SWEDISH BITTERS Part 6

  

 SWEDISH BITTERS 

By Nzinga Nzinga

Part 6

For Mrs. Maria Treben, herbalist of herbalists, crème de la crème of herbalists, whose contribution to the world of natural therapy, of herbal medicine is timeless. After taking your herbal recommendations, my life has never been the same. That is a sentiment felt by millions of your beneficiaries and admirers. I appreciate and love you to the max, Mama Maria.

“It can be said, and rightly so, that there is hardly any illness where Swedish Bitters is not of benefit,or at least is effective as a basis for every treatment.”  Maria Treben, Health Through God’s Pharmacy.

My Mother's Boil

While here in Ghana, my mother suffered from a huge painful underarm 'cow boil'. I never saw that type before. My landlady was a nursing sister and offered to help me get it lanced in the hospital. We took her there. She was put ‘on hold’ in a manner of speaking. We were told that she needed to have an x-ray but there was no water and the doctor said he would not touch her without the x-ray. 

After waiting awhile, I took her back home, bathed the affected area with my homemade calendula tincture, smeared on my homemade Calendula ointment and then applied a Swedish Bitters compress. She drank some Swedish Bitters and took megadoses of vitamins C, E, B complex, Calcium/ Magnesium/Zinc and a multivitamin. Just a few minutes after putting on the compress, the pain ceased. The sister was very impressed. 

The next morning the sister came to help me change the compress and to see how our patient was faring. It was she who professionally removed the bloody compress. The boil was lanced! To say she was impressed is putting it mildly. She was overawed! We repeated the procedure and after removing the pus, a deep cavity remained but it was clean and the flesh was pink. She pointed to the pinkish flesh and expressed astonishment at the rapid healing. 

It was only a matter of days before my mom was fully recovered. No scar. The effective treatment of my mom’s boil made such an impact on the Sister that she would come across to me for recommendations on healing substances for her and her family. You must have realized by this that we were neighbours.

On another occasion my wrist was accidentally cut by a very sharp knife. So much blood! Sister rushed me to the hospital against the advice of my cousin who felt I should use Calendula ointment and Swedish Bitters. I went, got an anti-tetanus jab and a doctor and a nurse had me lying down while he prepared to stitch the wound. I asked if I could put some vitamin E on it before he stitched up. He sneered at me and warned me that if I ever put any vitamin oil on it after I left there and it got infected, he would not allow me back in ‘his’ hospital. 

He asked me where the E oil was. I told him it was in my bag in the care of the Sister. He angrily asked me what I knew about vitamin E saying that the only use it had was to increase oxygen. I didn't reply. I was in pain and I was afraid that since I was lying there in his hospital anything could happen. He mocked me with his nurse while he stitched. 

He left for a few minutes and then returned to tell me I could leave after repeating his threat and saying something disparaging about me to his nurse to her great amusement. I hurried out to Sister for my handbag. I noticed that someone had been in my bag and disturbed the vitamin E container. When I inquired, she said the doctor had taken it out to look at it. I beat a hasty retreat out of there.

The story does not end there. That night, my hand hurt so much I could hardly bear it. I managed to wait until morning and rushed over to Sister to ask her to remove the stitches immediately. She said she couldn't do that and that I had to wait until the scheduled date to return to the doctor, who would remove them. I told her that if she wouldn't, I would somehow use my left hand to tear them out because it felt infected. She realised I was serious and so complied with my request. 

She became upset when she saw that it was already infected. While I suffered excruciating pain, she bathed it with my homemade Calendula tincture, smeared on my homemade Calendula ointment and then put on a Swedish Bitters compress. I swallowed, as I did the previous day, Swedish Bitters, megadoses of vitamins C, E, B complex, Calcium/Magnesium/zinc and a multivitamin. Again when she came the following day to change the dressing, she expressed great amazement at the speedy healing. The pain had disappeared and in a short time the wound healed completely. Just awhile ago, years after,I took a glance at my wrist. No scar. 

