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EARACHE

Never drop anything in the ear if there is evidence
( such as fluid or a waxy discharge emanating from the ear )
that the eardrum has been punctured.
In this case, consult your health practitioner, perhaps using dry heat in the meantime.

- Many earaches are often offshoots of collds, flu, or other congestion.
If this is the case, reduce the mucus and phlegm with a tea of goldenseal,
purple coneflower, eyebright, or elder flowers.

- In mild cases or while your waiting for a medical teatment to take effect,
try using a hair dryer, on it's coolest setting and held a good six inches
away, to blow warm air into a child's ear.
Both the white noise of the dryer and the dry heat will help ease
the symptoms and calm a fussy child.

- A warm heatiing pad on the pillow can ease mild earaches.

- Many of the older generation recall theiir parents boiling an onion and placing pieces
of the warm onion on the affected ear.
Some used warmed "sweet oil" (olive oil) as eardrops.

- Make an infusion or tincture of mullein and use it cold as eardrops.

- Use oil of fennel or bruised fennel seeds, applied externally, to ease an earache.

- Take a table-spoon of fine salt, and tiee it up in a little bag,
heat it quite hot, and lay it on the ear,
shifting it several times; and it will afford a speedy relief.

- Combine equal parts white vinegar and rubbing alcohol and put one or two
drops in each ear three times a day as an antiseptic to prevent ear
infections
or so-called swimmer's ear.


Source(s)
Onyx
"GreenWitchGarden"

Health: Herbal Remedies
~source unknown~


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