Remedies
HOME REMEDIES
Please remember that none of these remedies should be applied unless you have discussed them with your health practitioner or nutritional therapist!
ACNE, PIMPLES – Mix 3 tbsps of honey and 1 tsp of cinnamon powder paste (ground the cinnamon into powder). Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks it removes pimples from the roots. For acne spots, apply lemon juice with a cotton bud as bactericide.
ALLERGIES – In ratio of 1:2 take honey and lukewarm water respectively. In this add cinnamon powder and make a paste. Massage it to the itchy area; you will notice the difference in a short period. Very good treatment for allergies.
ARTHRITIS JOINT ACHES – Arthritis joint aches bugging you? Before each meal, drink a glass of water containing two tsps Apple Cider Vinegar. Give this folk remedy at least three weeks to start working, or … Mix 1:2 part honey to lukewarm water and small tsp of cinnamon powder. Make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body. The pain will recede within a minute or two.
BEE/HORNET/SCORPION STING – Living in a bee farming area it is always good to have all the information possible to help when stung, so here is another remedy. When stung by either a bee or hornet, remove the stinger, cut a onion in half and then gently rub the affected area. In less than 5 minutes, the red and swelling and pain will be gone. (Also see fruits that heal)
BILIOUS HEADACHE – A teaspoon full of lemon juice in a small cup of black coffee will relieve a bilious headache.
BLADDER INFECTION – Drink a glass of lukewarm water mixed with two tbsps cinnamon powder and 1 tsp honey. It destroys the germs of the bladder.
BRUISES - To dissipate bruises faster, apply the inside of a ripe banana peel to the bruise. It is best if you bandage the banana peel to the bruise overnight. This really works! Or, try hyssop which does more than cleanse. Contemporary herbalists recommend hyssop compresses and poultices for bruises, burns and wounds, and suggest infusions for colds, coughs, bronchitis, flatulence, indigestion, menstruation promotion, and even epileptic seizures. Taken from the Timeless Herb Secrets
BURNS
How can I treat burns and scalds? DO NOT PUT BUTTER, MARGARINE OR ANY SUCH THING ON A BURNT AREA AS THIS DOES NOT STOP THE FLESH FROM COOKING, but rather….
· Hold the affected are under cold running water for 10-15 minutes to reduce the temperature, to prevent the formation of blisters and to minimize the amount of damage to the skin
· Next, take off any clothing that has been soaked with hot liquid – but do not attempt to remove any item that has become stuck to the burn as this will only damage the skin further
· Remove any jewellery that you are wearing on the area you have scalded as the burn may make the injured area swell, particularly if it’s on the hands or fingers. Any jewellery may have to be cut off later.
CAR SICKNESS – What can I offer my family when they get car sick as I do not want to give them over-the-counter drugs? Persuade them to chew a piece of peeled fresh root ginger before leaving. An old remedy for nausea and in clinical trials, ginger has proved more effective than many over-the-counter drugs.
CHOLESTEROL – Mix 2 tbsps honey and 3 tsps cinnamon powder with 16 ounces of tea water. It reduces cholesterol level in the body by 10% within 2 hours. Take 3x daily for arthritic patients.
CLEANING DENTURES – Soak dentures overnight in White Vinegar and then brush away tartar with a toothbrush.
CLEAR A BLOCKED NOSE OR OTHER INFECTIONS – Garlic contains a natural antibiotic. When anyone comes down with a cold or infection of any kind, chop up one large clove of garlic and mix it on a spoon with honey. Swallow it down with a few gulps of water. Don't chew!
COLD RELIEF – Feeling a bit groggy and clogged up with winter mucous build up (cold), mix ¼ cup Raw Apple Cider Vinegar with ¼ cup honey. Take 1 tablespoon six to eight times daily!
