Sal

Constipation

How to use: Dissolve salt into water. Drink the salt water 200 ml every morning with empty stomach.

(2). Stomach pain due to exposure to cold

How to use: Take salt 250 g. Fry without oil to warm it. Fold with gauze or similar material. Apply onto stomach for 10 min or until it turns cold. Replace it with a warm one. Repeat three to five times a day.

(3). Sour throat

How to use: Fry salt powder to warm. Blow it into throat. The person will vomit out lot of saliva. The pain will be reduced.

For frequent sour throat, drink salt water 100 to 300 ml every morning. Repeat every day for two to three weeks.

(4). Pain due to hernia

How to use: Warm salt. Fold with gauze. Apply onto the painful area.

(5). Eczema (Shi Zhen)

How to use: Dissolve salt 6 g, alum 15 g into water. Wash skin with the solution.

(6). Joint pain and muscle pain

How to use: Bring salt 500g and fennel 120g to warm (dry frying, for instance). Fold with gauze. Apply onto the affected muscle or joints. Repeat twice a day.

(7). Urinary retention

Material: Salt, 250 g; Chinese green onion, ten.

How to use: Chop the green onion into small pieces. Fry the salt and the green onion (without use of oil) to warm. Fold it with gauze. Apply onto the lower stomach.

(8). Bite by bee

How to use: Dissolve salt into water. Use the water to wash the affected skin.

(9). Continuous bleeding from tooth after tooth pulling

How to use: Dissolve salt in water to prepare high concentration salt solution. Use cotton ball to dip the salt solution. Apply the cotton onto the bleeding area of the tooth. Take it away after one hour.

(10). Prevention of hair loss

How to use: Wash hair with low concentration of salt solution (dissolved in water).

(11). Itch of head skin

How to use: Dissolve little bit salt and borax (Peng Sha) into water. Wash head with the mixture.

(12). Prevention of skin rash and so on for children

How to use: Add little salt into water when having bath.

(13). Wash broken contaminated skin due to trauma or infection

How to use: Prepare low density salt solution. Wash the skin with it.

(14). Protect throat for those who is going to singer or talk

How to use: Drink light salt water before perform.

(15). Ulcer in mouth

How to use: mix salt the sesame oil into warm water. Hold it in mouth. For baby, drop several drops in mouth before feeding. Repeat several times a day.

(16). Stimulate vomiting

How to use: Add one teaspoon of salt into about 300 ml water. Bring to boil. Cool it down. Drink it to promote vomiting. This is useful for those who feel bloating in stomach and chest due to eating poisonous material.

Canela

Canela

Bark of Cinnamon (Rou Gui)

Stomach pain due to cold

Material: cinnamon powder, 3g.

How to use: Drink the powder with warm water.

(2). Join pain and/or muscle pain

Material: cinnamon 3g; fresh ginger, 9g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the extract.

(3). Too much discharge (women)

Material: cinnamon, 3g; Fu Zi, 9g; chicken egg, one.

How to use: Add cinnamon and Fu Zi into water. Bring to boil for one hour. Collect the liquid. Add the liquid into pot and bring to boil again. Break egg and add it into the boiled liquid. Keep boil until the egg is editable. Eat the egg and drink the liquid, twice a day.

(4). Child diarrhea

Material: cinnamon, 6g; Ding xiang, 6g.

How to use: Grind the material into powder. Apply to the naval. Seal with medicine tap.

Funcho

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 Foeniculum vulgare also known as F. officinale

fennel developed from the Middle English fenel or fenyl. This came from the Old Englishfenol or finol, which in turn came from the Latin feniculum or foeniculum, the diminutive of fenum orfaenum, meaning "hay". The Latin word for the plant was ferula, which is now used as the genus name of a related plant. As Old English finule it is one of the nine plants invoked in the pagan Anglo-Saxon Nine Herbs Charm, recorded in the 10th century.

In Greek mythology, Prometheus used the stalk of a fennel plant to steal fire from the gods. Also, it was from the giant fennel, Ferula communis, that the Bacchanalian wands of the god Dionysus and his followers were said to have come.

Hernia

Material: Fennel, 9g; pear kernel, 9g.

How to use: Grind the material into powder. Drink it with little bit cook wine.

(2). Hernia

Material: Fennel, 9g.

How to use: Add Fennel into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink it.

(3). Hernia

Material: Fennel, 15g; salt, little; chicken egg, two.

How to use: Fry (without oil) the fennel and salt to dark in color. Grind it into powder. Fry eggs (with little oil in the frying pot) and the fennel powder. Eat the eggs every day before going to bed. Repeat every day for several days.