MY UNDIAGNOSED SICKNESS

This was a really bad experience of mine. I was once struck down with a terrible sickness. It started with what I described as a ‘blow’ to my daughter who was with me. I managed to reach home but eventually fainted and was taken to the hospital where I was given the routine malaria treatment. I returned home the following morning. It was a very strange illness. My condition was deteriorating but I did not want to go back to the hospital. I was treated at home with Swedish Bitters, supplements and herbal teas. 

It’s a long story which I am abbreviating as best I can. My friends who came to visit thought I was going to die. Only my cousin who trusted the natural therapy which I had taught him, and which he was using, kept the faith. When my speech didn't make sense, when cognition eluded me, he would simply say, ‘Is the sickness. You will soon get better.’ It was indeed a hard uphill struggle but eventually I recovered fully, thanks to God and my cousin with my faithful Swedish Bitters playing a key and pivotal role.

Maria Treben

In another blog I related some of the experiences of this critical and mysterious illness. It is related in Concrete Jungle: Without Jah I am Nothing At All in my Up Close  & Personal With Bob Marley Blog @

nzingawidbobmarley.blogspot.com

A few years ago, I was sitting at the back patio of my house with two men, familiars of my household. I suddenly felt faint and cried, ‘Kweku, I am going to faint. Run inside for the Swedish Bitters.’ I heard him telling Lawyer, the man who works with me to run out to the town for a taxi to take me to the hospital. He came with the Swedish Bitters and I vaguely recall him giving me a tablespoon of the undiluted elixir to drink. I must have fainted sometime then. I suddenly woke up with a great desire to go to the toilet and empty my bowels. 

I remember Kweku taking me to the toilet and Lawyer coming to the door saying that the taxi was there. ‘For what?’ I asked. ‘To take you to the hospital, Mammy.’ ‘It’s ok. I am fine. Cancel it. I am not going to the hospital. I am fine.’ I was fine. It’s as if I had not fainted. They said I was unconscious for a brief period and even when Kweku stuck me with a pin I did not react. That is why I am never without Swedish Bitters.

In the ‘old manuscript’, which explains the curative power of Swedish Bitters, there are 46 points, each indicative of an illness which the bitters can cure. According to point 22, ‘if someone has fainted, open his mouth if required, give him 1 tablespoon of the drops and he will come to’. I believed. Someone,  Kweku, who also believed, was there to follow the instructions of the manuscript and voila, I was healed! Thanks again and again to God the master healer, Swedish Bitters, my nearest-to-panacea as I can get, Maria Treben, my herbal guru and Kweku!

EXPERIENCE WITH SICK WOMAN ON BUS

On another occasion here in Accra, Ghana, a woman boarded a bus on which I was travelling. She had not only a big basket and a small girl but obviously excruciating pain. The way she gripped her stomach I assumed her agony was seated in that region. The driver even had to stop for her to go outside and vomit. Knowing the efficacy of calamus in such cases, I wanted to help her but I witnessed her travail with mixed feelings.

Not knowing what she might have been taking before or whether it was a troubled appendix or a pregnancy matter, I restrained myself from administering my stuff. On the other hand, I was so distressed that I found it hard to watch her suffering without doing anything. I took the risk of doing something. I signalled to a man who sat beside me to act as interpreter, pulled out my little container of Calamus, chewed some in full sight of those around me, removed the cover from the Swedish Bitters bottle, poured some in the cover and swallowed it. I then asked the man to ask her if she wanted to try those things. She eagerly said ‘yes’ and he gave them to her.Very shortly after, before she or I reached our stop, the pain had disappeared and she was laughing and telling us how good the medicine was.

The story does not end there. About a month later I was standing at another bus stop somewhere in the city when a man, whom I did not recognize, crossed the street to where I was standing and approached me smiling all the while. He recalled the abovementioned incident on the bus and identifying himself as the one who interpreted for me, expressed his gratitude for the help I had rendered the ailing woman.

