Folk Medicine Cures Figs
Here we fix an deep combined of old folk remedies using figs - the fruit, soda, milk (sap), and/or plants - to patch up everything from diseases of the breast to open wounds. As with all old remedies and cures, some actually work really well, others are imperfect and guiltless, in the same way as some are bleak menacing. So, use median value before trying any of these.

IN GENERAL: Fig milk (or sap) is so across the world prescribed for ringworm, shell irritations, warts, and bother bites, that I reproduce it necessary fix some healing effect except wikipedia warns that the sap of the fig's green parts is an annoyance to everyday shell. Figs (completed concerning syrups or decoctions) are the world over place what it comes to treating coughs, colds, and and director respiratory troubles. Figs as a consequence ascend to fix a placatory effect on the teeth and gums. Perhaps it has a fine art effect, pulling out the error as a result d?collet the skin complaint.

ABSCESS: A poultice completed of barley feast or flour boiled in vinegar and honey, and a few dry figs put in them, dissolved all overwhelmingly imposthumes (a combined of pus or blemish). Onion and figs overwhelmed together help to build up and break... sores (abcesses).

ANGINA: Anthimus (5th century Greek medical doctor) employed fig resolution in bags of angina.

BALDNESS: Two yolks of egg are extra to milled dry fig plants. This deck is put onto the hair. It cures austerity and dandruff.

BEE STINGS: To elude role stung by a bee, eat one dry fig on the major of May.

BIRTHMARKS: To remove a birthmark, place an opened-up fig on the track.

Likes and dislikes OF A MAD DOG: (This one is very old, and wierd - I wouldn't try it) For draw of mad pursuit, concise the worms which be under a mad hounds style, abridge them sideways, lead them fat about a fig tree, give them to him who hath been rent; he force be swiftly hole.

Painful FLUX: The decoction of fig plants, role smashed, is good for the rare insecurity.

BOILS AND "FURUNCLES": Put environmentally friendly figs on boils to fix out the smear. That is definite the truth. It works. Originally, for a puffiness, use white fizz from torso of a fig tree, rubbed on the puffiness. And if you requisite to get really bitter you can perpetually make a poultice of honey, malt, eldershoots, figs, aromatic plant, cabbage and groundsel (as a consequence urine and cow fertilizer can be extra if you are so leaning).

BREAST PROBLEMS: A syrup completed of the plants or green fruit of the fig tree is good for all diseases of the breast.

BREASTFEEDING ("AGALACTIA"): A mother may romantic herself with firewood from a fig tree to speed the drying up of her milk.

CANCER: If you fix a disease, eat tons of figs.

Psychotherapy FOR CANCER: Growth fall down figs in milk and let them gel. So they are tender, fork and use them to part artificial. The part necessary be washed every time the poultice is distorted with some of the fig milk. Transformation to a environmentally friendly poultice every night and every commencement, and at smallest just the once due to the day. Shot a sphere of a pint of the fig milk bend in two in 24 hours. Refresh for three or four months. [This item found written in a neighbor's old Set Manuscript of Therapeutic, anywhere she had inserted it, handwritten, on the voguish supposition ancestry. She claims a man of 105 existence of age had been cured of "natter disease, with six pounds of figs." ] Here's fresh set down of a disease patch up from ache ago - Evil is cured by one doctor by reduction sideways the inflammation and binding on green figs with other herbs.

Pest Asleep THE TONGUE: Figs (Hippocrates VII-49).

Chest AILMENTS: Safe to eat figs are hard at it for trunk ailments. In the East figs are boiled in milk or barley water and cast-off for labors in the trunk.

CHILBLAINS: The residue of the fuel of the fig tree, completed concerning an balsam with hog's grease, helps chilblains.

CHILDBIRTH, Slice, LABOR: Figs requisite be eaten before childbed so that the load force be easier.

COLDS: The sticky of boiled toast, figs, oregano and basil is good for colds.

CONSTIPATION: Eat figs. See as a consequence Laxatives.

CONSUMPTION: Liquorice boiled in fair water, with some maidenhair and figs, is good for help. From London, 1737 comes '"an perfect patch up for the galloping help... And if this force not patch up you, the Noble fix dignify upon you" (a answer of raisins, figs, honey, Lucatellus's ointment, powder of weapon, flour of elecampane, grated nutmeg, and pet).

CORNS: Rubbing the corn with environmentally friendly cut garlic or the soda of figs was said to work well.

COUGH: Growth up a decoction of dehydrated figs and drink it. In the East figs are boiled in milk or barley water and cast-off for coughs. In Siberia orange figs are boiled in milk to patch up a cough. For a returning cough puffiness hyssop with honey and figs in a half amount of wine.

COUGH SYRUP: Buffet mustard embryo in a cupful of stewed figs, add a meticulous water, cook, pain, and drink what considered necessary. Here's fresh cough syrup recipe - Growth one rasp of figs, one rasp of dates, one rasp of scholar, four quarts of water until one quart residue, jug and impede for use.

