Home Remedies for Rheumatism
1. Serving asparagus as the chief article of diet and avoiding all acids in food or drink, will effect great relief in a few days. This plant, the Jerusalem artichoke, etc., all naturally growing near the sea, contains iodine, a rheumatic specific.
2. Celery also, boiled in milk or water and eaten, with milk or, water served as a beverage, is very helpful in the same disease. Eaten in any form it will be found healthful. In Germany they boil the root and stalks, and then eat it as a salad with oil and vinegar.
3. Take 6 large onions to a pint of molasses, steep until a thick syrup is formed. Take every two or three hours. Persevere and success will follow.
4. A tea of burdock roots, or burdock leaves, may be taken at the same time with good effect.
5. For an outward application, a flannel bag filled with arnica blossoms, and heated in a steamer, may be applied to the spot.
6. 1 part oil of peppermint and 2 parts of alcohol. Apply to the affected parts. The relief is almost instantaneous. Shake well, and keep the bottle closely corked.
--1 to 6 from the 20th Century Cookbook--