Fever:

The wild brinjal plant is a small thorny one with small fruits of bitterish taste.  The leaf, flower, unripe or-ripe fruit, seed, root and the whole plant are useful.  It is a cure for asthma. consumption, fever, dullness of digestive fire, rheumatism, paralysis etc.  It is an expectorant,  diuretic and carminative.   The seed is a drastic purgative.

An eminent physician Dr. F. W. Crossman said that when garlic was administered in sufficient quantities it proved a marvelous remedy for pneumonia.  This doctor used garlic for a long time on pneumonia patients and said that it never failed to bring down the temperature as well as the pulse and respiration within a short time of-45 minutes.

When “Flu” patients are very cold,  mix a teaspoon of brandy in a cup of hot milk.  Serve them with a spoon.