Natural Remedies Today
Home remedies that work
In this complicated world we live in, here are a few amazingly simple home remedies that really work. A friend sent them to me and vouched they’re for real, so I’m sharing them this week with all our readers. Enjoy.
Amazingly Simple Home Remedies
Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you chop.
For high blood pressure sufferers, simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure on your veins. Remember to use a timer.
A mousetrap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you the snooze button.
If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you’ll be afraid to cough.
You only need two tools in life – WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn’t move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn’t move and does, use the duct tape.
If you can’t fix it with a hammer, you’ve got an electrical problem.
Donating organs
I recently renewed my driver’s license and discovered now you can do everything by mail including even donating your organs by simply checking a donor’s box.
Did you know…
19 people die everyday waiting for an organ transplant in the U.S
Millions of people in the U.S. need an organ transplant, but only 100,000 are registered on the government’s current deceased organ donor list because there are too few deceased donor organs.
MatchingDonors.com has become the world’s largest and most successful nonprofit organization promoting and registering living organ donation.
Currently, patients waiting for an organ donation are placed on a national waiting list through the United Network for Organ Sharing.
A computer system matches patients to donor organs according to objective criteria such as blood and tissue type, immune status, medical urgency and time spent on the waiting list – the average time to receive a deceased organ is seven to nine years on this list.
This ranking system determines which patients are offered available organs. This process is extremely important in anyone’s organ search, but now MatchingDonors.com offers a way to enhance the search with a more active approach – the average time a person receives an organ from MatchingDonors.com is less than six months.
In collaboration with a number of health officials, MatchingDonors.com (a 501c3 nonprofit organization) has launched a public education campaign throughout the United States to help people recognize that they can be a living organ donor and to encourage them to register as a living organ donor.
Kitchen Cures:Taking advantage of natural remedies
Piercing wind chills and teeth-chattering temperatures aside, the unavoidable spread of disease is the bane of every student’s existence during these long winter months.
Only when an illness strikes hard enough to challenge our pain/discomfort tolerances do we consider medical attention, but antibiotics, experts say, are not the answer for all problems.
The Mayo Clinic advises a doctor’s visit for bacterial infections such as strep throat and UTIs, but explains that viral infections, such as the common cold, influenza and some ear infections just take rest and time for the body to heal.
Home remedies may be the best solution for those who don’t want to risk antibiotic resistance or who are without health insurance, and they are easy and cheap enough for anyone to try.
Below are a collection of popular suggestions for natural medicines meant to relieve aches and pains during the recovery process.
Ear infection
It’s best to visit a doctor for an earache in order to find out if it’s a bacterial/fungal infection such as swimmer’s ear or a viral infection, which are often a result of a cold.
• Steam: Microwave a wet cloth in a mug until it steams, then place over ear for a few minutes and afterwards, let the ear drain.
• Onions: Bake an onion in oven at 350 for an hour or microwave until it can be pricked easily with a fork. Then place onion in a mug and slice it open so it steams. Place your ear over the mug until no more steam is being produced. This should relieve pain immediately and prevent further infection.
• Lemons: Squeeze some lemon juice in your ear, then let it drain after a few seconds. The lemon’s acidity neutralizes the base properties of the bacteria, making it a very harsh environment for their survival.
Coughs/sore throat
• Ginger: It’s easy to prepare this as a tea. To do this, cut pieces of raw ginger into small pieces and dump into boiling water before adding tea leaves.
• Okra: Boil down sliced up pieces of okra, also known as lady’s fingers, into a pot and inhale the steam once or twice a day to help with throat irritation. Okra can be found at most Columbus grocery stores for $2.99 per pound.
Allergies or sinus infections
• Neti Pot: To relieve nasal congestion, a neti pot, which resembles an Aladdinesque teapot-lamp, is used to pour a saline solution up the nose. Just mix one cup warm water for every ¼ teaspoon non-iodized salt. This stream of water then flows out the other nostril, resulting in a clean, pain-free nasal passage.
• To illustrate how effectively this technique works, take into account the thousands of years Indian yogis have been using this practice to cleanse their naval cavities. Neti pots can be found locally at Walgreens for $7 and CVS for $13 but a wider selection and price range is available online as well.
Indigestion
• Fennel or caraway seeds: The best way these seeds work is to put about a teaspoon of them in a cup and pour in boiling water. Cover the cup, wait 10 minutes, then thoroughly strain out the seeds before drinking this concoction. Drink about three cups a day on an empty stomach for best results.
• Cinnamon: Stir in ¼ to ½ teaspoon of cinnamon powder into a cup of hot cocoa or hot water for tea. The properties of this Southeast Asian spice help your digestive tract function smoothly. The water will also help with this. In fact, 6 to 8 glasses daily is the recommended amount to maintain healthy intestines.
• Herbal tea: Even something as simple as drinking ginger, thyme or mint tea on an empty stomach can help calm the stomach.
• Baking soda: This recipe can be used for all flu-like symptoms. To make your own Alka-Seltzer, mix ½ teaspoon of baking soda in a ½ cup of water. For a citrus flavor, just add ½ teaspoon of lemon juice. This advice is not recommended for people watching sodium intake or those with high blood pressure.
Warts
• Duct tape: Place a small rectangle of duct tape over the wart and change every three hours. To avoid curious inquiries, you can keep a band aid over the area. One study found this treatment more effective than the liquid-nitrogen freezing process most doctors use (http://archpedi.ama-assn.org).
• Pineapple: Apply fresh pineapple to the wart for several times a day. This should remove the wart in about two to three days.
• Camphor oil: Coat the area with camphor oil every few days and the wart should disappear within a week.