How did I just happen to have Calamus Root and Swedish Bitters on the bus? That’s easy. I am never without those two miraculous remedies. Calendula is the third. They go with me wherever I go.

Dear Reader, if you had the stamina to read through these episodes of my   Swedish Bitters story, you cannot help but understand my profound love, my immeasurable admiration and my indomitable faith and trust in this miraculous elixir. I can only hope that you have derived some benefit fr om it. 

There are several endorsements from users of Swedish Bitters that it serves as a protection against the downside or ravages of the aging process by boosting immune function, increasing alertness and enhancing memory and mental function in general. In short, it promotes good physical and mental health. 

Let me run this past you again. Swedish Bitters is considered to be an elixir for longevity therefore one of the benefits of taking it is its anti-aging properties. Not only does it address many ailments, but it also helps the individual look and feel younger in the process. 

Thank God for endowing the originator of Swedish Bitters, with the knowledge understanding and wisdom to prepare it and Maria Treben for spreading its goodness and effectiveness all over Planet Earth until it reached even me. 
Read Maria Treben's books, Health Through God’s Pharmacy and Cures for further testimonies. 

THE END
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SWEDISH BITTERS Pt 5

 

  

                                            SWEDISH BITTERS  

                

                                              By Nzinga Nzinga

Part 5

For Mrs. Maria Treben, herbalist of herbalists, crème de la crème of herbalists, whose contribution to the world of natural therapy, of herbal medicine is timeless. After taking your herbal recommendations, my life has never been the same. That is a sentiment felt by millions of your beneficiaries and admirers. I appreciate and love you to the max, Mama Maria!

“It can be said, and rightly so, that there is hardly any illness where Swedish Bitters is not of benefit, or at least is effective as a basis for every treatment.” Maria Treben, Health Through God’s Pharmacy

My own experiences
The addition of Swedish Bitters to herb teas or taken on its own, takes advantage of the healing benefits of the eleven medicinal herbs contained in these special bitters of great repute. I myself have seen what seemed like miraculous healing wrought by Swedish Bitters on myself and on several others. Swedish Bitters is very effective as a therapeutic and as a preventive agent.  

It’s an A1 blood cleanser, improves digestion, regulates the bowels, energizes and revitalises. It has a positive and supportive influence on the immune and metabolic systems. It can be used internally and externally. Read about it for yourself. It comes highly recommended from yours truly for the unhealthy as well as for the healthy.

Bear with me while I run through some of my experiences with the benefits of Swedish Bitters, a few of my own and some of others to whom I have introduced it.

 

I want to tell you about one of the many sick who benefited from Swedish Bitters. Hope was a woman in her thirties who used to sell on the piazza of my mother’s pharmacy in Jamaica. She constantly complained to me about terrible pains she had ‘down under’ which I understood to be under her abdomen, in her genital area. She said she was tired of taking ‘doctor medicine’ because they didn't help and only cost a lot of money that she could ill afford. She had heard from friends that I could help her and since I knew about medicines and was helping in my mother’s drug store, I should be able to help her even more. I told her that I couldn't help her because I wasn't a doctor and I didn't know what was really wrong with her.

So importunate was she that I agreed to help her. I told her there was no guarantee that my suggestions would help but she could give them a try. Given her impecunious circumstances, I knew she couldn't afford Swedish Bitters and imported Stinging Nettle and Yarrow, so I ignored the Yarrow and sent her to collect Cowitch (a nettle) from the bush and Calendula, (Marigold to many and Stinking Mary to most Jamaicans). I gave her some of my precious Swedish Bitters, which I am never without, to add to the tea. I advised her how to go about making the tea, the amount to take and what to expect from taking the mixture.

The following morning she came straight to report to me that she was feeling good, for the first time in a long while. She said that the stuff that she passed out in the chamber pot in the night was like pieces of rotted flesh in appearance and in its awful smell. There was so much pain in passing them out that she had to remain kneeling before her bed most of the time in order to bear the excruciating pain. It was like having a baby. 

