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Healing Tonics: 101 Concoctions to Increase Energy, Boost Immunity, Enhance Memory, Ease Digestion, and Support Daily Health and Wellness
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.
160 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2000
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April 29, 2020
Let's just say Tummy Love Wine was one of my favorite recipes.
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February 15, 2017Healing Tonics by Jeanine Pollak, ISBN: 1580172407, @ 2000, PB, LBS, 3/2009
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May 17, 2012
BOTTOM LINE: While there may be recipes here that are useful for some people, I found this to be poorly arranged, terribly indexed, and extremely limited in its approach and attitude.
It's from 2000, and simply hasn't aged well - we've come a long, long way towards mainstream acceptance of "health foods" and then-counterculture ideas of back-to-the-land, but this book's attitude does not, cannot reflect this. Thus it now seems stodgy and pompous, with a stridency and insularity about it that I'd last seen in "that sort of thing" from the 1970s, fer-gosh-sakes! And by "that sort of thing", I mean "alternative medicine" or approaches to living, naturalistic styles of living, etc. Don't waste your time with this unless you want a very rudimentary cookbook for such things as described on the cover and, believe me, the recipes given here are *extremely* basic, with many of them now terribly familiar to almost all folks these days.
It's from 2000, and simply hasn't aged well - we've come a long, long way towards mainstream acceptance of "health foods" and then-counterculture ideas of back-to-the-land, but this book's attitude does not, cannot reflect this. Thus it now seems stodgy and pompous, with a stridency and insularity about it that I'd last seen in "that sort of thing" from the 1970s, fer-gosh-sakes! And by "that sort of thing", I mean "alternative medicine" or approaches to living, naturalistic styles of living, etc. Don't waste your time with this unless you want a very rudimentary cookbook for such things as described on the cover and, believe me, the recipes given here are *extremely* basic, with many of them now terribly familiar to almost all folks these days.
June 19, 2008
I think I got this book out of the trash. I know I didn't buy it new.
Anyway, I went through it and marked a lot or recipes that I wanted to try (ginger-chamomile delight, sweet sesame-flax sprinkle, power surge female toner, autumn tonic tea), but the only thing I ever actually prepared was the garlic-herb better butter (which was very delicious). The problem is that the recipes call for ingredients that I don't tend to have around the house and don't think to buy when I am out at the store.
Anyway, I went through it and marked a lot or recipes that I wanted to try (ginger-chamomile delight, sweet sesame-flax sprinkle, power surge female toner, autumn tonic tea), but the only thing I ever actually prepared was the garlic-herb better butter (which was very delicious). The problem is that the recipes call for ingredients that I don't tend to have around the house and don't think to buy when I am out at the store.
June 22, 2010
some of them are way out there....how does one even get the needed items? mail order, mostly
February 24, 2013
Great introduction in a small book. I will need to check this out again after my herbs have grown more.
June 4, 2014
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