Aloe Vera

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Aloe Vera is a small green leafy plant that looks kind of like giant blades of grass. It has a wealth of health benefits. It’s not an unattractive houseplant that is easy to purchase from florists, greenhouses, and even some lawn and garden stores. It’s also very easy to grow and has countless practical uses. … Read more

Herbal Sleep Aids

Woman sleeping beside an alarm clockThere 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.

Can Herbal Teas Help You Sleep Better?

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.

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Herbal First Aid

Diuretic Herbs

Herbal First AidIf 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.

What You Need

Your kit should contain herbal and traditional remedies for things like cuts, rashes, burns, and minor ailments.

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Excalibur Food Dehydrator

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The Excalibur food dehydrator is one of the best around for dehydrating fresh herbs. Excalibur Food Dehydrator

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.

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Home Remedies For Cold Sores

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Cold sore on a lipMost 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!

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Vinegar Uses

Vinegar UsesYou might not know it, but there are 100s of vinegar uses!

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.

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Cleaning With Vinegar

Cleaning with vinegarVinegar 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.

 

 

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Home Remedies for Arthritis

Spices and herbs

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:

  • Osteoarthritis,
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Gout (also known as gouty arthritis)

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?

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Suprising Health Benefits of Sauerkraut

The Surprising Health Benefits of Sauerkraut

SauerkrautIf I am perfectly honest I haven’t spent much of my life thinking about sauerkraut. 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.

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Home Remedies For Asthma

Triggers Of Asthma

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.

“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.

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Figure A shows the location of the lungs and airways in the body. Figure B shows a cross-section of a normal airway. Figure C shows a cross-section of an airway during asthma symptoms. Source: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/asthma

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Eczema Home Remedies

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eczema home remediesIf 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.

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Home Remedies For Flu

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home remedies for fluYou 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:

  • runny nose
  • cough
  • aches and pains in the body
  • scratchy throat
  • headache
  • nausea

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.

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Anti Inflammatory Home Remedies

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anti inflammatory home remediesWhen you injure yourself, like pulling a muscle or giving your knee a bang, inflammation is the natural response of the body to protect the injured part.  But, it’s painful! Anti inflammatory home remedies can be as effective as over the counter, chemical laden medication.

(As always. consult your health physician before taking any herbal supplements).

Anti-inflammatories help to reduce swelling and give pain relief and there are many herbs and spices that can help with this 3.

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Home Remedies For Lice

Home Remedies For Lice

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!

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Home Remedies For Acne

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Home Remedies For AcneBeing the largest organ in your body, it’s important to look after your skin without using harsh chemicals. There are a ton of home remedies for acne which don’t entail using harsh chemicals and spending loads of money!

Not everyone suffers from acne, but if you’re one of the unlucky ones, I’ve no doubt you’ve tried many solutions.

Sometimes it’s not full blown acne, but small pimples. You can still get scars but, there’s a lot you can do to reduce and remove acne and pimple scars. 

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Health Benefits of Turmeric

What is Turmeric?health benefits of turmeric

Most likely you have some sitting in your kitchen cupboard. There are many health benefits of Turmeric and this modest spice packs a real health punch.

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.

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Benefits of Honey

benefits of honeyHoney is one of those foods that many of us have in our kitchen cupboard but would most likely not think to use it medicinally, but the benefits of honey should never be underestimated!

While it’s most often employed in cooking as a liquid sweetener, it’s useful for several different common illnesses.

Notably in protecting your cardiovascular system, treating coughs, boosting your immune system and when used externally, to help wound healing. 

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