Mission

Welcome to a new way of Knowledge and Healthy Wisdom from a deep, diverse and rich European academic and personal background, spanning Old and Modern worlds.

This blog is written for curious at heart. It is based on my book that has been recognized one of the best Books for Better Living, and much, much more. Explore it! You will find descriptive and nurturing, must-know articles on alternative health; news and views of well respected experts on the latest scientific studies, myths and research related to our well-being; interesting facts, natural and effective home remedies and recipes. You’ll get a glimpse of how other people around the world keep themselves at the best by living in communion with Nature, and read fascinating stories about how other cultures prevent sickness and improve their health.

Research, Opinions, Tips, Tools,

News, Views, Remedies, Recipes,

and New Ways to Progress on a

Healthier and Happier Path

2010 Living Now Award Winner: Nutrition/Dietary

2009 Mom’s Choice Gold Award Winner for category: Health Nutrition, Fitness & Safety

Finalist, 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for two categories: Health/Wellness and Multicultural Non-Fiction

My mission is to share with you a treasure of useful information I’ve garnered from the wisdom of my Grandma (an accomplished herbalist and folk healer) and Mama (a medical professional), combined with my own research and formal education, including the study of natural remedies from fifteenth-century herbal books through current advances in the field. Are you looking for solutions? Here they are, straight from Mother Nature, the world’s first and true healer.

“Svetlana Konnikova has penned an important book using the wisdom of the ages for the age in which we live. The suggestions in this volume bring fruitful advice and invaluable worth. Everyone will benefit from these jewels of understanding and I am sure you will be rewarded as I was after embracing many of these natural prescriptions.”–Anna Maria Clement, PhD, NMD, Codirector and Chief Health Administrator of Hippocrates Health Institute

Dr. Peter A. Gail, a well known botanist, author of books and articles on creative living and edible wild plants and founder of Goosefoot Acres Center of Resourceful Living said about this book,:

“…a wonderful volume that I can highly recommend. It in many ways is like Plain and Happy Living that recounts not only a wide variety of natural remedies, but how they were learned at the feet of [the author's] mother and grandmother, with a wonderful potpourri of folk and fairy tales, and modern and ancient science interspersed between. Most fascinating to me is the number of common fruits and vegetables for which she suggests medical uses — beets, onions, garden radishes, plums, potatoes and many others–in addition to the uses for a full range of backyard weeds–dandelion, burdock, chamomile, rose hips, black elder, nettles, mallows and many others. That is one of the delights of reading Eastern European writers–they grow up knowing, and using, the healing properties as well as the food properties of a mich wider variety of domestic and wild plants than do most Americans.”

If you rely on doctors, they will be more than happy to write you any prescription for a well advertised drug. It will just suppress your condition, but may not necessarily treat it. There are no guarantees, of course, except for side-effects.

Chemical drugs such as sedatives and stimulants may give you initial relief. The body’s response to them often varies or changes. The little pill you popped a few months ago to take the edge off or put you to sleep may now make you nervous, dizzy, or prone to insomnia or cause other adverse side effects.

The natural remedy revolution is here!

Did you know that more than one-third of U.S. citizens use natural medicine today? The government has suggested that more and more people should become interested in herbs, meditation, yoga, and other forms of alternative medicine because they don’t see positive results very often with conventional care.

Researchers in one of the largest U.S. studies conducted on alternative medicine pointed to the fact that more people are using today herbal medicine, and an increasing number of people have turned to natural products like herbs, fruits, vegetables, or enzymes to help chronic or recurring pain.

Does it make any sense to you to stay out of this increasingly popular Green Movement? Our ancestors survived by being smart and keeping themselves healthy with help from Mother Nature. Most of us come into this world as healthy human beings. We are built to be solid, strong, and energetic. We are intended to live a long and healthy life, but only on one condition: we must take our health into our hands and maintain the knowledge of how to do that.

