Healing Tonics: 101 Concoctions to Increase Energy, Boost Immunity, Enhance Memory, Ease Digestion, and Support Daily Health and Wellness [Paperback]

Jeanine Pollak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2000

Unique and nutritious ideas for creating tinctures, drinks, teas, and smoothies designed to invigorate and soothe. Easy-to-make recipes for energy tonics and disease-prevention formulas for the entire body.

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Review

Jeanine Pollak was 18 years old when she wenton an herb walk--in northern California, of course--which changed her life. "Suddenly, all these little green things growing in the ground had names, unique histories and uses, and the potential to be enjoyed as food and transformed into medicine." Some of these alternative-medicine recipes sound tasty, others resemble a real witch's brew.

The Pagan Punch, for example, uses calendula, meadowsweet and sweet woodruff; the Tummy Love-Wine mixes white wine and fennel. Some recipes, like Susi's Sure to Cure You Chicken Soup, appear identical to non-herbalist recipes. But the book is worth buying for Love Potion # 9 Herbal Cordial alone, which mixes rose hips, hawthorne berries, and that perennial aphrodiasiac, brandy. Next time I've got my eye on a Puck, that's what I'll try--even if it's not magic, it sure seems like fun. (Beliefnet, May 2000) -- From Beliefnet

From the Back Cover

Bring the Juice Bar Home with These Simple, Nourishing Formulas!

Now you can mix up health-promoting herbal concoctions right in your own kitchen! From teas and tinctures to smoothies, elixirs, and healing soups, these tasty recipes are easy to make with common ingredients and basic cooking equipment. Tonics are safe and enjoyable to take on a regular basis to promote the strength, immunity, and energy you need to feel better and stay healthier day after day.

Whether you are feeling stressed or low in energy, wish to boost your mental clarity or increase your stamina, want to ease digestive discomfort or support heart health, Jeanine Pollak has formulated an all-natural herbal tonic to meet your individual needs. Nurture your own well-being with recipes such as:

Garden of Eden Elixir - Instant Kiss Euphoria Honey - Tarzan's Total Tonic - Cyclone Cider Deluxe - Spaz-Away Tincture - Post-Potluck 911 - Summer Superman Energy Shake - Steamin' Mama's Lemonade - Herbal-a-Go-Go Energy Elixir

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (May 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580172407
• ISBN-13: 978-1580172400
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Provide a natural boost to your immune system!, October 13, 2000

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Melanie Wilson "mongoliamel" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Tonics: 101 Concoctions to Increase Energy, Boost Immunity, Enhance Memory, Ease Digestion, and Support Daily Health and Wellness (Paperback)

Here is a wonderful book of recipes that are not only delicious but provide a natural boost to your immune system and overall good health. The book highlights such fantastic herbalists as Rosemary Gladstar, Christopher Hobbs and Amanda McQuade-Crawford to name but a few. Each herbalist is asked to describe his or her favorite recipes for healing and supporting a healthy body. With names like Amanda's Herbal Iron Elixir and Balsamic Blast, there is a multitude of choices available for every taste and need. Not only do the recipes cover the healing aspect of herbs in foods, they also include recipes for healing herbs in teas and tinctures. A precise and easy to follow chapter on how to make tincture, teas and cordials makes this a book that can be used by the beginner as well as someone familiar with using medicinal herbs. Another chapter is devoted solely to the herbs in the book, including their common and botanical Latin names, the parts used, the general taste and the herb's affinity for particular body systems. This chapter is especially important for you to familiarize yourself with an herb's properties before using. Finally, there is a wonderful resource section that includes contact information for herbs and natural products, bulk herbs, educational resources and much more. This is a good indication of a book's serious intent and solid background of subject material. There are three chicken soup recipes that include organic, free range chickens and one that includes oysters and two more that include butter and honey. Other than that, all of the recipes are vegan and there are 101 recipes in the book to choose from!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful compilation, August 16, 2006

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Josi Martin (England) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Healing Tonics: 101 Concoctions to Increase Energy, Boost Immunity, Enhance Memory, Ease Digestion, and Support Daily Health and Wellness (Paperback)

I am really rather pleased with what was an impulse buy. It's a small book but has a number of fascinating tonic mixtures in tea, tincture and cordial form (with even one mix for topical application). The tonics are for all sorts of requirements: men's problems, womens' life phases, digestive problems, stress relief, vitality boosters, circulatory tonics, etc. The receipes from experienced herbalists appear to be extremely good and I am looking forward to some experimentation using them. The only reason I haven't given it a full 5 stars was that I think the small materia medica at the rear could have been even better if contraindications were more fully covered but it does show those that are inappropriate for pregnant people and give a few contraindications to consider. A interesting book for those interested in herbalism.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing !, May 31, 2000

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Jane Rubio (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Tonics: 101 Concoctions to Increase Energy, Boost Immunity, Enhance Memory, Ease Digestion, and Support Daily Health and Wellness (Paperback)

It was so nice to have so many tonics to choose from. The best of the best herbalist sharing their favorites! Easy to read, and scan, just what concoction you want to try. Yummy!