Do you have a headache or cough? Try and see if these recipes do any good.
Cough
Boil thyme in water. Inhale the hot vapours. You can also get rid of snakes and other poisonous animals with thyme - they hate the smell. Here is another way of curing a cough: Boil two sliced leeks in water. Extract the juice. Sweeten with honey. A few spoonfuls will cure the cough. A third remedy is crushed linseed, mixed with water and honey.
A Temperature Mix dried basil, cardamom seeds and ground cinnamon. Put the mixture in water for ten minutes or so. Sweeten with sugar. One cup every two hours, and the fever disappears.
Head-ache
Mix mustard-seed or wormwood with vinegar and rub the head with this mixture.
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