More Handy Hints...

·        VERRUCAS  AND CORNS

Rub the verrucas with the yellow sap from the fresh leaves of the greater celandine. You can also use the white sap from the fig tree, the leaves of the houseleek, the sap of the walnut. In town or in winter, you can rub the verruca with half a clove of garlic.

·         TO PREVENT HAIR LOSS

Put ½ litre alcohol (90°), 10 grammes of dried lavender flowers, 10 grammes of thyme (with flowers if possible), 5 grammes of rosemary flowers in a bottle. Buy 20 grammes of quillai (soapbark) and 50 grammes of jaborandi; all these plants can be bought from a chemist or herbalist.

Close the bottle tightly and leave to macerate for 10 days. Strain through a piece of fine linen. Rub your head every evening with this lotion.

·         TO PREVENT DANDRUFF

·        Arnica lotion: 20 drops of tincture of arnica, ½ litre of rain water or mineral water, a bowl of dried, powdered nettles (use an electric coffee grinder), ½ litre alcohol (90°).

Put the ingredients – first the nettles, then the water, then the alcohol – into a jar. Leave to macerate for 3 days in the sun. Strain the liquid and add the tincture of arnica.

Rub the scalp with this lotion after shampooing your hair.