folk remedies
Traditional home treatments
Folk remedies are traditional treatments for ailments passed down through generations rather than developed through formal medicine.
They range from herbal teas and poultices to practices like putting butter on burns or whiskey on teething gums.
Some have genuine therapeutic value; others persist through cultural habit rather than effectiveness: My grandmother swore by folk remedies for colds.
- mustard plasterMedicinal paste compress
- herbal teasSteeped plant infusions
- chamomileSoothing herbal infusion plant
- gingerPungent culinary rhizome
- honeyBees' viscous nectar product
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Medicine requiring doctor's order
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