Supertonic Recipe For Clearing The Sinuses
Hot sauce concoction that opens clogged sinuses
INGREDIENTS:
· Jalepeno Peppers
· White Onion
· Ginger Root
· Horseradish Root
· Garlic Bulb
· Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
PREPARATION:
Chop up equal amounts of the first 5 ingredients and put in blender. Cover
that with enough apple cider vinegar to blend. Hit the Frappe button! It's a
great tonic to open up the sinuses, clear out a head cold and keep away the
vampires.
Make Your Own Oatmeal Bath
If your doctor or other health provider recommends you give your child an
oatmeal bath, you have the option to buy the commercially-prepared product
at around $6 for eight single-use packets, or you can make your own at home
for around $1.
Here's how:
You'll need a blender, food processor or coffee grinder and 1 cup of oatmeal.
You can use instant oatmeal (unflavored), quick oats or slow cooking oats- all
work equally as well. For babies, you'll only need about 1/3 cup per bath.
Blend or process the oats on the highest setting until you have a very fine,
consistent powder. To test the colloid property of the oats, stir 1 tablespoon
oats into a glass of warm water. If the oats readily absorb the water and give it
a milky look and a silky feel, you've blended long enough.
Giving the bath:
Sprinkle the oats into a tub of running water and stir the water with your hand
several times to ensure even distribution.
Home Remedy for Toothache
What is a Toothache?
A toothache is any pain or soreness within or around a tooth or the jaw. The
most common cause of toothache is dental cavities.
Bacteria in the mouth can form plaques that stick to teeth and form acids that
eat through tooth enamel, causing a cavity. Toothache pain is usually worse
when you eat cold or hot food.
Other common causes of toothache are gum disease, tooth abscess, cracked
tooth, irritated tooth root, and a condition called temporomandibular joint,
which affects the jaw.
Toothaches can also be a sign of heart attack, ear infections, and sinusitis.
Clove oil applied directly on the tooth can stop pain immediately!
Since summer is here, we need to take special precautions when in
the sun. Also be sure to take heed to the information below:
Watch moles for symptoms
Some moles can become cancerous, so it's important to examine your skin
frequently.
The American Academy of Family Physicians advises that you should speak
with your doctor if you notice any of these symptoms on a mole:
· Bleeding.
· Itching.
· Rapid growth.
· A sore or area that won't heal.
· A scaly or crusty growth.
· Rough patches that feel like sandpaper.
How To Make a Holistic Health Kit
Most of us keep first aid kits handy for emergency use in our cars, campers,
homes, etc. Have you considered adding a companion kit filled with natural
remedies? Here are some essentials for filling a holistic health kit.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 1 hour or less
Here's How:
1. Kit: Find or sew a heavy cotton drawstring bag or knapsack and
gather the following healing supplies.
2. Trauma Help: flower essences (Bach Rescue Remedy or FES Five
Flower Formula)
3. Immune Booster: echinacea, vitamin C tablets
4. Dehydration: bottled water, fruit juices
5. Injuries: aloe vera gel (for burns, cuts, abrasions, etc.)
6. Allergies: arsenicum album (homeopathic)
7. Sprains: epsom salt (also great for soaking tired and sore feet after a
day of traveling)
8. Calming agents: herbal teas (chamomile, lemon balm, ginger,
peppermint, etc.), lavender essential oil.
9. Energy food stuffs: almonds, granola bars, dried fruits, etc.
Tips:
1. Routinely replace any perishable items in your kit.
2. Personalize your kit by including your own proven remedies.
Handy Hair Washing Tip!
When you're washing hair--yours, your kids' or anyone's, take care to hold
the head forward so that the soapy water runs away from the head and face,
and not back over the head, ears and neck. This is true if you wash your hair
in the shower as well. Be careful to bend forward. Why? This lets the soapy
water carry the dirt, dry skin, oils, and all the gunk we put on our hair away
from our body. If all of that runs back over the head and ears, some of it will
surely land in the ears and get all mixed up with the natural wax our ears
produce. It sticks like glue and grows, picking up all the grime that comes its
way. This little precaution will save you a lot of doctor bills to clean out
plugged ears.
RUST AND CORROSION — Before you throw away something you think may
be lost to rust, corrosion and age, try giving it a cola bath. :) There's
something in the syrup of the dark colas (doesn't matter what brand) that
takes off this gunk. If you can, soak the entire item in cola and you'll see the
rust and stuff falling off. Then, after it's soaked for a while, give it a good
scrubbing and your piece of "junk" you almost threw away will be new looking,
and sparkling clean. I haven't heard of a metal this doesn't work on, and it's
certainly worth a try before you give up and head for the trash. Makes you
wonder what this stuff does to your insides, huh? We actually found
something that Cola’s are good for. I myself do not drink them. Its water for
me!