This is exactly what you can find in the book Mama’s Home Remedies, a handy and must-to-have guide to the curative and preventative qualities of herbs, plants, fruits, berries and vegetables, which can safely treat our ailments and prevent further diseases, weaknesses, or hopelessness from wreaking havos in our lives. We must take control of our health while we are still healthy.

Many medical research organizations are not proponents of preventative medicine because their work is based on illness. This sad truth is well described in the article, “The Life That Is Costing Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,” published by a health organization in New Zealand: “There is no money to be made from healthy people….This is why the medical and research establishments are not in the least interested in prevention (practically all diseases are preventable).”

Preventative care is the solution to disease. It can keep us healthy and free of illnesses. We can do it! We just have to learn how to do it. The answer is in Mama’s Home Remedies.

“A power-packed volume of the wisdom of ages placing generations of knowledge and practice into everyone’s hands. Mama’s Home Remedies delivers a healthy dose of common sense and common remedies touched with folklore, quotes and even superstitions.“–Lynnette Walther, columnist, The Herald Tribune, Village Soup

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Discover nearly 800 remedies, and recipes, secrets of joie de vivre, carefully kept “under seven seals” until now; motivational mottoes, inspirational advice and interesting facts.

Get useful tips and advices from this all-encompassing guide to wellness which offers a holistic approach that blends alternative treatments with folklore, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to foster optimal health and joyful living.
Explore a wealth of information which comes from centuries of healthy wisdom, and help yourself to enhance health and well-being.
Experience how to build a healthy, holistic lifestyle that can nourish and bring into balance your mind, body and spirit.
Learn how pleasant can be a long and happy life based on the laws of Nature from this herbal saga filled with time-tested secrets of good health.
Adapt as many of the hundreds of green recipes as you need, that have been practiced widely by doctors in Europe and around the world for centuries.
Use mindfully this endless treasure of natural healers to prevent and treat illnesses in a wise way without polluting your body with an endless flow of chemicals produced by Big Pharma.

Fruits and Vegetables ... delicious and nourishing!

Are you struggling with a cold and wish you had something tasty that would take the soreness and sniffles away? There used to be a full range of hot toddies, mulled ciders and meads that would have done the trick, but they seem to have disappeared over the years, replaced by a range of over-the-counter concoctions like Tylenol, Vicks, Nyquil and a range of cold medicines hawked by the aspirin makers.

Don’t get discouraged. Natural help is on the way!

This book shows you many tools how to avoid harmful drugs producing harmful effects, and how to use simple techniques to strengthen your body’s natural defenses.
It gives you the best methods to make your own natural, healing recipes for common ailments and illnesses–such as allergies, colds, headaches, migraines, stress, fatigue, insomnia, asthma, and respiratory problems.
It teaches you what are the most helpful, easy-to-make teas, tinctures, infusions and poultices you can make with some preplanning and have them in your refrigerator or herbal medicine chest when you need them.

“This book should be on everyone’s bookshelf! Great book! It talks you through easy-to-make natural recipes for treating common ailments and conditions. The author [provides] a body, mind, spirit approach to holistic lifestyle, which always gets my vote!”–Little Green Blog

Get excited and motivated to learn about how time and doctors’-tested natural remedies can help you in fighting many diseases! We know there seems to be no end to information on natural home remedies, but this book provides you with the greatest benefits of know-how with step by step effective techniques and simple concepts helping you to take good care of yourself.

LEARN HOW YOU CAN SUCCESSFULLY:

stifle colds, sniffles and sneezes, as well sore throats and noses
fight fatigue and stress
treat headaches and migranes
turn insomnia into a sound sleep
recognize and control stress
prevent allergy and asthma
soothe rheumatism, colds and flu
relieve pain and respiratory problems
take care of cardiovascular diseases
avoid boredom
and other health problems

Do you have a terrible cough?

Make organic chicken broth and cook an onion in it. When the onion is tender, eat it at once. Add a pinch of sea salt for better taste. This cooked onion works magic in treating a cough.

