Basic Home Remedies: A Macrobiotic Guide to Special Drinks, Compresses, Plasters, and Other Natural Applications

by Michio Kushi, Alex Jack (Editor)

In this popular book, Michio Kushi explains how simple, everyday foods can be used to help relieve common symptoms such as fever, cough, inflammation, fatigue, weakness, tension, and menstrual irregularities, as well as chronic conditions. The 50 remedies, including many published for the first time, Azuki Bean Tea, Body Scrub, Brown Rice/Miso Plaster, Buckwheat Plaster, Carrot-Daikon Drink, Chlorophyll Plaster, Daikon Hip Bath, Dried Daikon Tea, Foot Bath, Ginger Compress, Kuzu Drinks, Lotus Tea, Moxa, Mustard Plaster, Salt Pack, Sesame-Ginger Oil, Sweet Vegetable Drink, Taro Plaster, Tofu Plaster, and Ume Tea. END

Genres: Health

64 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

About the author

Michio Kushi (久司 道夫 Kushi Michio; born 1926 in Japan) helped to introduce modern macrobiotics to the United States in the early 1950s. He has lectured about philosophy, spiritual development, health, food and diseases at conferences and seminars all over the world.

Kushi received the Award of Excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers. In 1999, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History opened a permanent collection on macrobiotics and alternative health care in his name. The title of the collection is the "Michio and Aveline Kushi Macrobiotics Collection." It is located in the Archives Center.
Michio and his wife Aveline are founders of The Kushi Institute, now in Becket, Massachusetts.
For their "extraordinary contribution to diet, health and world peace, and for serving as powerful examples of conscious living", they were awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, Massachusetts on October 14, 2000.[1]

Reviews

[Jack Hansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michio Kushi not only has healthy eating tips with preparation and choice foods but he also has time-tested and personally proven treatments using certain foods and spices for ailments and optimum health. This reader has used ginger compresses to reduce swelling in my knee after arthroscopic surgery. Amazing results when applied as an homeopathic remedy. These options reduce the amount of narcotics one needs when applied properly.