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Home remedies are treatments to cure a disease or ailment that employ certain spices, vegetables, or other common items. Home remedies may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are typically passed along by laypersons (which has been facilitated in recent years by the Internet). Many are merely used as a result of tradition or habit or because they are effective in inducing the placebo effect. A significant number, however, have been demonstrated to effectively treat ailments such as sprains, minor lacerations, headaches, fevers, and even the common cold.[1]

One of the more popular examples of a home remedy is the use of chicken soup to treat respiratory infections such as a cold or mild flu, and according to one in vitro study, there may be benefit from this use.[2] Other examples of medically successful home remedies include willow bark tea to cure headaches and fevers (willow bark contains salicyclic acid, which is chemically similar to Wikipedia:acetylsalicylic acid, also known as aspirin); Wikipedia:duct tape to help with setting broken bones; and duct tape or superglue to treat Wikipedia:plantar warts; and Wikipedia:Kogel mogel to treat sore throat.

In earlier times, mothers were entrusted with all but serious remedies. Historic Wikipedia:cookbooks are frequently full of remedies for Wikipedia:dyspepsia, fevers, and female complaints.[3]

Many European Wikipedia:liqueurs or Wikipedia:digestifs were originally medicinal remedies. In Chinese folk medicine, medicinal Wikipedia:congees (long cooked rice soups with herbs), foods, and soups are part of the healing repertoire.[4]

A common error is to confuse home remedies with homeopathic remedies. In fact, the two concepts are unrelated.

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  1. ↑ Acharya, Deepak and Shrivastava Anshu (2008): Indigenous Herbal Medicines: Tribal Formulations and Traditional Herbal Practices, Aavishkar Publishers Distributor, Jaipur- India. ISBN 978-81-7910-252-7. pp 440
  2. ↑ B. O., (2000). "Chicken Soup Inhibits Neutrophil Chemotaxis in Vitro," Chest, 118, 1150–7.
  3. ↑ Catherine Esther Beecher Mrs. Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper 1874. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
  4. ↑ Prince Wen Hui's Cook Bob Flaws and Honora Wolf 1985
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