medicine

Adder's Tongue Fern

This plant is traditionally thought to be associated with snakes, hence it name, and strong healing powers. It's snake-like 'tongue' clearly marked
it as an antidote to the evils wrought by snakes. It was also thought to be helpful with human diseases of the tongue. If it is gathered when the
moon is waning, its leaves could be made into a plaster to heal tumors and swelling.

Apples

If you eat at least one apply every day, you will become ill less frequently than you ordinarily do, and when you do become ill, your recovery time
will be much shorter than it usually is. You can also help retard the physical signs of aging by eating at least one apple every day, or by rubbing
the juice of a freshly squeezed apple directly onto your face. Apples are also effective in getting rid of warts. If you eat at least one apply every
day, any warts you have will eventually disappear. If you want to speed up the process, you can do so by rubbing the juice of a freshly squeezed
apply directly onto them every day until they are gone.

Arthritis

You will never have arthritis if you wear a ring made from a dried raw potato on the middle finger of your right hand, or if you carry a pignut, a
hickory nut, a pecan, or a horse chestnut in you pocket at all times. You can ease the pain of arthritis by wearing a copper bracelet on your
wrist. The bracelet is much more effective if a charge of electricity is passed through it, but it will lose all it's powers if it is given or loaned to
another person.

Boils

You can draw boils by placing a poultice made of cornmeal and hot water directly on them. Grated raw potatoes or grated felsnaptha soap mixed
with an equal amount of sugar are also effective.

Cutting Your Nails

In certain parts of Britain, a baby's nails did not used to be cut for the first year. Some say this was to keep the baby from growing up to be a
thief. Others say it was so witches could not get hold of parts of the body to work evil o the infant. Grown-ups, too, were wary about hair and nail
clippings, and Anne, Countess of Westmoreland recorded in her diary that she carefully collected nail clippings and burned them, lest they fall
into the wrong hands.

Eye and Brain Damage

A patient should not be allowed to read while he is convalescing, no matter how bored he becomes, for this can place so much of the strain on
the eyes and his brain that both of these organs can be permanently impaired.

Hair Restorers

If you pound the dried leaves of a sunflower into a fine powder, mix the powder with some vegetable oil, and rub the minute briskly into your scalp
at least once a day for thirty days, your hair will grow in luxuriously, even in some spots that are now completely bald. You can prevent baldness
by rubbing bear grease or the juice of baked beans into your scalp every day.

Insect Repellent

If you keep a few elderberry twigs in each room of your house, you will have far less trouble with mosquitoes and other insects during the warmer
months than you normally do.

Insomnia

If you wrap a teaspoonful of anise seeds in a small bad or a piece of cloth, then steep them in one ounce of rose water for five minutes, and
place the bag close to you nose when you go to bed, you will get a good nights sleep regardless of how much you normally suffer.

Lice and Other Insects

You can eliminate lice and other insects from you body by gently rubbing turpentine or kerosene directly onto the affected area.

Nose Bleeds

You can stop a nosebleed by pressing a cold brass key to the back of your neck.

Nutmeg

A single, pierced nutmeg, worn around the neck on a string, will protect you from boils, croup, body lice, and various lung disorders.

Sneezing

Sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger.

Sneeze on a Tuesday, you'll kiss a stranger.

Sneeze on a Wednesday, you sneeze for a letter.

Sneeze on a Thursday, for something better.

Sneeze on a Friday, you sneeze for sorrow.

Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow.

Sneeze on a Sunday, your safety seek.

For the Devil will have you the whole of the week.

Warts

You can get rid of warts by rubbing them with a live toad every day until they are finally drawn into the toad's skin. You can also get rid of them if
you rub them with the inside of a brown paper bag, close the mouth of the bag tightly, and throw it away. If someone picks the bag up and opens
it, he will get the warts, and yours will disappear.