1/4 cup of sauerkraut juice taken 1/2 hour before meals will decrease the appetite.

Boil blackberry leaves for 10 minutes and use the strained broth to bathe in to remove any unpleasant odors.

Honey has remarkable sedative properties for the troubled spirit. Stir 1 tablespoon of honey into a cup of warm milk and drink this in bed, do not get up out of bed.

Dice a fresh peach into 1 cup vinegar and let it set overnight. Mash the peach and apply this healing balm to the scalp to restore thinning hair.

A scalp treated with the juice of a raw onion will help promote hair growth

Mix 2 tablespoons of brandy and 1/2 teaspoon ginger in a cup of hot water, sweeten with honey

Roast some pokeroots by a fire. Scrape them clean with a knife and grind them up. Make a poultice out of the powder and apply to the bottom of the foot. It will draw the pain out of anywhere else in the body.

To remove warts:

*Steal someone’s dishrag, rub it on warts and hide it. The warts will go away

*Make the wart bleed. Put a drop of the blood on a grain of corn and feed it to a rooster

*Take nine pieces of broom sage, rub each wart nine times with every piece of broom sage. Have someone bury the sage where it will quickly decay. As it decays the warts will go away.

*Tie a string around the wart for one day, bury the string under the eaves of the house before dark. When the string rots the wart will be gone

Sip on a strong infusion of raspberry leaves to shorten and reduce pain of labor.

If a baby has a fever, give it a bath in willow bark tea