FOLK-LORE REMEDIES.

 

 

Herbal Remedies for colds:

Sore Throat: 

Make a sage infusion, add 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, honey. 

Gargle several times a day

 

Slippery Elm Drops

 

1 cup powdered slippery elm

1/8 cup of sugar (optional)

5-8  drops of peppermint extract (you be the judge how minty you want them)

1/8 cup of water

 

Mix ingredients together until it is doughy.   Place a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet

And spread mixture out until it is about 1/8 of an inch thick.  Allow to dry for a couple of hours and

Cut into one inch pieces.  Then allow the droplets to completely dry (for a couple of days or longer)

Be sure to turn them regularly.  Store in an air tight jar!

 

These use to be one of my biggest sellers with the cold soother tea.

 

Stuffy Nose and Congestion: 

Inhaler Oil:  Use equal amounts of the following oils:  Eucalyptus, peppermint, lavender, pin and thyme.

Put approximately 10-15 drops of this oil mixture into a bowl, add 1 pint of boiling water.  Cover head with towel and breathe in the scents.

 

Making your own “Vicks” rub:

Mix together:  ½ teaspoon of peppermint, pine, lavender oils-add 2 teaspoons of eucalyptus oil.  Mix 2 cups of a carrier oil such as sunflower, olive or safflower oil.  Warm together and add approximately 4 teaspoons of bees wax heat until wax is melted.  Immediately pour into small glass jars.  Place lid on securely once it hardens.

Sinus Tea:  Use approximately ¼ cup of each of the herbs:  Spearmint, Peppermint, thyme, elder flowers, lavender, rosemary and 1/8 cup of yarrow.

Mix all of these herbs together and store in an air tight jar.  Bring to boil 1 quart of distilled water and add about 3-4 teaspoons of herbal mix to boiling water.  Let it steep for about 15-30 minutes.  Drink a half of cup of tea about 4 times a day.

 

Cold Soother Tea:

1 cup-peppermint, ½ cup Nettle, ½ part yarrow, ½ cup lavender, ½ cup mullein and 1 cup spearmint, mix together in a jar with a tight lid.  Bring to boil 1 quart of distilled water and add 3 teaspoons of herbal tea mixture.  Cover pot and let it steep for 15 minutes. 

I keep a supply of this tea available at all times.  Once you feel a cold is coming on, start drinking this tea.

 

Crones Remedies:  An Alternative Era

For coughs:  Mind ye place onion in an old unwashed sock and tie sock around yon neck till well again.

For bad chest:  Wide strip of linen, mustard seeds and an onion, boil to cook and mash well spread hot onto your cloth and bind around your chest keep on for one whole week.

For Rheumatics:   best brown paper, soaked in paraffin and tie around painful place with string.

For bruises:       best brown paper, and vinegar, set on to bruise , or rub the spot well for  a quick cure

Sore throat:      gargle with salty warm water, eat cloves of garlic , make a tea from rosemary, lavender and pepper- Honey and fresh lemon in warm water.

Tooth Ache:    stuff a clove into the tooth and bandage that side of the face, or place in a very small piece of red  linen, a piece of coal, pinch of salt and a pepper corn, tie up and tie to the tooth

For sickness:   boil water and sip slowly

Hiccups:      drink from the wrong side of a cup, put cold keys down back or get someone to frighten you

For a purge:     salty water and mustard mixed up and drink. ? maybe remove due to young girls and their slimming obsessions up to you.

For constipation:    eating of raw root vegetable or green apples

For overheating:   bleed using leeches or sweat out with eating many cloves or garlic

For a temperature:    (NEVER FOLLOW THIS PLEASE WE KNOW BETTER NOW), cover with as many blankets as you can find, close all windows and light a good hearth sweat out the fever- or feverfew tisane

For indigestion:   eating mint leaves or making a mint tisane will be best.

Headache:            use the vinegar and brown paper, tie around head.

Back pain:     warm up a piece of cloth sock in horse lineament and wrap around till the pain has gone.

For the ladies:    pain in labor and for moontime pain (NEVER IN PREGNANCY) a tisane of blackcurrant and raspberry.

Sleep remedy:   eat lots of lettuce, drink chamomile tea or use lavender in a bag under your pillow.
                                          LAVENDER IS NOT TO BE USED BY PREGNANT LADIES.

Ear ache:           drops of warm oil into ear and plug with a cloth.

Make an oil infusion by placing ½ cup of dried mullein into 1 cup of olive oil.  Heat on low until oil is completely warmed.  Cover and let it steep over night if possible.   Next morning strain through cheese cloth and squeeze out the mullein.  Store in a brown bottle, and add 6 drops of Vitamin E oil.  Place 3-4 drops in ear and plug with cotton

Babies colic:     a bottle of warm water with a small amount of aniseed or if you have lots of money gin opium -soak a small rag in gin and tie onto babies clothing letting them suck on the rag.
                                                             

Bathing babies in a warm water with lavender oil was once used in the Victorian Days.