The only thing that kept her from panicking was because I was only three-quarter mile away and I had predicted that she might go through exactly what she was experiencing. She said something about her experience that reminded me of what Mrs. Treben said about her first encounter with the efficacy of Swedish Bitters. Mrs. Treben said it felt as if with one movement of the hands, everything morbid in her body was pulled out. Hope said, in a similar vein, that she felt as if something was pulling out all that awful stuff from inside her.

I advised her to stay on the treatment for a while and when the Bitters ran out, she should just make the tea from the herbs. She later deposited a ‘smalls’ with me and asked me to keep it for her until she could save enough with me to buy a bottle of the Bitters. I went ahead and bought one for her and she paid in small instalments over a period of time. While I was still around she joyfully told me that she had recovered her health.

 Maas Ken

There is an old lady, whom I will call Aunt, from my hometown, Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth in Jamaica, who knew a lot about medicinal herbs but no longer applied them to her illnesses or that of her husband’s because she had a ‘crush’ on one of the doctors in the town and used every opportunity to visit him. Her husband, Maas Ken, became a semi-invalid and from being a very active man riding his donkey many miles to work on his farm daily, he became a silent pain-ridden figure seated wherever they led him and having no appetite or energy.

One day I was on my way to Kingston and I stopped to visit them to find out if they wanted anything done in the city. I was surprised at his deteriorating condition. I asked her why she was not giving him herbs. She said she preferred the doctor medicine. I asked him how he felt about it and he replied that he would take anything as long as it brought relief and put him back on his feet.

I was very troubled so I asked him if I got some stuff for him if he would take it. He said that he would. I asked his wife, who loved me like the daughter she never had, and she said she would give it to him. Knowing her newly developed preference for ‘doctor medicine’, I didn't trust her to be consistent with the natural stuff I was getting for him so I incorporated the help of his grandson who was visiting from England and wholly amenable to what he considered an experiment.

From a health food shop in Kingston I bought a comprehensive set of supplements for cleansing, rebuilding, energising etc, plus the indispensable elixir, Swedish Bitters and delegated the responsibility of the administration of these natural substances to his grandfather to him the following day. The Bitters was to be administered a tablespoon 3 times a day.

 

You may not want to believe me, but the morning following the day after Maas Ken started taking the stuff, his wife came to me and addressed me as ‘doctor’. I asked her why the new title. She said because all the ‘doctor medicine’ she had been using for such a long time never helped Maas Ken and in such a short space of time she started to see improvement.

She said that for the first night since she- did-not-know-when, she got some sleep because Maas Ken slept right through the night for the first time since he had become weak. She added that he asked for breakfast first thing that morning which was a delightful change since he had long lost his appetite. Later, the grandson came to give me a glowing report.

I was too busy to go and visit Maas Ken myself until about two days later when I was on my way into the city again and stopped by their house. Someone came to open the gate for us to drive in. I looked at the person with interest and remarked to my companion that I didn't know that Maas Ken had a brother who looked so much like him. When I drew nearer, he came to kiss me and it was only then that I realised that it was Maas Ken himself looking as fit as a fiddle.

Laughingly he said to me, ‘There are only two things wrong with you, Nzinga. One, you soon gone back abroad and two, you married already or you would have to marry me.’

I exclaimed with delight at the improvement in his health. He then drew me to a bench and sat us down, crying, ‘Look!’ He was crossing and uncrossing his legs at the knees.

‘Before I took  the medicine you gave me, I couldn't do this and look now.’ Tears came to my eyes.

The next day, his wife came to see me. She was laughing. ‘Nzinga, I have a bone to pick with you,’ she said, pointing a finger at me.

‘Pick on,’ I said.

‘You see how you put me in trouble?’ she accused me. 

‘Me? What ah do now, Aunt?’ I asked, all ears.

‘You see how you make Maas Ken turn man again.’

