15 Home Remedies Your Lebanese Grandparents Have Prescribed

You’ll be amazed to see that some of these remedies actually work! We love our Lebanese grandparents.

1. For swollen/aching joints:

Heat honey and apply it to the affected area, and cover it with a piece of pita bread (no joke).

2. For cold sores:

Debs rimmen! Apply to cold sore and tear up.

3. For respiratory issues:

Tehbeele, or boiled quina leaves. Inhale the vapor and feel better.

4. For toothaches:

Kebsh kronfol (cloves).

5. For stomachaches:

Soak a bread in Arak and put it on your stomach.

6. For bumps on your head:

Place a piece of soaked bread on your head and it’ll “absorb” the swelling.

7. For growing out eyebrows:

Castor oil.

8. For sunburns:

Laban.

9. For burns:

Toothpaste.

10. For earaches:

Warm olive oil, right in there.

11. For eye problems:

Dip a cotton ball in scorching hot black tea and put it over your eye.

12. For inflamed joints:

Wrap the joint in a piece of lettuce.

13. To avoid getting sick:

Swallow a whole clove of garlic.

14. For warts:

Apply a fresh FIG.

15. For anything, including heart failure:

Panadol always and forever.

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