Kathy Russell 
The health of my family is a top priority for me. Especially in the winter when there seems to be a never ending merry-go-round of coughs and colds.
I use DoTERRA On Guard blend most days and every day at the first sign of a sniffle.
This provides a natural and effective alternative for immune support.
The beauty of this blend lies in its adaptable nature, you can use it in many different ways depending on who in your family is using it.
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There are many herbal sleep aids available now, mostly in the form of herbal teas which are easy to access and prepare.
Insomnia is a terrible condition that affects a large portion of the country. It can cause your productivity to decrease, your quality of work to suffer, and your mental and physical health to weaken.
The medications typically used to treat this condition tend to over-correct the issue and put you at risk of experiencing quite a few negative side effects.
Due to that, many people suffering from insomnia choose to exhaust all the natural options for remedies first.
If you are interested in using herbal remedies as a part of everyday first aid treatments, read on! The following can be helpful in creating an herbal first aid kit for your home.
A herbal first aid kit will allow you to treat minor injuries, burns, and other non-serious maladies.
Your kit should contain herbal and traditional remedies for things like cuts, rashes, burns, and minor ailments.
The Excalibur food dehydrator is one of the best around for dehydrating fresh herbs. 
If you grow your own herbs for home remedies then you’ll find a dehydrator a BIG asset.
Basically, you pop the leaves/flowers/stems/berries on the trays, set the temperature, switch on and leave it to do it’s work?
There are many food dehydrators on the market and generally speaking, you get what you pay for.
I’ve tried the $30 kind, waste of money! You can also pay thousands, the Excalibur comes around the middle and is good value for home use.
Don’t forget, you can make fruit leathers, jerky, fish, in fact, you can pretty much dry any kind of food.
Most of you reading this will already have suffered from cold sores and know that they first appear as blisters below the surface of the skin.
These fluid filled pockets appear on and/or around the mouth and lips.
They can be pretty painful over the course of the 7 to 10 days they last, breaking open, oozing and crusting over.
Fortunately, there are a number of home remedies for cold sores which can help!
You might not know it, but there are 100s of uses for vinegar!
Historically, vinegar has been used since ancient times when it was accidentally discovered that wine, left undisturbed, turns into vinegar.
This wasn’t heralded with as much enthusiasm as the discovery of the wine that created it.
However, over many long years, lots of uses for vinegar have been discovered!
While there are no records before 5000 BC, legend has it that the seminarians a civilisation of ancient Babylonians used vinegar as a cleaning agent.
Vinegar is one of the best substances for cleaning, cheap and environmentally friendly! Cleaning with vinegar is also quick and easy.
You can reuse spray bottles or buy new and label accordingly. For pastes, a recycled glass jar will store safely.
Vinegar has so many uses which you can read about here, for now, we’re tackling the cleaning!
If you’re reading this, chances are you either have arthritis or know someone who does. There are many home remedies for arthritis, depending on the type you have.
According to Arthritis Australia, there are more than 100 types of arthritis. The 3 most common are:
Most are characterised by joint pain, inflammation, and damage to joint cartilage. The end result being joint instability, deformity and a major impact on daily activities.
Without question, it’s one of the major causes of disability and chronic pain in our society.
The question is what can you do with home remedies to ease joint pain and inflammation?
If I am perfectly honest I haven’t spent much of my life thinking about sauerkraut or it’s health benefits.
It’s a European dish of fermented cabbage that often tastes as good as it sounds.
After a brief introduction on top of a sausage sandwich at a fancy market (thought it was onion), sauerkraut has slowly started infiltrating the domestic offerings from our kitchen.
If you’ve ever suffered from asthma, then you’ll recognise the symptoms of an asthma attack. That shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and feelings of panic (from mild to severe). There are many home remedies for asthma, not curing, but relieving the symptoms of an asthma attack.
I’ve suffered from Asthma since my 40s and only recently discovered I had allergies. Some allergies I can deal with by not eating or preparing them (soya, potatoes, wheat, olive) but enviromental allergies are trickier (Ash, Birch and grass).
I have to point out here that since cutting out my known allergens, the symptoms have eased by quite a bit. It’s definitely worth getting tested, then consulting with your health professional
“These remedies are not to replace any medications prescribed by your health professional”.
Asthma is a disease of the lungs that causes difficulty breathing. These asthma attacks occur when there is an obstruction in the flow of air in the lungs.
Because the airways swell up during an asthma attack, the muscles around them become tight, causing the constriction of air around the lungs.
Heartburn (or acid reflux) is painful!
If you’ve ever suffered from it, you’ll be glad there are plenty of home remedies for heartburn.
Most of them simple solutions too.
Sometimes it can be so painful, people think they’re having a heart attack, quick relief is needed and welcomed.
A urinary tract infection can be very painful and debilitating.
Your first port of call should be your health professional.
But, there are also some useful home remedies for urinary tract infections in humans to help alleviate the symptoms.(UTI for short)
