FOR THE HEALTH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 4

FOR THE HEALTH

USEFUL HINTS. . Keep a solution of perchloride of iron in your medicine chest. It is excellent for checking bleeding from small cuts and abrasions. Sulphur baths are helpful for many skin troubles and for rheumatic complaints. For a bath add sulphurated potash in the proportions of Joz to each gallon of warm water. Every housewife should know how to make a starch poultice. No ointment will avail any very troublesome skin complaint unless .starch poultices have first been used, or warm and repeated applications of olive oil. To four tablespoonfuls of rice starch mixed with cold water add one pint of boiling water, and boil the mixture until it thickens. When nearly eold pour on to a dressing cloth to form a layer Ain thick. When cold and set to a jelly, cover with a layer of gauze and apply to the affected part. To render the starch poultice antiseptic add boric acid, or, better still, 10 grains of acriflavins to the rice starch. A pleasant cleanser for nostrils can be made from one teaspoonful of borax, one teaspoonfuls of salt and two teaspoonfuls of sugar. Mix well and add one teaspoonful of the mixture to half a pint of warm water. Sniff up the nostrils gently. Bran biscuits are useful for sluggish intestines. Ipecacuanha wine is a sheet anchor for the light bronchial cough. The average man consumes daily from four to five times the quantity of food required for his health and efficiency. We wear down the body through mental and physical activity; our feedings should be in exact proportion to the amount of phy sical and mental energy expended daily.