Back to Eden - The Book Reviewed
My copy of Back to Eden is the Kloss Family Heirloom Edition, so it has a section of family photos and some history or background on Jethro Kloss and his life’s work.
I first came to hear about Back to Eden through a woman and the nursing home where my Grosz’mama Kroeker was staying in the mid 1980s. We were talking about alternative health remedies and this woman, Mrs. Rempel, told me about plaintain which grew wild beside the sidewalks in Hague, my hometown. Since I lived there again, as my parents’ live-in caregiver, I went out to look for this wonder plant. Sure enough! I could pick a shopping bag full in just a few paces along the sidewalks.
The next time I was at the nursing home I asked Mrs. Rempel where I could find out more about such herbs. She recommended I get a book called Back To Eden . My next trip to the city, I tried to find it in the usual bookstores, and second hand shops. No such thing. When I met that lady again, I reported this to her. She said to try the health food stores. I didn’t normally think of them as selling books, but that’s where I found it.
I have worn my paperback copy ragged and need to go find a hardcover copy somewhere. However, then I’ll lose a lot of my markings and margin notes. So I’m sort of ignoring the need.
From the forwards by his daughter, Promise, and Jethro himself, I realize that he wrote Back to Eden after he had already done most of his experiments and had tried out his remedies on many patients. He could say with confidence that what he suggested really works. The range of his topics are probably broader because of that.
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