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Sacred Trust Family Remedies Contest Judging

© Traute Klein, biogardener

On October 15, 2002, I published the article "Sacred Trust Family Remedies Contest" to introduce the Sacred Trust Family Remedies Contest which ended on January 4, 2003. I am contacting all contestants to make sure that they all vote for the winner. This article contains all the contest entries and you get to vote for the winner. The eligible entries are numbered. The ineligible ones are listed below for our benefit, but they are not numbered. The purpose of the contest was threefold. Contestants were asked to . . .
1. share your family's secret natural remedy which means a remedy which is special to your family but not generally known
2. tell us how you came to know about it
3. tell us how you have used it.

You will notice that not everyone remembered to tell us all three points, but that does not invalidate their entry. I am also editing some of the entries to make them easier to read. I also feel obligated to add some warning comments to one remedy and an explanatory comment to another one.

Here are the contest entries from which to choose the winner. Pick your favorite by number and if you are a contributor to the list, pick one of yours by number as well. It makes no difference whether the contestant is a Suite101 writer or not.
1. Mary Trotter Kion, AKA lastword, editor of Great American Plains
When the snow blows here in Eastern Washington my whole family from the smallest to the largest seems to come down with the croup. The answer - catnip tea. Just put it in one of those little metal tea balls and dunk it in a cup of hot water, then let it steep. Warning! If you've got cats around the house, be sure to set your tea where they can't get to it. I once had a cat that always managed to get his paws, not on, but in my tea before I could drink it. You can also mix it with regular tea or herbal, and sweeten to taste. Honey is good in it for the cough, also.
• Mary Trotter Kion, AKA lastword
I had read about this working but didn't get a chance to try it until I cut my finger to the bone while angry and chopping cabbages in the garden. A neighbor had given me some comfrey plants. Well, I grabbed one, squished it up good, so the sap was running in the stem and wrapped my finger in it. It stopped the bleeding in no time. I couldn't believe it! I should have had stitches but didn't. There isn't even a scar. I've used it for such since, not that I'm a clutz. The leaves are also good for tea and are suppose to be good for you. I have baked salmon wrapped in comfrey leaves, too. And it is delicious, especially if you stuff the salmon with lemon grass first.

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