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Application
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Anise
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Anise is useful for breaking up mucus and hard dry coughs.
Used as a stimulant to treats flatulence and colic.
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Make a tea by adding a cup of boiled water to three teaspoonfuls of crushed seeds, steeping for twenty minutes, and sweetening with a little honey.
The seeds can be smoked or added to a cough syrup formula.
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Basil
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Use sweet basil as a tea for indigestion, fevers, colds, flu, kidney and bladder troubles, headaches, cramps, nausea, vomiting, constipation and nervous conditions.
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For most fevers make a tea made of one ounce basil leaves to a pint of water simmered for twenty minutes with three powdered black peppercorns per cup.
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Bay
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Bay prevents gas and indigestion
Relieve bronchitis and coughs
Helps reduce rheumatic and arthritic aches and pains as well as swellings and sprains.
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Add one or two bay leaves to soup and beans to improve the flavor.
Apply the leaves externally as a poultice to the chest with a cloth covering to relieve bronchitis and coughs.
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Black Pepper
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Black pepper may prevent and cure most diseases.
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Take a dose of seven peppercorns (ground) mixed with honey each morning eliminates cold mucous diseases and sore throats.
For acute diseases use three to four times a day.
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Caraway
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Use caraway for indigestion, gas colic, and nervous conditions.
Use with laxative formulas to prevent griping.
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Use an ounce of crushed seeds to make a pint of the infusion, using boiled water and steep for twenty minutes. Take frequent doses of two tablespoons until relief is obtained.
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Cardamom
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Use cardamom to treat indigestion and gas.
Good for diarrhea, colic and headaches.
Warming to the body.
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To make a tea grate one ounce of fresh ginger, add seven peppercorns, a cinnamon stick, five cloves and fifteen cardamom seeds and heat in one pint of water simmering for ten minutes. Add a sprinkle of nutmeg and a few drops of vanilla extract.
Drink one cup of the tea sweetened with honey, twice per days as needed for warmth.
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Cayenne
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Use cayenne as a first aid remedy for most conditions.
Cayenne is a stimulant, astringent, carminative and antispasmodic. (The cayenne group includes red and green chilies, paprika and bell peppers).
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Can be rubbed on toothaches, swellings and inflammations.
As an arthritic remedy it can be rubbed on the inflamed joint and wrap a red flannel around it to remain throughout the night.
For hemorrhage internally or externally, cayenne can be used to stop bleeding by virtue of the fact that it normalizes the circulation.
When combined with plantain and applied as a poultice it can draw out any foreign object embedded in the flesh.
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Cinnamon
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Cinnamon treats chronic diarrhea, cramps, heart and abdominal pains, coughing, wheezing and lower back pain by warming these organs.
Use for indigestion, gas diarrhea and dysentery.
Cinnamon is stimulating, astringent, demulcent and carminative.
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Simmer in milk and add a little honey to treat indigestion, gas diarrhea and dysentery
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Cloves
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Cloves warms the body.
Increases circulation, improves digestion, treats flatulence, vomiting and nausea.
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Oil of cloves provides quick relief for toothaches. Cloves can be chewed for a toothache.
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Coriander
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Add coriander to hot stimulating foods to impart a balanced coolness.
Coriander is a diuretic, alterative, and carminative.
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Steeped in tea it reduces fevers (a small amount of black pepper may be added to stimulate the action). Use two teaspoons of crushed seeds in a cup of boiled water and steep twenty minutes.
Coriander can be added to laxative formulas to help prevent griping.
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Cumin
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Cumin is the essential ingredient used in making curries.
Prevents and relieves gas.
Beneficial to the heart and uterus.
Given to women to increase breast milk after childbirth.
Cumin is a carminative, stimulant, antispasmodic.
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Use the seeds to make a tea (one teaspoon of crushed seeds to a cup of boiled water).
Can use externally in liniments for stimulating circulation and bringing warmth to the area.
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Dill Weed
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Use dill weed to treat colicky stomachaches and pains in children.
Use for insomnia caused by indigestion and adult stomachaches.
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Make a dill weed tea for indigestion and stomachaches.
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Fennel
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Use fennel to treat colic, cramps and gas to expel mucus.
Fennel is antispasmodic, carminative, diuretic, expectorant, and a stimulant.
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Make a tea using one teaspoon of crushed seeds in a cup of boiled water, steeped twenty minutes.
The cooled teas can be used as an eyewash.
Can be used in making cough syrups for chronic coughs.
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Fenugreek
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Use fenugreek for all mucus conditions and lung congestion.
Used in the treatment of gout and diabetes.
Considered an aphrodisiac and rejuvenator.
Fenugreek is tonic, astringent, demulcent, emollient and expectorant.
