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Health: Herbal Remedies From another list and I would like to add a warning of my own. Know what you are working with. What I mean by this, make sure you have the correct herb. Make sure that you are not allergic to any herbs you are working with and also make sure that they will not interact with any current medications you might be taking. This also includes any over the counter meds. Why am I adding this warning? Because something is telling me to, there for I am adding it... For now, I hope you find the following interesting and helpful... Hugs, Onyx Remedies for Respiratory Troubles Following are various old remedies for the "unknown guests" (ailments) that visit in the respiratory system- that is, in the nose, throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs. Also listed are fevers here, since they're often ( but not always ) a result of respiratory infections. Earaches are treated in this section as well. Do not be fooled into thinking that the simplest remedies are the least beneficial. Modern science has recently thrown its weight behind the former "old wive's tales" of hot chicken soup and almost anything containing garlic as effective treatments for cold symptoms. Indeed, some studies suggest that virtually any inhaled steam is beneficial, so a cup of steaming herbal tea should not be dismissed as lacking preventive and restorative powers. Likewise, do not dismiss persistent respiratory ailments as being too minor for expert diagnosis and advice. Colds Sore Throats: - Drink any hot liquid. - Suck on Zinc lozenges. - Add salt and pepper to apple cider vinegarr and gargle the mixture. - Make a syrup of horseradish, lemon juice, and honey to relieve a sore throat and treat laryngitis. ( CAUTION! This can be hard on the stomach. ) - In Germany, a cool sage tea gargle is usedd for sore throats. - Take a decoction of elecampane roots. - Make a decoction of turnips, sweeten with honey or sugar, and drink before bedtime. Good for coughs and hoarseness. - Gargle with a warm infusion of agrimony, - Apply a chin stay ( a band under the chin ) of roasted figs. Or snuff a little honey up your nose. Or, live on apples and apple water. Or, for the putrid sore throat, take a lump of sugar in brandy. - For hoarseness, apply garlic to the feet, apply a mustard plaster to the chest, ingest a conserve of roses, eat powered nettle roots in molasses, or take boiled wheat bran with water and honey. Asthma - Drink chamomile tea, a natural antihistamine. Or, decoct Roman chamomile flowers and inhale the steam. - If your asthma is allergy based and pollenn is the source of your trouble, add honey to any tea and drink it in frequent doses to bulid up your immunity. Or, dilute honey with an equal amount of water or lemon juice and take by the tablespoon as a remedial syrup. ( "The hand that gave the wound must give the cure." ) - Grate some horseradish and sniff it liberaally to clear the sinuses and simulate easier breathing. - Suck horehound candy or make a tea decocteed of horehound leaves. - Inhale >eucalyptus in a bouquet, from a scented pillow sachet, or from a heat ring treated with a couple of drops of the essential oil. - Make tea of equal parts decocted Vervain ( verbena ), horehound, and elecampane roots. Simmer for about 20 minutes, strain, and cool. Drink about one pint three times a day. - Drink a decoction of apples ( boiling wateer poured over sliced apples ). Or, keep your feet warm, promote perspiration, and exercise. Or, drink mullein or sweet marjoram tea. - Drink a tea made of horehound, hyssop, sagge, or yarrow. Or, sip a potion made by steeping 4 quarts huckleberries for 4 days in 2 gallons good gin. - Take the root of skunk cabbage, and boil iit until very strong, then strain off the liquor; to which add, one table-spoon of garlic juice to one pint of the liquor, and simmer them together. Dose, one table-spoonful, three times a day. - Take a table-spoonful of English or white mustard seed, in molasses or water, morning and evening. Asthma Alleviator = 1 pint Irish moss jelly ( Irish moss- Chondrus crispus ) 1/2 yellow onion 2 cloves garlic 1/2 cup honey Combine the Irish moss jelly, onion, and garlic in a saucepan and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain through a sieve and add the honey. Take 1 tablespoon every couple of hours as needed. * Irish moss is a North Atlantic seaweed. The jelly is available at health food stores and some pharmacies. Coughs - Induce sweating. - Take a hot bath with eucalyptus in the watter. ( CAUTION! Check first to be sure it doesn't irritate your skin. And never take eucalyptus oil internally; it's highly poisonous. ) - Drink mullein >flower tea. - Treat the "pneumony fever" with a tea of oonions and wild lobelia. ( CAUTION! If it's a cough, you might try this. If it's pneumonia, see your doctor. ) Horehound Lozenges: 1 cup horehound leaves 1 cup water 2 cups sugar 2 tablespoons corn syrup or honey Boil the horehound leaves in the water for 20 minutes. Cool well. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth, reserving the decocted liquid and discarding the dregs ( good compost ). Add the sugar and corn syrup or honey to the liquid. Boil again, then reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook, stirring constantly, untill the syrup reaches the hard-crack stage (300 d. F). Butter a baking sheet and pour in the syrup. When the candy has cooled slightly, score and break into drop-size pieces. Roll in granulated sugar if desired. Use as cough lozenges ( an expectorant ). ( CAUTION! In large doses, horehound acts as a purgative and may precipitate an irregular heartbeat. ) Catarrh: Catarrh is generally defined as the overproduction of mucus, often resulting from an infection or inflammation. - Make a tea of boneset, pepermint, elder fllowers, and yarrow to help break up the mucus congestion and reduce fever. - Decoct ginger, cinnamon stick, cloves, andd coriander seed. Make it into a tea and sweeten with honey. - Eat raw garlic. - Make a footbath with powdered mustard. > - Add cayenne peepper to your cooking to break up congestion. - Inhale the steam of chamomile tea. - Make a tea or syrup of decocted elecampanee. Fever Earache Source(s) Onyx "GreenWitchGarden" ~source unknown~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, - Here have I leisure to breathe and move, And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs, and to say my say; To dream my dreams, and to love my love; To hold my faith, and to live my life, Making the most of its shadowy day. IN GREEN OLD GARDENS Violet Fane [1843-1905] They called me a Greenwoman From Firethorn by Sarah Micklem Back - Home - Next |
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