(4). Lower back pain

How to use: Fry fennel 9 grams with little sesame oil to dark in color. Drink the powder twice a day. 

(5). Lower stomach pain before menstruation

How to use: Add fennel (15 g) into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the extract every day, three days before period.

(6). Stomach pain due to cold

How to use: Take fennel, 8 grains. Fry it without oil into dark in color. Drink it together with little brown sugar.

(7). Skin ulcer due to snake bit

How to use: Apply fennel powder onto the ulcer.

Cravinho

O cravinho (da Índia), craveiro-da-índia ou cravo-da-índia (Syzygium aromaticum), Ding Xiang), Clove

Nausea and hiccup

Material: Clove, 1g; calyx and receptacle of persimmon (Shi Di), 1g.

How to use: Mix and drink it.

(2). Nausea

Material: Clove, 5g; Shi Di, 6g; fresh ginger, 3g.

How to use: All material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the extract. Half in the morning and half in the evening.

(3). Poor digestion

Material: Clove and pepper, equal amount.

How to use: Grind the material into powder. Prepare it into paste with water. Apply onto naval. Seal with medical tap. Change it every day.

(4). Stomach pain

Material: Clove, 15g; Rou Gui, 9g.

How to use: Grind the material into powder. Separate it into 10 parts. Drink it three times a day, one part each time.

(5). Teeth ache

How to use: drop clove oil onto teeth.

(6). Child diarrhea

Material: Clove, 2g; Rou Gui, 2g.

How to use: Grind the material into powder. Apply to naval.

Ginger

Common cold

Material: Fresh ginger, five pieces; brown sugar, 30g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(2). Common cold with heavy cough

Material: Fresh ginger, five pieces; pear, one.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(3).Common cold

Material: Fresh ginger juice.

How to use: Smear the ginger juice on front head until it feels warm on the front head. If there is fever, smear/rub the elbow and back neck.

(4). Common cold

Material: Fresh ginger, five pieces; garlic, four pieces; brown sugar, 30g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(5). Nausea

Material: Fresh ginger, 9 g; orange peel, 9g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(6). Nausea

Material: Fresh ginger juice; honey, two teaspoons.

How to use: Mix the material with 250 ml water. Drink all once.

(7). Diarrhea

Material: Fresh ginger, one; eggs, four.

How to use: Cut the ginger into small pieces. Add little cook oil in fry pot. Fry the eggs with the ginger. Eat the fried eggs. Then drink a cup of brown sugar water.

(8). Diarrhea

Material: Fresh ginger, 9g; green tea leaves, 9g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(9). Stomach pain

Material: Fresh ginger, 30g; egg, one; sesame oil, 30 ml.

How to use: Chop the ginger into small pieces. Mix it with egg (broken and remove the shell). Fry it with sesame oil. Eat the eggs. Repeat three times a day for several days.

(10). Stomach pain due to exposure to cold

Material: Fresh ginger, three pieces; white pepper powder, 5 g; brown sugar, 1.5g.

How to use: Add the material into hot water. Wait for 10 min. Drink the soup.

(11). Stomach pain due to exposure to cold

Material: Dried ginger, 9g; old orange peel, 9g; green onion, 12g; white pepper, 1.5g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(12). Lower stomach pain due to menstruation

Material: Fresh ginger, 15g; brown sugar, 30g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(13). Asthma

Material: Fresh ginger, 15g; chicken egg, one.

How to use: Fry the egg with chopped ginger. Eat the egg.

(14). Asthma

Material: Fresh ginger juice, 30g; honey, 65g.

How to use: Mix the material. Drink the mixture three times a day with the addition of boiled water (when it is cold little bit). This is one day dose.

(15). Chronic bronchitis

Material: Fresh ginger, seven pieces; white radish, 250g; brown sugar, 30g.

How to use: Add the material into water. Bring to boil for 30 min. Drink the soup.

(16). Chronic bronchitis

Material: Fresh ginger, one piece; honey, some.

How to use: Chop the ginger into mud. Mix with little honey. Add 30 to 50 ml hot water in it. Mix it and drink it. Repeat after each meal.

(17). Chronic bronchitis

Material: Fresh ginger, 60g; watermelon, a size of about 3500g.

How to use: Prepare this folk tip during hot summer seasons (June, July and August). Open the watermelon with a small hole. Add the ginger in it. Cover the hole. Steam the watermelon over water steam for two hours. Eat the watermelon as usual way.

