Excellent Cough Mixture
One cup of gum, one cup of honey, one cup of lemon juice, one ounce of glycerine; mix well, bottle, and take one teaspoonful when cough is troublesome.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
Remedial Qualities of Common Fruits
A table giving the remedial qualities of the common fruits and vegetables is herewith appended: —
Celery for any form of rheumatism and nervous dyspepsia.
Lettuce for insomnia.
Water-cress for scurvy.
Onions are almost the best nervine known. Use for insomnia, for coughs and colds, and as a complexion curer. Eaten every other day, they soon have a clearing and whitening effect on the complexion.
Spinach for gravel.
Asparagus to induce perspiration.
Carrots for suffering from asthma.
Turnips for nervous disorders and for scurvy.
Raw beef proves of great benefit to persons of frail constitution, and to those suffering from consumption. It is chopped fine, seasoned with salt, and heated by placing it in a dish in hot water. It assimilates rapidly and affords the best nourishment.
Eggs contain a large amount of nutriment in a compact quickly available form. Beaten up raw with sugar they are used to clear and strengthen the voice. With sugar and lemon juice the beaten white of egg is used to relieve hoarseness.
Cranberries for erysipelas are used externally as well as internally.
Cranberries eaten raw are one of the finest tonics and appetizers known.
In cases of yellow or typhoid fever, cranberries are almost indispensable as a tonic and to assist in clearing the system of the harmful bacteria.
For some forms of dyspepsia there is no more simple and effective remedy than raw cranberries. Carry a supply in the pocket and eat them frequently during the day. They will cure headache as well.
People who are subject to biliousness will find that with cranberries a part of each day’s food they will be free from such attacks.
Honey is wholesome, strengthening, cleansing, healing and nourishing.
Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for purifying the blood and toning up the system.
Sour oranges are highly recommended for rheumatism.
Watermelon for epilepsy and for yellow fever.
Lemons for feverish thirst in sickness, biliousness, low fevers, rheumatism, colds, coughs, liver complaints, etc.
Blackberries for diarrhoea.
Tomatoes are a powerful aperient for the liver, a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and for indigestion.
Tomatoes are invaluable in all conditions in which the use of calomel is indicated.
Figs are aperient and wholesome. They are said to be valuable as a food for those suffering from cancer. They are used externally as well as internally.
Bananas are useful as a food for those suffering from chronic diarrhoea.
Pie-plant is wholesome and aperient; is excellent for rheumatic sufferers and useful for purifying the blood.
Peanuts for indigestion. They are especially recommended for corpulent diabetes. Peanuts are made into a wholesome and nutritious soup, are browned and used as a coffee, are eaten as a relish simply baked, or are prepared and served as salted almonds.
Apples are useful in nervous dyspepsia; they are nutritious, medicinal and vitalizing; they aid digestion, clear the voice, correct the acidity of the stomach, are valuable in rheumatism, insomnia, and liver trouble. An apple contains as much nutriment as a potato, in a pleasanter, more wholesome form.
Grapes dissolve and dislodge gravel and calculi, and bring the stomach and bowels to a healthy condition.
Ripe pineapples have been put upon the list of foods especially healthful for persons troubled with indigestion, the juice being especially valuable in such cases. Shred with a silver fork, and reject all the indigestible core. The juice of a ripe pineapple is an almost invaluable remedy for diphtheria, the acid seeming to dissolve the strangling growth in the throat.
Source: The Canadian Family Cookbook, Grace E. Denison
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At the beginning of a sore throat, get fresh ivy leaves, tack them together, warm them, and put the shady side to the throat.– Or: wet bread-crumbs with brandy, and tie them round the throat. Make a gargle of 2 carrots, sliced and boiled, and use it often.– Or: dissolve 4 oz. camphor in a pint of rectified spirits of wine. Dip a piece of new Welsh flannel into this, and apply it to the throat. Be careful to wet frequently.
Source: The English Housekeeper, Anne Cobbett
Bees’ Stings
As the bee when it stings always leaves its weapon behind, it is necessary first of all to extract it from the flesh, which may readily be done with a fine needle or a pair of small tweezers, then anoint the wound with a mixture of equal parts of hartshorn and olive oil. Or a little alkaline lotion or even common whiting will take away the pain. To a person in good health stings from these insects are not dangerous, except when they occur in the mouth, throat, or on the eyelid. It is never advisable to knock a bee off when it settles upon one ; if left entirely alone it will generally fly away of its own accord without inflicting any damage. One of the best-known remedies for a sting in the mouth or throat is to chew a strong onion and, if necessary, swallow the juice.
Source: Recipes for the Million
Cough Mixture
1/2 lb. treacle
1d. paregoric
1d. peppermint
1/2 pint boiling water
1d. aniseed
1d. laudanum
Put in a pint bottle and mix well together. Dose, wine-glassful.
Source: The Northampton Cookery Book, M.A. Jeffery
Filed under Remedy | Tags: aniseed, cough, laudanum, mixture, northampton, paregoric, peppermint, sore throat, throat, treacle | Comment (0)For Sore Throats
Cut slices of salt pork and simmer a few moments in hot vinegar, and apply to the throat as hot as possible. When this is taken off, as the throat is better, put a bandage of flannel around. A gargle of borax and alum dissolved in soft water is excellent to be used frequently.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
An Excellent Recipe for Hoarseness
At night before going to bed, have ready a pint bowl, into which you have squeezed the juice of half a lemon, add to this one teaspoonful of glycerine, and one or two tablespoons of good whisky or best brandy, pour over boiling water, sweeten well with loaf sugar and drink very hot.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
Cough Remedy
Pour half a pint of water on one quarter of a pound of gum arabic; when dissolved add one-quarter of a pound of sugar and half a gill of lemon juice; let it simmer for five or ten minutes then bottle and cork. When taken water may be added. This is a most soothing syrup for a throat irritated by a hacking cough.
Source: Tried and True Recipes, F.D.P. Jermain
To Remove Sunburn
Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a small teacupful of new milk. Allow it to curdle. Apply it to the face and throat with a piece of cotton wool, after having been out in the sun, or the last thing at night. Allow it to remain on the skin for a short time then wash it off with tepid soft water. This will remove all heat and tan from the skin.
Source: The Dudley Book of Cookery and Household Recipes, Georgiana Dudley
Cough Mixture
1 oz syrup of squills, 1d paragoric, 1d laudanum, 1d oil of peppermint, 1d white wine vinegar; dissolve 1lb treacle in one gill hot water, when cold mix all together. Dose: for children 1 teaspoonful three times a day; for adults, one tablespoonful three times a day.
Source: Recipes, Bradford Lifeboat Bazaar