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

The juice from boiled willow bark, given by tablespoonfuls, will lower a fever.

To treat a fever or inflammation, use violet leaves or chickweed.

A tea of sage can be used to wipe down the body when a  fever occurs. This will help lower the fever.

Bake one large onion and squeeze out the juice. Add some honey to this and drink while warm.

This is safe to give to chilren and infants as well. Give in smaller doses when giving to a child. This will often break a fever and ease a chest cold.

CATNIP:

Tea dosages:

Fever: One cup of strong tea made by steeping dried leaves for 20 minutes in hot water

Pain: Steep green leaves in hot water 7-12 minutes

Stomach Cramps: double the dose of the herb in one cup of water and simmer, not steep, for 15 minutes

Relaxation: Use the small, tiny leaves just below the flower head, right before it flowers. Dry them in a cool, dry place then steep the leaves for 20 minutes.

Bone and Joint pain: Make a mild tea by steeping the fresh (or dried) JOINED leaves of Boneset for about 30 minutes. A handful of leaves to two cups of water is sufficient.

Laxative: Make a cold tea from steeping a palmful of leaves of Boneset for 20 minutes and drink as a laxative.

Flu: Steep the Boneset leaves for 30 minutes and drink for colds, flu and fever.
You can add mint to this as well.

*use the upper, unjoined leaves for cold, flu and fever remedies. It is important to know when studying herbalism that one cannot just know this plant is good for that. One must know what part of the plant, when to remove it from the plant and how to remove it, how to prepare it and what route to present it to the body. One herb, like boneset, has many uses, making it the same way, but steeping it for different amounts of time. You don’t want to drink it for the flu and end up on the toilet because you mistakenly made the tea as a laxative!

Turtlehead:

These grow tall and have a pretty bloom. I will take a picture this Spring in full bloom and add it to this post.

A beautiful wildflower in this area, I grow it in my yard as well. The leaves made into a tea is very good for fever and a laxitive

Onions are one of the best things one could eat! They are good for your heart, blood, increase your HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol), thins blood, stops blood clotting, decreases cholesterol, regulates blood sugar, kills bacteria, relieves congestion, blocks cancer, decreases blood pressure, decreases fever and helps with coughs.

1/2 RAW onion a day is good for cholesterol.

1 Tablespoon of cooked onions reverses blood clotting.

Ginger is great for motion sickness. It thins the blood, decreases cholesterol, decreases risk of cancer. Ginger can aid in coughs, vomiting and fever as well.

1/2 teaspoon of powdered ginger root prevents motion sickness.