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Fever (baby)

Forest Breath — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:17:14 +0000

If a baby has a fever, give it a bath in willow bark tea

Poison Ivy/Oak

Forest Breath — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:53:47 +0000

Boiling a handful of willow leaves or bark scrapings in a quart of water can help with poison ivy or oak. Apply it to the area after cooling the liquid. Pat it on wiht a soft cloth to relive itching

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Nausea/Vomiting

Forest Breath — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:18:51 +0000

For nausea and vomiting, mix a cup of strong slippery elm bark tea with 2 tablespoons of honey, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon ginger. Take in small sips until you feel better.

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Toothache

Forest Breath — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:38:11 +0000

To help ease a toothache, take some bark from the south side of a red oak tree. Boil this and add a pinch of salt. Hold it on the tooth that is aching and it will ease the pain.

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Pine

Forest Breath — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:26:58 +0000

Pine:

Pine bark makes a great bandaid! Use the fresh inner bark and tie it around the wound. If you are bleeding, wash the wound with comfrey (as stated in an above post), cover it with sphagnum moss and then the inner bark of pine as the outer bandage.

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New Jersey Tea

Forest Breath — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:25:10 +0000

New Jersey Tea:

Another one that requires one to know exactly what part of the plant to use…

Take the bark from the root of this flower and dry it. A mall handful of dried bark STEEPED in hot water for 1 1/2 hours makes a wonderful medicine for sinus issues. Drink 2 cups a day and it works as a sedative AND antihistamine.

Gargle it for sore throats and toothaches. It is also good for cold sores.

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Sweetgum

Forest Breath — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:07:44 +0000

You can chew the hardened sap from a wound in a Sweetum Tree as a gum for fresh breath. As a child, chewing gum was not something we got except on holidays like Christmas and our birthday. We would always grab a “glob” of sap from the Sweetgum Tree as we were on the way to the barn to milk the cow.

The inner bark of the Tree can be boiled with milk and used to relieve diarrhea. Oil from the leaves of the Tree is great for killing bacteria and viruses. This may be taken orally or the oil taken from the leaves and placed on wounds to prevent infection.

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