I didn't quite get the drift all at once. ‘What you saying, Aunt?’

‘Listen to me, Nzinga. Before Maas Ken start to take your medicine, Ah didn't have any problem when I was bathing him. All that time, Ah bathe him with no trouble at all. Now since your medicine start to work miracle, all I have is pure problem ‘cause Maas Ken turn man again!’

Everybody in the shop collapsed in ribald laughter and I can tell you that Aunt was the one who laughed longest and most happily. Maas Ken, her man, had indeed ‘turned man again!’

Aunt also recounted how a friend of hers came to visit complaining about a severe pain in her arm. She swabbed on some Swedish Bitters on the affected area. Not long after, she noticed her friend was using the arm painlessly so she asked, ‘How is yu arm?’

‘Mi arm? Oh, dat. Mi nebba eben memba anyting bout it. Nuttin wrong wid it now. Di pain gone’.

‘That is how fast Swedish Bitters works!’ Aunt exclaimed.

 I, myself, can attest to its rapid pain relieving quality. I just dab on a little and pain disappears miraculously!

We have to thank Maria Treben who used Dr. Samst’s writings to educate us about the benefits of taking Swedish Bitters. Maria Treben’s book Healing Through God’s Pharmacy offers instructions on how to use certain herbs for improving health and treating illnesses. It also documents testimonies. Cures is primarily a compilation of testimonies of beneficiaries of her herbal instructions not only about Swedish Bitters, but also of several other medicinal herbs. However, this is about Swedish Bitters.

Read Maria Treben's books, Health Through God’s Pharmacy and

Cures for further testimonies.

In another blog I have related how I became critically and mysteriously ill and that it was the administration of Swedish Bitters that healed me. It is related in Concrete Jungle: Without Jah I am Nothing At All in Close Up & Personal With Bob Marley at nzingawidbobmarley.blogspot.com

To be continued
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SWEDISH BITTERS Part 4

Swedish Bitters 

By Nzinga Nzinga

Part 4

For Mrs. Maria Treben, herbalist of herbalists, crème de la crème of herbalists, whose contribution to the world of natural therapy, of herbal medicine is timeless. After taking your herbal recommendations, my life has never been the same. That is a sentiment felt by millions of your beneficiaries and admirers. I appreciate and love you to the max, Mama Maria.     

“It can be said, and rightly so, that there is hardly any illness where Swedish Bitters is not of benefit, or at least is effective as a basis for every treatment.” Maria Treben, Health Through God’s Pharmacy.

During a visit to a farm, Mrs. Treben heard that the 12-year old son of the farmer was to have an operation. Pus had formed behind the ear drum, due to an inflammation. She was against the operation, since sometimes, in similar cases, deafness occurs. A small piece of cotton wool moistened with Swedish Bitters was put in the boy's ear. A lot of pus was discharged daily, the pain subsided and an operation was not necessary.

A young mother of five was diagnosed with intestinal cancer and the doctor had given her only a few more days. Mrs. Treben recommended compresses applied to the area of the intestines, at the same time Calamus roots which are steeped in cold water overnight (1 level teaspoon per cup of water), 1 sip before and after each meal, and a tea made from equal proportions of Stinging Nettle, Calendula and Yarrow. At least 2 litres of this tea blend has to be sipped throughout the day. The woman’s condition improved so much that the prognosis was for a complete recovery.

A case of bleeding of the colon daily, resulting from cancer of the colon, was treated with Swedish Bitters, Calamus roots, Calendula, Yarrow and Stinging Nettle. The patient followed the instructions given by Mrs. Treben and after 4 days, the bleeding stopped and his condition improved to the point where he was able to work again.  

A 52-year old man treated for 10 years for cardiac asthma, had to take B tablets daily. For years he could only sleep sitting up and, for every step he took, he had to throw up his arms to get some air. Mrs. Treben was of the opinion that this was caused not by the heart but the liver. She applied Swedish Bitters as a compress to the area of the liver. Every day he drank 1 cup of Common Club Moss tea to which a teaspoon of Swedish Bitters had been added in the morning and some in the evening. The first night after drinking this mixture, he was able to sleep lying down. 

