Nejlepší rady z mého receptáře pro zdraví a pohodu Životopis autorky anglicky: Maria Treben née Gunzel (born 27 September 1907 in Saaz, died 26 July 1991 in Grieskirchen) was an Austrian author and herbalist who in the 1980s became famous through her two books: Health Through God s Pharmacy and Maria Treben s Cures Her first book was translated into 24 languages and sold over 8 million copies. Treben addressed seminars and presented at natural health conferences in Germany, Austria and across Europe, attracting hundreds of people. She is perceived as a pioneer of the renewed interest for natural remedies and traditional medicine at the end of the Twentieth century. Maria was born in 1907 in Saaz, situated in Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary, as the middle of three daughters of the owner of a printing shop who died when she was 10. After the Great War, the Sudetenland became part of the newly founded Czechoslovakia. In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, she and her husband Ernst Gottfried Treben were victims of the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. For several years they lived in refugee camps until they found refuge in Austria and settled down in Grieskirchen in 1951. She died in 1991. Maria used traditional German Eastern European remedies handed down by previous generations. She only used local herbs and always accompanied her remedies with advice on diet. She commonly used Thyme, Greater Celandine, Ramsons, Speedwell, Calamus, Camomile, Nettle and Lady s Mantle. She treated a broad range of conditions from psoriasis to constipation and diabetes to insomnia. She used her own recipes as well as traditional healing remedies like Swedish bitters that she believed was a cure-all. Some of her remedies and advice proved to be controversial as with all natural health cures it is difficult to prove their efficacy. Yet, to this day she is widely read and referred to for her knowledge of European medicinal herbs. Her works: Gesundheit aus der Apotheke Gottes - Ratschlage und Erfahrungen mit Heilkräutern, 1980 Maria Treben s Heilerfolge - Briefe und Berichte von Heilerfolgen, 1980 Allergien - vorbeugen - erkennen - heilen / Gesund mit Maria Treben, Streß im Alltag. Vorbeugen, erkennen, heilen, 1981