Re: Need a working brain : Making it yourself - how?-teas that cure (OT)

[Guest guest]

Came across this message by looking for graviola...

Reading this I am reminded of a cure for fever/colds told to me by an old man in

India who was working as a labourer

I have sadly forgotten the quantities and some of the ingredients:

cinnamon

clove

black pepper corns

ginger ( I forget if it is the dried one or fresh)

roughly a tsp of each is boiled in 2 cups of water until it comes to one

cup-make Indian tea ( with milk and sugar) ( maybe this is just to make it

palatable)

Make sure you take a leak , etc before drinking this for after that you must get

into bed and wrap yourself warmly to sweat it out.

I have seen it work

I am fan of these spices-any one of them -one small bit in a cup of hot water

cures a whole lot of things

Infected throat:

either a glass of milk boiled with 1 tsp turmeric

or

3 cloves in a glass of hot water with honey and lemon juice

Oh I can go on because it is so wonderful how they cure...

" cheryl " <cheri607@...> wrote:

I bring to a light simmer for about 20 minutes then let sit over

night. Then I freeze it down to reduce it. Partially freeze pour off

liquid then freeze again till you have about 10 ounces. I take about 1 once

daily. Here is where to get the herbs at the best price for good quality.

graviola and chaparral: get two pounds each and order from

herbalcom.com they cost $10 and $6 a pound last time i ordered and

shipping is (with postal changes) about $7 per order. get

2 pounds of neem at mountain rose herbal for about $10 a pound. shipping will

probably cost about $10, it varies. the last thing you need is a pound of

andrographis. this will cost about $17 pounds from

1stchinese herbs. shipping may be $9. if you spend $40 (amount

changes with postage changes) shipping is free. so check if you need anything

else and get it there.

Cheri

[Guest guest]

The husband of a Burmese friend of mine used to ask his wife for Pepper

Water when he was not well. I never looked up the recipe until now.

There are various ones -

Cayenne pepper, no more than 1/8 tsp in hot water - keep taking until

improvement sets in.

Black pepper (multiple uses/recipes) for colds & fever black pepper and

hot water. Add honey if you need to make it more palatable.

http://www.goherbalremedies.com/blog/herbal-remedies-by-black-pepper/

For malaria, black pepper and neem in hot water.

By the way, my graviola only just arrived the other day; my supplier

apparently had some computer problems. It was a long wait with a couple

of phone calls on the way.

Rowena

gita_madhu wrote:

> Came across this message by looking for graviola...

> Reading this I am reminded of a cure for fever/colds told to me by an old man

in India who was working as a labourer

> I have sadly forgotten the quantities and some of the ingredients:

> cinnamon

> clove

> black pepper corns

> ginger ( I forget if it is the dried one or fresh)

> roughly a tsp of each is boiled in 2 cups of water until it comes to one

cup-make Indian tea ( with milk and sugar) ( maybe this is just to make it

palatable)

> Make sure you take a leak , etc before drinking this for after that you must

get into bed and wrap yourself warmly to sweat it out.

> I have seen it work

> I am fan of these spices-any one of them -one small bit in a cup of hot water

cures a whole lot of things

> Infected throat:

> either a glass of milk boiled with 1 tsp turmeric

> or

> 3 cloves in a glass of hot water with honey and lemon juice

> Oh I can go on because it is so wonderful how they cure...

>

[Guest guest]

That is so interesting-as in SOuth India we also use what we call pepper water

-rasam -for colds!

It is made with dal (arhar)( lentils -cooked to a mush ). one may then add

either tamarind pulp water or tomato or both or just lemon /lime juice...

Onions are also added as well as many other spices such as coriander powder and

chilli powder,

Those who are allowed may add garlic ...

It is tempered with mustard seeds among other things and garnished with curry

leanves or cilantro...

We can just drink it like soup or eat it with hot soft rice-it is if not

anything our comfort food for colds!

I have two things I want to photograph-one is a creeper which is supposed to

help with setting broken bones and the other is a dried leaf which is for

colds-but I do not know what they are...

There are so many things-I was brought up a bit modern sadly but my husband

tells me so many stories of his youth where leafs and bark and such were mainly

used for illnesses-even when I married him and visited my in-laws his aunts etc

would be brewing " kashayams " ( teas) each one having a specific one for their

ailment.

I am yet to find graviola in the stores...

Gita

The husband of a Burmese friend of mine used to ask his wife for Pepper Water

when he was not well. I never looked up the recipe until now. There are various

ones -

Cayenne pepper, no more than 1/8 tsp in hot water - keep taking until

improvement sets in.

Black pepper (multiple uses/recipes) for colds & fever black pepper and hot

water. Add honey if you need to make it more palatable.

http://www.goherbalremedies.com/blog/herbal-remedies-by-black-pepper/

For malaria, black pepper and neem in hot water.

By the way, my graviola only just arrived the other day; my supplier

apparently had some computer problems. It was a long wait with a couple > of

phone calls on the way.

Rowena