| When illness strikes,
often at inopportune hours, common items found in your kitchen can
help out in a pinch until you can call the doctor. |
- Apple Cider Vinegar - for
sore throats @ 4 tsp to 1 pint of hot water. Gargling with
salt water can also help.
- Baking Soda - itching due
to hives or bee stings @ 1/2 cup per neutral. Bath:
Oatmeal baths are also very helpful.
- Charcoal Capsules - for
diarrhea from food poisoning @ 2 capsules every 2 to 4 hours.
If not available, burnt toast will do.
- Caraway and Dill seeds -
work great for gas and bloating. Take 1/4 tsp and grind in
a mortar and pestle, in 1/4 cup of water.
- Garlic - sore throats,
slice and simmer as a tea; abscesses and boils, as a poultice;
ear aches, as a poultice or drops; colds and flu's 1 clove
chopped and swallowed with water every 2 to 4 hours; pinworms, 1
clove peeled but not cut placed in the rectum following a bowel
movement and at bedtime.
- Parsley - for urinary
tract infections @ 1 cup of tea or juice 3 to 4 times per day.
- Rice - for diarrhea @ 1/2
to 1 cup rice water every 2 to 4 hours.
- Potato - conjunctivitis,
sties and abscesses as a poultice.
- Sage - 1 tsp in 1 cup of
warm water for sore throats.
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