Grammie Tucker, back when I was little - in the 30's - 40's, largely used home remedies. I remember well the mustard plaster for congested lungs! It worked then. It worked for hundreds of years before. It works now.  Such is the nature of nature, as it were. So here I will be setting up this 'room' to tell you all what I use when, for  example, I get the sniffles - or, more to the point, want to avoid getting them in the first place.

Besides all the things I grew up with, I have,  over the decades,  learned much more about nature's natural 'medicines' and preventatives. It has saved me countless hundreds of dollars, and, I surmise, kept me from many illnesses. I was led into my research and use of herbs and home remedies involuntarily, you  might say. I was raising a parcel load of young'uns and couldn't afford to be dragging them off to the doc's for every sneeze and sniffle. Over the course of a few decades, I found that we stayed much healthier - especially since natural remedies don't come with a arm's length of "possible side effects." (Now my young'uns have young'uns - I have 15 grandkids! - and they use many of the same 'treatments.') * Let me say, right up front here, less'n they's some g'ment lurker looking to arrest me for 'practising medicine,' I'm not going to be advising you on anything. I'll just be relating things folk have used - i.e., folk medicine?  ;- )   - for hundreds of years and some that I use and that I find "works for me." (I once wrote a weekly column on this stuff and it was titled "It Works for Me.") So you all remember now, do your own research, don't take ony one persons or books word for anything. For serious sickness, get off to a doctor. But, take it from a white haired ole Gramma, you can't go wrong with nature - well, you can - after all you wouldn't roll around in a patch of poison ivy and there are some plants, like pennyroyal, that I won't use. But you know what I mean. So "Bookmark me" and keep coming back, I will be adding lots of stuff - prob'ly starting right off  with that wonderous, wrongly maligned plant of plants: The Dandelion - or as the French call it - "Pissenlit," for it's propensity to increase urine flow, which in turn, flushes germs and bacteria out of the system. And that is only one of a whole cartload of benefits the lowly dandelion has in store. I figure God must've meant us to use it 'cause he sure made a lot of it and He spread it around the world.

I'll also include recipes and sometimes, 'formulas,' for each plant, like "Dandelion Wine."

So come on back - 'cause those dandelions will be popping up right soon. And you have'ta grab 'em quick, before the lawn mower gets 'em. BOOKMARK me so's you wont loose me!