Home remedies

Home remedies:
1. Fractures (hands/feet): they would boil some olive oil and massage with it while warm.
2. Head wound: they would either use olive oil from the cauldron on the wound or dry faeces of a donkey. 
3. Bee, wasp or ant bite: they would apply vinegar.
4. Wounds: they would use basil or green pepper leaves with honey on the wound.
5. Eye sores: they would wash the eyes with carbolic soap and then rinse them with rose water.
6. Diarrhoea: they would eat boiled rice with plenty of lemon juice.
7. Common cold: they would drink warm eucalyptus water and use cupping. 
8. Fever: they would either put potatoes on the forehead or use compresses with water and vinegar.
9. Whooping cough: they used to drink milk of a female donkey that had just given birth.
10. Headache, rheumatic pains, arthritis: they would "arrange" for a bee to sting them where the pain was.
11. Kidney pain: they would drink a chamomile-lillitirka (wild green), spearmint and sage tea.
12. Baby rashes were treated with dry, crushed leaves of common myrtle used as baby powder.
13. Pain of the ribs: they used to rub them with boiled olive oil.
14. Ear pain: they would use olive oil and crushed garlic as drops.
15. Dog bite: the wound was squeezed and pounded with a board. Then, they would apply sea salt and a bandage.
16. Stepping on a nail: they would pound the wound with a board until blood would come out and then they would apply boiled salt water mixed with coffee.
17. Tongue pain, blisters in the mouth: they would eat bee honey for 2-3 days in the morning and gargle with boiling water.
18. For arthritis: they would eat watermelon, garlic, celery, oranges, okra, melons and drink spearmint tea.
19. Pharyngitis: they used to drink leek juice on an empty stomach.
20. Stiffness-cramps: they would massage the body part with pine cones' extract.
21. Asthma: they used to drink hot tea of oregano, parsley, rosemary, marjoram, garlic and lavender.
22. Ear pain, deafness: they used to put in the ear pounded bay leaves, pounded parsley with olive oil, pounded cooked onion, 
pounded marjoram, pounded rosemary.
23. Diuretic-aphrodisiacs: they used to eat fresh capers, dry coriander tea and cinnamon tea.
24. Cough: they would eat lettuce, drink spearmint tea, mallow, orange leaf tea.
25. Bronchitis: they used to drink tea from pine cones, eucalyptus and savory.
26. Women who had just delivered used to drink wine and basil tea and eat onions and carrots to produce milk.
27.Diuretics: they would eat watermelon, artichokes, melon, carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, onions and drink anise, chamomile and parsley tea.
28. Foods for energy: peas, green beans and spinach.
29. Constipation: they would drink tomato juice and eat melons.
30. Burns: they used to apply pounded potatoes and onions and boiled lettuce
31. Sunburns: they would wash the area with elderflower tea.
32. Jaundice: they would drink tea made from kermes oak, parsley, celery and rosemary.
33. Purifying the blood: they would eat watermelon, artichoke, carrots, lemon, and elderflower.
34. Feet/nail fungus: they would grind bitter almonds into powder and apply 2-3 times, in the morning and at night.
35. Anti-cancerous: all green vegetables.
36. Itching: they would rub mallow and artichoke leaves on the area.
37. Hiccups: they would drink spearmint tea.
38. Dizziness: they would drink beetroot juice, lemon juice and red pepper soup.
39. Prostate: they would drink pomegranate juice and eat okra, parsley, mint, zucchini, beef liver and drink celery tea.
40. Kidney stones: they would drink tea made from xinittá (wild green) tips and seeds.
41. Dandruff: they would wash their hair with beetroot juice 3-4 times a day.
42. To stop sexual activity: they would drink salt tea.
43. Angina: they would drink tea made from slices of radish and gargle with strawberry juice.
44. Chilblains in hands/feet: they would boil celery and take a footbath.
45. Gall bladder pain:,they would drink tea made with flaxseed, rosemary, spearmint and carrots.
46. Cuts: they would apply coffee to the wound.
47. Stye: they would place fresh hen's faeces on the eye.
48. Pimple/funucle: they would apply honey and pepper leaves.
49. Bruises: they would apply onion leaves with olive oil.
50. Rheumatism: they would rub tomato juice, xinittá tea, spearmint, savory, rosemary and grated garlic. (Loizou, 1999).