Natural Earache Remedies: cloves

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Jerri, cloves are antiseptic. You can tell that when you chew them. They draw your mouth together even more that echinacea does. Cloves are the #1 remedy for toothache, because they have a numbing effect. Toothache remedies which you buy in the pharmacy are oil of cloves.

Today, I read an Emazing.com remedy for earaches. I am subscribed to their natural and homeopathic remedy tips. It is an eardrops recipe:

Ingredients:

Mullein flowers
Olive oil
Garlic cloves

Put about a cup of the mullein flowers in a cup of olive oil in a small pan. The olive oil should cover the flowers. Heat this at a very low temperature for several hours, remembering that you only want to extract the beneficial elements from the mullein, not cook it. Put several cloves of garlic in the batch for the second hour. When you can smell the fragrance of the mullein, cool the mixture and strain it well. When you are ready to use it, shake it and use a dropper to put 5-10 drops into the outer ear. Keep your head tilted to allow the oil to penetrate, then you can place a piece of cotton in your ear to keep the oil from leaking out onto your clothing or your pillow. (Carla Joy)

This method sounds too fussy for me, when I know so many simple and effective remedies.

-- posted by biogardener