(18). Urinary incontinence or wet bed  

Material: Ginger, one; liquor, 200 to 400 ml.

How to use: Chop the ginger into small pieces, add it into the liquor. Smear the ginger-liquor onto the lower stomach skin (beneath the naval) until the skin feels warm. Repeat for 5 to7 days.

(19). Poor digestion

Material: Fresh ginger and vinegar

How to use: Chop the ginger into small pieces, mix it with little bit vinegar. Drink it with help of warm water for swallow.

(20). Toxic reaction due to taking chemicals, drugs, some herbs, plants, toxic sea foods, etc.

Material: Fresh ginger.

How to use: chop the ginger into mud, or make the juice from ginger. Eat the ginger, or drink the juice.

(21). Hiccup

Material: Fresh ginger.

How to use: Make juice from ginger. Mix it with little bit honey. Drink the juice.

(22). Numb of hands or feet

Material: Fresh ginger, 60g; vinegar, 100 ml.

How to use: Mix the material, bring to boil for 10 to 20 min. Wash the affected hands or feet with the vinegar.

(23). Joint pain

Material: Fresh ginger, 9g; Green onion, 9g; hot pepper, 9g.

How to use: Add the material into noodle (or other food) to eat. It is better to feel sweat after eating. Repeat for 10 days, twice a day.

(24). Joint pain

Material: Fresh ginger juice.

How to use: Put gauze or cotton into the ginger juice. Dry it under the sun or in air. Put it into the juice to wet and dry it again. Repeat for several times and dry it again. Apply the dried ginger gauze onto the affected joints for about 1 to 2 cm in thick. Fold with gauze tap or other things similar. Keep for 10 days. It needs only about 10 days to see the release of the pain for mild arthritis, and it may need months for severe pain.

(25). Skin abscess or acne

Material: Fresh ginger, some; potato, equal amount.

How to use: Remove peel of the ginger and potato. Chop then grind into mud. Apply to the affected skin. Chang fresh prepared mud every day. Keep for 4 hours each time.

(26). Hair loss

How to use: Smear the head skin with fresh ginger (cut into pieces), twice a day, for several days.

(27). Ringworm in hands

Material: Fresh ginger, 250g; liquor, 500 ml.

How to use: Cut ginger into small pieces. Add it into liquor. Keep for three days. Smear the ginger liquor onto the affected hands.

(28). Bite by bee or other insect

How to use: Chop and grind ginger into mud/paste. Apply onto the bitten skin.

(29). Bite by dog or rat

How to use: Prepare fresh ginger juice 30 ml. Drink it. Also grind ginger and brown sugar into mud. Apply onto the affected skin.

(30). Roundworm in gall bladder

Material: Fresh ginger juice, 10 ml.

How to use: Mix the ginger juice with 20 ml water. Drink it. Repeat after one hour. If the pain is not released, repeat every four hours until the pain is released.  

(31). Obstruction due to roundworm

Material: Fresh ginger juice, 20 ml; honey, 60g.

How to use: Mix the ginger and honey. Drink quart part of it and repeat the same amount every half hour.

(32). Nausea during pregnancy

Material: Fresh ginger juice, 5 ml; honey, 10ml.

How to use: Mix the ginger juice and honey. Drink it with the help of drink water afterwards.

(33). Nausea during pregnancy

How to use: Hold one piece of fresh ginger under the tongue.

(34). Acute urinary retention

How to use: Cut fresh ginger into pieces. Apply two pieces into naval. Fold with medical tap.

(35). Drunk

Material: Fresh ginger, one to two pieces; honey, some.

How to use: Add ginger pieces and honey (or brown sugar) into hot water. Drink the ginger water after it is cooled down.

Pepper hot

Joint pain

How to use: Mix hot pepper powder with liquor (in summer, mix it with vinegar). Smear onto the affected joints.

(2). Frozen hands or feet

How to use: Add hot pepper into water. Bring to boil for 10 to 20 min. Wash the affected hands or feet with the pepper water.

(3). Migraine

How to use: Use hot pepper roots, ten stems. Add into water, bring to boil for 10 to 20 min. Mix with little bit brown sugar to drink.

(4). Functional heavy bleeding from uterus

How to use: Use hot pepper roots, 15 g. Chicken’s feet, four. Add the pepper roots and chicken’s feet into water. Bring to boil for 20 to 30 min. Drink the soup, twice a day. After stop of bleeding, you still need to continue for 5 to 10 days.

(5). Anus protrusion due to long time diarrhea

How to use: Prepare hot pepper seeds into powder. Drink the powder with the help of water, two to three times a day and 9 grams every time.

