The Amish Apothecary: HOME REMEDIES FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH TRADITION SOURCED AND VERIFIED FROM 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY TEXTS

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Published date May 4, 2026
Author Jeffrey Schur

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Most people reach for a remedy after they're already sick.
The Amish start months earlier.

In Lancaster County, a winter cold isn't met with a last-minute trip to the pharmacy. It's met with a tincture that's been sitting on the shelf since September — made from plants harvested at the right season, prepared according to methods that haven't changed since 1820. By the time illness arrives, the preparation is already done .
That's the real secret. Not that the Pennsylvania Dutch never get sick. It's when they do, their bodies are already fortified and their shelves are already stocked. The problem is that almost everything sold as Amish remedies today is just recycled folklore with no historical foundation. Vague instructions. No sourcing. No accountability. Just word-of-mouth traditions dressed up in rustic packaging.

This book is different .

Amish Home Remedies is built entirely on primary sources — John George Hohman's 1820 Long Lost Friend and the documented botanical records of Christoph Sauer, whose 1762 German-language almanacs guided the earliest Lancaster County communities through every illness, injury, and seasonal ailment imaginable. These aren't legends. They're records. And for the first time, they've been translated, verified against modern clinical research, and organized into a practical system any family can use today.

Inside, you'll discover: The exact herbs early Pennsylvania German settlers relied on — where to find them, how to identify them, and how to harvest them from your own backyard or local landscape Hohman's most effective botanical preparations from The Long Lost Friend , decoded and adapted for a modern kitchen — no laboratory required Sauer's four-season healing framework , which kept frontier families healthy through brutal winters long before modern pharmaceuticals existed How to build a home apothecary stocked with the same roots, resins, and dried botanicals that sustained Amish communities for generations The specific preparations documented to address respiratory illness, digestive trouble, skin conditions, sleep problems, and more — with the historical receipts to back them up Why seasonal timing matters in herbal preparation, and the simple calendar approach the Pennsylvania Dutch used to maximize potency The single most important question to ask when you or a family member feels unwell — and how traditional Amish healers used it to identify the right plant every time You don't need a degree in botany. You don't need a specialty shop. Everything here was designed for ordinary families working with what the land provides — which is exactly how it was done in 1820, and exactly how it can be done now.
If you're tired of settling for watered-down natural health advice that can't tell you where it came from, this is the book that fills that gap.

Scroll up and click Buy Now to bring two centuries of documented Pennsylvania Dutch healing into your home.

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Pages236
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-13979-8195453695

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