Ancient Home Remedy for Colds and Flu - Made with 1, 2, or 3 Simple Ingredients

Today I want to share with you an

ancient

natural

remedy

that is excellent for getting rid of a cold or flu. Hello dear friends, I'm Mary and welcome to Mary's nest where I teach traditional cooking skills for preparing nutrient-dense foods like bone broth, fermenting sourdough and more, if you like learning about those things, consider subscribing to my channel and Don't forget to click the little notification bell below that will alert you every time I upload a new video. Well, this is a very easy

remedy

to make and there are three variations and I'll show you all three, but the base of all three is just a

simple

onion and like I said, this is an

ancient

remedy that dates back to Roman times and such. time even before the onion was actually revered in ancient times.

This remedy was used when people were not feeling well and they even hung onions in the room where the sick person was because they believed that the onion would cure the person's illness and today we know that this makes a lot of sense because scientists have told us that onion It is very rich in antibacterial and antiviral properties and it is these antibacterial and antiviral properties that help fight infections and not only the onion itself, the inside under the peel, is rich in these antiviral and antibacterial properties, the skin of the Onion is also very rich in these properties so to make this remedy we are going to use the entire skin of the onion and everything if you have an organic onion great but if your onion is conventionally grown don't worry because onions are in the category of what are known as the clean 15, so they generally contain very few pesticides.

This is not one of those set in stone recipes. Basically any onion will work if you have a medium sized one like this one that can fit. my hand, that's perfect if your onions are small then just use two and if your onions were big that's fine, it doesn't really matter, in the end everything will turn out great, now what you're going to want to do is just take a small pot of soup and we're going to remove a little bit of this skin, sorry, I think it probably sounds a little crunchy, but we're just going to remove a little bit of the skin to make it a little easier. to cut so make sure you save all those onion skins and go ahead and put them in your soup pot and then we'll go ahead and cut our onion and there's really no specific way we just want to expose the pulp and leave it. into the skin, then go ahead and add all of these cut up pieces to your pot of soup.

Perfect, I already want to have every last bit of skin there, so you want to get 32 ​​ounces of water, which is four cups, and you just want to keep going. and pour this directly over the onions. Now at this point this is your very basic remedy and you can take it on the stove and put it on high, bring it to a boil, cover it, lower it to a simmer and let it simmer for 30 minutes then after 30 minutes , you will strain the onions and you will have the onion broth. At that point you can just drink it as some people find it a bit strong so adding a little sea can help.

Salt and a little ghee, adding these things can make it very tasty and sea salt is great because it is rich in minerals and ghee is simply a type of clarified butter where the milk solids are removed so it is very easy to digest because sometimes when people have a cold or flu, any dairy product or specifically the milk solids in it can make people feel a little nauseous or create some phlegm, so using ghee, which It is very easy to digest and where all the milk solids have been removed, it helps you assimilate the nutrients in the onions and also gives the onion broth a pleasant flavor and if for some reason you do not like the sensation in your mouth of having a little fat in a hot broth, you can put the broth with the ghee and sea salt. a blender, whirl it up and make it a little bit more frothy drink and then you can drink it that way, similar to when people make those bullet coffees and things like that, and since you add four cups of water to this broth that you're making you're going to have a couple batches to drink throughout the day when you're not feeling well but you can take this broth to another level another ingredient that was revered in ancient times is garlic and if you can handle garlic, you'll want to add it to your onion broth in preparation .

Now garlic is very rich in antibacterial and antiviral properties, as are onions, including the skin. Now I know that sometimes when people are not feeling well, garlic can be difficult for them. to tolerate it, they may find that it can give them maybe a little bit of acid indigestion or a little bit of reflux, things like that, but in general, in the broth, hopefully, it should be mild enough to be tolerated, but if you find that you have problems with the garlic, so I can certainly skip this, the onion broth as is is perfect, but we're going to go ahead and increase this and we're going to add this whole head of garlic and all we're going to do is first. to try to get a little bit of this, I'm sorry, I think it sounds crunchy, I'm just going to peel off a little bit of this garlic peel here, the skin of the garlic goes all the way in and then what I'm going to do is cut this up. in half to expose all the cloves okay there we go we have that cut and I'm going to go ahead and drop it in my soup pot now if you want to stop at this point and just make your onion and garlic broth it's perfect, but if you want to try the third variation, we're going to add some fresh ginger and now, if you left out the garlic and you just want to go ahead and add fresh ginger. your onions that works too now I have about a three inch piece of ginger and this is fresh ginger if you have powdered ginger, ground powdered ginger, you can certainly use that as well, you probably want to start with about maybe half a teaspoon to a teaspoon and then try it and experiment and see what you like so it's not too strong.

