Mint tea has always been recommended for upset stomach. if your intestines are upset, drink aloe juice. It is very refreshing and tastes good over cracked ice.

Sore throat, my son-in-law from Antigua's grannie always made ginger rootbeer. Gingerroot soaked in water with lot of brown sugar, overnight. They drink it all fo the time. I think for the throat, though she made ginger tea with honey & lemon.

Check out the auction. Before I saw this thread, I had decided to offer a hardback of Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health by D.C. Jarvis, M.D. I don't need two copies!:-)

It has great stuff in it including lots on honey, kelp and iodine.

I used to make my own St John's Wort oil, before it was so popular. It turned a beautiful ruby red and was good for aches and pains, rubbed on. Also made my own dandelion root tincture. I used it when I had *power surges* during pre-moontime cessation (pre-menopause) and a friend of mine used it for the fatal type of hepatitis. He is fine now, off SSi and everything. He used a lot of other things, too, to be healed.

I have some excellent books on these and on herbs.

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