Do you feel unhappy or fatigued?

Make fresh pomegranate juice, add one teaspoon organic raw honey to eight ounces and drink it.

Suffer from flu or rheumatism ?

Combine one tablespoon linden flowers and one tablespoon rose hips with one cup boiling water and boil five minutes, Filter and drink one cup before bedtime. This infusion is soothing for colds and flu and it is good treatment for rheumatism.

Did you know that you have a specific tree? In Eastern European tradition, each person has a tree specifically designated to look after you. This tree was predestined for you by Mother Nature to be your friend, your talisman and a guardian of your health. Pages and pages of anecdotes, folk tales, and herbal remedies in this book give you all you need to know about how to invite your tree into your life and become close friends with it. Find out which tree is yours!

IN SUMMARY, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET:

A Guide to Symptoms, Cures and Complete Well-Being. Vividly descriptive and nurturing, this ultimate natural home remedies book will help you change the way you live and think about life’s dilemma–how to improve and maintain your health and happiness for many years to come.
A Healthy Wisdom Chest of Nearly 800 Remedies and Recipes, secrets of joie de vivre, motivational mottoes, inspirational advice, intriguing superstitions, folk tales, stories, ancient legends, and interesting facts. The combination creates a perfect balance for readers seeking to nourish both body and spirit.
A Spectacular Kaleidoscopic Tapestry Woven of Centuries-Old Herbal Remedies, timeless tecniques and concepts, intellectual rigor and joyfully recounted anecdotes and folk tales, women’s wisdom, family values and traditions, artistically rendered illustrations and an abundance of humor–all that we hold sacred in life.
A Collection of Abundant Knowledge of natural health, healing, and herbal lore.
A Real Treasure filled with easy-to-make, natural, healing recipes for common ailments and illnesses–such as allergies, headaches, stress, fatigue, insomnia, asthma and respiratory problems–this all-encompasssing guide to wellness offers a holistic approach that blends alternative treatments with folklore, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to foster optimal health and joyful living.
A “Comfort Book” (like comfort food!)–one that will variously provide information, stimulate your thinking, give you peace of mind, and entertain you.
A Great Cure For Stress. Turn to any page and be taken out of your life and transported into fables and stories of life in the Russian culture, many of which emphasize an oneness with the natural world around you.
A Complete Healthy Living Reference With A Twist! If you have a health problem or want to know what a particular plant is good for, just go to the index. As you search for answers, you will be transported into a world where common foods become effective medicines. Vegetables such as beets, potatoes, onions, grapes and radishes are used to whisk away ills and plants we call “weeds” such as nettles, dandelions, burdock and coltsfoot, rather than synthetic medicines off Wal-Mart shelves, play everyday role in the healthy stable life of normal families.
An Excellent Source of Natural History Insights and Lore with practical examples about how animals fit into their environment, including a great story about how a badger instinctively knew to bury its burned nose into a moldy tree trunk to alleviate the pain and heal the problem.
A Reminder of The Value of Our Elders–our grandmothers and grandfathers–as founts of valuable knowledge and wisdom that should be lovingly mined lest it becomes lost.
Life Adventures of One Family along with fascinating explorations of such things as healing power of colors, happy cells, ancient Druid beliefs about trees and its vibrational energy, and the instincts animals have for healing themselves that we can learn to be sensitive to in our own lives as well.

There are nearly 800 of the old Eastern European herbal remedies and Nature’s gifts for many common ills and a healthy lifestyle that the author, Svetlana Konnikova has resurrected in her new book, Mama’s Home Remedies, a how -to-do compendum of old Eastern European curatives, folklore and fairy tales that will warm your heart as you sit by the blazing fire reading the fairy tales to your children and sipping the delicious, spicy, hot, steaming cuppa of tea to cure that cold, cough, sore throat, or relieve your pain or stress.