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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!
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 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)
If you’ve ever suffered from the dry, itchy skin caused by eczema, then you’ll understand how painful it can be.
Fortunately, there are a number of Eczema home remedies you can try.
Home remedies for eczema can be made with products you either already keep in your store cupboard or are easy to find.
Different solutions work for different people so do try them till you find the one that works for you.
You feel that tickle in your throat and the beginnings of a headache.
You just generally feel “under the weather”, all signs of the impending flu!
Fortunately, there are very effective home remedies for flu.
For the first day or two, you might think you have a simple cold.
Often, by the time you realize it’s the flu, schedule an appointment, and go to the doctors for treatment, you have the full blown flu virus.
The advantage of home remedies is that you can start taking home remedies immediately you have symptoms such as:
Sometimes, taking a natural remedy for flu can be enough to relieve you of the worst flu symptoms and get you back on your feet quickly.
Head lice (nits) are those pesky tiny parasites that live on the scalp and hair shafts.
It is a common problem among children, especially when they first start school, or return after a holiday. Fortunately, there are many home remedies for lice!
Lice are no respecter of age or gender and are easily passed on to siblings and other family members, including Grans, Aunts and Uncles etc.
In the olden days, sometimes the head was shaved completely or Kerosene was used to treat head lice.
When Kerosene was used, a severe combing with a special bone comb was then done to remove the eggs.
A painful and very smelly procedure, thankfully we have gentler and pleasant smelling home remedies for lice these days!
The benefits of cinnamon, love it or hate it are many!
This ubiquitous kitchen spice is a powerhouse in your herbal first-aid kit as a home remedy.
Most of us will have cinnamon in our spice rack for flavouring our desserts and sweet goodness like carrot cakes and Christmas inspired recipes.
There are many health benefits of Turmeric and this modest spice packs a real health punch.
Most likely you have some sitting in your kitchen cupboard.
The part of turmeric that we use medicinally is the rhizome (which is kind of like the root).
Resembling Ginger root in appearance, it has been used as a spice, colouring agent and medicine for 1000’s of years.
