Fixing Your Ailments the Home Remedy Way!

Bad Breath

• Juice of half a lemon in luke warm water.
• Wash with lukewarm salt water before bed.
• Chew a handful of sunflower seeds.  Follow that with a glass of water.
• Chew parsley!
• Hydrogen Peroxide 3% used as a mouthwash.
• Chew an entire clove.
• Brush with baking soda.
• Drink a hot cup of unsweetened tea.

Nausea

• 1 tablespoon of warm white wine vinegar & water.  Sip slowly.
• Dill pickle juice.
• Rub all natural peppermint oil on your gums and tongue.
• A tablespoon of peanut butter.
• Boil water with rice and cinnamon … then drink it.
• Eat a small amount of table salt.
• Eat a small piece of ginger – pickled or fresh.

Motion Sickness

• Put aspirin in your belly button … use a band aid to hold it in there.
• Ginger in any form.

Items to Put on Your Grocery List (As They Appear to be Cure-All!)

• Baking Soda
• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Distilled White Vinegar
• Salt
• Sugar
• Lemons
• Plain Aspirin
• Potatoes
• Ginger

Headache

• 1/2 cup vinegar & 1/2 cup olive oil.  Massage into your temple and hairline.
• Sniff rubbing alcohol through each nostril.
• Rub 1/2 a lime on your forehead.
• Rub peppermint oil onto your temple in a circular motion.
• Soak your feet in hot water.
• Pull the hair on your head around the painful area.
• Rub peanut butter on your genitals.  (This one made me LOL.  Is it true?  Who knows?)
• Drink dill pickle juice.
• 3 glasses of cold water & eat some acidophilous yogurt.
• Take niacin (the vitamin!)

Chapped Lips

• Apply mustard oil in your navel.
• Rub the fleshy side of a tomato on your lips and eat the rest.
• Apply 100% pure orange juice directly to your lips.
• Olive Oil.

Cracked Heels

• Soak in warm water, vinegar, & olive oil.  Then use a pumice stone.
• Carmex … used for cold sores.  Apply at night time.
• Soak in lemon juice for 10 minutes.

Remember ...

… I haven’t tried most of these so heck if I know if they work.  I’m not the scientist, I’m just the reporter.

Heartburn

• Mix 2tbsp of apple cider vinegar in 8oz. of water (and drink!)
• Eat a celery stick!
• One teaspoon and 1/2 a glass of water.
• 1 tbsp of vinegar … repeat until heartburn goes away.
• 8 oz glass of whole milk.
• Eat an apple (or a carrot or a potato or broccoli.)
• Eat two peppermint candies.
• Drink some club soda.
• Hold 10 to 15 raisins in your mouth … do not chew them up.  Swallow the saliva that forms.
• Mix a little bit of salt and a little bit of sugar … then eat it.
• Drink A&W Rootbeer.

Acne

• Toothpaste … put directly on the zit, let it dry … then wash off.
• Horseradish for bumps/active acne.
• Soy sauce as an astringent.
• Mint leaves, Clove powder and water formed into a paste.   Rinse after 30 minutes and then wash with Cetaphil.  Repeat every night for a month or two.
• Crushed cooked carrots applied as a paste under a hot compress for 20 to 30 minutes each night.
• Apple cider vinegar.
• Use duct tape to remove black heads as an alternative to Biore.
• Tea Tree oil.
• Use any brand of dandruff shampoo as a body wash.
• Visine to “take the red out”.
• Vicks Vapo Rub before bed.
• Pepto Bismol.
• Drink teaspoon of cream of tartar with juice daily.

Black Eye

• Rub aspirin directly on the affected area.  BUT NOT IN THE EYE.  Three times a day to shorten length of black eye time.
• Peel and cut a round potato slice.  Apply to eye for 30 minutes while laying on your back.

Smelly Feet

• Squirt hand sanitizer into shoes.
• Soak your feet in strong black tea for 30 minutes for a week.

Papercuts

• Put chapstick on it.
• Put super glue on it.
• Put a slice of raw potato on it.
• Put Iodine on it.

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Sore Throat

• Gargle with apple cider vinegar.
• 1 shot eat of artificial lemon & lime juice … let them slide down your throat.
• Gargle with black pepper powder and warm water.
• Sliced onion in a bowl with some sugar.  Drink the syrup that forms.
• Gargle with hot water, salt, and baking soda.
• Eat 1 serving of yogurt.
• Eat fast food chicken nuggets (somehow I don’t really buy this one but if you need and excuse to get your nugget on here you go!)

Stuffy Nose

• Sniff up some warm water.  Then blow.
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar & 1/2 cup water … bring to a boil in the microwave … make a tent over the bowl and breathe in the steam.
• Rub butter on the upper bridge of your nose (between the eyes) before bed.

Whiter Teeth

• Chew on raw spinach.
• Use aluminum foil filled with baking soda and toothpaste.  Press and mold around your teeth.
• Baking soda.
• Hydrogen Peroxide.

Onion Tears

• Stick a toothpick in your mouth while you cut the onion.
• Apply cooking oil to the knife before cutting.
• Put the onion in the freezer for about an hour before slicing.
• Chew gum.
• Peel onion under cool running water.  Then chop as usual.

Hangovers

• Eat raw cabbage.
• Drink peppermint or ginger tea.
• Eat chicken soup.
• Vitamin C tablets.
• Chocolate Milk
• McDonalds cheeseburger and a chocolate milk shake (MINE!)
• Suck on ice cubes (also mine!)