Baba Vanga's Unique Natural Remedies
1. Take 4 heads of garlic and 5 teaspoons of cumin (Cuminum cyminum) and boil in 1 l of milk. Take 1 tbsp on every hour for a duration of at least 4 days.
2. Make a mixture from 30 g of each - parsnip, fennel (Foeniculum officinale), peppermint (Menta piperita), lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), common thyme (Thymus vulgaris). Chop finely all herbs, mix well and boil in 2 l of water. In 5 minutes, strain and leave the infusion to cool. Drink 500 ml a day, for the duration of 2-3 days, or at least when the complaints disappear.
3. Boil 40 g of common centaury (Erythraea centaurium), and 50 g of fig leaves in 500 ml of water. Strain and drink for several days, 1 glass a day.
4. Mix 200 g of bee honey with 1 tbsp. of smoke tree (Rhus cotinus), and fennel (Foeniculum officinale). Mix all well and take 1 tbsp of the mixture before eating.
5. Add 70 g of parsley seeds (Petroselinum sativum) to 40 g of dill (Anethum graveolens). Mix well and add to 1 l of boiling water. Boil, then strain and drink the infusion after it cools.
6. Make a mixture from 40 g of each of the herbs - valerian (Valeriana officinalis), common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) and common lilac (Syringa vulgaris). Chop all herbs finely and mix well. Pour 1 l of boiling water over the herbal mixture. Let the infusion cool and drink before eating.
1. Pour olive oil over St. John's Wort flowers (Hypericum perforatum) and let steep for 20 days. Spread the oil infusion on the affected area.
2. Soak some Madonna lily petals (Lilium candidum), picked before the flower has fully blossomed, and cover the wounds with them.
3. Make a compress with concoction from dried calendula (Calendula officinalis). Take about 40 g of the herb and bring them to a boil in 1 l of water. After the concoction cools down, strain the liquid and soak the compress with it. Apply on the affected area for at least 1 hour.
1. Before bedtime, on your face apply a cotton towel, soaked in water in which lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), soapwort (SaponariaOfficinalis), and black elder (Sambucusnigra) was boiled – in equal portions.
2. Mix the following herbs:
30 g of dandelion (Taraxacumofficinale), 30 g of burdock roots (ArctiumLappa), 30 g of nettle, 30 g of white yarrow (Achilleamillefolium), and 30 g of lady's bedstraw (Galiumverum) Take 2 full tbsps. of the herbal mixture and boil it in 500 ml of water for 5 minutes. Strain the liquid and store in a cool place. You can apply the liquid onto your skin 3 times a week. After the procedure pat dry your skin and apply rose water, or infusion from black elder (Sambucusnigra), chamomile, or pot marigold.
3. Mix 1 part of sulfur powder with 10 parts of coconut oil or vaseline. Apply the mask before going to bed, making sure the mixture does not get in your eyes.
4. Mix 100 g of flour – preferably use wheat, barley or spelt flour, 1 tbsp. of wheat bran and add enough warm milk to form a paste. Mix very well and make sure the paste is thick enough (but not too thick like a bread dough) so it can stay on your face and not fall off. Leave the paste at room temperature for 4 hours. Before applying the paste, wash your face gently with warm water and pat dry. Apply the sourdough paste on your face and keep it on for 30-40 minutes. Then wash off the paste with warm water.
5. Take 100 g of fresh leaves (or dry in case you can’t find fresh) of smoke tree (Rhuscotinu) and put them in 1 L of boiling water. Strain the liquid. Take a small towel and soak it in the liquid. Squeeze the towel well, and apply it as a compress onto your face. Keep it on for 10-15 minutes. You can repeat the procedure 2-3 times a day. In addition, right after the compress, the pimples have to be smeared with the following infusion:
10 g of pot marigold – flowers (Calendula officinalis) are soaked in 50 g of olive oil. Leave it to soak well for at least one week before usage. At the same time while doing the two topical procedures listed above, you can take the following infusion internally:
2 full tbsps.of nettle – leaves, are added to 400 g of boiling water. Leave it to soak well for 2 hours. Strain the liquid, and drink 4 times a day before eating.
6. Mix very well 1 yolk, 500 g of yogurt (make sure the water of the yogurt is strained), 2 tbsps.of honey, 2 tbsps.of royal jelly, the juice from 1 lemon, and 1 tbsp. of salicyl powder. Before applying the mixture onto your face as a mask, first make a steam bath. In a metal container put a handful of chamomile and a handful of linden tree flowers and boil it in water. Once the steam starts to rise, bend over exposing your face to the steam. Get closer as much as it is comfortable, and carry on for about 10 minutes. Then apply the above mixture onto your face preferably before going to bed, and leave it for overnight.
