Home remedies · Mouth, teeth, eyes & feet
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Ten to fifteen minutes in hand-warm water, then dry thoroughly, especially between the toes.
Warm water relaxes the foot muscles and widens the vessels; drying between the toes prevents fungus.
It treats neither athlete’s foot nor an ingrown nail.
With diabetes check the temperature with the elbow, never above 37 degrees, not longer than ten minutes, and look at the feet afterwards — wounds there often go unfelt.
To the doctor or dentist: facial swelling with fever, toothache with trouble opening the mouth, a knocked-out tooth — that is an emergency with a short window. For the eye: sudden loss of vision, severe pain, flashes of light. Sore places in the mouth lasting beyond three weeks.