Handy Hints:

Rarely serious, but very unpleasant. Use kitchen spices: cumin, caraway, aniseed, star anise, angelica, fennel, thyme.

If you only have some of these spices, don’t worry, it will work just as well.

Dosage: Throw a teaspoonful of each spice into a litre of boiling water. Leave to boil for 5 minutes, sprinkle with cinnamon and honey and drink as hot as possible

·          BURNS

Immediately: Place ice cubes on the burn. Then apply grated raw potato or a crushed marigold flower, or fresh green cabbage, plantain or lettuce leaves.

Treatment: (5 minutes) Honey poultice, which disinfects and activates the healing process, or alternatively:

Oleocalcareous linament: beat together two dessertspoonfuls of olive oil and the same quantity hard water.

Poultice made with whisked egg white mixed with 3 teaspoonfuls of whisked olive oil.

·          SEA AND CAR SICKNESS

During the journey, suck a nutmeg, but DON’T swallow it as nutmegs are toxic