Swedish Bitters and Common Club Moss tea brought about speedy improvement. 3 days later, he who had not stepped out of his house for years, was able to walk around his little garden twice during the day.

After a patient had taken a large sip of the bottle of Swedish Bitters, a wound which would not heal after an operation, closed overnight. This single sip caused the wound to close which had been open for three years and had to be dressed several times.

A 23-year young lady, who had an auditory defect (hearing disorder) since birth, was told that an operation in her case would be unsuccessful. She tried Swedish Bitters and 14 days later, she was able to hear normally.

A 74-year old man lost his hearing from head and brain injuries sustained during the war. 3 times only did he have to put a piece of cotton wool moistened with Swedish Bitters in his ears.

A man reported that Swedish Bitters speedily alleviated the terrible pain he suffered in his right arm injuries in an accident.  What is even more amazing is that he also recovered his hearing after almost 10 years of deafness in one ear. Only once did he put Swedish Bitters into his ear.

After a talk Mrs. Treben gave, she learned from a listener that, for 2 years, she suffered from a weak anus muscle. The doctor said it could not be remedied. Swedish Bitters, together with Shepherd's Purse, finely cut, macerated in rye whisky or vodka are left to steep for 10 days, heals muscular atrophy and other serious muscular disorders. Four cups of Lady's Mantle tea and six sips of Calamus root tea a day remedied it.

A 12-year old girl, during a school hike in the mountains, was accidentally hit in the face by the girl in front of her with her climbing boot. This resulted in a very painful festering jaw for 40 years from time to time. She had 16 operations and several punctures. Beset with continuous pain, she had to break off her studies and was unable to pursue the profession she wanted. She looked after a household instead. When 52-years old, she read about Swedish Bitters, applied it as a compress on the jaw area and was eventually freed from all pain.

For years an elderly lady could only walk with a stick since arthritis had crippled her. None of the many therapies she tried helped. On Mrs. Treben’s advice she took one teaspoon of Swedish Bitters in Stinging Nettle tea and Horsetail tea 3 times a day. What a difference that made! After three weeks she was able to walk without a stick.

When this boy was 6 years old, he was attacked by an Alsatian and terribly mauled in the face. Later, dark red scars covered his face from the nose upward. In the ‘old manuscript’, point 33 states that this tincture takes away all scars, wounds and cuts, even if very old, if moistened up to 40 times. Therefore, her son's scars were now moistened daily. Very soon, they disappeared, even the ones deep in the nose.

For weeks a farmer’s wife had suffered from terrible headaches and she was supposed to go for X-rays. The same evening, Mrs. Treben sent her son with a small bottle of Swedish Bitters to give her, so that she might find relief, at least at night. To her surprise, at 7 o'clock in the morning, the farmer came to her saying: ‘What did you send my wife? Within a short time, after applying it to the head, the headaches had gone. And in the morning, 2 dark brown clots of the thickness of a little finger came down her throat.’ This woman swears by Swedish Bitters and was able to help her little daughter, who suffered from pneumonia. Never is she without this household remedy.

To be continued

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SWEDISH BITTERS Part 3

 Swedish Bitters   

By Nzinga Nzinga

Part 3
For Mrs. Maria Treben, herbalist of herbalists, crème de la crème of herbalists, whose contribution to the world of natural therapy, of herbal medicine is timeless. After taking your herbal recommendations, my life has never been the same. That is a sentiment felt and expressed by millions of your beneficiaries and admirers. I appreciate and love you to the max, Mama Maria.     

“It can be said, and rightly so, that there is hardly any illness where Swedish Bitters is not of benefit, or at least is effective as a basis for every treatment.” Maria Treben, Health Through God’s Pharmacy.

