Folk remedies

• Toothache
- Slowly chew a flavored clove

• Sunburn
- Apply water and vinegar compresses 
- Take a bath, add black tea infusion to the bath water

• Headache

- Walk barefoot in the morning, through dew 
- Apply on your forehead a slice of lemon, half a cherry or raw potato slices
- Drink a cup of strong coffee with a teaspoon of lemon juice. 

• Constipation
- Eat on an empty stomach some orange peel boiled and then dried 
- Walk daily, barefoot, for 15 minutes, on cold stones or soil. 

• Insomnia:
- Eat boiled or infused salad in the evening 
- Drink a cup of hot milk with honey 
- Take a short hot bath with linden flowers 
- Fill a pillowcase with chamomile, pine needles, lavender or hay flowers and sleep at night with your head on it (or put it beside your pillow). 

• Sore throat
- Gargle with hot lemon juice 

• To rest better
- When you lie down to rest, rub your feet with garlic or apply garlic cloves between toes. 

• Rheumatism
- Have all day in your pocket a potato or an onion 
- Apply a poultice of nettles on the painful spot. It stings, but it will go away.
- Apply crushed cabbage leaf compresses 
- Apply hot compresses with decoction of dried tomato strains (picked in autumn, after harvesting). 

Sore throat remedies

Cold air has already made its presence; did it make your tonsils angry? Here are some ideas.

• Drink herbal teas made from a mixture of sage, colt’s foot, plantain, field horsetail, St. John’s wort, yarrow, chamomile (make an infusion of all the above) and add a few drops of Swedish bitter.
• Take two baths a day for 25 minutes.
• Apply a poultice of clay and grinded onions on the neck race for 2 hours per day.
• Place your feet in hot water for 30 minutes and take steam baths of chamomile and peppermint or lavender oil at the head and chest.
• Apply neck compresses the comfrey kernel, fenugreek or raw cabbage leaves.
• Do garlic, onion, lemon and oil gargle for 3-4 minutes.
• Gargle with tea as an infusion made of marshmallow, chamomile, marigold, yellow bedstraw, horsetail, sage and thyme.
• Apply warm compresses at night, with infusion of oak bark
• Massage your body with an alcoholic solution of peppermint and lavender.

Almonds help prevent diabetes

A study at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, shows that people who regularly eat almonds have a low risk of developing diabetes mellitus. Experts have observed that a diet rich in almonds stimulates the pancreas, improving the body's sensitivity to insulin. In addition, research has shown that almonds help reduce the ‘bad’ cholesterol (LDL cholesterol), helping prevent heart disease.

Corn is good for memory

Corn is full of vitamins, antioxidants and helps digestion. B-complex vitamins contained in corn are designed to invigorate the body, but also to improve memory. So if you eat corn for breakfast, it energizes you, and if you eat it in the evening it helps fight the tiredness you gained during the day. Corn is indicated for people with cardiovascular diseases, who need more potassium in the body, because corn is rich in this mineral. Because of the antioxidants corn helps protecting sight; antioxidants slow down the deterioration processes of vision and help cure cataracts.

Garlic helps you get rid of cough

The garlic has many beneficial effects for the body. Here are some of them:

Garlic replaces antibiotics:

It is known the garlic acts as a natural antibiotic. Moreover, it reduces the body's need for antibiotics because it prevents infections and colds. During the winter add plenty of garlic in soups, sauces or other dishes.

Very good sore throat remedy:

Ma a garlic infusion and use it for daily gargles. Do not worry if you swallow the tea, it has no negative consequences.

Garlic Syrup strengthens immunity:

Do you often catch a cold? Your immunity is low! The reliable aid in such situations is garlic. Syrup made of a few cloves of garlic mixed with honey instantly treats infections. How do you prepare it? 6-8 cloves garlic, finely minced, mixed with 8 teaspoons of honey. Allow a few days for the ingredients to pervade into each other and have a teaspoon daily.

Garlic ointment treats bronchitis:

In winter, respiratory diseases are the most common. What could help us better help than garlic? Prepare an ointment of some garlic cloves, finely chopped, cloves and oil. Boil this mixture on low fire, stir until it becomes a paste and let it to cool. Apply the ointment on the chest, stomach, throat; it will be effective against bronchitis and respiratory infections.

Garlic improves circulation:

Blood circulation can be improved by regular consumption of garlic. Furthermore, it lowers blood pressure by relaxing the walls of arteries and veins. Studies have shown that people who eat garlic have significant decrease in blood pressure.

Vinegar fights ear infections

Sometimes, after a swimming pool day, we experience pain and itching in the ear canal. The bacteria that exist in the water are to blame for these troubles, and in such cases, infected persons should be treated with antibiotics. In a study conducted in South Korea, however, researchers have demonstrated that infection by the viruses that entered the ear canal can be treated with vinegar diluted with a little water, which has a similar effect with antibiotics. In addition, the vinegar does not have the side effects that medication

Apples whiten the teeth

When chewed, crunchy vegetables and fruits function as a toothbrush on the teeth. Furthermore, they clean the teeth stains, with the apple being the most effective in this regard. In addition to being very healthy, apples dissolve very well the spots and have a natural cleansing action of the teeth, because of their high content of malic acid.