Product Description

The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with a healthcare spin on his pantryful of brand-name products. Now you can cure common ills with products youll find around the house in the perfect marriage of effectiveness and convenience.Disinfect wounds with Listerine antiseptic Soothe a burn with Lipton Flo-Thru Tea Bags Calm a sore throat with Sue Bee honeynexpensive and convenient, these cures really work. Use the helpful Symptom Finder to diagnose your problem and youll probably discover its remedy is already on your household shelves. If all youve got is the blues, then have a laugh reading Strange Facts, which features little-known information about favorite brand-name products.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120404 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From Publishers Weekly
For anyone who's ever wondered what to do with surplus baking soda or leftover bubble wrap, Green's newest book will provide the answer. The author of Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose suggests how Arm & Hammer baking soda can be used to exfoliate skin and how bubble wrap can be stuffed into an empty pillowcase to make a fine back cushion. This book of cure-alls may raise eyebrows, but Green maintains that these homemade remedies work: to cure insomnia, for example, Green recommends sipping a boiled mixture of McCormick Basil Leaves and Aunt Jemima Original Syrup. Though it's no substitute for actual medicine, this alphabetically arranged sourcebook offers suggestions for everything from soothing knee pain and relieving poison ivy to preventing hangovers and caring for nails. To cope with those midnight pains and aches-or to see just how many uses Lipton has-Green's suggestions might be good to have around.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover
Stop bleeding with Krazy Glue®?
That's amazing!
Find the cure for what ails you in the kitchen!

And it's only one of the 1,150 astonishing ideas in Joey Green's Amazing Kitchen Cures! Discover more remedies that are hiding in your favorite household products as Joey reveals that you can:

* Beat a backache with Adolph's Meat Tenderizer®!
* End insomnia with Aunt Jemima Original Syrup®!
* Cure a cold with Gold's Horse Radish®!
* Stop arthritis pain with Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar®!
* Get rid of headaches with Gatorade®!
* Prevent allergy attacks with Dannon Yogurt®!
* Arrest acne with Colgate Toothpaste®!
* Soothe aching feet with Alka-Seltzer®!

The next time you're facing a late-night bout of sickness and can't reach a doctor-- get a cut, scrape, or bite-- or just want to save money-- reach for the brand-name products in Amazing Kitchen Cures instead of medications. You'll find that they're just as effective, and some are even better!

About the Author
Joey Green, America's favorite health maverick, is also the author of Joey Green's Magic Brands, Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose, and Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz®, as well as more than 20 other titles. Dubbed "The Pantry Professor" by People magazine, Joey has appeared on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, Today, The View, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.

About the Author
Joey Green, America's favorite health maverick, is also the author of Joey Green's Magic Brands, Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose, and Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz®, as well as more than 20 other titles. Dubbed "The Pantry Professor" by People magazine, Joey has appeared on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, Today, The View, and The Rosie O'Donnell Show.

Customer Reviews

Hmmm...very interesting!
Did you know that you can stop sunburn pain by adding Cheerios to your bathwater (please don't recycle!)? Also, stop a shaving nick or canker sore in it's tracks with Alum (a spice by McCormick). These and other bizzare but useful tips can be found in this new book by Joey Green, author of "Polish Your Furniture With Panty Hose" and "Clean Your Clothes with Cheez Whiz". Learn how, in a pinch, you can shave with Jif peanut butter, or use a credit card to scrape your tongue when out in public and plagued with hallitosis. Gatorade can cure a headache? You bet. Then, there are some no-brainers in here (e.g. use a Q-Tip as a substitute eye shadow applicator, shrink a zit with toothpaste- all us 80's girls know this one! But, I had no idea toothpaste could reduce redness and speed the healing of a hickey!)If you love waterproof mascara, but hate removing it, simply keep Johnson's baby Shampoo on hand and remove mascara with a small amount of it on a cottonball. This book also has "Strange Facts" at the end of each chapter; did you know Abe Lincoln's Mother died from drinking the milk of a cow that ate poisonous mushrooms? The phrase "cold shoulder" originated in the Middle Ages when Europeans fed unwanted guests leftover beef shoulder to get them to leave. If for no other reason, get this book and find out how using McCormick food coloring can help you clean your teeth better. A fun book, great to give as a gift.

Great little remedies and great for kids too.
I had seen an ad about this book with some of the remedies listed. I went and bought it just to see what I could find in there. As I started reading it, I saw ones my MOM used.

Say you're cooking and some grease gets on you, try Colgate toothpaste(regular). Canada Dry Ginger Ale is great for upset stomach (generic brand works just as well) for clearing up congestion. There were quite a few old family remedies in this book that I've used before. The author also lists interesting facts about the companies whose products he lists. He also explains in many of the remedies why they work.

The book is really helpful, but don't feel you can only use the brand names he lists. For example, the one about using Canada Dry Ginger Ale - I've used generic brands for years and you will get the same result. The Colgate one - I've used gel types and that works too. I'll probably be going through this book again and again. It's a nice reference for the price :)

I recently picked up another copy for a relative. Her kids found the book and SHE didn't see it again for a week. I didn't realize the kids would be so fascinated with the book. It's really a great way to have kids explore how things work. Again, a great reference.

really good for saving money with items in your kitchen
Joey Green has written several books detailing the most commonplace items in your kitchen, garden, and so forth that you can use for remedies in you health, home repair, and so forth. This book, along the same genre, is not exception. Many of us don't realize what powerful chemicals already lie in many household goods that we possess. This book details some of the most commonplace items such as soap, cooking oil, and other things to repair and restore household items such scratched wooden tables, Milk of Magnesia for acne, etc. Kudos to Joey Green for this book.