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It’s a given, in some of households, before busting out the pills from the medicine cabinet, you open your kitchen cupboards first. Here’s a list of time-tested remedies passed on from our Grandmas and now to you:
1. Smell (Asfetida) hilteet to combat open wound or stitch inflammation.
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2. Cumin or chamomile to cure a stomach-ache or a cold.
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3. Black lemon tea for food poisoning and diarrhea.
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4. Honey, to disinfect wounds.
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5. The oil of burnt egg yolks can counteract the effect of burns, if used daily and after an hour from being burned.
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6. Dates first thing in the morning on an empty stomach help the digestive system and eases constipation.
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7. Garden cress seeds to clear the uterus after periods, for ladies.
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8. Fenugreek for nursing mothers and to cure back pains.
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9. Calf’s leg soup to mend bones faster after a break.
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10. Date and salt dough, to extract splinters or foreign objects slightly embedded in the skin.
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11. Myrrh as an antibiotic for the flu or to combat inflammation.
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12. Vicks for everything and anything. Headache? Vicks. Bruise? Vicks. Head bump? Vicks. Painful stomach? Lop vicks on your abdomen area, bundle up, and sweat it. Vicks is magical.
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Useful Arabic/English Term list:
- Asafetida: Hilteet
- Cumin: Kamoon
- Chamomile: Baboonaj
- Black lemon: Laymoon aswad
- Honey: Asal
- Fenugreek: Hilba
- Garden cress seeds: Rashad
- Calf’s leg soup: Kawarai’
- Myrrh: Murra