(6). Snake bite

How to use: Grind hot pepper into mud, apply it onto the bitten area. Eat fresh hot pepper at the same time.

(7). Clear bugs and mosquito

How to use: Close the door and windows of the house. Burn the dry hot pepper. (you can burn it with other dry grass or similar dry material, such paper).

Or you can add hot pepper into water. Bring to boil for 20to 30 min. Smear the water onto the affected wall or bed or similar material.

(8). Abscess

How to use: For unbroken abscess, grind fresh hot pepper into mud. Apply the pepper mud on to the skin. Seal with gauze and medicine tap. Keep for several hours. Replace when it is dry. If you feel itch, try to not scratch. If the abscess is broken, suction of the abscess with suction cups. Smear the pepper mud around the abscess open, but smear the dry pepper powder into the broken hole. Cover with gauze. It needs 4 to 5 days for heal.

(9). Armpit odor

How to use: Add hot pepper powder into Iodine. Smear the iodine onto the armpit. Repeat two to three times a day.

(10). Hair loss

How to use: Add hot pepper powder in liquor. Smear the pepper-liquor onto the affected skin. Repeat several times a day.

Alho

 Common cold

Material: Garlic, 15g; fresh ginger, 15g.

How to use: Cut the garlic and ginger into pieces. Add into 500 ml of water. Bring to boil until there is about 250 ml left. Drink it before going to bed, after add little bit brown sugar in. It is used for Cold-style common cold.

(2). Bronchitis

Material: Garlic, 250g; vinegar, 250 g; brown sugar, 90g.

How to use: Peel the garlic, grind to broken, add it in the vinegar (with brown sugar in it). Keep for one week. Add the garlic-vinegar (one teaspoon, or about 5 ml) into your daily diet to eat with the diet.

(3). Asthma

Material: Purple-skin garlic, 60g; brown sugar, 90g.

How to use: Add into 300 ml water. Bring to boil until the mixture turns into paste. Eat the garlic paste twice a day, one teaspoon each time.

(4). Chronic cough

Material: Garlic (purple skin, or single piece garlic), several; white sugar, some.

How to use: Add the garlic and sugar into boiled water. Keep for two days. Drink the extract three times a day, half teaspoon to one teaspoon each time.

(5). Tuberculosis

Material: purple skin garlic, 30g.

How to use: Add the garlic into water, bring to boil for 20 min. Collect the water. Add rice (30g) into the water. Bring to boil for 30 min until the rice is editable. Add the garlic back to the rice soup. Mix it well. Eat the soup twice a day. 100 to 150 ml each time.

(6). Stomach pain due to exposure to cold (weather or drink cold beverage)

Material: Garlic 1500g.

How to use: Add the garlic into a mixture of wine and vinegar (1:1, v/v). Keep for 10 days. Eat the garlic 3 to 5 pieces per day.

(7). Acute intestine infection

Material: Garlic, several pieces; vinegar, some.

How to use: Chop the garlic into mud. Add it into the vinegar. Eat the garlic-vinegar mixture. Swallow slowly (with or without other food).

(8). Bacterial diarrhea

How to use: Chop garlic into mud. Apply into naval and sole. Also eat some garlic, several pieces, 2 to 3 times a day.

(9). Bacterial diarrhea

How to use: Just eat garlic without any special preparation.

(10). Urinary retention

Material: Garlic, one; sanzhizi (herb), 6g; salt, 60g.

How to use: Grind all material into powder. Mix with water to prepare paste. Apply the paste into naval. Seal it with medical tap. Keep for several hours.

(11). Loss of consciousness due to fall or beaten

How to use: Prepare garlic juice. Drop the juice several drops in nose.

(12). Sour throat

How to use: grind garlic into mud. Apply to acupuncture point named Yu Ji (the big muscle close to the inside root of thumb. Fold with gauze and medicine tap. After several hours, the skin will have water blister. Protect the skin lesion with blister tap (you can get from London drug.).

(13). Ringworm on the head

How to use: Choose several single-piece garlic. Chop into mud. Mix it with sesame oil to make as paste or mud. Apply onto the affected skin. Change it every day.

This is also the way to treat skin abscess.

(14). Ringworm on the feet

How to use: Wash feet. Smear garlic (cut into half) on the affected skin. Repeat several days.

(15). Tooth decay

How to use: Clear the filling of the tooth decay. Apply garlic mud in.

(16). Nose bleeding

How to use: Apply garlic mud onto the sole. Seal with gauze and medicine tap. Keep overnight.