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Kitchen Cupboard Remedies

Pearl barley

Should be boiled for 4 hours tied in a cloth to allow the grain to swell. Only a little water added at a time so as to feed the barley and supply the waste of evaporation, lest the goodness of the barley be boiled out. May be served with milk or jam and butter if the patient can digest it.

Rice

Easily digested and suitable for disorders of the digestive system .Boiled rice and drinking the rice water can stop diarrhoea and modify dysentery. It takes less time to cook than barley. Old rice is better than new. Rice and other grain puddings are more nutritious are more wholesome when made WITHOUT eggs.

Barley water

Wash a tablespoon of pearl barley in cold water. Add to it 2/3 lumps of sugar, rind of one lemon and juice of half a lemon. Pour on 2 pints of boiling water and let it stand for 2/3 hours, then strain it. Currant juice or sliced licorice may be used to give flavour. It is useful in colds and affections of the chest and fevers. In urinary problems it reduces the pain of burning urine.

Linseed tea

Useful in soothing irritation in cough catarrh pneumonia diarrhoea and dysentery inflammation of the bowels difficult urination and other inflammatory diseases. Take 1 ounce of linseed 1/2 oz of sliced liquorice root. Add 2 pints of boiling water leave in a warm place for 2/3 hours.Then strain and 1/2 tablespoons taken as often as necessary. Sliced lemon and sugar may be more acceptable

Rice water

Valuable in diarrhoea. Boil rice for10 minutes strain off the water, add more and so on until the goodness is boiled out of the rice.The water is ready to drink when cold. Cream may be added and a pinch of salt.

Toast water

A slice of stale bread slowly baked through then put in a jug with 2 pints of boiling water poured over it, and allowed to stand covered till cool. May be flavoured with lemon peel. Barley water, toast water, and linseed tea are all useful in similar conditions and each may be substituted for the other for variety.

Ice - A valuable therapeutic agent

Inflammation of the tonsils sore throats and other acute specific fevers respond well relieving pain and stopping inflammation.It also checks secretions from the throat and so removes frequent painful efforts to cough up the mucus from the tonsils.Small pieces sucked frequently will be of great help in relieving these symptoms. In haemorrhages ice is extremely useful.To stop bleeding from the mouth, throat or nostrils ice should be applied directly to the bleeding vessels or to the surface. When haemmorhage comes from the stomach or lungs ice should be repeatedly swallowed in small pieces but if not quickly effective discontinued.
CAUTION - Ice should not be used in the following conditions: old age especially in feeble patients, suspected strokes or coma where the pulse is feeble. This is because the great sedative power of ice might overwhelm the patient and stop the action of the enfeebled heart. It is always advisable to avoid too great a shock to the system in any case.

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