The mixture can be stored in your refrigerator in container with the lid on.
1. 1 tsp dry sagebrush soaked for 1 night in 1 cup of cold water. The next morning, strain and drink 3 times a day after meal, 1 tablespoon with a little honey.
For children:
1 tsp Preventive: to drink 1 cup of Wormwood wine, especially in the spring
1. The external skins of two kg of onions are boiled in 3 liters of water until it becomes dark red. Drink the water, 1 cup of it (coffee cup) in the morning or evening on an empty stomach.
1. Mix 10 g of nettle leaves (Urtica Dioica) and 25 g of rowan berries (Sorbus Aucuparia). Pour 500 ml of boiling water over one tablespoon of the mixture and simmer for 10 minutes. Let steep for 4 hours and then strain. Drink 1/2 teacup, 4 times a day.
1. Peel 6 large onions and take the outer layers. Pour 500 ml boiling water over them, allow to steep for a while, strain and let cool off. Drink one coffee cup each morning, at noon and at night, before going to bed.
2. Make a mixture of 50 g of rowan berries (Sorbus aucuparia), 20 g of spearmint (Mentha spicata) and 10 g of camomile (Matricaria chamomilla). Pour 300 ml of boiling water and allow to steep for several hours. Strain and drink within the same day.
1. Prepare a mixture from 50 g of ginger (Zingiber officinale) and 50 g of valerian (Valeriana officinalis), you may sweeten with honey if desired. Stir well and when needed take 1 tbsp. of the mixture.
2. Prepare a mixture from 100 g of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), 100 g of valerian (Valeriana officinalis), 40 g of high mallow (Malva sylvestris) and 40 g of St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum). Boil 4 tbsp. of the herbal mixture in 500 ml of water, strain and drink.
1. Mix 50 g of each of the herbs - common hop cones (Humulus lupulus), valerian roots (Valeriana officinalis), peppermint (Menta piperita), common speedwell (Veronica officinalis) and dill seeds (Anethum graveolens). Pour 400 ml of hot water over 4 tbsp. of the herbal mixture and steep for 1 hour. Drink the infusion in two parts - in the morning and in the evening.
2. Pour 500 ml of hot water over 5 tbsp. of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) and steep for 10 minutes. Strain and drink, sweetened with honey, 3 times a day.
3. Mix 200 g of each of the herbs - camomile (Matricaria chamomilla), peppermint (Menta piperita), common nettle (Urtica dioica). Add 6 tbsp. of the herbal mixture into 1 l of boiling water. Steep for 15 minutes and strain. Drink the infusion 3 times a day, before meals.
4. Pour 500 ml of boiling water over 5 leaves of rose geranium (Pelargonium roseum). After the infusion cools down, strain it and drink it all, before dinner, slowly, in small sips.
5. Make a mixture from 100 g of valerian (Valeriana officinalis), 30 g of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris) and 30 g of linden (Tilia cordata Mill.). Add all herbs into 1 l of boiling water and simmer for about 10 minutes. After that strain and drink before going to bed.
6. Prepare a mixture from 250 g of linden tea and 100 g of bee honey, right before going to bed. You may also add 50 g of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris) and 50 g of valerian (Valeriana officinalis). It is important to consume the drink while still warm.
1. in a larger quantity of water boil 10 larger tubers of the herb called sowbread (aka Cyclamen neapolitanum). Water is poured into the bath and is cooled down to a suitable temperature. Then the patient lies down so that water covers his entire body, and stays until the water is cool. At least 10 baths should be done. The water can be reused.
2. Take 20 tubers of the herb sowbread (aka Cyclamen neapolitanum) and boil it in 10 l. of water. The patient should do baths morning and evening. First the legs, then arms, and lastly pour the water on the head 3 times.
3. In 1/2 l of strong grape brandy (in Bulgaria the brandy used is called Rakia - a drink comparable to the famous Italian Grappa), boil 1/2 packet of mustard seeds until the liquid remains half. The patient can rub the arthritis spots with the liquid every morning and evening. In addition the patient can do baths with water in which sumac was boiled (Rhus coriaria).
4. Arthritis (pain in the writsts) - 10 night baths with cool water from boiled liquorice.
5. Arthritic, rheumatic pains in bad weather - place a poultice on the knees and wrists from boiled leaves of sumac (Rhus coriaria).
