Her advice, stripped of its mystical language, is startlingly modern: Eat less meat. Drink more water. Move your body. Use herbs before chemicals. Does drinking bitter herbs cure cancer? Science says no. But ask the thousands who wrote to Maria Treben—who claimed their warts fell off, their ulcers healed, their eyesight returned—and they will tell you a different story.
She taught that the most potent medicines grow at our feet, often where we are sickest. "If you have a stomach ache," she would say, "look down. The herb you need is growing through a crack in the pavement." Uspesi U Lecenju Marija Treben.pdf
Detractors point out that Swedish Bitters contain Senna (a powerful laxative) and Camphor (toxic in high doses). They argue that the "successes" in the book are likely coincidences or the result of the placebo effect. Her advice, stripped of its mystical language, is