Home remedies What do you do in situations 1–4? 1 You’ve got toothache. 2 You’ve got a really bad pain in your back and you don’t know why. 3 You’ve got a temperature. 4 You feel tired and you have no energy. Do you: ■■ take a day off school? ■■ see a doctor or dentist? ■■ take some medicine? ■■ ask someone for advice? ■■ go to a pharmacy? ■■ do nothing / something else? Pictures A–D show different remedies. Can you match them with these problems? Example: Maybe onions can help stomach ache. 1 headache 2 toothache 3 a high temperature 4 stomach ache A B C D black toast with honey an onion a wet teabag salt water Read the blog entries to check your ideas. 9 Speaking 10 a b http://www.knowledge.com/homeremedies KNOWLEDGE.COM The world’s best advice site ... written by you. Monica, Canada monica_a@kmail.com Black toast with honey A friend of mine stayed in a hotel in India and the manager gave this to her for stomach ache. It really works. Just take a piece of bread and toast it until it’s black. Then put honey on the toast and eat it. You don’t really need the honey, but it makes it taste better. It doesn’t look good, but it can really help. So if you get stomach ache, try this remedy. Norma, USA norma_u@kmail.com An onion If you get a high temperature, use an onion. It sounds strange, but it helps. Cut one large onion in half and tie half an onion to the bottom of each of your feet. You shouldn’t wear socks of course, just bare feet! I use this on my kids and it works every time. The remedy came from a relative from down south. Heli, Finland heli_f@kmail.com A wet teabag Here are my tips for toothache. You should put a wet teabag on the sore tooth. I always have a wet teabag in the fridge so it’s there when I need it. Another idea: take a garlic clove and put it on the tooth. Both these ideas help me nine times out of ten. But if they don’t work for you, you should go to a dentist. Lameed, Egypt lameed_e@kmail.com Salt water When I was a child, I got a lot of headaches and my grandmother always did this for me. Put a few drops of warm salt water in your ears. Don’t use really hot water. Do this three or four times for both ears. Then lie down and close your eyes for about ten minutes. 122 Language skills Extras Explore 10 Are you OK? Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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