Many foods, herbs and other products that you may keep in the kitchen can also be used to treat common ailments. The following examples are helpful for a variety of illness.
Apple-cidar vinegar:
For arthritis, colds, fungal skin infections, hair and scalp problems, indigestion, insect bites and stings, and itching.
Bicarbonate of soda:
For allergic skin reactions, cuts and grazes, gum disease, insect bites.
Carrots:
For appetite loss, cough, weak nails, threadworms. As a broth, for dermatitis and dry or chapped skin (apply cooled carrot broth to the skin).
Bag of frozen peas:
To use as an ice pack.
Extra-virgin olive oil:
For diluting essential oils and for treating earwax, earache, dermatitis, indigestion, sore lips.
Fresh Garlic:
For cold hands and feet, earache, fungal skin infections, urinary tract infections, threadworms, warts.
Fresh Ginger
For colds, fever, indigestion, nausea, menstrual cramps, poor circulation (cold hands and feet)
Honey:
For colds, coughs, fever, allergic rhinitis, splinters (in a poultice) and skin infections, and for sweetening herbal teas.
Lemons:
For corns, fever, indigestion, infections, sore throat.
Mustard seeds or powder:
For cold hands and feet and to make warming footbaths or treat colds.
Onions:
For upper respiratory tract infections, wind, insect bites and stings, warts.
Salt:
For diarrhea, earache, gum disease, mouth ulcers, sore throat.