Mrs. Treben herself suffered from a severe blow on her right leg from a piece of timber. In no time, from the knee downward became dark blue to purple and two large swellings, about the size of a fist, appeared making it impossible to walk. Her husband wanted to send for the doctor, but she asked him to apply Swedish Bitters as a compress on her leg. Half an hour later, she was able to walk down the stairs to the dining room without help. The next day, her leg was smooth. There were no more swellings and the discoloration had completely cleared up.

A 4 year old girl was stung by a hornet and her arm became swollen. A Swedish Bitters compress was applied and in a jiffy the swelling and pain had subsided and the doctor was no longer necessary.

While gathering raspberries, Mrs. Treben was stung by a poisonous insect on the thumb. Overnight, the thumb became swollen.  Someone suggested that she go directly to hospital because such an infection could cause her death. She didn’t. Overnight she applied Swedish Bitters as a compress and the next day her thumb was back to normal.

Once, Mrs. Treben had an accident in the laundry. It was at the time when washing machines washed but did not rinse. The heavily entangled pieces had to be lifted out of the very hot water with wooden tongs. She had a tendency to do everything quickly and with great energy. The tongs slipped and hit her in the eye. Stunned with pain and half blind she walked upstairs. As soon as she applied Swedish Bitters, the pain eased. A little while later, she looked into the mirror and saw she had a black eye. She was back in the laundry a quarter of an hour later with a piece of cotton wool moistened with Swedish Bitters covering the eye, a small piece of plastic over it and the whole lot tied up with a folded scarf. For a few days she kept applying these compresses overnight, so that there was no chance of anything developing behind the eye.

Mrs. Treben was taking a cure at a Spa when the head nurse came into her room with a woman doubled over in pain. She suffered from gallbladder attacks and the doctor had advised her to have an operation. She applied Swedish Bitters as a compress on the area of the gallbladder. First Calendula ointment or lard was applied to prevent the alcohol from drying out the skin, and then a piece of cotton wool was moistened with Swedish Bitters and applied to the painful area. Next a piece of dry cotton wool and a piece of plastic were put over it to keep it warm. Everything was then bandaged with a piece of cloth. She was about to pull up the woman’s girdle when she sat up and announced that the pain had gone! The patient continued to apply the compresses and to take the Swedish Bitters internally, 3 times a day, one teaspoonful in a little water or tea and the attacks never recurred.

For years Mrs. Treben looked after a woman who was all alone. Communication with her was difficult, since she was hard of hearing. Swedish Bitters, according to the ‘old manuscript’ can bring back lost hearing. She was supposed to moisten the acoustic duct frequently with Swedish Bitters by moistening the index finger with it and inserting it into the ear. She did not forget to put a drop of oil into the ear from time to time to avoid itching. She religiously moistened her temples, her forehead and the area around the eyes all at the same time. Her hearing was restored and her face had a much fresher look. 

One day, as she was getting out of the bus, a car knocked her down and she fell on her face. Again Swedish Bitters helped her blue-red face to get back its normal colour. People often told Mrs. Treben that they were able to hear again and had packed away their hearing aid thanks to Swedish Bitters. These drops relieve pain internally or externally, anywhere in the body, because the blood supply to the affected area is increased.

Swedish Bitters applied as a compress to the back of the head can help people who suffer from epileptic fits. The cause of these attacks often lies in the past, maybe from a fall on the head or a shock in childhood. For epileptic fits she recommends Swedish Bitters applied as a compress to the back of the head, in addition to drinking 4 cups of Stinging Nettle tea, to which 2 tablespoons of Swedish Bitters are added, daily.

Not only epileptics can benefit from Swedish Bitters. She says that meningitis, head injuries caused by a fall or a blow, stuttering and speech disorders are treated effectively with Swedish Bitters applied as a compress to the back of the head. These compresses are also beneficial for bursitis. She emphasizes that for all severe illnesses a doctor has to be consulted first!

