Home Remedies From the Kitchen Cabinet… not your Medicine cabinet

Ear Ache from fluid in the Ear  Heat up 1 cup of salt  Pour it in a sock  Place over ear  Heat is soothing  Salt draws fluid from the ear through porous ear drum

Insomnia  A recipe for Insomnia: Bruise a handful of anise seeds and steep them in waters then place in small bags, and bind one bag over each nostril before going to bed.  Would this work?

Skin Rash  Urine paste  Property urea  Anti-infective  Soothing

Prevent Fever  Prevent fever for a whole year  Pick the first three violets in the spring  Eat them.  Would this work?

Fever  Slice an onion  Place on soles of person with a fever  Onion is an anti- infective  Onion is an anti- inflammatory  Onion is a fever reducer

Headache  Strips of potato across the forehead  Potato is always cool to touch  Acts as a cool compress to relieve the headache

Warts  Apply potato scrapings to a wart  Vitamin C in potatoes is anti-inflammatory

Warts  A popular cure for warts  Gather as many pebbles as you had warts, rub one pebble on each wart, take them to a crossroads and throw the pebbles over your left shoulder. The warts were supposed to go with them.  Rub with a potato and bury the potato  Would these work?

Sleepwalking  Cut off a piece of the sleepwalker's nightgown when you find him walking.  Will never sleep walk again.  Would this work?

Bleeding  Cayenne Pepper- blood clotting properties  Sniff for a nose bleed  Sprinkle it on cuts and scrapes.  Brown paper bag  Place on a bleeding point

Skin irritation and Insect Bites  Oatmeal paste  Soothes skin irritation  Meat tenderizer for insect bites  Reduces swelling and takes away the itch

Conclusion  If we believe……  Will be more apt to work.