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Natural Home Remedies and Cures

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
January
Year
1974
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Creative Commons (Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-alike)
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NATURAL HOME REMEDIES AND CURES

COLDS

-- Lots of fresh lemonade with honey. Eat fruits, little else. Give your system a rest. Slow down.

-- Vitamin C: 1 gram (preferably natural from rose hips) every hour for 5 hours. Repeat next day as needed.

-- If you get chilled, exposed to wind or feel a cold coming on, take cayenne red pepper 1/4 tsp. in 1/2 cup hot water and sweeten with honey and take in sips. Warms and tones the system.

CONGESTION & BRONCHIAL TROUBLES

-- To clear passages: Boil about 2 cups of water, add a few drops of eucalyptus oil, boil gently, covered for 10 minutes until the odor is very strong. Remove pot from stove and remove lid. Lean head over pot, covering head and pot with a towel and inhale. Do this until you've used up all the steam, 2 or 3 times a day as needed. Eucalyptus oil is available at drugstore.

THROAT SORENESS

-- Hot water compress as hot as bearable for sore throats. A wash cloth wrung out with the hottest water and cooled enough to be acceptable. When it gets barely cool replace at once (at least 10 or 12 times). Relief is wonderful, but cover throat with another dry cloth. Also great for bruises and bad stomach.

STOMACH DIS-EASE

-- Good teas to soothe: 1. Camomile, 2. Mint, 3. Slippery Elm, 4: Golden Seal, 5. Catney's

-- Garlic-parsley tablets are excellent, taken after meals for indigestion and stomach troubles.

-- Warm milk with honey may help.

INTESTINAL FLU

--1 tbsp. each of cider vinegar, hot water and honey. Make this 3 or 4 times a day and sip.

-- Fresh warm lemonade and honey. Eat little -- nothing cold. Drink as much as desired of stomach teas.

HEMORRHOIDS

Green papaya tabs -- 2 tablets 3 times a day for relief. Available at health food outlets.

MENSTRUAL CRAMPS

-- The knee-chest position is a simple and usually effective way of relieving menstrual cramps and some stomach aches. Shoulders flat on surface, head turned on side. Let the stomach sag as much as possible.

ANTIDOTE FOR POISONS

-- When the cause of poisoning is unsure.

-- Ingredients: 1. burnt toast; 2. milk of magnesia; 3. strong tea.

The burned toast contains pulverized charcoal to help absorb poisonous materials in the stomach, the tea contains tannic acid to offset an alkaline poison, and the milk of magnesia is to counteract an acid poison.

Together the ingredients provide an overall protection (Recommended by 2 Duke Univ. doctors.) You can keep the charcoal powder, milk of magnesia and tea bag ready in one place. Call a doctor, or bring to a hospital if necessary.

WHEAT GERM OIL

Best natural source of Vitamin E! Can be bought at natural food stores or similar quality at pet store. For over-worked muscles, trick knee soreness, as a softener to keep scabs from forming scars. Keep band-aid soaked with oil. It also seems to be an ovary or hormone regulator as women who have had trouble getting pregnant will find results after using 1/2 tsp. twice a day for about a month. A woman pregnant under these conditions should take Vit. A, 10,000 units a day to prevent natural abortions. Wheat germ oil will change a sexually disinterested person into a human being in a week.

Portions reprinted from Communities & "Health Aids." Compiled for U of M Medical School by Elsie Vokovich.