Interesting Amish Links

mammabooh, you don't live very far from me. The Swartzentrubers around here started the Homerville Settlement. There are so many now that they have had to start more churches. They try not to drive further than (if I remember what Lizzie told me correctly) about 15 miles to church and don't like more than about 22 ? families in the church because they need to fit in the house or barn on Sunday morning. I almost never go to
"Amish country" -- Millersburg/ Sugarcreek etc., but sometimes go to Lehman's hardware.
I am always amazed at the contrast between the property condition, the windshields on the buggies, battery powered lights, etc. What's this world comin' to? Hee hee.
I know an engineer who rigged up a solar panel for his buddy to have on the top of his buggy to keep the lights charged. You won't see that around here!
Renee

Mammabooh,
Have you heard some of their interesting medical treatments? I spent one night and most of the next day with them when a neighbor had a gall bladder attack. I was picking up his father, her mother, dropping off the kids, etc.
I "learned" that if you have an appendicitis attack you may be able to cure yourself by crawling (on all fours) down the steps head first. I was advised it's a good idea to have someone behind holding on to your waist. It drains the poison out of the appendix. Sometimes works, they say.
That same night I brought the guy in who massages the gall bladder to try and pass the stones. She felt better but attack came back. She needs surgery he said.. and she did.
I was given a recipe, which I have forgotten, for pneumonia. It involved turpentine, salt, vinegar and more. Slather that on the chest.
Last week they came to see if I had any dry mustard. Someone they knew had a fever. Put one ounce mustard and one ounce ginger in a hot bath.
Soak in it. Get out and wrap in warmed blankets. The fever will break and ot come back. Better, they say, than using tylenol or something because the fever returns.
They use a lot of garlic. I let them use my garic press. They never saw one before. Made it a lot easier to get the baby to take the garlic. She did get better. I bought them a garlic press!

This is the last day of my vacation. Preparing to drive home now.
Be blessed, Renee

I get a charge out of talking to our Amish neighbors and learning all of their home remedies for just about anything imaginable. Chest cold? Garlic. Sheep got worms? Garlic.

One thing we did try and found out that it works is B&W ointment. Completely natural ingredients in a salve form that they use for burns, cuts and wounds. We tried it, and it does seem to speed healing and lesson scarring.

The diversity among the different Amish sects is amazing. The Ordnung around us split from another group because they didn't like their rules. Seems to be the general rule of thumb.

What I find amusing is that they look upon the Quakers as being, REALLY conservative.

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from the blog of someone definitely not amish/mennonite, who posts here on the forum as "highlands", who experimented and found very good results from garlic:
--sgl