COLIC, STOMACH ACHE, CRAMPS AND DIGESTION – Bring 1 ¼ cups water to a rolling boil add 2 heaping teaspoons of whole Fennel Seed and boil for 2 minutes. Mix ¼ tsp sugar, 2ozs water and 2ozs fennel tea and serve to baby. This is also great for any adult without diluting for stomach aches, cramps, and digestion. Please note that because baby has been distressed from the pain of colic and the tea relieving that pain baby will probably fall asleep quickly and stay asleep a little longer than usual. Alicia, USA
CONSTIPATION – Honey is great for your digestive system as well as problems like constipation. To combat poor digestion mix 1 tsp. honey with 1 tsp. Apple Cider Vinegar. Add a good amount of water to get a proper taste. Drink it to get relief from digestion problems.
CORNS AND BUNIONS – Do you have corns or bunions! Make a poultice of one crumbled piece of bread soaked in one-quarter cup Vinegar. Let poultice sit for ½ hour, then apply to the corn and tape in place overnight. If corn does not peel off by morning, reapply the poultice for several consecutive nights.
COUGH – Mix ½ cup Raw Apple Cider Vinegar, ½ cup water, ¼- ½ tsp Cayenne Pepper (or more if you can handle it) and 4 tsps honey. Take one tbsp when cough acts up. Take another tbsp at bedtime. To stop nighttime coughing, put Vicks Vapor Rub generously on the bottom of the feet at bedtime, then cover with socks. Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing will stop in about 5 minutes and stay stopped for many hours of relief. Works 100% of the time and is more effective in children than even very strong prescription cough medicines. In addition it is extremely soothing and comforting and they will sleep soundly.
CURE A BURN - Cut open and scrape a raw potato, bind on burn. Repeat if burning sensation returns
CYSTITIS – Take 1 tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda to every 500 ml of water, dissolve it and drink at least several pints every hour from the moment the symptoms of cystitis start.
DIARRHOEA – Cut out solid food, meat, dairy (e.g. milk, cheese, yoghurt), coffee, tea and concentrated fruit juices. Make your own rehydration drinks to replace lost fluids for example: ½lt boiled water mixed with 2.5ml unbleached Sundried Sea Salt. You can also take Sea Salt mixed into 20ml honey and flavoured with lemon made into a solution. Drink as much as you want. Once the solution is made up keep it in the fridge and use within 24 hours. If a baby has diarrhea for longer than 12 hours consult a nutritional therapist or your local doctor immediately!
DIGESTION – Are you suffering from digestion after eating a rich meal? Make an infusion with mint leaves by leaving them standing in boiling water for five minutes and sip slowly. To strengthen digestion, add a pinch of dried ginger powder to a cup of freshly made mango juice, drink in the morning.
EXFOLIATOR – Use table salt as an exfoliator for your skin by simply adding salt to some baby oil, then use and rinse well.
EYE PROBLEMS – It can be used as a lotion to cure eye problems like conjunctivitis as well as boils in your eye. Make a mixture of equal amount of honey and warm water. Once cooled use it as an eye bath or a lotion.
FEVER – If you or one of the family has a fever to bring it down try the following before resorting to medical drugs.
* Sponge patient with tepid water, briskly wiping each area of the body sponged. This will cool the body while also increasing circulation.
* Make up an apple water drink in order to bring down the fever further. Slice three washed unpeeled apples and simmer them in a little water until soft. Strain the water and add a washed piece of lemon, which will improve the flavour. Serve the drink cold.
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GARLIC MAY PREVENT CANCER – Garlic reduces the risk of several cancers according to studies. In the long-term Iowa Women's Health Study researchers followed 41,837 middle-aged women. Subjects who ate the most garlic had the lowest risk of colon cancer. A few cloves a week cut risk by 32% and greater intake decreased risk even more. While fruit and vegetable consumption in general helped prevent cancer in this study, garlic yielded the greatest preventive benefit of all the plant foods analyzed. Other studies also show that garlic reduces the risk for prostate and bladder cancers.
GETTING RID OF WARTS – Want to get rid of warts? Mix one part Apple Cider Vinegar to one part glycerine into a lotion and apply daily to warts until they dissolve.
