HERB - Soothers for children

[Lynette K LaFontaine]

These are wonderful suggestions Jeanne.  Might I add fennel tea for colicky
babies.  It works wonders given in their bottle.  I first discovered this
when I was living In Germany in the early "80's.  They still  used many of
these old "grandmother ways" .  I wish I had known about this when I had my
baby.   The only tricks I knew about then were awful;  like giving your baby
whiskey for everything from colic and teething, to hiccups.
I agree about the sugar.   People thought I was nuts when I complained that
peppermint that was sweetened make me nauseous rather than help nausea.
Then I read an explanation some where.  Sorry I don't remember what it said
or were I read it.  However it did support  leaving out sugar.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Bjmikita at aol.com>
To: <herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:49 PM
Subject: HERB - Soothers for children


> This is what I use,
> Peppermint tea.
> Chamomile tea.  I'm pretty careful with this since my oldest is allergic
to
> ragweed.
> make a tiny lavender pillow to pin or whip stitch to the inside of the
> child's pillow case.
> something that works for diarrea, or just an upset stomach....blackberry
tea.
>
> On any of these teas make sure you are using real flavor and not
artifical.
> The blackberry works better the less sugar you use.  For some reason the
> sugar seems to cut down on the effectiveness for stopping diarrea.  I had
> some blackberry preserves that I had messed up with hardy any sugar and I
> started adding that to the tea.  That stuff is good!
> Jeanne de la Mer
>
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