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Make a decoction using one ounce of the crushed seeds with seven crushed black peppercorns in a pint of water to relieve congestion and eliminate excess mucus.
Also use the decoction for ulcers and inflamed conditions of the stomach and intestines.
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Garlic
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Use garlic to treat all lung disorders, high and low blood pressure, headaches and nervous disorders and fights against parasites and infections.
Garlic is an alterative, stimulant, diaphoretic, expectorant, antispasmodic, antibiotic, nervine, carminative and vulnerary.
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Take as a fresh juice for the most effective use.
For nervous spasms, cramps and seizures, crush one clove of garlic in a glass of hot milk.
For high blood pressure take one clove of garlic each morning.
Prepare oil of garlic by placing eight ounces of peeled minced garlic in a wide-mouth jar with enough olive oil to cover. Close tightly and shake a few times each day: allow to stand in a warm place for three days. Press and strain it through an unbleached muslin or cotton cloth and store in a cool place.
For colds, flu, fever and infectious diseases take one teaspoon of the oil every hour.
For earaches, insert a few drops in the ear with a wad of cotton or a dropper.
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Ginger
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Ginger is a versatile herbal stimulant.
Use ginger for indigestion, cramps and nausea.
Aids the stomach, intestines and promotes circulation.
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Make a ginger tea by grating one ounce of fresh ginger and simmering ten minutes in a pint of water.
Add to meat dishes to help the intestines detoxify the meat.
Apply externally as a fomentation for the treatment of pain, inflammation and stiff joints. Simmer five ounces of grated ginger root in two quarts of water for ten minutes. Strain and soak a cloth to keep a constant warm temperature on the skin. The skin will become red as the circulation increases.
To make a massage oil that will sooth aching muscles squeeze out the juice of fresh grated ginger and combine with equal parts of olive or sesame oil.
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Marjoram
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Use marjoram for upset stomach, headache, colic and many nervous conditions.
Use for menstrual cramps and associated nausea.
May be helpful for seasickness.
Marjoram is an antispasmodic, diaphoretic, carminative, tonic, expectorant, stimulant and emmenagogue.
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Make a tea with 1/2 ounce of marjoram steeped in a pint of boiled water.
Use oil of marjoram externally to relieve aches and pains.
Apply to tooth when aching.
Add to bath to for a calming effect and to relieve insomnia.
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Mustard Seed
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Mild laxative and blood purifier.
Mustard seed is a rubefacient, stimulant, diuretic, alterative and in large doses emetic.
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For use as a mild laxative and blood purifier take a teaspoonful of the crushed seeds in warm water.
Use the oil externally to stimulate local circulation.
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Nutmeg
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Relieves chronic nervous disorders and heart problems.
Aids in digestion and relieves nausea.
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Use a small amount the size of a pea to relieve chronic nervous conditions.
Add to milk, baked fruits and desserts for digestion.
Note: large doses can be poisonous
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Rosemary
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Use rosemary to treat headaches (can be substituted for aspirin).
Use for indigestion, colic, nausea, gas and fevers.
Good for the hair and scalp.
Rosemary is an astringent, diaphoretic and a stimulant.
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Make a tea by adding one-half ounce of rosemary to a pint of boiled water and steeping for ten minutes in a covered vessel.
After shampooing use a cooled tea as a rinse for your hair.
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Sage
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Used sage for excessive perspiration, night sweats, to clear vaginal discharge and to stop the flow of milk.
Slows the secretions of fluids.
Use for diarrhea, dysentery, early stages of cold and flu, sinus congestion, bladder infections and inflammatory conditions.
Sage is antispasmodic and astringent.
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Make a tea by using one-quarter ounce of the herb in a pint of boiled water, steeping in a closed vessel for ten minutes.
Note: Do not use for more than one week at a time.
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Thyme
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Use thyme for bronchial problems such as acute bronchitis, whooping cough and laryngitis.
Thyme is a parasiticide for intestinal worms.
Thyme destroys fungal infections such as athlete's foot and skin parasites such as scabies, crabs and lice.
Thyme is antispasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, expectorant and antiseptic.
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Make a tea by using one ounce of herb steeped in one pint of boiled water and then strained and sweetened with honey.
Use as an antiseptic mouthwash and for cleansing wash for the skin.
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Turmeric
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Turmeric reduces fevers and nose bleeding.
It relieves pain in the limbs, breaks up congestion, and increases circulation.
Helps to regulate the menstrual cycle.
Turmeric is a blood purifier, stimulant and vulnerary.
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To aid in stretching ligaments and cure menstrual cramps add a teaspoon of turmeric powder and a teaspoon of almond oil to a cup of warm milk. Drink one to two cups daily.
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