For Sleeplessness
If you are troubled with insomnia, bathe feet for about ten minutes in water as hot as possible just before retiring. This will draw the blood from the tired brain. Dread and apprehensions vanish, and you will enjoy a good night’s rest.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
To make Water Gruel of Corn Meal or Oat Meal
Put a quart of water on to boil in a stew-pan. Take a tablespoonful of sweet corn meal, or oatmeal, make it into a batter with milk and salt, stir it in the boiling water and let it boil gently for half an hour. When served it may be sweetened and nutmeg grated over it. If wanted for a strengthening nourishment, a bit of butter and a glass of wine or brandy may be added. This is generally given after a dose of castor oil, or an emetic. Use very little salt.
Source: La Cuisine Creole
Egg Treatment
The whites of six eggs, six tablespoonfuls of vinegar, six tablespoonfuls of spirits of turpentine. Mix and shake thoroughly. Rub thoroughly and then saturate flannel with medicine and wrap around the place affected. Apply often. Keep bottle well corked. An excellent remedy for both rheumatism and sprains.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames
Ingredient: Brazil Nut
Brazil nuts are excellent for constipation. They are also a good substitute for suet in puddings. Use 5 oz. nuts to 1 lb. flour. They should be grated in a nut mill or finely chopped.
Source: Food Remedies: Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses, Florence Daniel
For Nausea
Inhalations of vinegar will stop bad cases of nausea and vomiting. Wet a sponge with vinegar and hold it to the nose of the patient.
Source: 1001 Household Hints, Ottilie V. Ames