WASH YOUR HANDS — Remember your mother nagging at you to wash
your hands all the time? Well, as usual, Mom was more right than she knew. :)
With all the strong viruses and germs we have today, it's more important than
ever to remember to wash your hands often. If you work at a job where you
handle things that others handle, even papers, you're handling their germs as
well. The soft soap found in public bathrooms, especially at your work, is very
drying so it's important to use some kind of lotion after washing your hands.
Men — this means you, too! If your hands become overly dry and the skin
develops little cracks, you're inviting all kinds of germs to creep in. There are
many hand lotions and creams that are non-greasy and have no perfumed
smell that come in the little travel size that's perfect to keep at work, or in your
pocket or purse. Not only does it keep your hands from getting dry, chapped
and cracked, it also gives them a protective covering from whatever you may
have them doing. Check out the organic ones!
COUGH REMEDY — As this is the season for feeling awful and many colds
are in abundance now, I have a recipe for those who are brave enough to try
it. This is a non- alcholic remedy. The brave part comes from the taste. It's
awful, but it really, really works. Usually a bad cough will be gone in 2-3 days.
Take 1 cup horehound leaves. Mix in sauce pan with 3 cups water. Boil for 10
minutes. Strain and add a little peppermint oil, a toothpick dipped into the oil
is sufficient. Sweeten to taste, usually a 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup sugar will do. Cool
bottle. Can store in fridge for up to 6 months.
Dose, 1 teaspoon 4 times a day.
HOT PACKS — If you need a hot pack, and don't have one handy, try heating
salt in a frying pan, or even a microwave. Once it's hot, pour it into a
washcloth or clean cloth, tie it securely, and apply to the affected area. It's
wonderful moist heat that works. This is especially good for camping and
other out-of-doors activities where you don't have electricity to plug a heating
pad into.
ICE PACKS — Do we all know that the soft packages of frozen vegetables
make great ice packs? If they're in a hard bunch, just drop them on the floor
once or twice to make them pliable. Also, if you're struck with eye fatigue, or
headaches, try putting a wet washcloth in the freezer for a few minutes. It's
more effective that just a cold cloth.
TIRED EYES — All the beauty experts tell us how cucumber slices are good
to place on the eyes to relieve tired eyes. If you have no allergies to witch
hazel, this works wonders if you keep it in the fridge. Saturate cotton balls with
it, and lie down with the wet cotton on your eyelids. Oh, it feels so good. If you
don't want to try the witch hazel, a solution of boric acid and water works, and
if you don't have that, ice water does well also.
EMERGENCY SPLINTS — If you are like the rest of the world, most sudden
injuries happen when all the drug stores are closed! If you have an injury that
needs to be stabilized to relieve the pain, try cutting strips of heavy cardboard
(like a cardboard box) to fit the area. Pad this with cotton or gauze to keep it
from chafing the skin, and wrap the padded strips securely around the area
with an ace bandage, or flannel, or anything you have that is strong, but soft.
This will at least keep you from doing more damage to the injury until you can
get to a hospital, or doctor, or some other facility for professional help. This
also works with injured animals until you can get help for them.
COFFEE — If you make coffee in a coffee maker or percolater, sprinkle just a
little salt on the grounds before you start the process. It takes the bitterness
out. This is good to remember when you're making camp coffee. Also, egg
shells in a camp coffee pot will "settle" the grounds so you don't get a
mouthful.
HICCUPS — Swallow down a spoonful of peanut butter, slowly. Don't choke
yourself. It stops the spasms in the esophagus by blocking the air flow, I
guess.
SKIN IRRITATIONS — With Spring on the way, we will all be out of doors
more; especially the kids. If they come in with grass itch, or insect bites, or
chiggers (don't know what chiggers are?), make a paste of baking soda and
water and apply to the area. It's better than scratching the spot until it bleeds
and gets infected. The baking soda will take the itch and burn out.
BE CAREFUL — If you're in the country, or anywhere that is not your own
yard, watch the children carefully. Don't let them pick pretty berries and stick
them in their mouths. Many of these are poisonous. Also, with all the wet
weather, be on the constant lookout for mushrooms popping up everywhere.
Pull them up by their roots, and put them in the garbage disposal or the
dumpster right away.
A great treatment for cuts, scrapes, scratches, bites, whatever skin
disruptions you have. The little pot of Carmex we've all had for years and
years for sore and chapped lips! It doesn't burn, and it has no toxic effects...
safe for kids. Give it a try. It can't hurt. :)
STAIN REMOVAL - When all else fails, the cheapest white toothpaste is a
blessing. So get some cheap white toothpaste - the chalkier, the better - as a
must for the laundry to reduce the damage due to stains.
Forty-nine Uses for Vinegar:
1. Kill grass on walks and driveways.
2. Kill weeds. Spray full strength on growth until plants have starved.
3. Increase soil acidity. In hard water: one gallon of tap water for watering
rhododendrums, gardenias, or azaleas.
4. Deter ants. Spray vinegar around doors, appliances, and along other
areas where ants are known.
