Some Common Herbs and Foods For Familiar Ailments

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Some Common Herbs and Foods For Familiar

Ailments

 

Remedies like Grandma used to make with herbs are usually used in

teas unless otherwise specified and foods are eaten. Foods should be

eaten as usual, continuing until problem is gone. Raw food may be

pureed in blender and eaten pureed.

 

Apples - In brandy for coughs (mix pureed apples with brandy and use

as cough syrup), digestive disorders.

Basil - Stops excessive vomiting, good for poultices for insect

bites.

Bay Leaves - Expels gas from intestines and bowels, eliminates

cramps.

Caraway - Useful for colic in infants boiled in milk or water, good

for digestion, poultice for bruises.

Carrots - Liver, kidneys, expelling worms, poultices for boils and

ulcers (external) - eaten raw, made into tea or juiced raw.

Cauliflower - Reduces blood pressure.

Celery - Nervine, neuralgia headaches and rheumatic disorders.

Chamomile Flowers - Teething babies, colic, upset stomach.

Clover Blossoms - Blood cleansing, quieting to the nerves, bronchial

problems, whopping cough and cancer.

Coconut - Laxative, Colon Cleanser.

Cranberries - Fevers, kidney disorders, gas.

Dandelion Root - Liver Problems.

Dates - Stimulates nerves, laxative, improves circulation.

Eggs - Builds muscle and bones.

Elderberries - Sore throats, colds and cough.

Figs - Blood circulation, nourishing, laxative, syrup of figs for

coughs and sore throats

Garlic - Sore throats, high blood pressure, colon cleanser

Ginger - Sore throat, sugared for nausea.

Graham Flour - Builds muscle.

Grapefruit - Weight loss, fevers, eliminate mucous.

Grapes - Blood builder, upset stomach, fevers and rheumatic

disorders, eliminates mucous from body - eat grapes whole or drink

juice.

Honey - Take by the tablespoon for asthma, digestion, sore throats,

coughs, intestinal mucous, laxative.

Horse Radish - (Eat - not for tea) Nerve stimulant.

Juniper Berries - Urine stimulator.

Lemons - Aids in nausea, blood purifier, rheumatic disorders,

laxative, weight loss.

Lettuce - Insomnia, restlessness, upset stomach.

Marjoram - Coughs, sour stomach, spleen problems, insect and snake

bites, dropsy, jaundice, toothache, headache, indigestion.

Olive Oil - Skin, anemia, weight gain.

Onions - Mucous, coughs and colds, nervousness and sleeplessness.

Oranges - Upset stomach, fever.

Parsley - Difficult urination, dropsy, jaundice, fevers, obstruction

of liver and spleen, expels gallstones, poultice applied to breast

will dry up milk.

Peaches - Blood purifying.

Pears - Laxative.

Pineapples - Weight reducer, sore throat, upset stomach

Plums - Liver, laxative.

Prunes - Laxative, mucous eliminator

Red Raspberry Tea - Laxative, removes cankers from mucous membranes,

stops diarrhea in infants, allays nausea, helps prevent miscarriage,

reduces labor pains.

Rhubarb - (Fruit Only) Laxative and blood cleanser.

Rice - (Brown) Diarrhea, weight gain.

Rosemary - For colds, nervousness, headaches, mouth wash.

Sage - Stomach problems, gargle for sore throat expel worms, stops

bleeding gums, good for liver and kidneys, removes dandruff (rinse

hair in sage tea), will dry up milk in mothers when drunk cold.

Sauerkraut - Indigestion, weight loss, reduces high blood pressure.

Spinach - Blood cleanser, reduces swelling of piles.

Strawberries - Diuretic, fever reducer.

Thyme - Suppresses menstruation, fevers, good for nightmares,

reliable nervine, asthma. With equal parts of sage and rosemary will

break the fever of flu.

Tomatoes - Liver remedy

Turnips - Stimulant, blood cleanser

Violet - Headache

Watercress - Rashes, anemia, blood cleanser.

Wintergreen - Kidneys, stomach upsets, headache, rheumatism, colic

in the bowels, gargle for sore throat, also good for poultices for

inflamed area and boils. The tea can be used as a douche for vaginal

discharges.

 

Fruit Medicines

Astringents - (Contracts Tissues) Blackberries, cherries,

cranberries, pomegranates, pears and raspberries.

Diuretics - (Urine Stimulant) Black Currants, grapes, melon seeds

and melons, peaches and prickly pears, strawberries.

Refrigerants - (Cooling) Gooseberries, currants, pumpkins, melons.

Stomach Relaxers - Apples, lemons, lime.

Pomegranates - In Decoction, repel tapeworm.

Figs - Poultice for boils. (Split open and apply directly.)

 

 

 

 

Diana

 

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