6. Bring 300 ml of water to the boil, put 20 g of horsetail (Equisetum Arvense) in it. Add 1 tbsp. of sulphur, sugar and corn flour. Knead the mixture into dough and apply as fomentation on the affected area.
7. Apply leaves of Bear's Breeches (Acanthus Longifolius) to affected areas. Repeat the procedure several nights.
8. Wash hands and feet, leave them a bit wet. Sprinkle with sulphur powder. Put mittens on hands and socks on feet. Keep them on during the night. Repeat each night for a week, without intermission.
1. Pour 2 glasses of water onto 150 g of fresh chopped dill. Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes, take 2 coffee cups before meals, 3 times a day.
2. Mix 20 g of elecampane (InulaHelenium), 20 g of coltsfoot (TussilagoFarfara) and 30 g of basil. Mix well and put into 1 litre of boiling water. Boil for 3 minutes, then let steep for 20 more minutes. Strain and then take 1 coffee cup of the concoction 3 times a day, before meals.
3. Mix 2 teaspoons of horsetail (Equisetum Arvense) and 1 teaspoon of high mallow (MalvaSylvestris L.). Add the herbs to 500 ml boiling water. Strain and drink the concoction warm up to 3 times a day.
4. Scald 40 pickling onions with hot water, until they soften. Stew the pickling onions with 500 ml if olive oil. Crush the onions into a puree, and consume 1 tsp of it each morning and evening.
5. For Asthma in kids - drink colt's foot tea (aka Tussilagofarfara).
6. Take 500 g of broad beans, roast well, until they look like coffee, grind them and mix with 500 g of honey. Stir well and take 1 tbsp. of the mixture every morning.
7. Make a mixture from 40 g of quince leaves (Cydonia oblonga) and mulberry leaves (Morus alba). Take 3 tbsp. of the herbal mixture and add to 1 l of boiling water. Let simmer, then strain. After the concoction cools down, take 20-30ml before every meal.
8. Mix 100 g of rosehip berries (Rosa canina) and 50 g of each of the herbs - peppermint leaves (Mentha piperita), rose geranium (Pelargonium roseum) and linden blossom (Tilia). Boil the herbal mixture and allow to cool. Then strain and drink 1 teacup, 4 times a day.
9. Take 200 g of fresh watermelon seeds. Roast them well, grind, sift and add them to 1 kg of honey. Take 2 tbsp. 3 times a day, before meals.
10. Take 40 g of each of the herbs - basil (Ocimum basilicum), common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), common marshmallow (Althaea officinalis) and liquorice roots (Glycyrrhiza glabra). Chop the herbs finely and mix well. Add 3 tbsp. of the herbal mixture into 500 ml of water and boil for 5 minutes. After the concoction cools down strain and drink 1 teacup, sweetened with honey, 3 times a day, before meals.
11. Mix 1 kg of honey, the juice from 10 lemons and 10 fresh garlic bulbs, ground into paste. Put the mixture into a jar and leave for a week. Then take 4 teaspoons, once a day.
1. Extract 200 ml of apple juice and mix with 200 g of honey. Drink 1 coffee cup of the mixture daily, at noon, 15 minutes before eating.
2. Mix even quantities of fresh onion juice and honey. Take 1 tablespoon of the mixture each morning, 30 minutes before breakfast.
3. Pour 500 ml of boiling water over 100 g of lilac flowers (Syringa Vulgaris). Steep for 20 minutes. Strain and add 100g of honey to the infusion. Stir well. Take 1 teaspoon daily.
1. Bed wetting (in small and older kids) - 1 stalk of dandelion is boiled for 5 minutes in 2 cups of water. The children can drink 1 cup in the morning and 1 cup in the evening.
2. Bed wetting (in small children) - on a white woollen cloth smear the following mixture: 1 tablespoon of grated regular (homemade if possible) soap, 2 egg whites, 1 teaspoon of grounded grains of Gnaphaliumdioicum (aka Mountain Everlasting, Catsfoot, Cudweed), 1 teaspoon of crushed white incense, and one small cup (25 mL) of grape brandy (eg. Italian Grappa).The first night, the woollen cloth smeared with the above mixture is placed as a compress on the lower back of the child, and for the second night it's placed on the lower abdomen.
3. Bed wetting (in older girls) - take dry roots of the herb Phytolaccadecantra (aka Phyt, poke root) and crush them well to powder. Place the powder on a hot roof tile. When the powder begins to smoke, the girl must crouch over the smoke.
