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Here
are some of our favorite
Home Remedies
| Tick
Bites |
paint
with clear fingernail polish. The polish will suffocate
the tick and stop the itch
-Lori
Garcia, Topeka Kansas Stake |
| Ear
Ache |
| Dip
a cotton swab in astringent (used to remove excess oil
from your face). Carefully swab the inside of your ear.
The tingle will help ease the ear ache. NOTE: do not stick
the swab deep in your ear canal. This could rupture your
ear drum and damage your hearing.
Run a hair dryer on medium heat and blow into the ear.
This will temporarily help with the pain.
-Lori
Garcia, Topeka Kansas Stake
If
your baby has a slight ear infection, just put a few drops
of breast milk in the ear and it will clear up the ear
infection.
-Jenny
Vergara, Tempe Arizona Stake
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| Mosquito
Bites |
Dip
a cotton ball in rubbing alcohol and dab the mosquito
bite. The alcohol will help relieve the sting.
-Lori
Garcia, Topeka Kansas Stake |
| Bug
Bites |
Mylanta
(the antacid) will help sooth the itch of bug bites.
-Lori
Garcia, Topeka Kansas Stake
Rub
meat tenderizer over the bite to take away the itch. My
Grandmother swears by this one!
-Heather
Hales, Chandler Alma Stake
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| Common
Cold |
Whenever
you get a cold, or better yet, feel a cold coming on,
drink a quart of Celestial Seasonings - Red Zinger, herbal
tea. Sweeten with honey to taste. Drink a quart or so
of the herbal tea each day to decrease your cold symptoms.
-Kathleen
Gordon-Ross, Topeka Kansas Stake |
| Upset
Stomach |
Have
an upset stomach and can't keep anything down? Try sipping
a cup of hot/warm Jell-o. Make Jell-o according to directions
on box. Instead of placing liquid in the fridge to set-up,
pour into a cup, wait a few minutes so you don't burn
your mouth, and slowly drink the liquid.
-Kathleen
Gordon-Ross, Topeka Kansas Stake
½
cup orange juice, ½ cup water, 1 tsp sugar, 1 dash
salt, mix and pour over 8 -12 ounces of crushed ice. Sip
slowly.
-Connie
Sorensen, Gunnison Utah Stake |
| In-grown
Toe Nail |
| For
an ingrown toenail that is inflamed and in pain-soak it
in a tub of warm water and boric acid (the powder kind).
-Heather
Hales, Chandler Alma Stake
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| Canker
Sores |
| When
I was a kid I used to get REALLY bad fever blisters and
canker sores, it was so bad that I eventually had to take
medication for them. But before I was prescribed the medicine
my mom would have me soak my tongue (the part with a canker
sore on it) in a small glass of whiskey. The alcohol would
numb the pain so that I could eat, it worked great!
-Heather
Hales, Chandler Alma Stake
Mylanta
is an excellent mouth rinse for sore mouths (cankers,
sores from braces, etc.). It works even better when combined
with liquid benadryl 1:1, this seems to decrease swelling.
-Connie
Sorensen,Gunnison Utah Stake |
| Engorged
Breasts or Mastitis |
| If
your beasts are ever engorged with breast milk (if you
are weaning or if you have mastitis) put a cabbage leaf
in your bra (touching your skin) and leave it there until
you feel the lump go away.
-Jenny
Vergara, Tempe Arizona Stake |
| Salt |
| I'm
a firm believer in salt - strongly salted warm water to
gargle when you have a sore throat or just to kill germs
on a regular basis. Salt on the toothbrush (YUCKY) to get
to that hard to remove yuck that can build up on teeth in
hard to reach places - floss first, then salt, then brush
with toothpaste afterwards, this one takes a hardy soul
as it is rather strong on the old taste buds!! Salt is excellent
for drawing pus out of a minor wound. Put some into the
palm of your hand, add just a drop of water to form a ball,
put into or onto cleaned open minor wound, cover with Band-Aid
to keep salt on, leave overnight. Repeat for another day
if needed but usually one night is enough, then apply some
MANUKA* honey and cover.
-Sharon
Shields Davidson, Taranaki District, New Zealand |
| Honey |
| chewing
honey comb is excellent for clearing the sinus area.
Sage
and honey to gargle with if you have sore throat and cider
vinegar and honey for a cold coming on. Once again Manuka
honey is best; it has the strongest antibiotic properties
of all the honeys.
-Sharon
Shields Davidson, Taranaki District, New Zealand |
| Diaper
Rash |
Equal
parts of liquid Benadryl and Maalox. Make a paste and
use generously on the bottom.
-Susan
Hales, Norman Oklahoma Stake |
*Manuka
is a honey from New Zealand and is available at health food
stores or over the internet, one site is http://www.manukahoneyusa.com. |
A
Little History of Home Remedies
“Every
pioneer wife and mother had her supply of home medicines and
her favorite remedies. The most universal of these was doubtless
olive oil, called sweet oil, sacred for use in anointing and
also used as an ointment and an internal medicine, either alone
or in combination with other ingredients. Bruises and sprains
were bathed in hot salt water and sagebrush tea.
The
antiseptic qualities of table salt were employed for infections
and in fresh cuts as a preventative of infection. Other antiseptics
used on both man and beast were turpentine and coal-oil.
Among
spring tonics were the dominant sulfur and molasses and also
such bitters as teas made of peach-tree leaves, quaking-aspen
bark, hops, and even sage brush. Then there was tea made from
larb or urva-ursa, catnip, spearmint, and peppermint. These
last were considered good for sick stomachs, as were black and
green tea.
Poultices
were made from bread and milk, crushed onion, crushed burdock
leaves and sugar, and soft pine gum.
Cough
remedies were made from honey and horehound. Ginger tea or cayennes
in cream with hot foot baths were standard for colds.
Lobelia
was considered a good stimulant and also, strangely, as a relaxing
agent for tense muscles as in child-birth.
For
stimulating the kidneys, Harlem oil was widely used. Milder
diuretics were teas made from parsley, pumpkin seeds, watermelon
seeds, dandelion, and juniper berries.
Salves largely used mutton tallow as a base. Indian women recommended
some of these wild herbs and barks to the pioneers. One of their
favorites, pennyroyal, used as a tea for women's ailments, was
commonly called "squaw medicine." (From "The
Book Escalante Story", Medical Services, 1875 - 1964 p
223).
More Info. on
Home Remedies:
Web
MD
www.otan.us
www.lacetoleather.com
www.gardenguides.com
The
Everything Herbal Remedies Book: Feel Better Using Simple Treatments
and Home Remedies, by M.J. Abadie.
The
Doctor’s Book of Home Remedies published by Random
House. |
