Remedy

Headache and body ache

Water, shade, willow for an adult, mint on the brow. July headaches are often heat and salt.

Worst-of-life headache, droop, confusion: not herbs.

Do this

1.Drink. Eat a pinch of salt if you have been sweating.
2.Peppermint tea and a mint cloth on the forehead.
3.Willow decoction or the ibuprofen in the kit — adult, and not both stacked with aspirin.
4.Dark room. If it is the worst headache of their life, or one-sided weakness, that is stroke watch — see Illness.

Willow bark decoction

Adult ache and low fever tea from creek willow. Treat it like aspirin that tastes of wet wood.

Peppermint or spicebush tea

Queasy, gassy, or a tension head. Mint from the bucket, or spicebush twigs from the hollow.