HERB - Soothers for children

[Katherine Blackthorne]

>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.

Sorry.

>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.

Sugar ruins the taste of it all!  Ick!  I had a friend in college who
insisted on putting sugar in the pot when she made tea.  I had to find
polite ways not to drink it with her.

Glad to know there's a *reason*.  If you find it, let me know!

--Katherine


>----- 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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