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Home Remedies for Common Fever

Fever is a defensive mechanism in the body. It depends on climate, temperature, amount of exercise and intake of food. When the body temperature rises above the normal range (98° A F) and there is heat all over the body, it is called fever. Fever owes its origin to a particular cause or multiple causes and nomeclation of each type of fever has been made on the basis of the causes which trigger it. There can be no fever in the absence of any cause, and fever is simply an effect of a cause or set of causes.

Fever is a necessity too. We have heard many elder people tell us of some people, who never had any sickness in their lives, but when got sick, to such terrible extent, that they could not survive and died.

One plausible reason for such happenings, would be that a person whom fever visits now and then, has his body purged of its ailment in the body, removed by the puritive action of frequent fevers, but the man, who never had any fever, or so, the foreign matter in his body goes on accumulating without its oxidation and removal by fever. Hence to such a man, when fever comes, it comes with violence, rather to purify the heavy lot of accumulated matter, which causes him his life sometimes.

A fever is the Nature’s self-cleansing action to cure the body of its accumulated poisons, wastes and toxic materials, purging them by oxidising with the heat of the fever. Thus it is advisable to let Nature run its own course of treatment. Medical science prevents it by giving medicine to cure it. The better way, rather, is to assist Nature in its purification task of the body, by rendering such aids as baths and packs, to make the Nature’s course run faster.

The fever is due to toxins present in the body. The incorrect food habits, fluids intake, irregular intake, Pungent foods, cold things may precipitate. Polluted foods, polluted air, and polluted water may also cause this fever.

Herbal Home Remedies for Common Fever

Herbal Home Remedies for Common Fever #1

Steep 1 teaspoon of catnip in 1 cup boiling water for 10 minutes. Strain and add the tea to 1 cup of cherry juice. Catnip has been used since antiquity to reduce fever by causing the patient to perspire.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #2

This is another way to use pepper to bring down a fever fast. Soak several pods of cayenne pepper in 1 cup of hot water for 30 minutes. After straining, add about ¼ cup of sugar. Add the juice of 2 oranges and drink hot. This works very well. I know; because I have used this for years.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #3

Tea prepared from Lemon Balm leaves will lower body’s temperature.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #4

General fever-due to heat/cold is being prescribed for to encourage sweating. Drop (1 %) dilution of oils (4-5 drops) like Lavender or Tea Tree, Cypress, Chamomile into Vegetable oil (mustard, coconut) and massage over chest and back. To make it still stronger, add 5 drops of Lavender, Peppermint or Eucalyptus to the above oils and gently massage over chest, back, neck, nose, throat. Pour 2 cups boiling water over 2 tablespoons of dried feverfew flowers. Let steep until cool. Strain and reheat. Drink hot; sweeten with honey or sugar.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #5

Decoction of hanging roots of banyan tree mixed with ghee alleviates burning sensation in fevers.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #6

Take juice of grapes and amla-it acts as a laxative and alleviates fever. In case of excessive thirst or burning sensation in fever, take decoction of grapes. To combat dryness and get back the normal taste, keep paste of crystal sugar, grapes and pomegranate in the mouth and swallow the juice. To keep the tongue moist and smooth, apply the paste that has been made by pounding grapes, honey and ghee.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #7

Take 2 tablespoons of elder flowers or white yarrow and add 2 tablespoons of peppermint leaves. Simmer the leaves in 2 cups of water for 30 minutes. Strain and drink by the ½ cupful during the day, as long as fever is present.

Home Remedies for Chronic Fever #8

Boil Cumin seeds in (Cow’s) milk and grind when dried. 3-4 gms of this powder may be taken with sugar-candy (Mishri) twice daily regularly, to cure chronic fever; or take cumin seeds/ powder (1/2 TSP of) with jaggery (Gur) twice a day for three weeks, without any break, for the same purpose.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #9

Thirst during fevers can be controlled with a Custard Apple drink made out of the creamy sweet pu1p along with water or milk. Growing children and lactating mothers can take the pulp along with honey and jaggery as a nutritive tonic.

Home Remedies for Common Fever #10

During fevers, grape juice increases the urinary output and eliminates toxins.