Homemade remedies are our mothers' and grandmothers' specialty. We always make fun of their cure for sickness, but we all know they work more than half the time. I bet you've had some of these 14 homemade remedies tried on you the last time you got sick:
1. Dipping a cotton swab in tea when your eyes hurt
Whether you have pinkeye or just bags under your eyes, tea is always the answer.
2. Drinking a pot of tea to banish the stomach ache
With a labneh sandwich ... yum!
3. Mixed in with some honey and lemon for your sore throat
Sometimes just a tablespoon of honey on its own works.
4. Rubbing some olive oil on a sprained ankle
Heat some olive oil in a pan and rub it on that ankle.
5. Or wrapping your sprained ankle in a black sock
What?
6. Rubbing olive oil on your forehead to cure that headache
Olive oil is the answer to everything, isn't it?
7. Placing a wet wrap dipped in vinegar/alcohol on where it hurts
And get ready to smell so bad.
8. Telling you to sneak a hot shower in because that's all you really need
When all you want to do it sit on the couch and be served hot drinks and soup.
9. Gargling with 'may wa meleh'
Or sometimes with vinegar and salt.
10. Boiling some ginger with lemon slices
11. Eating a tablespoon of tahini to get rid of that cough
Which results in a bit of gagging from here and a little vomit from there.
12. Burning a cotton swab only to be shoved in your ear
This one really works like magic.
13. Putting some laban on where it burns
With summer coming up, get ready to hear about this remedy all the more often.