5. Polish car chrome. Apply full strength.
6. Remove skunk odor from a dog. Rub fur with full strength vinegar; rinse.
7. Keep cats away. Sprinkle vinegar on areas you don't want the cat walking,
sleeping, or scratching on.
8. Keep dogs from scratching his ears. Use a clean, soft cloth dipped in
diluted vinegar.
9. Keep chickens from pecking each other. Put a little in their drinking water.
10.Tenderize meat. Soak in vinegar over night.
11. Freshen vegetables. Soak wilted vegetables in 2 cups of water and a
tablespoon of vinegar.
12.Boil better eggs. Add 2 tablespoons water before boiling eggs. Keeps
them from cracking.
13.Soothe a bee or jellyfish sting. Dot the irritation with vinegar and relieve
itching.
14.Relieve sunburn. Lightly rub white vinegar; you may have to reapply.
15.Condition hair. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to dissolve sticky residue left
by shampoo.
16.Relieve dry and itchy skin. Add 2 tablespoons to bath water.
17.Fight dandruff. After shampooing, rinse with vinegar and 2 cups of warm
water.
18. Soothe a sore throat. Put a teaspoon of vinegar in a glass of water.
Gargle, then swallow.
19.Treat sinus infections and chest colds. Add 1/4 cup or more vinegar to the
vaporizer.
20.Feel good. A teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water, with a bit
of honey added for flavor, will take the edge off your appetite and give you an
overall healthy feeling.
21.Deodorize the kitchen drain. Pour a cup down the drain once a week. Let
stand 30 minutes and then flush with cold water.
22.Eliminate onion odor. Rub on your fingers before and after slicing.
23. Clean and disinfect wood cutting boards. Wipe with full strength vinegar.
24. Remove fruit stains from hands. Rub with vinegar.
25. Cut grease and odor on dishes. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to hot soapy
water.
26.Clean a teapot. Boil a mixture of water and vinegar in the teapot. Wipe
away the grime.
27. Freshen a lunchbox. Soak a piece of bread in vinegar and let it sit in the
lunchbox over night.
28. Clean the refrigerator. Wash with a solution of equal parts water and
vinegar.
29.Unclog a drain. Pour a handful of baking soda down the drain and add 1/2
cup of vinegar. Rinse with hot water.
30. Clean and deodorize the garbage disposal. Make vinegar ice cubes and
feed them down the disposal. After grinding, run cold water through.
31.Clean and deodorize jars. Rinse mayonnaise, peanut butter, and mustard
jars with vinegar when empty.
32.Clean the dishwasher. Run a cup of vinegar through the whole cycle once
a month to reduce soap build up on the inner mechanisms and on glassware.
33.Clean stainless steel. Wipe with a vinegar dampened cloth.
34.Clean china and fine glassware. Add a cup of vinegar to a sink of warm
water. Gently dip the glass or china in the solution and let dry.
35.Get stains out of pots. Fill pot with a solution of 3 tablespoons of vinegar to
a pint of water. Boil until stain loosens and can be washed away.
36.Clean the microwave. Boil a solution of 1/4 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of
water in the microwave. Will loosen splattered on food and deodorize.
37. Dissolve rust from bolts and other metals. Soak in full strength vinegar.
38. Get rid of cooking smells. Let simmer a small pot of vinegar and water
solution.
39. Unclog steam iron. Pour equal amounts of vinegar and water into the
iron's water chamber. Turn to steam and leave the iron on for 5 minutes in an
upright position. Then unplug and allow to cool. Any loose particles should
come out when you empty the water.
40. Clean a scorched iron plate. Heat equal parts vinegar and salt in a small
pan. Rub solution on the cooled iron surface to remove dark or burned stains.
41. Get rid of lint in clothes. Add 1/2 cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle.
42. Keep colors from running. Immerse clothes in full strength vinegar before
washing.
43. Freshen up the washing machine. Periodically, pour a cup of vinegar in
the machine and let in run through a regular cycle (no clothes added). Will
dissolve soap residue.
44. Brighten fabric colors. Add a 1/2 cup vinegar to the rinse cycle.
45.Take grease off suede. Dip a toothbrush in vinegar and gently brush over
grease spot.
46.Remove tough stains. Gently rub on fruit, jam, mustard, coffee, tea. Then
wash as usual.
47.Get smoke smell out of clothes. Add a cup of vinegar to a bath tub of hot
water. Hang clothes above the steam.
48. Remove decals. Brush with a couple coats of vinegar. Allow to soak in.
Wash off.
49.Clean eyeglasses. Wipe each lens with a drop of vinegar.
Also works great in drip coffee makers as a cleaner (instead of chemical
products.) Don't forget to put some in a spray bottle full strength to spray on
windows. Use newspaper to polish sparkling clean.
Also works great in drip coffee makers as a cleaner (instead of chemical
products.) Don't forget to put some in a spray bottle full strength to spray on
windows. Use newspaper to polish sparkling clean.
If you have a handy tip of your own, just send us an email and we will be glad
to look it over and post it.
Thanks! Susie
(We gathered info from the net and family)
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