Tips from the Grandmothers

• For chest congestion and cough:

Take half a red onion and cut into quarters
Boil it with cinnamon, half a lime and honey

This acts as an expectorant. It will make you cough even more, but you will be coughing up all the phlegm that is in your chest. You will feel much better but you must drink it again in about eight hours.

It doesn't taste at all like onion. It tastes like cinnamon and honey

• For fever:

Strong ginger tea. It will make you sweat the fever out.

• For sore throat:

Slice a tomato. Sprinkle salt on the slices and place them on your throat. This will suck the infection out of your throat.

• For baby's sick tummy

Boil rice. Feed your baby the water from that rice. It settles their stomach.