FEVER

High body temperatures or alternating chills and fever
are the body's way of responding to an infection.
A very high fever ( 102 F and up ) or a prolonged fever
indicates the need for professional advice.
Children's fevers often require professional care, since they may result
from streptococcal or other bacterial infections
that can be dangerous if not properly teated.
For nonbacterial fevers, remedies are either cooling, such
as boneset or peppermint ( to encourage sweating ), or warming,
such as cayenne pepper or ginger ( to maintain body heat ).

- Drink chamomile tea or warm lemonade to reduce a fever.

- A Drink for a Fever:
Take a quart of spring water, an ounce of burnt hartshorn, a nutmeg
quarter'd, and a stick of cinnamon; let it boil a quarter of an hour; when
it is cold, sweeten it to your taste with syrup of lemons, or fine sugar,
with as many drops of spirit of vitriol as will just sharpen it.
Drink of this when you please.

- Native Americans took boneset tea, once used for "breakbone fever" ( an
acute, infectious tropical disease ). This can upset your stomach.

- Make a tea of yellow angelica, mulberry leaves, barberry berries,
elder flowers, ground ivy, peppermint, catnip, or vervain ( verbena ).
Catnip helps reduce mucus.

- Take cayenne pepper ( in food, broth, orr tea ) to warm the body,
promote sweating, and enhance the body's infection-fighting ability.

- To avoid fall fevers, eat moderately, drrink sparingly, lie not down on the
damp earth, nor overheat yourself; but keep your temper, and change your
clothes as the weather changes.

- Fever and Ague:
Take of cloves and cream of tartar, each half an ounce, and one ounce
of Peruvian bark, mix in a little tea, molasses or honey, and take it
on the well days in such quantities as the stomach will bear.


Source(s)
Onyx
"GreenWitchGarden"

Health: Herbal Remedies
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