Granny Therapy

Mucus is the thick and sticky fluid that occasionally clogs up your nasal passages and even your throat. While mucus in the nasal passages is easier to flush out, the mucus in the throat tends to get stuck, causing much irritation.

Causes:

• Common cold (viral respiratory infection)
• Sinusitis (inflammation or infection of the sinuses)
• Bacterial infections
• Asthma

Symptoms:

• Coughing up clear, yellow, light brown, or green mucus
• Sneezing,
• Sore throat
• Fever

Diagnosis:

• Take limited cool drinks and cooling sensible food.
• Avoid smoking and drinking alcohol.
• Get advice from your doctor.

Ingredients:

1. Love lies bleeding leaves.

Natural Remedies:

• Leaves – raw or cooked as a spinach or added to soups etc. The mild flavored leaves are rich in vitamins and minerals. Seed – cooked. Very small but easy to harvest and very nutritious, individual plants can bear up to 100, 000 seeds. The seed is very nutritious and contains 13 – 18% of a very high quality protein that is rich in the amino acid lysine. It also contains good quantities of calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, zinc, vitamin E and the vitamin B complex. A red food colouring called ‘betalaina’ is obtained from red cultivars.

Take love lies bleeding leaves with your food often.