4. Boil 40 g of marshmallow (Althaea officinalis) in 2 l of water for 30 minutes. Drink throughout the day instead of water.
5. Pour 400 ml of boiling water over 1 tbsp of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis). Let steep for 2 hours. Then drink 1 glass of the infusion, 3 times a day, before eating.
6. Prepare a mixture from 50 g of each of the following herbs - common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum), common agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria), kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), and blackberries. Boil 4 tbsp. of the herbal mixture in 800 ml of water for 5 minutes. Drink 1 glass, 4 times a day, before eating.
7. Take 1 tbsp. of common gromwell (Lithospermum officinale) and boil for 15 minutes in 1 l of water. Take 1 coffee cup, 3 times a day, before eating.
1. Mix 1 teaspoon of sal ammoniac (Ammonium Chloride) with 1 fresh yolk and take in the morning, on an empty stomach. Repeat for at least a week.
2. Mix 2 tbsp. of honey and sal ammoniac. Spread the mixture over the affected place and wrap with a bandage. Keep for at least 2 hours.
3. Prepare a mixture from 40 g of wall germander (Teucrium chamaedrys), 30 g of each herb - common agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria), field horsetail (Equisetum arvense) and common nettle leaves (Urtica dioica), 20 g of each of the following - dandelion whole stems (Taraxacum officinale) and flaxseed, 25 g of heartsease whole stems (Viola tricolor) and camomile flowers (Matricaria chamomilla). Boil 2 tbsp. of the herbal mixture in 500 ml of water for 5 minutes. Drink 1 glass of the concoction 4 times a day, before meals.
1.Bronchi (inflammation) - boil 1 bay leaf in 100 ml of water, until the water remains in half. Drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
2.Bronchitis - boil 2-3 leaves of coltsfoot in half a liter of milk. Add pork lard on the tip of a knife. Drink one coffee cup in the evening
3.Bronchitis (severe) - take 1 tablespoon of crushed Sinapisarvensis (aka Wild mustard or charlock) mixed with honey.
4.Bronchitis (children) - 1 red onion is peeled from the husk and a hole is carved in the middle. Fill in the hole with 1 teaspoon of Nebet-Seker (unrefined cane sugar). Every day the child can eat one onion with the mixture until fully recovered.
5.Bronchitis (children) - fry two eggs in pork lard and sprinkle them with salt. When they cool off, put them onto the child's chest for one night.
6.Bronchitis (spasmodic, in a child with an allergy) - Mix 10 grams of mustard flour with 100 g of ground ginger root.The child can take 1 teaspoon after dinner.
7.Bronchitis (spasmodic) - in 500 ml. of boiling water soak for 1 min. 1 tablespoon of sumac, coltsfoot and wormwood. Sieve the water and drink 1 tablespoon with a little honey in the morning and evening after meals.
8.Bronchitis (chronic) - Drink 1 cup of calendula tea , every morning on an empty stomach for 3 weeks.
1. Grate pure wax into 100 ml of olive oil, then boil it until it becomes as thick as mash. Apply on the affected areas, cover up with paper and a woollen cloth, then wrap up with a bandage. Let the bandage stay overnight. Repeat the procedure in 4 days.
2. Chop 6 red onions and add 1 teaspoon full of salt. Apply the mixture as a compress on the affected area. Change on every 2 hours.
3. Grate finely two raw potatoes and apply on the bruise with a bandage. Keep the bandage until the pain subsides.
4. Mix 100 g of each of the following herbs - shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris), field horsetail whole stems (Equisetum arvense) and common agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria). Add the herbal mixture to 2 l of boiling water. Strain the infusion and use it for massaging the bruised spot every morning and evening. You can also apply poultices from the herbs during the night.
5. Mix 2 tbsp. of common lady's mantlе whole stems (Alchemilla vulgaris) and 4 tbsp. of lavender flowers (Lavandula vera). Add the mixture to 1 l of boiling water and let steep. Drink while still warm, 4-5 times a day.
1. Burns - the first thing to do is immediately take of the clothing off the affected area, clean the wound with cold water, and dip the wounded arm (leg, hand) in cold water. Constantly add new cold water, and don't let the old one to get warm. Keep in cold water until the limb's skin color gets back to normal, and pain is relieved. In severe burn cases, dipping the limb in cold water takes longer - anywhere between 1-8 hours. If cold water is used immediately, blisters don't go off, pain gets relieved, and in majority of the cases further treatment is not needed. For burn levels between 2-4 - medical attention is mandatory.
