We have so many aisles of medications in our country today that home remedies may be a vanishing art. So many over-the-counter products boast that they can cure what ails us, not to mention the almost infinite number of prescription medicines that our doctors may commend to us for our good.
An older generation, however, remembers the homemade treatments and concoctions that were handed down from Grandma. It was hard to trace the science behind such traditional home remedies, but they had the credibility of years, experience, common sense, and love.
Sometimes our treatments — whether Grandma’s or the pharmacist’s — are quite distasteful. And, as children, we may have pursed our lips and turned up our noses, in need of persuasion that this curdled spoonful was really ultimately good. Like…