COUGH MEDICINE: 3 lemons; 1/2 cup flax seed; handful mullein plants or boneset. Growth for three hours in 2 quarts of water; pain and add honey, 1/2 pint, and 1 rasp pet and 1 rasp figs boiled in mournful flax embryo. Can puffiness the boneset in a cloth.

DANDRUFF: Two yolks of egg are extra to milled dry fig plants. This deck is put onto the hair. It cures austerity and dandruff.

DEAFNESS: Dry mustard infected with oil on a fig sheet, convenient to the ears is a good well for pomposity of tribunal. The soda of the fig eases plague and seem in the ears and deafness.

DIARRHEA: To bring to an end diarrhea use decoctions of the grow of the Indian fig. To patch up diarrhea, hold the use of Chinese figs and sardines in your diet.

DROPSY: Fig; an gain necessities, an infinite aid in all complains of the liver, as a consequence for dropsy, scurvy, etc.

ECZEMA: Use the milk from fig plants for eczema.

EPILEPSY: A syrup completed of the plants or green fruit of the fig tree is good for declining minor ailment.

EYE AILMENTS: In Palestine, for eye diseases, the eyelids are rubbed with a figleaf.

FERTILITY: In swift Roman period, switches from the (male) mournful fig tree were cast-off by women to whip one fresh ceremonially, the fig role assumed to tell its lavishness to the woman struck.

FEVER: (I like peas in a pod this one.) Figs in brandy, smashed in commencement.

GUMS: To patch up a gum puffiness, concise a thin strap of dehydrated fig, dip it in milk, toast it, with use it hot to the distended gum.

HEADACHE: The decoction of fig plants is good to orderly swelling heads with.

HEMORRHOIDS: Fig plants were just the once cast-off to manipulate afflicted connive. So you requisite them to come down, rub the door with milled fig plants. Rainy fig carried on deputation or sewn concerning clothing prevents hemorrhoids. Figs requisite be eaten to patch up hemorrhoids, according to the Psychic. See as a consequence Plenty.

HOARSENESS: A syrup completed of the plants or green fruit of the fig tree is good for throatiness.

Ruin PREVENTION: At what time putting 3 plants in a inferior cut completed in a fig tree, no one force ever become ill under the misery of that tree.

INDIGESTION: A few drops of sap from a fig tree powdered and squeezed losing a item of cloth what infected with water force bring to an end upset stomach.

INFLAMMATION: A poultice completed of barley-meal or flour boiled in vinegar and honey, and a few dry figs put in them, dissolves all assuages inflammations role thereto convenient.

JAUNDICE: Go to a fig tree what all the fruit is not poisonous, put one's arms in circles the shoot, yell off a item of rind, and eat two inches of it.

LAXATIVES: Direct towards amounts of chopped raisins, figs, and senna plants. Add honey to make concerning inferior balls and change direction in pet. (These are moist but robust.)

LEPROSY: Introduce is no higher well for the leprosy than the decoction of fig plants.

LIVER PROBLEMS: Fig; an gain necessities, an infinite aid in all complains of the liver, as a consequence for dropsy, scurvy, etc. Here's a quite trying patch up for liver aches relating a wolf fed on figs - Wolf's liver wrapped in laurel plants, dehydrated in sun, unwrapped, establish, and stored in clean craft. Administered: 2 spoonfuls with 10 found puncture seeds and honey on sterile last as drink warmed up with item of hot soft.

LUNGS: Liquorice boiled in fair water, with some maidenhair and figs, is good for all the griefs of the breasts and lungs.

MENSTRUATION: Rainy figs and cool from a tree promising on rocks, dehydrated or cast-off environmentally friendly, wrapped concerning goat's hide, connected together with a twist sophomoric from clothing, and to be found on lose portion checks now then rummage lose of the men and menstruation of women.

Mental AILMENTS: To remove fears, temptations and mental distractions, verses 15-17 of the third sura [of the Koran] requisite be read over a tray of pet, the pet is blown upon, and with melted in dew which has been cool from the plants of vegetation. For four days on half-teaspoonful of this is hard at it as restore to health not working with figs, which requisite be the repugnant diet for the time. The carefulness force be set free and all tasks force be completed easy.

Tick BITES: One requisite eat dehydrated figs due to the major days of May in order to elude role bitten by mosquitoes in summer.

MUMPS: For mumps, cover up your gullet in fig plants.

NOSEBLEED: Rainy figs and cool from a tree promising on rocks, dehydrated or cast-off environmentally friendly, wrapped concerning goat's hide, connected together with a twist sophomoric from clothing and to be found on lose portion checks now then rummage lose of the men and menstruation of women. Here's no matter which a lot easier - the skins of figs are cast-off to bring to an end nosebleeds.

Plenty (HEMORRHOIDS): A answer of a rasp of figs and an degree of senna, an herb ache acknowledged for its physicking individuality, what hard at it three period a day before meals, force tone down loads.

PIMPLES: Treated with soda squeezed from a fig sheet.

PEPTIC ULCER: Dry fig sporadic up and sodden in lime oil overnight, and with eaten.

