Old Home Remedies

With Reflexologist Nuria Weaver

Home Remedies for Fever

Fever is a situation when the body temperature rises above the normal standard. There are different factors that lead to fever out of which cough and cold, tiredness, infections, tension and worries are most common.

In children fever is commonly due to viral infections. Sometimes children develop higher temperature during playing activities but this is not fever as their set-point is normal. During a fever elderly patients may have a decreased capability of generating body heat. So a low grade fever may also have serious underlying causes.

In women temperature differs in the menstrual cycle at various points. This should not be mistaken as fever. It is also observed that temperature rises after meals and psychological factors like first day in the hospital also causes rise in body temperature. Sometimes fever is useful as they allow the body temperature to rise. This brings an unbearable environment for certain pathogens. White blood cells also reproduce due to favorable environment and help to fight off the microbes and the pathogens that invaded the body.

Home remedies for fever are as follows:

Take 3 to 4 black peppercorns and 7 to 8 tulsi leaves. Chew them together. These herbs have good properties to relieve fever. This is one of the efficient homer remedies for fever.
Make a tea of tulsi leaves and drink it 3 to 4 times a day. The next day your fever will go down. This is also one of the successful home remedies for fever.
In a teaspoonful of honey add 2 to 3 drops of ginger juice. Drink this juice to reduce the fever. This is one of the positive home remedies for fever.
In your regular tea add 2 big cardamoms, half teaspoonful of cinnamon powder and 2 teaspoonful of ginger powder. Boil all this ingredients and drink the tea to fight fever. This is one of the efficient home remedies for fever.
Drink plenty of water in the day time. It is needed to fill the lost water content in the body. Your drinking water must be boiled and not filtered through water purification systems. This is a good fever cure.
Drink glassful of milk. It is better to have frothy milk.
Have a teaspoonful of Triphala choorna in the night before sleeping. Choorna has good antipyretic properties. This is also one of the best home remedies for fever.
Perspiration remedy is a recommended therapy in normal fevers. It works wonders. Sleep under a warm blanket at night. You will sweat and feel warm. Do not remove the blanket and allow it the body to sweat as much as it can. Also drink plenty of water at night. You will find that temperature is back to normal in the morning and fever is gone. Sweat takes away the toxins inside the body. The more you sweat he faster is the cure.
In a bowl pour 2 cups of lukewarm water and add 4 or 5 caps full of vinegar. Soak towel or washed cloth in the mixture. Now wrap the cloths around your lower legs. You will find that fever vanishes after some time. This is one of the beneficial home remedies for fever.
Peel some potatoes and cut them into slices. Lie down on your bed and put them on your chest stomach, forehead and wherever you want. This remedy will bring down your temperature and one of the useful home remedies for fever.
Add 2 tablespoon of olive oil in 2 large crushed garlic cloves. Warm this mixture and apply under the sole of each foot. Wrap your foot with a plastic. Let it work for the whole night till you feel fever is gone. The garlic has properties to penetrate into skin and fight off bacteria and viral infections. This is also one of the advantageous home remedies for fever.
Apply peanut butter over your neck and forehead. Then soak a towel in milk until it is dripping wet. Lie down with the towel over your face. Close your eyes and try to breathe in the milky smell. Do this till the milk dries up or your fever goes down. Wash the milk and peanut butter form your face. This is one of the favorable home remedies for fever.
Boil some water and add honey, lemon and sugar. Drink this on regular basis.
On each bare foot tie half onion. This will help to bring down the fever. This is a very good home remedy for fever.
Cover your body with clothes. Take hot water in a bucket and put your feet in the water for 20 minutes. You will start sweating. This is fight off fever.
Apply a mixture of olive oil and lime over your whole body from head to toe. This is one of the helpful home remedies for fever. You will find it really working.
Crush and powder 10 grams of ginger and raisins. Boil them in 200 ml of water till the original content is reduced to 50 ml. Filter and drink this solution when warm.
Prepare a tea of fenugreek seeds. Drink this twice a day. It is a soothing and cleansing drink and helps to dissolve mucus.
In 30 ml of boiling water add half a teaspoon of saffron. Take this tea every hour till the temperature become normal.

Diet:

Avoid anything that is spicy and oily. Constipation must be avoided at any cost. Drink fresh juice of apricots and grape fruit. Eat lots of green vegetables and fruits to combat fever.

Try these fever remedies which you can easily follow from the comfort of your home. Follow the diet as it is vital for fever.