HEADACHES – Struggling with headaches? Changing your diet is the first and foremost option, but if you are not prepared to do that, try the following: Boil up do some water, add peeled cucumber slices and a bag of chamomile tea, when cool, drink in small sips. It will calm the pain but as suggested, do try and change your diet to a raw fruit, raw vegetable, raw vegetable juices, whole grain, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds and fresh clean water diet, it has worked for me and I am sure it will work for you! Fruit acts as a cleanser and vegetables (especially 4-6 glasses 2/3 carrots & 1/3 green leafy vegetables) helps build the cells up and strengthens the immune system. Often it is just impurities in our blood that causes headaches, work strain or something that you have eaten which disagrees with you, if headaches persist, please see a nutritional therapist! Increase your water intake, find healthy ways of relaxing like walking which will help alleviate strain!
HEAD LICE – Mayonnaise will kill Lice, it will also condition your hair.
HEARING LOSS – Taking 1:1 honey and powdered cinnamon morning and night restores hearing.
HEARTBURN – When suffering from heartburn and indigestion, try the following:
Eliminate all foods that cause high acid levels in your body for example: meat, dairy, sugar, sugared foods, white flour products, starchy foods and shop bought fruit juices. Eat smaller meals instead of one large meal as this will also help with your metabolism.
If the above fails try using Garlic as an ingredient in vegetables to help prevent indigestion as it stimulates the body’s digestive enzymes and relieves problems such as gas and heartburn. Or make a tea with 1 tbsp cloves to 1 pint/500ml boiling water (strain before drinking) or mix 1 tbsp each of Apple Cider Vinegar and honey in cold water and drink.
HICCUPS – Sit erect and inflate the lungs fully. Then, retaining the breath, bend forward slowly until the chest meets the knees. After slowly rising again to the erect position, slowly exhale the breath. Repeat this process a second time, and the nerves will be found to have received an excess of energy that will enable them to perform their natural functions. Or, mix 1 teasp Apple Cider Vinegar in 1 cup of warm water and drink.
HONEY’S HEALING POWER – I was bitten by a pitt bull last Summer. I went to the doctor got a tetanus shot and a prescription for $150.00 which I threw away! I went home found my info on honey, washed the wound and used the honey as a dressing for a week. Today you can barely see where I was bitten. You can also put tea tree oil in with the honey, it heals faster. I am a firm believer in using honey as a dressing, food, facial moisturizer, etc. Myrl Evans, USA
INDIGESTION – Sprinkle grounded cinnamon on 2 tbsps of honey. Take before food to relieve acidity and aid digestion.
INFLAMMATION – For alleviation of inflammation, add about 12 grams of pure honey to about 60 grams of the fresh sweet pulp of mango. Drink once or twice daily. The inflammation should disappear within a few days.
INSOMNIA – I am struggling to sleep at night especially after watching TV till late, what can I do to help me sleep? A hot drink or a banana snack or a teaspoon of honey melted in the mouth will help you sleep!
IRRITATING COUGH? – Mix one-half cup Apple Cider Vinegar, one-half cup water, one-tsp cayenne pepper, and four tsps honey. Take one tbsp when cough acts up. Take another tbsp at bedtime.
INTESTINAL DISORDERS – The juice of the green papaya has helped correct intestinal disorders, including ulcerous and more serious conditions in an incredibly short time. Crushed green papaya pulp, including the skin, applied as a poultice to serious lacerations also brings quick healing.
LEG CRAMPS – Do you suffer from leg-cramps? Drinking a glass of orange juice or eating a banana before going to bed, helps! Try it!
LOWERING CHOLESTEROL – Mix 2 tbsps honey and 3 tsps cinnamon powder with 16 ounces of Rooibos tea water. It reduces cholesterol levels in the body by 10% within 2 hours.
MINOR SORE THROAT AND COUGH – If you have a minor sore throat or cough, try a home remedy containing honey instead of over-the-counter medication. Simply boil a whole lemon, and after the lemon has cooled, squeeze the juice into a container. Blend in one cup of honey, and every four hours take two tbsps. Your throat will be coated and soothed, and a cough caused by minor irritation should be alleviated.
