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FLU TONIC: Drink this tonic at the onset of chills or flu symptoms every thirty to sixty minutes. Simmer 1 teaspoon dried citrus peel in 1 cup of water for 5 minutes. Allow to cool before straining and drinking. Drink 2-3 times during onset of symptoms, then change to the fever and cold tonic.
NERVOUS STOMACH: Give a mint tea from dried or green leaves, crushed, with a little sugar. PNEUMONIA: Make a tea of pleurisy roots, a handful of sunflower seeds, and a tablespoon of flaxseed. Drink of this very freely. Apply over the lungs a poultice made of equal parts of flaxseed and ground mustard and keep the person warm in bed. Make a bag of flannel sufficiently large to cover the chest well, fill with hops, dip in hot apple vinegar and apply. RHEUMATISM: Mix 2 ounces each of black cohosh, burdock seed, juniper berries, sassafras bark, and sulphur in 2 cups of Jamaican rum. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for 10 days, then miss 10 days and take as before. Renew several times by adding more rum. WHOOPING COUGH: Take 1 ounce of boneset, 1 ounce of slippery elm, and 1 ounce of flaxseed, and simmer in 2 cups of water for 1 hour. The dose is 1 teaspoonful three times daily. In conclusion, your health is your responsibility in the long run. No one can know your body and the way it reacts, the way you do. Do your own research and pay attention to the signals your body sends. You'll be glad you invested the time to learn more about what is available in this modern, wonderful world of the 21st century! Much of the information for this article came from the book, Mother Nature's Herbal by Judy Griffin, Ph.D.
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