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Other cures
Simple recipes available for anybody
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Type of
vegetable/ fruit
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Disease
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Cure
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Potato
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burns, chillblains,
rushes, wounds, swelling of the eyelids
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cataplasms with uncooked
potatoes (grated). You can add olive oil.
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gastritis, stomach ulcer
and duodenum gastritis, biliary lithiasis, constipation
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perfectly squeezed a
grated potato and drink its fresh juice
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Cabbage
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boils, throat aches,
headaches, sore throat, burns, wounds, scratches, bruises, muscle
or rheumatical pains, sprains, blues, milkleg
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wash the cabbage leaves, remove the
central ribs and crush them with a wooden roll or a bottle. Use
the juicy leaves as following: take 2-3 thick leaves, cover them
into a thick cloth and tie them up with a lint. Keep the bandage
for 2-4 hours or all night long, if needed. When you cannot stand
the warmth anymore, use other fresh leaves.
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constipation, diahorrea,
indigestion, colitis, cold, flu, edema, nervousness
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drink fresh cabbage juice
or the resulting water after you have boiled the cabbage
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Onions
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diarrhoea
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a handful of onion skin
into a liter of water. Boil it for 10
minutes. Drink half litre/day.
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flu, cold, laringitis
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2 sliced onions, let them
steep in 1/2 l of water. Drink one glass between meals and one
before going to sleep - for several days in a row.
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toothache
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keep a tampon (with
cabbage juice) on the tooth
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migraines
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uncooked onion slices on
your fronthead
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insect bites
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rub the spot for 1/2
minutes with a piece of onion
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abscess, boils
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bake an onion in the oven
and put it on the painful area
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wounds, cuts, burns
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put onion slices on the
wound, cover them with a thin cloth and
bandage the wound
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Carrot
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burns, boils, fresh
wounds
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put compresses with
grated carrots on the painful area
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constipation (mature
people)
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boil a kilo of carrots
twice, in a litre of water (a soup)
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Parsley
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face rushes
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use the juice or infusion
of smashed leaves
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blues
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put on the blue, freshly
smashed leaves
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wounds, scratches, insect
bites
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Antiseptic and healing
bandages with crushed leaves
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mastitis (breast
swelling)
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put crushed leaves on
your breasts
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Cherries
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migraines
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crush the cherries and
put them into compress (keep it on the fronthead)
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for cleansing your body
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eat only cherries for
one/two days - they help your body remove all toxins and waste
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Orange
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flu, cold
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drink orange juice (one
orange), add two pieces of sugar, a glass of rum and water
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constipation
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boil the skin of an
orange for half an hour then, remove the water and boil it for
another 20 minutes in slightly sweetened water (20g sugar into
1 litre of water). Remove its skin and let it dry out. The second
morning, eat it on an empty stomach.
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Lemon
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sickness, vomiting
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squeeze one lemon, add
one glass of sweetened water (1/2 teaspoon of sugar) to the
juice
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bleeding nose
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keep a tampon with lemon
juice (or vinegar ) inside the
bleeding nostril
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headaches
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keep compresses with
lemon juice or lemon slices on the temples
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scratches or infected
wounds
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lemon juice (or diluted
juice)
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insect bite
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rub the harmful area with
one slice of salty lemon
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bleeding gums
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rub your gums with a
slice of lemon; in the morning and in the evening, for several
days in a row
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flu, cold, fever
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drink juice from half
lemon, diluted into half-full glass of water
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Banana
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blues, damaged skin
(glass cuts or wood splinters cuts)
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put on the harmful area,
the inner part of a banana skin - well riped. Tie it up with a
bandage and keep it for many hours or all night long, if needed.
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insomnia
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eat half banana in the
evening before going to sleep
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By Diana
Ciarnau
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