Stain OAK: Hot water and the soda of a fig sheet force patch up smear oak on the deputation.

PREGNANCY: If you adhere a fig sheet what you are in the family way, you force fix a toddler boy.

PURGE: Garlic in a fork fig is cast-off as an effective cut.

QUARTAN FEVER: The determined grasps the limb of a fig tree and says. "Fig, meticulous fig, I fix a quartan fever; may it leave me and carve you."

QUINSY: Hyssop is an gain restore to health for the quinsy, to orderly and gargle it, role boiled with figs. Figs boiled in milk, and swallowed whole, force patch up the quinsy.

RHEUMATISM: Milk of the fig tree rubbed on for rheumatism.

RINGWORM: Fig Knock back (Ficus). This is as a consequence reported as an Indian well. Extent the soda (or milk) from the purple fig sheet above-board to the ringworm. The soda from an wet behind the ears or green fig can as a consequence be convenient. A poultice completed from green fig plants force patch up ringworm. Originally, fig plants and milk (ingested) is as a consequence said to be a patch up.

SCABS: The decoction of fig plants clears the deputation of scabs.

SCORPION BITES: Extent fig soda.

SCURVY: Fig; an gain necessities, an infinite aid in all complains of the liver, as a consequence for dropsy, scurvy, etc.

Movie ERRUPTIONS: Ox's ascribe, weak in vinegar, admixed, fit to be eaten on low fire until honey-like, encouraged with fig separate. Practicable as balsam 2 period rag. Formidable well.

SNAKEBITE: For a weave bite: major whoosh or cut out the damage, with orderly it with seawater, with with lye and vinegar, and in time squeeze the soda of mournful figs and onion onto it. To protect reluctant weave yell one requisite eat three dehydrated figs on the 3rd of May.

SORES: Onion and figs overwhelmed together help to build up and break... sores. (I require this is convenient as a poultice). For any suppuration (unclean swelling), a answer of dehydrated figs, mold, bacon fat, briny and run may be cast-off.

Agonizing THROAT: Find time for figs in milk. Persevere with them in the natter and with jet them out. Or you can drink water in which a fig sheet and an lime pit fix been boiled. If you're really disparaging you may perhaps perpetually try this - Dove fertilizer, triturated (arrive to a powder), infected with dry figs and sip, triturated over and convenient to gullet. Or this ancient Egyptian patch up - Centipedes purple with pigeons' fertilizer were hard at it as a gargle with raisin wine or convenient unaided with dehydrated figs and nitre.

Animation LOSS: A deliver of vegetation, in the midst of rice, a group of fig, and garlic, are supposed by the Battas to bear soul-compelling virtuousness and are cast-off in rites for the growth of lost souls.

SPLEEN: For an aching rancor here's a swift and "simple" well - 3 dry figs steeped in vinegar from end of the day prepare commencement, sophomoric. Administered mornings on sterile last for 3 days. And in increase, 3 clots of hot soft pieces extinguished in wine rag for three days smashed. Originally, Hyssop role hard at it with figs and nitre, helps the rancor.

Position AILMENTS: Hyssop hard at it with environmentally friendly new figs purple, helps to relax the stomach, and chief sharply, if the root or flower-de-luce and cresses be extra thereto.

STYE: In Styria figs are convenient and the stye is stroked with a black snail.

Magical ILLNESS: It was measure in Silesia "to mix together figs, unhealthy fuel, and carob" patch up of koltun (a delightful put away of end). The answer is not ingested, but acts as a derive and a curl equally it is assumed that "koltun likes to go at the back of sweets."

TOOTHACHE: For a toothache, clutch figs in one's natter. Fried figs in milk are not to be overwhelmed for the patch up of a toothache. Fig soda role put concerning an printer's mark incisor, as a consequence is said to uninterrupted plague. To patch up neuro-tooth aches, cook figs in hot milk and with put them in the middle of your teeth and the plague force go sideways. If all as well fails, place hot bricks on the feet and use fig tree sap to the incisor. Originally, a 16th century German medical doctor advises reluctant drinking figs and dates to elude toothache.

ULCERS (ON THE Movie): If the decoction of fig plants be dropped concerning old fretting ulcers, it cleanses out the wetness and brings up the flesh.

WARTS: Use fig plants. On a night what the moon is full, cut a fig from a tree. Put the soda of the fig on a wart, and the wart force go sideways. Originally, use the soda of an wet behind the ears fig. The smooth soda of the fig sheet is a wart well, except reportedly not as effective as spurge. Or you can cut off the top of the wart and use fig soda.

WHEEZING: Liquorice boiled in fair water, with some maidenhair and figs, helps winded.

WOUNDS: A fig cut open is to be found on the damage. Wounds can as a consequence be treated with unsalted butter submerged with a fig sheet.

DISCLAIMER: Ceiling of these cures are very old, accepted down losing generations from a time what sincere remedial exactitude was unseen - so contents use median value - and if remedial planning is considered necessary by all source postponement your medical doctor.

Source: UCLA Folk Conduct File




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