Let Your Kitchen Be Your Drugstore
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List of Ingredients
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.)
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