The listing, Pioneer Comforts and Kitchen Remedies has ended.
Long before Colonists came to America, Old World Medicine had been based on herbs and an underlying belief in magic and witchcraft. From the first, settlers were able to recognize and use many coastal plants.
The old-timey remedies listed here are neither suggested nor recommended. (See your Dr first).
Whether Cockleburs or Catnip, look at the "worthless" plant in your yard or forest closely. Remember, at some time or other, somebody probably thought it was good for ....well, SOMETHING!
Old Timey Highland Secrets from the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains. It can easily be mailed to someone. 24 pages, paperback, from 1965. My mother was a nurse, and this was among her books.