and brush your teeth. Then, rinse with one of three washes: A. salt water. B. baking soda solution. C. a splash of hydrogen peroxide in water. Alternate between the three. They say that following these steps will add years to decades to you life span. 12. Beets beat cancer. Alexander Ferenczi, MD a Hungarian doctor, claims that he has cured every type of cancer by having the patients eat beets. He reported this in 1974, in the Hungarian Journal of Medicine. The article has been translated and reprinted in many journals since then. The treatment works with raw, cooked, baked, or pickled beets. The juice is good too. One warning from the doctor. Overdoing the treatment can lead to overloading the liver with demolished cancer cells, so take it easy. 13. Walking is the best exercise you can do. Every time you lift a foot, blood fills the bottom. Every time you put the foot down, you force blood back up to the heart. So, walking is like having 3 hearts pumping your blood. Dancing works too, and is more fun, as two people are exercising. Walking, running or jogging the same distance uses the same energy. Walking takes more time, but old people have plenty of that; and walking is less strenuous for old and/or overweight people. 14. Peel potatoes before cooking them. Potatoes are sprayed with a poison that stops sprouting. Cooking potatoes with the skin on forces this poison into the potato. Also, never eat the green part of a potato. It too is poisonous. 15. Wash all vegetables and fruits that you buy to remove oils, waxes and sprays on them. Use cold water with vinegar, and a very small dash of bleach to clean them. 16. Food going through the distribution system is exposed to insecticide spray and dust through the entire system, even in your grocery store. Wash the lid on any can you open, wipe off the lid on any jar or bottle you open. Clean fruits and vegetables as described above. Controlling Bad Critters 1. Put Oasge oranges in the corners of the house to keep out spiders and bugs. They last for a couple of years. 2. Kill ants with a can (or bottle) of regular Coke (R). It's supposed to be really good at eliminating fire ants. Attracting "Good" Critters 1. Wash pulp from melon seeds and bake in 350f oven for 15 minutes. Then put out for the birds. 2. Birds will eat fat in the winter time, but will not touch it in the other seasons. I soak cheap bread in the fat and the birds eat it up. Why wash grease, fats and oil down the drain or bury it with the garbage? This method recycles at the highest level. You have happy birds and a cleaner environment. Also, put out fried skins from chicken or turkey. They will gobble it up. Better fat birds than fat people. Avoiding Colds And Flu: A virus coated with grease is totally immune from everything. strip away the grease coating, and it can be killed or washed away. People get colds and/or flu from repeated infection from their dishes, cups and silverware. When you wash them is soapy water, soap washes away the virus. When you put that utensil into a sink full of clean rinse water, the soap disperses into the clean water, leaving the virus again coated with protective grease, and it sticks to the utensil. You keep re-infecting people when they use that utensil. The cure is to rinse each utensil separately in running water. This was taught to me by the late Dr. Albert J. Lewin, MD. of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a man who truly deserved the title of "Doctor". Note! Adding a splash of bleach to the wash water helps also. When you wash underwear in the washing machine, bacteria found in them contaminates everything in that wash; dish towels, wash cloths, handkerchiefs, etc. There is a danger of E. Coli infecting you through everything in the wash. Not only that, but some of it remains in the bottom water of the machine. This water then contaminates the next load of clothes, and on and on it goes. The cure? Add bleach to the wash water to kill the germs.