Home Remidies

Feeling Sick? Need a Cure?
Seems Like The Season For It....



This is the place! Somewhere people can tell others about things that have helped them get better, or something they live buy that stops them getting sick or suffering certain ailments..

Not everything works for everyone, but it's always good to have an inventory of remedies to try out!

Got some "old wives tales"? Remedies you live by? post them here and share!



REMEMBER: If you are suffering from a medical condition you MUST see a doctor! None of these remidies are guaranteed to work or cure!

soup an plenty off rest

i was always told garlic help keep colds away so eat plenty in your meals

This post has been edited by ang3078: Jun 8 2007, 01:51 PM

for a sore throat- gargle whisky............

whisky? hmm.. seems like a waste of good whisky!

how so.............

well, when you normaly gargle something you spit it out (getting rid of all the germs) why would you spit out whisky!?!

But hey.. if it works!? i hate whisky anyway, so i doubt i'd even dare to gargle it.

To get rid of warts, cut an apple in half and rub it on the wart for 30 seconds each day - some reason it kills the wart off in about a months time..

Horseradish & Garlic tablets when you feel a cold coming on

heard zinc tabs good too for oncoming colds..

i've heard that putting Electrical Tape (Duct Tape) over a wart get's rid of it!?!

SPIT IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you crazy you would be missing out on half the benefits LOL

Ok so...Lemme just summarise for yous:

Gargle with salt water then - to spit it out.

AND/OR

DRINK Whisky - to swallow

They both work. Or maybe do them alternatively.

This post has been edited by shen: Jun 8 2007, 04:31 PM

Err, they work for what?

answer your question?

No, I mean her wording doesn't make sense

Honey works well for a sore throat - either have a lot of it with tea, or eat it on toast, or just have spoonfuls of it.

I prefer the Whiskey alternative for obvious reasons

I tend to crank up the Vitamin C if I feel the onset of a cold .. my sick days don't last more than about 24 hours - so it's either that , or something else I'm doing that is working!

So my suggestion, if you feel yourself getting sick .. wash down a bottle of 120 Vitamin C tablets with a few glasses of orange juice while eating some onions

Honey - very true..

Your personal suggestion - that sounds so ... the onion part.. OMG.

But if you think it works, i suggest you do it first whilst i watch.. if you can do it without vomiting up intestines or something then sure

Sore throats!!

i know of clove oil for a tooth ache!!

and the best thing for a cold sore is babies teething gel, bonjela! works well!!

Astraforte is all I can say... it works with sickness, low energy, everything. Its in health food shops and retails for about $25 a bottle of 40 tablets. Its amazing!!!

you and that bloody astraforte

(and thanks for the msg hayley.. i dont have enough cred to msg back sorry. but yeah im still feeling sick )


i take Ease-a-cold for my colds... as long as you start taking it when you feel the very first signs of a cold it will stop your cold or cut it in half. good stuff

yup i'm not giving up on the astraforte hun!! GO AND GET SOME!!! and yes I am being motherly because I can... I shall come to urs and ram it into you in a minute

I have liquid Astraforte. I was sick for AGES so I thought I'd give this a crack. I got the liquid ($21.50 for a 100 mL) because the lady told me that the liquid would work quicker than tablets. It tastes absolutely disgusting, but by golly does it work! Only need 2.5 mL shots at a time, so you get 40 doses out of this bottle

I had it once when I get home from work, again at 11:30 that night when Ace got home. Woke up the next day already feeling better

It's heped me so much. Doesn't cure the runny nose or the coughing though. But I feel great

I generally mix it with juice or water. Or take it right before I take my cough medicine to wash away the taste




Also vinegar works to take the sting out of mosquito bites.

I hear sleep is great for hangovers >.<

Shame I haven't fkn tried it yet!

This post has been edited by overdose: Jun 11 2007, 04:46 PM

Wrong.

The best cure for a hangover is to have another drink.

A hangover is just your body craving more alcohol.

While all these myths of bloody mary's, big breakfasts, sleeping, drinking and eatting before you go to sleep, exercise etc may work for some people they arenot what your body actually wants.

Home Remedies For Bad Breath
- Chew peppermint or carnation for better breath smell.
- Swallow one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar before each meal.
- To lose the bad breath eat pumpkin daily
- Brush your teeth with baking soda.
- Blanch parsley and drink several times a day to help bad breath.
- Drink chamomile tea
- Lose the bad breath: blanch Thyme-Leaved Savory and gurgle.
- Gurgle salty water.

