The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-22
Social And Personal Doings In The Woman's World
Home Health Club
Edited by DIR DAVID II. REEDER, Chicago

NATURAL REMEDIES-In using the various herb remedies that are so Beautifully supplied by nature. The medical profession has for many years been making the mistake of depending upon the chemical analysis of the herb to tell him whether or not It was curative agent while the good old Srandmothers and the old fash !oneu apothecaries and the so-caNed herb doctors depended upon the effect of the herb upon the sick When a person got sick they gave him an infusion tea tincture extract or ap- piled a poultice or saIve made from the herbs that had always produced satisfactory results in similar cases before and because the patient was at once r&ieved and then got well, their confidence was justified and they were ready to use it again in all such cases.
 The highly educated physician, however, has been taught at college to depend almost entirely upon chem istry to find out if the herb really contained the elements which he had been taught would be necessary in a case.
 The humble wayside plant that is always ready to serve us is boiled and baked and burned. The gases thrown off as well as the oils the alkaloids and even the ashes are all critically examined and unless they are able to catch and put into a bot
 tie the true life giving principle the poor herb is condemned. As will try to find out how a man thinks by put ting his dead body through the same process
 My arm is strong and skiIIfuI. My eye is keen and my ear hears the noise of approaching footsteps, and yet there cannot be found in the flesh, blood Or bones of my body anything capable of analysis that
 would tell to the scientist why my
 arm obeys the impulse of my will and with a pen write these words. No
 chemist could tell how my eyes see to direct the hand nor how my. ears hear the sound of rain falling upon
 the roof. Who knows the spirit of the plant? I know and many of you know that when the extract of three common wayside plants, one of them Planta,in, usually called a weed and a nuisance, are combined by the old grandmother in an ointment and the ointment rubbed into the skin over | nation of the bowels the bladder or the appendix, relief is almost instan- taneous, and we know that lives have been saved by it because pneumonia has not been developed in any case where 1t has been used promptly. ! We also know that when we feel ] the severe chilling sensation of the ''hu'' yet at the same time feel as 1 though we were burning up inside
 we go home and take 9 big cup ot i hot ginger tea, then go to bed and soon the internal heat subsidies, the
 skin gets moist and we sleep. The l threatened attack of influenza has l been worked off and We feel fresh 1 and vigorous again.
 In sekfng to use the herb remedies as they are described in the Home Health Club book Vol. 5, one should bear in mind that those who are not familiar with such things should al- ways avoid the herbs that contain poisons. There are plenty Of the non poisonous varieties, and they will dc 1 the work.
 | When the natural healing power of properly selected vegetarian food is 1 once fully understood by human be- ings and the tremendous power for good or i'll that is in the mind, then all poisons and all of the coal tar
 products will disappear from the doc