MOUTHWASH – Are you looking for a good mouthwash? Add 1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda to ½ glass warm water, and swish through teeth for a refreshing mouthwash, or … You can use honey as mouthwash by mixing 1 tbsp of honey in a cup of warm water. This mouthwash kills germs and bacteria present in the mouth.
MOSQUITO/INSECT BITES – If mosquitoes or other insects bite you or got poison ivy on you? Rub the inside of a banana peel on the bite, it will stop itching, or dab on undiluted White Vinegar with a cotton ball or make a past of Bicarbonate of Soda and water and apply to the affected area
NAPPY RASH – My baby constantly has nappy rash, can you help as I do not have money to buy medical products? Firstly I would like to suggest that you change your baby’s diet preferably removing all dairy products and increasing the intake of raw fruit and raw vegetables blended to a smooth texture easy for baby to consume. At the same time to alleviate the rash, ensure that the room temperature is warm and the baby does not have a cold, add a tablespoon of Bicarbonate of Soda to the bath water and let them play in it until the water is almost cold
NEURALGIA – For neuralgia nothing is better than a muslin bag filled with hot salt.
PEPTIC ULCERS – Studies have shown that eating plantain bananas (wild bananas) can be very effective in the treatment of peptic ulcers.
PUFFINESS AROUND EYES – Put cool slices of cucumbers on your eyes, or soak two tea bags & place in freezer for a few minutes, place on eyes & lay back & relax! Or, grate a raw potato, mould it into a mushy pack, and put it on your eyes and lids for 10-20 minutes. The potato starch will help smooth eye-area skin and ease away puffiness. Or , for tired or puffy eyes, make a compress by packing grated raw potato or cucumber in a piece of gauze. If you don't have gauze, just apply the vegetables slices straight over your closed eyelids, then lie back and rest for five minutes.
REHYDRATING AND BOOSTING ENERGY – A banana and some water is a lot less expensive than a fashionable sports drink – and does the job of rehydrating and boosting energy very efficiently!
RELAXING AND REFRESHING BATH – Need a relaxing refreshing bath? Dissolve a ½ cup of Bicarbonate of Soda in a bath of warm water for a soft, smooth-feeling skin and a relaxing bath.
· Bite on a lemon – in restaurants if you don’t have one on the side of your plate, ask for a glass of water with a lemon wedge, and discreetly bite it when you get a chance.
· Eat your garnish – parsley has great breath freshening oils and ‘deodorising’ chlorophyll.
· Suck a cinnamon stick – these really are fantastic to take in your bag with you if all else fails. As an added bonus, they have an essential oil that kills a nasty type of oral bacteria that commonly breeds in the mouth. It will also lower your blood sugar from the meal.
These natural aids should help you stay away from those nasty peppermints or gum at the end of a meal in the attempt to ‘be nice to be near’. S) many dirty ‘fingers’ touch those sweets… ugh
SCARLESS HEALING – Nothing beats good old Aloe for scarless healing. Take it straight from the plant and rub it on the area until healing has taken places!
SINUS AND STOMACH PROBLEMS
1 Do you have minor stomach or sinus problems? Try honey and vinegar. Before you turn up your nose at this combination, it really isn’t bad when mixed with ice-cold apple juice. Simply mix a tbsp of Apple Cider Vinegar with a tbsp of honey, and mix it with one cup of ice-cold apple juice. This concoction tastes like delicious apple cider, and it will help alleviate minor sinus and stomach ailments.
2 Are you struggling with blocked sinuses? To ease your breathing, make a steam inhalation. Pour boiling water into a bowl and, for a few minutes, hold your face over the steam with a towel over your head and the bowl to keep the stem concentrated. Use one of the following in the water:
a. Two crushed cloves of garlic or a few menthol crystals
b. Long term remedy is to remove all meats, eggs, dairy, sugar, white flour products and starches from your diet and try to increase your raw food intake, e.g. raw fruit, raw vegetables, steamed veggies, whole wheat pasta (moderate), brown rice, whole grains (moderate) and veggie dishes.
