Flu This

Being sick reminded me of some good old fashioned Ukrainian home remedies that have been passed along from generation to generation in my family. Most of them revolve around Ukraine's official cure for anything.. Garlic.

• My Aunt swears that eating 4 whole cloves of garlic will cure what ever ail's yah. (Little garlic joke for yah)
• My mom says my Baba, (who deserves her own blog devoted to her craziness, but thats another story) gave her and her brothers and sisters a tasty concoction made with warm milk, honey aaaaand, you guessed it. Garlic.
• Another favorite is breathing in the steam from a pot of boiled onions. Some Ukrainian families swear by DRINKING boiled onion juice with a bit of lemon in it. Onion tea, if you will.
• And if a Ukrainian remedy doesn't have garlic in it, you can bet it has alcohol. People in Southern Ukraine say that soaking a piece of bread in alcohol and then putting it on your chest for 10 min. will get rid of any cough.
• Also, a shot of moonshine, in hot milk with honey and raw egg yolk.. eeeeeewwww.