2013 - Volume #37, Issue #4, Page #06
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Modern Day Medicine Woman
Ima Sue Guire has herbal remedies for coughs and arthritis, and she gives away the recipes. The granddaughter of a Cherokee medicine woman, she says she inherited the talent to work with herbs to make tonics like cough syrup.“I put raspberries and dehydrated elderberries together and then let them drain,” she says. “After 24 hrs. I cook them down, add honey and the next night some lemon juice. It will stop the flu in 24 to 30 hrs. and stop the cough in three doses.”
Guire says she has a bad case of arthritis, as did her mother before her. She explains that she was in intense pain, and nothing over the counter or prescribed would relieve it.
“I asked God what to use,” she says. “I woke up with the recipe and wrote it down.”
That remedy includes eucalyptus, myrrh, frankincense, cayenne, cloves, cinnamon, rosemary and several other essential oils. She mixes it up with either clear aloe vera gel or, when she can get it, emu oil.
“I shake it up and rub it on the joints,” says Guire. “The emu oil is really good at taking the other ingredients into the joints. I’ve had three back surgeries in the past year. I rub this on, and it takes away the pain.”
Guire doesn’t believe anyone should make money on such a talent. She will give the complete recipes for both tonics away for free, but only to those she meets in person.
“God gave me the recipes, and I share them,” says Guire, who is nearly 80 years old. “I do ask that people sign an affidavit promising not to sell tonics made with the recipes or the recipes themselves.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ima Sue Guire, 8240 Unicorn St., Las Vegas, Nevada 89131.
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