Natural Treatments for Common Illnesses

- Oak bark (cortex quercus) 10 grams, comfrey root (radix symphyti) 30 grams, chamomile flowers (flores chamomillae) 20 grams, Arnica flowers (flores arnicae) 20 grams, wormwood herbs (herba absinthii) 10 grams, origanum herb (herba origani) 20 grams; moisten two teaspoons of plant mixture with four teaspoons of alcohol, leave it covered into a pot for eight hours, filter it then with one hundred milliliters water and apply bandages in the evening, apply the balm-of Gilead buds ointment (Gemmae Populi) overnight.

- Chamomile flowers (flores chamomillae); infusion from four teaspoons of flowers into a quarter water, apply cataplasms or take local baths.

- 20 grams of crushed buds ointment, moistened with five milliliters of alcohol, leave it to macerate into a covered pot for a day; add one hundred hog’s lard and five grams of beeswax, keep it three hours into water. Filter it and then mix it until the ointment is obtained.

- Buckthorn bark (frangulae cortex), fennel fruit (Foeniculi fructus), squirrel tail (Millefolii flos); infusion from two teaspoons of the plant mixture into a cup of boiling water, drink two cups per day, in the morning and evening before bed.

- Squirrel tail flowers (Millefolii flos); infusion prepared from two teaspoons of flowers into a cup of water, apply compresses.

- Mallow leaf (folium malvae); infusion prepared from two teaspoons of leaves into a cup of water, make a clyster.

- Willow bark (cortex salicis); decoction prepared from 50 grams of bark into a liter of water, take baths.

- Comfrey root (radix symphyti); decoction prepared from four teaspoons of root into a cup of water, take local baths or apply cataplasms

- Balm-of Gilead buds (gemmae populi); infusion prepared from 20 grams of buds into a liter of water, take local baths.

- Oak bark (cortex quercus); decoction from 30 grams of bark into a liter of water, take local baths.