Old Home Remedies

When my kids get sick I try to give them the natural stuff before carting them off to the ER. I have some things to share that are just old home remedies that I have learned through the years and they work. My girls and I were just sick with a cold and got over it pretty quickly.

Hot Totty (PG)

My girls came down with a cough and sore throat with no fever. So promptly in the morning I made them a decaf spice tea with lemon and honey. The lemon and honey have to be strong enough to taste. I brew the tea for 4 min and add in the honey and lemon. I had them sip on it and they both told me their throats felt better afterward and after a day and a half they were feeling much better.

Vinegar Again?

I don't ever remember getting cold medicine as a kid. I remember if I had a really stuffy nose my grandma would put a bowl of vinegar with a rag by my bed and that would help.

Steam oh lala

Also when the kids get really congested I put them in a steam bath and then out into the cold. My son had a barking cough when he was about 8 month old. I put him into a steam shower (just run the hot water on the hottest setting and sit in the bathroom with the steam) and then took him to the ER. By the time I got there he stopped coughing and the nurse told me that the combination of steam and cold air helped break all that up.

Hot Totty:

Another one. And this is only for adults, Its the hot totty. You take 3 fingers full in a shot glass of Rock n Rye whiskey in a mug of hot tea. That helps your sinuses and coughing. Well let me tell you what. The first time I heard about this my hubby got the recipe from a co-worker. He though you put three fingers full in the mug with the tea. Ha ha his cough was gone and he slept really good. The next day I told this co-worker what he had done and she laugh and told me that it was only supposed to be three fingers in a shot glass.