Cough and Flue Recipe (Tincture)

Tincture of Garlic or Onion (good basic recipe for flue, colds, coughs, asthma etc.) (c) 2005-9
Tincture Recipe (Three step...easy!)
Syrup of Onion (or garlic)
1. 1 pound of Organic Onion or, 1 lb. of minced or chopped garlic cloves Equal parts apple cider vinegar and distilled water sufficient to cover the garlic (*Onion which is weaker in flavor) Get a garlic press they are great.
2. 1 pt. Vegetable Glycerine if stored longer...added at the very end. (You could use stick a cinnamon (cloves) stick when storing it. Also, you can use grain alcohol or vinegar and honey in making of tinctures) I do not store mine a long time so I just use Bragg’s Apple cider Vinegar.
Tips: (You can add lemon juice, ginger, cinnamon, clove and parsley to help with the odor if too offensive.) Add the parsley before adding the honey etc. Then, throw it away or chop some of it in a concoction after straining in stainless steel or Tupperware plastic strainer. Their holes are smaller. Strain again through good quality paper towels or muslin i e. This is very slow, but effective. The point is to get the onion or garlic herbals strained before adding the glycerine or if you are going to use the honey.

1. 3 lbs pure honey (add last so not to kill its properties)
Place the garlic into a wide mouth jar, cover with the vinegar and water; close, shake well together; allow to stand in a cool place for 4 days, macerating (shaking thoroughly) 1-2 times daily; add the glycerine, shake and allow to stand another day; strain with pressure. Filter through muslin or thin linen cloth; then add honey stirring until thoroughly mixed; Seal the jar tightly and keep in a cool place. Dosage: 1 teaspoon - 1 Tablespoon for 3-4 times daily between meals.
Uses: Asthma, bronchitis, catarrhal conditions, phthisis, tuberculosis, coughs, dyspnea, heart weakness, internal ulceration and so much more but this gives you the idea. Look up properties of Garlic.
(Their are ways to take the garlic pungent odor out. Work with the vinegar first with caraway, cloves, fennel seeds, cinnamon stick is storage container, macerate, strain, then add the glycerine.) Actually, the glycerin or honey-vinegar dilute the odors, and is not offensive.
Tip: I like to add a carrier herb (catalyst), like lobelia, a very intelligent herb, which knows what to do and assist other herbs where to go. The lobelia tincture or use strained ginger root (also is a catalyst), too, (and so is cayenne). These are all optional. Catalyst herbs move herbs quickly through the body and good carriers of other herbs. A good herbal formula has a catalyst in its composition. Memorize these three if you do formulas for your family.
Tip:*An onion cut in half left in a sick room will absorb the germs of the illness. You can start with crisping the chopped onion in the oven and sub the glycerin with vinegar and honey
*Remember in during the flu or illnesses to use the semi-fast or mild foods, in other words, only “milder foods” meaning just plant-based diet when sick. Keep bowels running (Re: colon herbals) and, watch the liver, such Marshmallow herb other herbal listed in blog that will work on the liver. Do not clog up the pipes such as the colon and stomach in assisting the body in its “elimination” process.
*Dr. John R. Christopher School of Natural Healing has made up a similar formula to the one above. I was taught and still have my lesson from this teacher. His son owns the company now and may have discontinued the product. Check, it out they has a web site I have referred to on the side. He still has his book on the market and its basic to have in any good library.
Other remedies for Flu or Cold
Use a Enema or Laxative
Approx. 1000 mg vitamin C, ascorbic acid, each hour with full class of water.
No Food or Semi-Fast mild food listed in this blogs
Tonic teas: such as, Comfrey, Red Clover Blossom, Alfalfa Mint, and Horse Tail, (The liver or blood cleaning herbals) etc.
Chest Cold, use lung herbs such as Mullein, Lobelia etc. Also Vapor and Mustard Plaster

Add: If you can,Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) every hour with a full glass of water. Garlic, Onion (Natural "sulfur's"),Vitamin C, Honey, and AC Vinegar are all anti-fungals needed to kill the bugs.

Be sure to store the excess in a cool place and in dark bottles. Light leeches out properties.

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