TITLE OF THE BOOK : OLD CROATIAN MEDICINE BOOK

NUMBER OF PAGES : 160

NUMBER OF PICTURES, IN COLOUR: 60

CONTENTS:

TYPES OF MEDICINAL HERBS - 70 types of medicinal herbs has been described with a belonging picture and the way of use for various diseases.

PAGES OF AN OLD BOOK OF MEDICINAL HERBS - 60 copies of original pages of an old book of medicinal herbs with prescriptions and precise instructions for their use.

AUTHOR'S EXPLANATION OF SEVERAL PARTS OF THE OLD BOOK OF MEDICINAL HERBS

PREFACE :

The book "OLD CROATIAN MEDICINE BOOK" as the three previous ones "NATURAL MEDICINE", "BEST PRESCRIPTIONS OF POPULAR MEDICINE 1" and "BEST PRESCRIPTIONS OF POPULAR MEDICINE 2" should be understood as a guide through a still unknown area of nature trying to overpass the existing gap between man and nature and discover the real intuitive nature of ours in order to recover the lost balance.

Studying the use of medicinal herbs in western and oriental teachings and knowing that relevant contents hide behind a complex matter, I approached the practice of medicinal herbs beginning with old religious experience, alchemist writings, eastern doctrines up to the present modern perceptions.

If people of various spiritual inclinations think identically or similarly about the same matter then it can serve as a valid parameter of value.

We speak here about something which is measurable by the existing scientific instruments but which has a greater value in written documents as a reflection of thousand-year old POPULAR experience which should always be taken into consideration. This is valid especially for the field of medicinal herbs which was a riddle and which has awoken the curiosity of the people who have tried to resolve their health problems.

These books appear in a time when man's existence on a planetary level has been shaken and insecure, while positivist sciences, medicine in the first place, have, with splendid achievements, many failure as well. There are many general places where it tries to explain the phenomena of diseases without a possibility to cure them, and where the science of medicinal herbs, often contested and marginal, appear often as the only solution. Therefore, you cannot accept these texts as the literary imagination only or as a spectacular challenge to the nuclear civilization, but something on which the medicine of the future will be based upon.

Our "common sense" and causal behaviour on the basis of logic and inertia, our critical spirit and all experience contents of our consciousness and subconsciousness have been identified as an obstacle to realize the real natural condition, or to become the inseparable part of nature.

Many herbalists consider this inseparable condition the real source and protection of health preventing diseases to invade the human organism, while a longer separation from nature causes psychic and physical changes very often with heavy consequences.

We do not need to emphasize especially that man is part of nature. Beginning with this thesis we can conclude that healing of sick person may be successful only if it occurs within the natural laws.

There is a dynamic living force in every human being, a vital energy which govern the whole organism. This energy is invisible and unmeasurable for the time being and if manifests itself as a bad or good health. A poor state of human health is only the consequence of its disruption, and the healing cannot occur without mastering it. The natural medicine has found its proper place here.

In the previous century, with a sudden advance of technology and science in general, medicinal herbs were suppressed by chemicals and active substances - syrups, pills and injections. We are far from questioning the value and significance of technological discoveries, especially those in chemistry and pharmacology. This would be unreasonable and disastrous. After all, industrial production of medicines and preparations is superior because it satisfies enormous needs of the contemporary man.

I consider, however, that medicinal herbs and their active principles have been unjustly neglected.

Nature is a great riddle and a permanent challenge for researchers. It is dangerous to play with it and tempts its powers in a lay way. It should be first of all known and admired in its creative originality and wisdom. This is an enormous laboratory in which endless, very fine and delicate chemical processes take place. All elements, both known and unknown, are mixed in herbs. It is very important to understand that these substances are in their natural state and organically bound, and that the human organism absorbs them best as such, without resistance and negative reactions.

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