Flu Ointment for Kids
2 tblsp Eucalyptus Oil
2tblsp Camphorated Oil
1tblsp Vicks
2tblsp ZamBuk
1tblsp Vaseline
Bring all the ingredients to boil and cool in container. Warm before use!
Cough home remedy
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp blk pepper
1 / 4 tsp bicarb
4 tbsp honey
Make mixture..adults can have 1 tblsp..kids 1 tsp..
Or alternatively mix 1 tbsp with warm water and drink
An excellent home-made rub
1 bottle of Vicks
1 bottle of Vaseline
1 tin of zambuk.
1 small bottle of eucalyptus oil – ½ of it
1 small bottle camphorated oil – ½ of it.
Crushed ajmo can also be added to this mixture and this is optional.
Melt all these ingredients together in a small pot, and when slightly cool, bottle and use on babies over 6 months, children and adults.
Excellent home-made remedy for coughs, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, croup, laryngitis, postnasal drip etc.
RECIPE 1
Juice of ½ lemon
2 tblsps apple cider vinegar
4 tblsps honey
¼ tsp black pepper powder
¼ tsp cinnamon powder
¼ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp bicarb
Mix well and drink 2 tsp 3 times a day.
RECIPE 2
· 1 tblsp olive oil
· I tsp Worcester sauce.
Drink this 2 x a day.
RECIPE 3
· Take 1 onion grate it and squeeze out the juice.
· In the onion juice add a tbslp of honey and mix well.
Drink 3 x a day.
RECIPE 4
· 1 tblsp honey
· 1 tsp cinnamon powder
Mix and drink 3 x a day.
RECIPE 5
Simple Cough Syrup
3 tbsp lemon juice
1 cup honey
1/4 cup warm water
Combine lemon juice and honey in a bowl. Slowly stir in the water. Store in a covered jar in the refrigerator – take 1-2 tbsp as needed for cough
RECIPE 6
Glycerine Lemon Cough Syrup
1 lemon
2 tbsp glycerine
2 tbsp honey
Heat the lemon by boiling it in water for 10 minutes. Cut in half and squeeze out the juice. Add the glycerine and honey. Take 1 tsp as needed.
COLDS/FLU
LEMON CAYYENNE THROAT SOOTHER
Mix 1 tsp honey with 1 tsp lemon juice and dash of cayenne pepper. Take like cough syrup. This does not prevent cough, but does relieve throat pain in two ways. First, the honey and lemon coat the throat. Second, the cayenne pepper brings blood cells needed to fight off infection to the throat area.
GINGER TEA
1 inch or so fresh ginger root, sliced thin or grated
½ a fresh lemon, sliced (peel & all)
1 clove garlic, mashed
2 cups water
Very generous spoonful honey
Place water, ginger, lemon, & garlic in saucepan; bring to boil, then turn down heat and simmer gently for 20 min. Strain into mugs and add lots of honey. The tea will get stronger if you let it sit! Most invigorating!
The garlic adds a bit of bitterness, but the honey masks that. This tea is very soothing to the throat and warms and opens the chest and nasal passages. Plus there are all those vitamins and other good t bhings! I now make this tea at the first sign of a cold, which helps me fight it off. I find it more effective than the commercial hot lemon remedies and of course cheaper!
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR TEA
Very good for coughs with a lot of phlegm.
Per Serving:
· 5 teaspoons honey
· 5 teaspoons of cider vinegar
·1 cup boiled water, cooled
Mix honey and vinegar into water and mix well. Let cool before drinking. If you can stand the strong taste, you can omit the water. Mix honey and vinegar together and take a teaspoon at a time.
SORE THROAT, COLDS FLU AND SINUSITIS.
TURMERIC MILK DRINK
Take about a teaspoonful of turmeric powder, a teaspoon full of grated fresh ginger (or equivalent of dried ginger powder), and a pinch of ground black pepper, honey or sugar to taste, and put it into about half a cup of water and bring to a boil. Then add about half a cup of milk, heat to just below boiling point, and drink the mixture slowly, while hot.
CLOVES.
Indians believe a clove a day keeps a sore throat away. As well as stimulating the taste buds with its spicy pungency, clove’s antiseptic action soothes sore throats and coughs. For this try a pinch of clove with 1 tsp of honey three times a day or inhale the steam of 7 cloves in 5 cups boiled water.
SOME MORE REMEDIES……
Boil mint leaves in which powder of 3 or 4 pepper corns and a small pinch of salt is added and take 2 or 3 x a day.
Heat turmeric powder. Mix with a ½ tsp of honey and lick little by little.
To ½ tsp ginger powder add powder of 4 or 5 pepper corns and mix in 1 tsp honey and take twice daily
With coughs and colds making its rounds in all our homes at this time of the year….just sharing a delicious concoction that sorted my family out quickly this past week….hope it helps you too 😉
Ginger Milk
By Irene Dasari
Recipe makes 2 mugs
2 mugs milk
1 tsp ginger powder
1 tsp tumeric powder
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Small pinch of salt
1 chai tea bag
Honey to taste
Bring milk, ginger, tumeric, salt and black pepper to the boil on medium heat. Once boiling, remove from heat and steep the chai teabag in the hot milk mix for a few minutes. Remove teabag, add honey to taste and drink…