My grandmother's secrets

The chamomile flowers potion is good for adding to bathes. In case of rheumatism or gout it help to relief the pain.

The use is relative simple. Before all need to make the potion. For it take 1/2 kg (in case of full bath) of the chamomile flowers, fill out cold water, close with lid and boil about 10 minutes. After add to bath.

Such bath is good for skin diseases, relief spasms and convulsions, good in case of neuroses. Kids after such bath will sleep .

My grandma all the creams she use made by own hands. She always experimented, putting components together. So there are many variants. Here is one, healing and tone up at once.

Take 50 gram butter and 2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil, melt down it use bain-marie. Add 2 egg's yellow and 2 tablespoons of honey, carefully mix, add half tablespoon of glycerine, 30 ml of camphor tincture and about 50 ml of chamomile flowers potion.

Mix carefully until it become soft viscous mass, store in glass jar with good lid.

This cream is good for face and hand skin.

I know one more use a chamomile flowers, as poultice made from them. 2-3 tablespoons of chamomile flowers fill out with 2-3 tablespoons of hot boiled water. Resulting gruel put on gauze and place over sick area.

Good for reumatism, sick joins, bruises, edema.

The chamomile flowers potion is also great for relief respiratory illness. Just try this inhalation.

I make it for my son that earlier has relative often sick throat. Now it's okay but maybe this recipe will be useful for somebody.

Take 400 ml water and boil it, add 1 tablespoon of chamomile flowers, 1 tablespoon honey, and 1 tablespoon baked soda. A patient have to breath (carefully!) over boiled water, wrap in towel about 10-15 minutes (kids no more 5 minutes). Do it 1-2 times/day.

This recipe help with astma, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, flu, bronchitis, tracheitis etc.

The chamomile flowers potion can help in case slowly healed injury. Make strong chamomile potion and rinse incjuty properly. It disinfect injury, take down pain, and after few days you notice improvement in healing.

I help this way once my neighbor with bad injury, so can say it work really.

If you feel you catch cold, you can use the chamomile flowers potion prepared such way: take a 2 tablespoons of chamomile flowers and fill 500 ml cold water (it will be your day portion), keep glass with your chamomile mix over boiled water about 20 minutes, get off and when it get cold filter it. Sip slowly and gargle all day.

Must say, I like to have (and eat!) various home made jams. Peach, apricot, blackberry, strawberry (yummy!), cherries, pears, some mixes with apples... There are only few I like the most. My son definitely love it too, this is really nice open a own glass with strawberries for example and eat it with hot tea!

For everyone who know this feeling and love home jams, I want to share one small tip. When you make your jam, just after it become boil, add to your jam lemon juice. Yes, you heard right, the lemon juice. For say 5 pounds of jam I take one fresh lemon and just press juice out.

Why? Easy! Your jam will be colorful! Because jam color become dark just after jam boil, adding the lemon juice prevent jam be dark. Try it!