Home Remedies for Vagina
- If the vagina gets too wet: Eat a lot of green beans.
- If the vagina gets too wet: Drink lemon juice, Lemonade or eat lemons.
- For dry or itchy vagina: Dip a tampon in yogurt and put it into the vagina. Can also Dip a cotton ball in yogurt and smear on the area.
- Eat yogurt to relief dry and itchy vagina.
- Odor: Dab some sliced lemon on female private parts, and outer private parts in between thighs, helps to prevent the scent especially in summer heat.

Home Remedies for Teeth Whitening
- Brush your teeth with salt; put the salt on the toothbrush instead of regular toothpaste (can also mix with lemon).
- Brush your teeth using baking soda; add the baking soda into your regular toothpaste.
- Drip some lemon drops on your toothbrush and brush your teeth.
- Rub your teeth with salvia leaves.
- Rub your teeth with the green peel of walnuts. Dont touch the lips it will make them black and red.

Home Remedies For Cold | Home Remedies For Flu
Mix:
1 Lemon juice.
1 flat spoon of honey.
1 spoon of brandy.
- Drink one tablespoon 3 times a day to help the flu.
- Put 1 tablespoon of cut/ powder root, pour hot water into the cup, wait for 5 minutes and drink, repeat 3 times daily.
- Make green onion soup.
- Mix one teaspoon of cayenne to 1 cup of boiling water. Take one teaspoon from the mixture and mix with a cup of water; drink when needed.
- Pour 1 cup of boiling water to 1 teaspoon of Marjoram, wait for 5-10 minutes and drink. Repeat 3 times daily.
- Blanch salvia/ lemon grass, add honey, wait 3 minutes and drink.
- Put cupping glasses on the shoulders and smear arrack on the chest; Drink tea with brandy and cover up.
- Cook 1 cup of water to 1 tablespoon of mustard seeds on low heat for 5 minutes. Cool and drink to help the cold.
- Drink herbal tea with cinnamon.
- Pour a cup of boiling water into a cup with grind/ cut horseradish root, wait 5 minutes and drink. Repeat 3 times a day.
- Blanch half a teaspoon of ginger with half a teaspoon of cinnamon in a cup of boiling water; add honey, wait 3 minutes and drink.
- When you catch a cold: drink granny's chicken soup.
- Lie in bed and drink tea, let your body do the rest.
- Cut an onion into small pieces, pour honey on the pieces, and leave for a few hours. Swallow one spoon every 4 hours.
- Boil 1 cup of water, add 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds, cook for 5 minutes, cool and drink.

www.grannymed.com

I do that every day...

Home Remedies for Hangover
- Drink grapefruit or other fruit juice.
- For hangovers: Eat raw cabbage.
- Drink tomato juice.
- Drink several strong coffee cups, can also drip some squeezed fresh Lemon juice in it.
- Boil 2 banana peels in a cup of water, cool and drink.
- Add lemon juice to a cup of black coffee and drink it unsweetened and without milk.
- To help you with the hangover: Eat persimmon.
- Drink peppermint tea or ginger tea.

acomahol is a poisonous diuretic, the general reason is that your body is dehydrated as the diuretic effect stripps the body of its water, the only reason that your body craves more is if you drink often enough to be an alcoholic....................so drink 1litre of water,at least

My sister used to get leg cramps at night.

There is an old wives tale that if you place a bar of soap between the sheet's it stops the cramping.. don't know if this is what actually stopped her cramping, but mum gave it a try and now Courtney doesn't get cramps anymore!

She did it for a couple of months until the cramps fully stopped and didn't come back.. She doesn't sleep with soap in her bed anymore, but she hasn't had a return of the cramping either.

To get rid of colds warm a glass of lemonade in the microwave, add a large shot of Scotch and drink it right before you go to bed.

It makes the body sweat out the cold while you sleep.

Mum did it Thursday night, woke up Friday morning with all of her symptoms gone except her cough.

Home remedies for getting rid of a cough...

Eat Royal Jelly...it actually works coz I'm kinda sick

What can you use to help get rid of a sore ear canal?
The canal that leads from my ear to my throat is sore everytime i swallow..