Now my ginger is organic, so I'm not going to peel it, but if your ginger is not organic and if you want to peel it, you can certainly go ahead and do that, but I'm going to use everything and the ginger like it's onion and garlic, friends, here it has a lot of antibacterial properties, antiviral properties and the good thing about all this is that I really focused on the antibacterial and antiviral properties, these also have anti-inflammatory properties, so it's good because when you feel bad you have a lot of inflammation, so it also helps at that level, so I'm going to go ahead and just I'm just going to cut this into slices like this to try to release as much of the ginger juice as possible and I'm going to go ahead and put it right into the soup pot along with the onion and the ginger.

The garlic that we know today is wonderful for us, so I really like to add it to this onion broth, whether you put garlic in it or not, because in general I think ginger really helps add a good level of flavor, especially if You find that just plain onion broth is a little strong for you ginger, although it has a strong flavor, it helps moderate, so to speak, the flavor of the onion and it's a broth that I think is actually very relaxing, well , I'm going to go ahead and put this on my stove, I'm going to bring it to a boil and then we're going to put the lid on, we're going to turn it down to the lowest level that I have on my stove and then I'm going to let it simmer for about 30 minutes, another thing I want mention about ginger if when you have a cold or flu and you feel like you have the chills, ginger can be wonderful to help you feel better and relieved from that chilly feeling because it is a very warming spice while simmering on my stove I just want share with you my thoughts on integrative medicine.

If you've been with me for a while, you've probably heard me talk about this before, but it's an area that I find very fascinating because it takes the best of modern medicine, but supports that with these traditional remedies, these

home

remedies, these natural remedies, as well as many other things, and since I really believe that when you are sick, you definitely want to be in contact with your doctor, I don't want to take any risks and often, especially depending on the level of illness that you have, it can be very serious and there are many things that modern medicine can do to help us but it is very good to have these

home

remedies and natural remedies in our arsenal so to speak to give us a little bit of comfort and also these natural remedies can help you build our immunity and increase it and also in case you are eating onions or garlic these are known as prebiotics and they feed the probiotics, I say it right, I think I know about probiotics, but in any case prebiotics fill the probiotics and probiotics are good living bacteria in our intestine and scientists tell us that the more good bacteria we have in our intestine the healthier we are and speaking of the onion that we use and the garlic and ginger even after straining the broth do not throw them away you can do several things with them you can puree them and then you can add them to soups or you can just put them in a bag and throw them in the freezer and then when you're ready to make bone broth, which we've

made

a lot of bone broth together, when you're ready to make bone broth, you just you can take out Take out those scraps and pour them into your bone broth.

The broth we're making today may extract a lot of its nutrition, yes, but I always feel like there's always something else you can extract from these things, so there's no need to dismiss it, but speaking of integrative medicine, if this is a topic that interests you, where modern medicine is also combined with traditional types of medicine and healing practices, I highly recommend Dr. Andrew Weil's books. I really find it fascinating. He is a Harvard educated. doctor and yet he went ahead and founded the school of integrative medicine at the university of arizona and this school is in conjunction with the medical school where doctors or doctors in training can go, maybe or even people who already are doctors and they want this additional training you can go and learn about all the various alternative medical practices, medical remedies, etc., which are alternatives to modern medicine and by educating these doctors, they know all the modern things, but now they learn all traditional ways of healing and then they can integrate them into the treatment of their patients and I think that's wonderful, so if you open the description under this video, I will put information about Dr.

Andrew Weil, if that is a topic that interests you , integrative medicine and public speaking. from the description, if you open the description below this video, search for the word recipe and there will be a link and you can click on it. I'll take you to my website and you can print out the recipe for what I'm making today and it's very basic, but I'll have some variations and other information on there that you may find helpful and if you're interested in immune boosting foods and remedies home

made

natural ones, I'll be sure to link them to my playlist. where I have all the videos that I have made on this topic and I will put them in the icards and I will also put them in the description below, so I think you will find it very interesting.