From the many letters received she learnt that Swedish Bitters applied as a compress to the eyes has been effective in cases of a detached retina and porous retina. All these people were going blind. These compresses are applied to the closed eye and left on for an hour. Healthy eyes, especially if strained, can profit too, if Swedish Bitters is brushed with the index finger along the lid to the corner of the eye. This way good eye sight can be enjoyed well into old age.

Since Swedish Bitters is such a wonderful remedy, no medicine chest in the house should be without it. Poured into small bottles, it can be taken along on trips. Often away from home, the food is disappointing and the need arises to stimulate digestion and to shake off weariness and tiredness. In these cases, Swedish Bitters is a true 'elixir'. A sip, watered down, is taken internally and, externally, some drops are brushed on temples, forehead, eyes and the area behind the ears. In no time, the beneficial effect is felt.

For a cold, with all its accompanying symptoms such as weariness, tiredness, pressure in the head and heaviness in the stomach, a ball of cotton is moistened with Swedish Bitters and held under the nose, while breathing deeply. Immediately the head will feel lighter. If a cold has already affected the bronchial tubes, the moistened cotton ball is held in front of the open mouth and breathing is done with the mouth. Here, too, relief will be felt. During times of influenza, 1 teaspoon, sometimes 1 tablespoon, diluted with a little water, is taken daily. In this way one is protected from influenza. 

Wherever there is pain, Swedish Bitters is always beneficial, taken internally as drops, applied as a compress, or used as a rub or a massage. An application of Swedish Bitters compress in the region of the kidney relieved Mrs. Treben of the pain of renal colic very speedily.

An elderly lady, desperate from the agony of crippling arthritis from which she could get no relief and which had reduced her to walking with a stick, found that one teaspoon of Swedish Bitters in Stinging Nettle tea and Horsetail tea, 3 times a day did the trick.  This remedy was so effective that three weeks later she was able to walk without a stick.  

While ice skating, a woman injured her knee which became so stiff that she could not climb stairs. Application of a Swedish Bitters compress proved so effective that she was able to climb the stairs the next day.

Another lady suffered a sprained ankle which became very swollen and painful. Swedish Bitters applied as a compress brought her immediate relief. By the next day she was free of pain and her ankle was normal.

One day, while in a restaurant, Mrs. Treben saw a man who was obviously in pain. She got out her Swedish Bitters and gave him a tablespoonful in a little lukewarm water. Colour came back to his face and he could not believe it when the pain subsided. Six months later, she was back in the same place. She had already forgotten the incident, when a gentleman came up and thanked her profusely. He looked years younger. With the help of Swedish Bitters, he had lost all complaints which acute gastritis and disorder of the pancreas had caused him.   

Since Swedish Bitters clears up disorders of the pancreas, they are most beneficial in the case of diabetes. 

Even warts, liver spots, corns, moles, haemorrhoids, birthmarks and seborrhoea will disappear if they are moistened repeatedly with Swedish Bitters. 

A piece of cotton wool moistened with Swedish Bitters, put in the ear, will clear up buzzing and ringing. 
If the base of the scalp is moistened, it will strengthen the memory. 

Swedish Bitters cleanses the blood, improves circulation, dispels flatulence, headaches, indigestion, stomach, gallbladder, liver and kidney disorders (even if alcohol is not allowed).

For phlebitis and thrombosis, Calendula ointment is smeared thickly on the affected areas and then Swedish Bitters, as a compress, is applied. When healed, Stinging Nettle foot baths are taken to improve the circulation. 

Swedish Bitters can stimulate a sluggish intestine and dispel dizziness and lameness. For all illnesses they are most beneficial, even for cancer. For acute attacks of pain, 1 tablespoon is taken in a little water or tea. 

If 1 teaspoonful in a little water is taken 3 times daily, morning, noon and evening, good health is kept till old age. Swedish Bitters awakens vitality and strengthens the life force so needed in our time. 


Readers, It can't hurt to try any of these recommendations that may be relevant to your needs. They are bona fide. 

To be continued

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