Natural remedies for Winter illnesses


NATURAL REMEDIES FOR WINTER ILLNESSES

As the parents of toddlers, autumn and winter has always posed rather a challenge when it comes to keeping the kids healthy. As the summer holidays come to an end and just as they are getting back into the flow of it all, the first of a seemingly endless series of colds and other illnesses starts. Those once happy little cherubs morph into needy, miserable wretches with snot streaming down their noses stuck at home boring themselves silly and driving us, their usually loving doting parents to drink and distraction.


In an effort to steer clear of the pharmacy as much as possible we started to look for safe natural remedies. Below is a compendium of those that we have found to have worked best for us in the past as well as how or where to obtain them.

Whilst these have worked for our kids they may not be suitable for your children so please use your common sense or talk to a doctor before choosing to try them.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Homemade Syrup Against Soar Throat

Sore Throat Syrup, also effective for wet coughs.

Ingredients:

  • 5 large onions
  • 1 large ginger root
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 5 cloves
  • 500g pot of honey
Preparation:
  1. Chop onions in slices
  2. Peal and chop ginger root in pieces
  3. Peal and chop garlic
  4. Poor chopped onions, ginger, garlic and cloves in a large glass pot
  5. Poor on top the honey
  6. Let it rest for 5 hours or overnight at room temperature
Once the syrup is ready you can then poor it into another container to remove the pieces.

You can keep the syrup in the fridge all winter.


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