Mama's Home Remedies: Discover Time-Tested Secrets of Good Health and the Pleasures of Natural Livin, Svetlana Konnikova [classic fiction .TXT] 📗

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r 12. Massage the upper part of your body from your head down to the top of your chest and back, using a nutritious crème, talc, or rice powder.

If an unexpected, sudden attack occurs:

r 13. Inhale an ammonia capsule, typicaly used for fainting. r 14. Apply mustard plasters to the calves.

r15. Suck on ice chips.

r 16. Drink warm finely-ground barley coffee.

r 17. Inhale the aroma of fresh pine to increase lung capacity and promote energy. Trips to the Fairyland @ 215

r 18. Inhale the aroma of laurel leaves to help diminish spasms. r 19. Near your bed, perhaps on a nightstand, place a smal bowl fil ed with liquid ammonia to cleanse the air. This is particularly helpful if you live in a hot, tropical climate and cannot open the windows.

r 20. Keep a geranium plant in your house to cleanse the air of dust and bacteria.

r 21. Burn the dry leaves of coltsfoot and breathe in its healing smoke. It is a soothing expectorant.

r 22. Mix ¼ cup dry wine (Riesling, Chardonnay) with a pinch of baking soda. Drink it to promote mucus dilution during an asthmatic fit.

r 23. Place two to three hot, boiled potatoes in a bowl. Cover your head with a thick towel and inhale the medicinal steam to soothe spasms and ease breathing.

r 24. Prepare hot red bilberry tea, using one tablespoon fresh or dried berries and leaves in one cup boiling water. Steep 15 minutes and drink during an asthmatic fit. Lie down in bed and cover yourself with a blanket to preserve the warmth of the red bilberry tea in your system. Use this simple remedy in combination with potato medicinal steam (#23). These two methods are effective natural healers in your defense against asthmatic attacks. After at least one month of treatments in this manner, the attacks are likely to occur with less frequency.

For less intense asthmatic episodes, treatment can be limited to drinking hot red bilberry tea only.

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r 25. Take a pine bath. Place two cups pine needles, cones, and twigs in a pot with two quarts cold water. Boil 30 minutes. Cover pot and infuse for 10–12 hours. A pine bath rejuvenates and increases the supply of energy not only in bronchial asthma, but in other respiratory il nesses.

r 26. Pine steam, saturated with essential oil, heals mucous membranes. Add 25–30 drops of essential pine oil (made from pine needles only) in two cups hot water and inhale pine steam. r 27. Honey inhalation. Mix one tablespoon honey with two cups hot distil ed water. Pour one tablespoon honey water into an inhaler and breathe in for 15–20 minutes. Use this only if you are not al ergic to honey.

Just a reminder. As you know, the main task in treating bronchial asthma is “to liberate” or to cleanse bronchi of mucus, which promotes asthmatic attacks. Help yourself with pleasant treatments, such as:

r 28. Walking in the pine woods.

r 29. Drinking warm mineral water. It contains alkali, which helps to cleanse phlegm from the bronchi.

r 30. Getting proper exercise to cleanse lungs and bronchi. The above three treatments can be used for those with cardiovascular diseases. What can we do internally to treat asthma in a natural way?

r 31. Grate 3½ ounces horseradish root, add juice of two lemons, and mix wel to create a thick syrup. Take ½ teaspoon twice daily for one month. Refrigerate for no more than 7–10 days.

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r 32. Take two tablespoons honey twice daily if you are not al ergic to it.

r 33. Make Juicy Honey remedy. Mix one cup fresh carrot juice, one cup horseradish juice, and the juice of one lemon. Add one cup honey, mix wel , and pour into a glass jar. Take one teaspoon one hour before meals three times a day. Refrigerate the remaining mixture. The course of treatment is two months.

r 34. Drink a glass of fresh grape juice daily to treat bronchial asthma and respiratory problems.

r 35. Place one tablespoon anise seeds into a pot with one cup boiling water. Cook seeds 15 minutes. Take ¼ cup four times a day before meals.

r 36. To two tablespoons of diced turnip roots, add two cups of boiling water. Boil 15 minutes. Strain and drink ¼ cup four times a day or one cup before bed.

r 37. Boil two to three turnips in one quart of water for five minutes. Drink ⅓ cup three times a day.

r 38. Infuse two tablespoons of wild marjoram in two cups of boiling water for 15 minutes. Strain and divide the infusion into three portions. Take three times a day 30 minutes before meals as an expectorant.

r 39. Add three tablespoons of hawthorn berries to one cup of boiling water. Infuse for 30 minutes and drink one cup three times a day for asthma attacks.

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r 40. Add two tablespoons of fresh or dried wild strawberry leaves to two cups of boiling water. Infuse for 15 minutes. Drink one cup daily for asthma attacks as a cleansing diuretic.

r 41. Add one tablespoon of dry or fresh plantain leaves to one cup of boiling water.