Home Remedy For Fever
Some tips to deal with fever :
- When you are suffering from fever, dress in lightweight clothing to allow heat loss through the skin. Avoid using socks, slippers, or a hat because heat escapes through the head and feet.
- Use a lightweight blanket if you feel cold or if you are shivering, but leave the feet exposed.
- It is always advisable to keep quiet and lie in your bed, since activity increases body temperature.
- Drink lots of water and fruit juices. Your body needs extra fluids to prevent dehydration.
- Prefer liquid food over solid food. Eat foods that are easily digestible. Completely avoid heavy foods like fast food, chicken, fish, raw foods and fried foods.
- Take complete rest. Take cool baths. Children should also be given cool baths instead of aspirin. Avoid exercises and sudden temperature change.
If you have a fever that just won’t break, try the following remedies :
- Take a cloth, dip it in cool water and place on the forehead. Keep some cloth pieces handy. Change the cloth every 5 minutes. It will absorb the body heat.
- Take a raw onion, peeled and sliced, and place the slices in the bottom part of your socks, such that they will touch the soles of your feet. Put on the socks before you go to bed and sleep with them on your feet. When you get up in the morning, your fever will have reduced considerably.
- Garlic will also help in bringing the fever down. Put some fresh cloves of garlic into a blender to make a paste that will spread about 1/4″ thick on gauze. Put a little olive oil on the feet so the garlic will not irritate them. Apply the garlic pads to the soles of both feet and keep them in place by wrapping with gauze. Don’t cover the soles of the feet entirely so that heat can escape. Leave the pads overnight.
- To reduce fever, try rubbing alcohol on the insides of elbows and back of knees and on the forehead and neck. This will bring the fever down.
- Finely grate an apple and spread it 1/2 inch thick on a piece of double-layered cheesecloth about 6 inches in length. Apply this over the forehead. Make a similar poultice for the throat area or chest if necessary. Leave on for one hour.
- Crush 10 grams of raisins and ginger. Boil them in 200 ml of water till it reduces to 50 ml. Strain and drink this solution warm.
- To immediately reduce high body temperature, boil powder of 2 to 3 tsp dry roasted fenugreek seeds. Strain the water and add a drop of ghee to it and drink. Drink juice made out of sweet basil leaves twice or thrice a day.