Sauerkraut Juice For a Sore Throat
Europeans and early Americans gargled with sauerkraut juice – the fermented juice of the cabbage plant.
This refers to the traditional fermented homemade Sauerkraut which is an excellent source of probiotics and enzymes for gut health. Commercial sauerkraut is not the same.
To make homemade sauerkraut, layer scores of chopped cabbage leaves in a Crock-Pot, sprinkling salt over each layer. Alternatively, you can knead the salt into the chopped cabbage leaves instead of layering it. Cover it with a clean cloth and tightly weigh it down with a stone or heavy plates. Let it sit for six weeks or more. Draw off the juice and gargle as needed to alleviate a sore throat.
Cayenne for Sore Throats
Early Americans were hardworking people who resented losing time to illness. That’s why cayenne pepper became one of their favorite medicinal herbs. They added a pinch of cayenne to a glass of water, gargled vigorously, and in minutes, the sore throat would feel cauterized.
Ginger and Pineapple for Sore Throat
Hawaii has had a long history of effective native medicine. Gargling with warm ginger root juice has been considered to relieve sore throats and inflamed tonsils.
Naturopathic doctors today have improved on this remedy by alternating gargling with warm ginger juice and gargling with cold pineapple juice.
Here’s the recipe for the ginger juice:
Boil one-half cup of water and one teaspoon of powdered ginger, just until boiling. Once it has cooled, add one-quarter teaspoon of honey and the juice of half of a lemon. Alternate gargling with the ginger juice mixture and with cool pineapple juice. Repeat as needed.
Mucus Clearing Gargle
Salt has been used from the earliest times as a means to soothe a sore throat. In India, however, many people today will gargle daily with a pinch of salt and a pinch of turmeric. They do this as a preventive measure and to clear their throats of mucus.
Another variation of gargling with warm salt water comes from an ancient yogic tradition. While gargling with warm salt water, practice the throat opening sounds “oh,” “ay,” “mi,” and “li.” If you persevere, you will find that your throat opens and relief is given.
An Amish Sore Throat Cure
In old Amish culture, fresh beets were the cure for sore throats.
Grate the beets into a four-inch-wide strip in the middle of a dish towel. Make a pocket by gathering three sides of the towel. Place the towel around your neck with the beet side next to your throat. Pin the towel closed with a safety pin. When the beets turn green, discard them and start again.
Be careful to protect your clothing … beets have also traditionally been used as clothing dye!
Yarn Fix For Ingrown Toenail
See-saw a piece of wool yarn under the corner of the toenail (basically like flossing). Get the yarn as deep and far down as you can. Snip off the ends and leave it in. This makes the corner of the nail grow upwards instead of down into your skin.
If you don’t have to wear shoes, you can use a toothpick the same way – as in the image shown:
Mother of Pearl Cure for Corns
Take one genuine mother-of-pearl button in a saucer. Squeeze lemon juice over the button in the morning and in the evening for a week. The button turns into a paste. Then spread this paste over the corn and cover with a bandage. Repeat daily till corn is gone.
Easy Cure for Boils
Here’s an old folk cure cure for boils or carbuncles:
Put a small bottle in a pan and boil it for a few minutes. With a pot-holder or tongs, pick it up and dump the water out. Then place the neck of the bottle over the boil. The suction pops it! Of course, you will need to be careful not to burn the patient with the hot bottle… Not quite sure how that’s accomplished.
Note: This sounded a little bit like the technique of “cupping” to me, and I think that might also be worth a try. Seems less likely to burn the skin.
Cupping therapy is a treatment in which a cup sucked to the skin to create local stimulation for disease treatment and prevention. The secret is the negative pressure created by consuming the air inside the cup with fire or other methods.
Cupping therapy, also known as “Jar Suction Therapy” or the “Horn Method” in ancient China, was recorded as early as in Fifty-Two Prescriptions, a silk book unearthed in Emperor Ma’s tomb during the Han Dynasty. Cupping was primarily used to drain stagnant blood and pus from carbuncles and ulcers during surgery.
The ‘Fire Twinkling Method’ uses cups made of clear glass. This classical method creates suction in the cup by using a flame to consume the air within it.
Here’s how it’s done:
Light an alcohol soaked, cotton ball held with a clamp or forceps or use a strip of paper; place it inside the cup, quickly turn it around in one to three circles and take it out immediately and press the cup on the selected area; the cup will attached itself to the skin. Presently, this is the most common used method and since no fire is retained in the cup it is relatively safe. However, caution should be taken to avoid scalds or burns by over-heating the mouth of the cup.
Honey Wheat Acne Cure
The proportions for this remedy are not given, so you’ll have to experiment a bit. Here’s the recipe:
- Mix wheat-flour
- With honey and vinegar
- Put on the pimples at night before going to bed
Note:
I assume that upon arising, you will need to wash it off and the pimples will be gone, or at least reduced.
To Soften Rough Dry Skin
Treat rough, dry areas of skin anywhere on the body with a mixture of equal parts of honey, lemon juice, and vegetable oil. This honey lotion should be rubbed into the dry area and massaged well for a few minutes. It will lighten the skin tone and add a new resiliency and softness to the skin if used regularly.
From: The Honey Cookbook
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