A DASH OF VINEGAR.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19904, 5 June 1936, Page 5

A DASH OF VINEGAR.

ITS MANIFOLD USES. Vinegar, which is chiefly acetic acid, can help you in many little health dimculties. For hiccups, for instance, twenty to thirty drops of vinegar taken on a lump or sugar will usually efl‘ect relief. ’l‘hen, should you require a. cooling solution for bathing the skin during a feverish attack, or to relieve the itching and irritation or some skin rompluinl, you need look no further than a diluted solution 01' Vinegar and water. You can apply it with bencilt to a bruise oi' sprain, or iu an inilameil .ioini. .\pply on gauze and leave uri—l'landagci‘i so that: it Can cmporaie. Again. Vinegar will come in your :issisianr‘e when you have a "heart" Tie a towel moistened with a liiile vinegar and water round the forehead and lie down in a. darkened room. Should you suffer from warts, you may cure them by applying to them a piece of lemon peel, previously soaked for some hours in white wine vinegar. A relaxed throat can be eased by gargling with warm water containing one—sixth part of vinegar, and a slight tickling cough will soon be dispersed by a cough mixture prepared from one part white wine vinegar. one part water, and five parts purified honey. 'i‘hn (lose is half to two teaspoons. Fli‘Pnl‘llinK in (11-ICE if You suffer from gout, ilVflitl Vinegar. amt rlun‘i inke ii in rurr‘ himsiiy. it is inr‘t‘fm‘tiiai in ihis man unless so much is taken that ii will harm the liigc‘siion. i ‘ ____——__