Nolina Bryan, CPA and founder of Heavenly Organics, wrote in her email to me about my book. At first she told about herself. Then she explained briefly why Mama’s Home Remedies is so meaningful to her.

Nolina lives in a small town in the Rio Grande Valley south of Albuquerque. She goes to Albuquerque several days a week to work at Bookworks. She calls it as ”the most marvelous independent bookstore!” Nolina manages successfully her certified Organic farm where she grows with love and care many medicinal herbs. These organic herbs are sold by herb shops around the state and also by local DOM. She lovingly grows beautiful flowers too. Nolina believes that joy radiates from these marvellous masterpieces of Mother Nature and the colors heal your body and soul. As Nolina continued, she absolutely believes in organics, and is concerned about many toxic substances used on our precious planet. She creates and uses hersef only natural products and lives in a straw bale house (100% natural too!), since she is very sensitive to environmental toxins. I can tell you that millions of people are sensitive too, but many just look for a rapid relief from allergies or other ills and buy modern “miracles”– synthetic medicines off Wal-Mart shelves. Here is an excerpt from Nolina’s descriptive review of the book. I did not edit it because I would like to preserve her voice (100% natural).

Mama’s Home Remedies is a book to be cherished for a lifetime. It is my favorite herb, health, healing secrets-of-healthy-and-joyful living book since Jeanne Rose’s Herbal. I am certain my copy of your book will become as tattered as that in no time!

I am absolutely enamoured of the way in which you wove herbal remedies with pearls of wisdom and small illustrative stories. And, the design of the book, small bits cradled by lovely illustrations. Thank you especially for Mama’s philosophy which opens the book. If each person on our planet awoke each day with intent to choose kindness and love, imagine the world we would live in! I do believe, rather it is not a belief but a deep knowing, that this book will contribute to more goodness in the world through living with awareness and feeling good from being healthy.

The foods, thank you for including foods. The properties contained in fruits and vegetables are so often unappreciated in today’s society. It all begins with what we put in our bodies.

The book is filled with wisdom and knowledge, some new and some familiar, but more than I could possibly use in my lifetime. My favorite new world is tree signs!!!! I live in the bosque of New Mexico sourrounded by enormous old cottonwood trees, and we love each other! So, from natural cleaning recipes to healing teas and soothing baths, presented in a friendly design, gently encompassed by facts and cautions, highlighted by the most charming tales and illustrated so artfully, this book is a magnificent work!! The compilation of your research is astounding, and the organization is impressive.

And, I am pleased to read the introduction. My childhood was punctuated with the scent of the low growing plant where we played, chamomile! Tiny stars dropped from the sky!!! And I too have lived my life without prescription drugs. My affinity to plants cares for my health. Each disease surely does have its healing herb, and each spot on the planet provides such. For example, the fruit of the prickly pear cactus in the Chihuahuan desert of New Mexico is filled with healing properties, like the pomegranate! I think our local herb, Yerba Mansa, probably doesn’t grow in Moldova or Russia, but then who knows.

I can highly recommend this book to anyone interested in health, natural living, herbal remedies, or even perhaps someone looking for relief from headache pain not provided by conventional methods. Or even folk tales, the stories are marvellous. And, your grandmother’s herbal remedy for beauty sounds fascinating!

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