I have made turmeric tea. I've made mineral broths, I've made elderberry syrup, all kinds of things, there are a lot of home remedy recipes and immune boosting recipes in that playlist, well, I brought it to a boil, covered it and then turned it down to low, leave it . simmer for 30 minutes and now we are ready to strain it well, it turned out to be a beautiful golden color. Now I used a yellow onion, if all you had was a white onion or a red onion you can certainly use that too. all very similar some bring little different benefits little different properties to the broth but any onion will work now I'm going to go ahead and just strain the broth from the solids now like I said don't discard it you can mix it in. with a little broth or other broth that you may have and then you may just have to strain a few bits that are not completely pulverized but you will have a wonderful soup that is very rich in nutrients and/or the other option is to just save them, throw them in your bag, it Whatever you keep in your freezer or refrigerator for leftovers for when you're ready to make bone broth and then go ahead and throw them out now, at this point, you can drink this the same way.

It's like you would do with tea or if you want you can add a little sea salt. I only have the wet gray sea salt here. It is the thick earth. I really like this one, it's very rich in minerals and you can go ahead and add it. your cup and then go ahead and pour in your broth. I think the salt helps with the flavor. Now we'll flavor this as is and then we'll go ahead and add the ghee and I'll show you. what's the best way to do it if you want to emulsify it, okay, it's spicy, but let's try it.

I think you'll find it really nice with the ginger. It really helps temper the strong flavors associated with the onion and garlic and I think this is very comforting also due to the fact that it is a warming drink when you have a colder flu. If you want to go a step further and add your ghee now, you can also add butter if that suits you.You know when you're off and if you want to keep it completely dairy free you can add a little coconut oil. Now you can move forward. What I have here is a teaspoon full of ghee and I feel like it's an appropriate amount for about this amount of broth, this is about 8 to 12 ounces of broth and then you can go ahead and stir it right into your warm broth and it just It will dissolve and some people are fine. with this method and the good thing about adding a little fat to this if it suits you is that you know that when you are unwell is that the fat helps the body absorb the nutrients found in onions, garlic and ginger and also any type of vegetables you already know, some people don't, I'm just stirring this and letting it dissolve and watching it, but some people don't like the mouthfeel when they add a little bit of fat to the broth, they prefer to emulsify. and then that way it almost becomes like a creamy type drink and it's quite nice, but we'll try it as is, you'll see that the fat freezes on the top and some people don't.

I don't have a problem with that, but other people you know because in many ways it's like chicken soup, when it's made with a whole chicken and the fat isn't removed and they leave it in because it adds nutrition when you're having chicken soup, you know, for a cold or the flu, and if you mix it it doesn't look so bad. Oh, and that adds a very nice flavor. I like it a lot, but what I want to show you is that if you want, you can go. Go ahead and blend it, it's very easy to do.

I just bought my old vitamix here, it's over 30 years old but still going strong, but you can also make this in a regular blender, you don't need anything fancy, but I had this. on my counter in the back so I thought I'd go ahead and use this and we're going to go ahead and pour it and we're going to swirl it for about 30 to 60 seconds so I'm going to go ahead and try to do the best I can to bring this here without making too much of a mess. Now I want to mention that this broth will stay fresh in your refrigerator for at least three or four days, maybe even a little. longer, but you can also make it ahead of time and freeze it and have it on hand when you have a cold or the flu and not have to worry about having to make it and you can go ahead and put it in your freezer.

I like to store it in one or two cup containers, a two cup container, and it will definitely stay fresh in the freezer for at least two to three months without ice crystals forming. You can also put it in ice cube trays. and just throw a cube into a cup of tea that has other flavors so you have plenty of options available. Now I'm going to go ahead and put this in and like I said, I'm sorry, I'm just going to We spin it for about 30 seconds or so and you know 30 to 60 seconds is going to be enough to emulsify it and anytime you're blending a hot liquid you should always Make sure to vent it and let some air out.

So if you're using a regular blender and it has a little opening at the top where sometimes a piece of plastic goes to keep things from splashing out, you just want to loosen it up a little bit so the steam can escape, my vitamix does. It doesn't have a lid, it's completely open, so when I use it with hot liquids I usually just put a tea towel on top, well, here we go. I spun this for about 30 seconds and it is wonderfully emulsified. Look at that and it's still there. Pretty hot, so I'm going to use my teaspoon to taste and see how it turned out.

It's nice with a little foam on top. Oh, that's nice. It tastes very similar to when the ghee was melted there, but it's a bit. It's fun to have that little bit of foam on top, it's a little bit smoother in flavor, so if this is something you would like, definitely give it a try, try putting it in the blender. I hope you try it, I think so. You will find it very relaxing if you have colder flu and if you are interested in learning more home remedies and immune boosting foods, be sure to click on this video here where I have a full playlist of all kinds of natural remedies. of which go back to my childhood and use very

simple

ingredients

that I think everyone has on hand and see you there in my Texas Hill Country kitchen, love and God bless you.