Technically, the title of the three pages would be "Recipes of Baba Vanga", but that sounds like it could be recipes to create the Bulgarian clairvoyant herself, not natural remedies that she issued for matters like sleeplessness or "sick" kidneys.

I found this notebook, like many others have been found, in a pile next to a dumpster on some street in Sofia a while back. Notepads that are put out by the trash typically contain a page or two of writing - vocabulary from French class, bored-student drawings, mathematical calculations - on some yellowing paper, covers all undecorated, with a price of 14 stotinki or something. That's how much this spiral belezhnik cost.

I lied. There is a decoration on the faded cover: the Bulgarian tricolour flanked by the flag of the Soviet Union.

To the recipes, now. There is no indication of when or from where these recipes were recorded, but, given the notebook, and given that Baba Vanga died in 1996, let's bet that it was at least 15 years ago, if not 20 or more. (Really, would you want to be seen using a communist notebook after the Berlin Wall had fallen?)

Sleeplessness (the first listed of the 11 remedies) "The sick person should sleep on a pillow filled with dry [illegible] hay or with hops (dry)."

Pains in the legs "In a large dish, boil a bunch of flowering clover. When the water cools, filter it and add one soupspoon of oil [or perhaps paraffin]. Soak the legs in this three to four evenings in a row."

High blood pressure "In a cup, put one soupspoon of cornstarch in the bottom and pour hot water over it (to the top). Let it sit overnight. In the morning, drink the water on an empty stomach without stirring it."

Fungi in your fingernails "Brew a strong coffee and dip your fingers in it a few times, without removing the coffee grounds."

There are more - and more for fungus (toes, toenails), as well. We'll save those for another time.