SNIFFLES – OXYMEL – This week I would like to share a recipe with you for the sniffles! Often when we go onto a healthier way of eating we suddenly find that we have the sniffles, mucous build-up or headaches, all signs of detoxing! There are various ways of assisting, one is to slow down on the raw vegetable juice intake or for those of us who feel we need to take some or other form of medication, make the following mix, which also works well!
250ml Apple Cider Vinegar
7.5 gm Cayenne pepper
45 gm Fresh minced garlic
300 ml Raw Honey
Heat until blended and syrupy. Can gargle or use 2 tsp twice per day. Keep in a glass jar with a tight lid in fridge.
SORE THROAT – Take 6 ounces of honey, 2 ounces of glycerin and lemon juice of 2 lemons. Mix all the ingredients, bottle it, and use it when you suffer from sore throat.
STOMACH PROBLEMS - Many stomach problems can be helped by having 10 gms of honey on an empty stomach in the morning and avoid eating for the next hour. Continue this regularly to get relief.
STOP VOMITING NATURALLY - Drink the juice of a raw apple mixed with a little Celtic or other healthy Sea Salt. The vomiting should stop immediately.
STRENGTH BUILDER – Make your own hot-water drink with fresh lemon juice and honey. Keep tea and coffee to an absolute minimum or completely out of your daily fluid consumption, but drink plenty of water to replenish lost fluids, and try to eat something light to help rebuild your strength. An excellent food to take is raw vegetable juice (made up of 2/3 carrot juice, 1/3 green leafy vegetable).
SUNBURNT – Too long in the sun, wind-burned or prickly heat? Apply undiluted Vinegar to the burn, or dissolve ½ cup Bicarbonate of Soda in a tepid bath and soak in the bath for fifteen minutes.
TOOTHACHE – If you've bitten too hard on a brazil nut and you don’t use painkillers, try one of the following remedies to ease your pain.
*Place a whole peeled clove of garlic directly on the aching tooth and keep it there for an hour.
*Rub a few grains of cayenne pepper into the gum around the tooth.
*Chew on some cloves dipped in honey.
ULCERS – Dates are excellent for persons who have ulcers of the stomach. Remove the skin and eat a few dates. The skin comes off easily if the dates are soaked in water for a few minutes. Another interesting remedy is: The best home remedy that I know is raw cabbage. To make it easy, juice your cabbage with a juicer. Try mixing it with carrots in your juicer to make it go down easier! (It's not too bad, honest!) Drink ½ a cup of the juice before each meal and at bed time (make sure that it is fresh!) Don't be surprised if you ulcer is gone within a short period!
UPSET STOMACH – Have you got an upset stomach? Drink two tsps Apple Cider Vinegar in one-cup water to soothe an upset stomach.
VAGINAL INFECTIONS – To prevent vaginal infections douche wth 1 tablespoon White Vinegar to 1 part warm water to adjust the pH balance in the vagina.
WARTS – Simply apply the purest honey you can find on your wart, keep applying it morning and night until the wart disappears. You should start to see changes within a couple of days.
WATER HELPS HEAL – Dr Batmanghelidj, used water to cure ulcer pains with water! I’m a regular doctor, an MD I had the honour and the privilege of being selected as one of the house doctors, and I had the extreme honour of being one of the last students of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. I mention his name so that you know I was immersed in medical school and research. And some years later, I had to give two glasses of water to a person who was doubled up in abdominal pain from his disease, because I had no other medication to give him at that moment. And he was in excruciating pain, and water performed miraculous relief for him. It gave him relief — within three minutes his pain diminished, and within eight minutes it disappeared completely, whereas he was doubled up eight minutes before and he couldn’t even walk, he completely recovered from that situation. And he started beaming from ear to ear, very happy, asked me what happens if the pain comes back? I said, “Well, drink more water.” Then I decided to instruct him to drink two glasses of water every three hours. Which he did, and that was the end of his ulcer pains for the rest of the duration that he was with me. Mike Adams