After pain is relieved, wrap the affected area with lint smeared with the following ointments:
a) Lime ointment (pre-mixed well)
Take one lump of slaked lime (in the size of an egg) and put it in 250 g of water. When the water becomes crystal clear, take 2 tbsp of it and mix it with 4 tbsp of olive oil. Mix very well until the mixture thickens. Then add 1/2 of an egg yolk and mix well with the other mixture. Smear the ointment on a lint and wrap it around the affected area.
b) Ointment from reed's flowers.
Take 4 tbps of reed's flowers, separate well (in the form of threads) and mix it with olive oil until it becomes thick like an ointment. Smear it on a lint and wrap the wound every morning, afternoon, and evening.
c) Take 1 tbsp of fresh butter and melt it on a low heat. Then add 1 tea spoon of crushed white incense - when adding constantly stir, until the mixture thickens.
d) Take 1 tbsp of fresh butter and mix it with one egg - mix well until it thickens. Smear it on a lint and wrap the wound every morning, afternoon, and evening - change when the ointment dries out.
2. Burns (from hot object) - mix 6 yolks of fresh eggs, 6 l. of milk, and 1 tbsp of melted butter. Beat well until the mixture becomes mayonnaise-like. Wrap the affected area few times with lint, soaked in the mixture.
3. Boil 100 g of black grapes in 1 l of water and use the decoction for making compresses. After straining the liquid soak a piece of gauze with it and apply on the affected area.
4. Boil some milk and let it cool down. Then daub some of it over the affected area for 15 minutes.
5. Warm 200 ml of olive oil and add 40 g of each of the herbs to it - camomile (Matricaria chamomilla), calendula (Calendula officinalis) and common yarrow (Achillea millefolium). Then transfer the mixture into a vessel with a lid and leave it for at least 4 hours in sunshine. After that soak a piece of gauze in the mixture and apply on the affected areas.
1. Mix 3 tbsp. of bee honey and 5 g of cinnamon. Take 3 times a day, half an hour before eating.
2. Mix 1 tbsp. of pure bee honey with the juice from one red onion. Drink at night, before going to bed.
3. Boil 1 handful of walnut shells in 500 ml of water for 15 minutes. Drink the decoction several times a day.
4. Prepare a mixture from 10 g of each of the herbs - common vetch (Vicia sativa), valerian (Valeriana officinalis) and black locust flowers (Robinia pseudoacacia). Pour 300 ml of water over the mixture and bring to a boil. Once the infusion has cooled, strain it. Drink 1 teacup, once a day, before eating.
5. Mix 20 g of Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica) and 40 g of black elderberry (Sambucus nigra). Pour 1 l of boiling water over the herbs and boil for 20 minutes. Allow to cool and then sweeten with 3 tbsp. of sugar. Drink 1 teacup, 3 times a day.
6. Mix 100 g of lemon balm leaves (Melissa officinalis), 30 g of common vetch (Vicia sativa), 40 g of common hawthorn flowers (Crataegus monogyna) and 10 g of valerian roots (Valeriana officinalis). Pour 1 l of boiling water over the mixture and let steep for 2 hours. Drink 1 teacup, 3 times a day.
7. Mix 100 g of common violet (Viola odorata), 50 g of marshmallow roots (Althaea officinalis) and 50 g of flaxseed. Pour 500 ml of boiling water over 1 tbsp. of the mixture. Drink 1 teacup before eating.
8. Pour 800 ml of boiling water over 4 tbsp. of lavender flowers (Lavandula angustifolia Vera). Steep for 1 hour, strain and drink in 4 doses, before meals during the day and before going to bed at night.
9. Mix 50 g of common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), 50 g of chopped onion, 30 g of common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) and 30 g of common mistletoe (Viscum album). Prepare tea by steeping 4 tbsp. of the herbal mixture in 600 ml of water for 3 hours, let boil for 5 minutes and then strain again. Drink within the same day in small sips.
10. Add 4 walnuts together with the shells to 4 tbsp. of black elderberry flowers (Sambucus nigra) and 2 tbsp of bee honey. Mix the products well, then boil in 500 ml of water. After straining, take 1 tbsp. 3 times a day.
1. Conjunctivitis - take one small fabric bag and put a warm poultice from lentils, that was boiled with a little red wine. Place this bag on the eyes every morning. Once you take it off, wash the eyes with lukewarm decoction from Euphrasiaofficinalis - leaves and blossoms (aka Eyebright) prepared as follows:
take 2 tspb of eyebright and boil them in 400 g