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.