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Bursitis Herbal Home Remedies

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Bursitis Relief with Cayenne Peppers

Add 1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper to 1 cup of apple cider vinegar and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 minutes. Plunge a fabric in the liquid and apply to the affected area like a poultice. Rub the area with hot olive oil before applying to the skin.

Bursitis Relief with Olive Oil

Massage the affected area with hot olive oil on a daily basis. This could stop the return of bursitis, and it helps to relieve the pain.

Bursitis Treatment with Potato

Grate 1 potato and add to a cup of water. Steep during the night. Strain the next morning and drink the liquid before lunch. Should be made on a daily basis to prevent bursitis.

Bursitis Treatment with Sea Water

Sea water has been reputed to treat chronic bursitis. Drink daily. Buy the sea water from a local health food store.

Caution: Do not use this recipe if you have high blood pressure.

Neuralgia Pain Relief with Lavender

Add several drops of lavender oil to your bath to relieve neuralgia (spasms of pain).

Pain Relief for Joints with Horseradish

Grate a fresh horseradish root. Humidify with water and place in a small porous bag. Use as a poultice over the affected joint.

Herbal Stress Relief

Friday, December 25th, 2009

If stress is not handled correctly, more serious diseases can result. Some herbs known to assist with stress relief by supporting the adrenal glands, brain and metabolism to above the accumulation of biological stress. The majority herbs should be taken for a number of months for optimal resistance-building effects. Herbal cure forever has a significant chunk of followers. Herbs are natural stress relievers with little or no side effects.

Herbal therapy has been known to reduce and in several example eliminate the symptoms of stress. Herb usages in conjunction with behavior and lifestyle change can resolve the symptoms of physical, as well as psychological stress. Natural therapies have been around for centuries and continue to be soft, natural, effective, and secure.

Herbs for Stress Relief

The following different herbs have medicinal values in the treatment of stress:

  • Kava Kava or simply Kava is the latest feeling in the stress management therapy. It is a derivative of the pepper family ‘Piper methysticum’.
  • Scull Cap is used as a nerve tonic. It stabilizes the mood during the period of stress.

Homemade Night Creams

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

A night cream is the better way of providing nourishment to the skin. It is not essential for night creams to be thicker than your daily moisturizer though it is beneficial to have a night cream that is able to restore your skins elasticity and skin renewal.

A good night cream should have collagen, elastin and essential lipids to help rejuvenate your face while you sleep. Do not apply night cream on your upper lids prior bedtime or you will wake up with puffy lids. Night creams basically restore essential collagen, lipids and elastin which is a nutritious moisturizer for your face. Night cream is like a much needed vitamin for weary, stressed skin. Remind to take good care of your skin, day or night and keep a well supplied stock of night creams for home or travel.

Natural night creams work while you sleep, during your body’s reparative cycle, to refresh and stock skin improving firmness, lines and elasticity. The night cream compliments the qualities of the day cream working overtime to prevent moisture reserves and restore the skins delicate balance. This skin care cream is convenient for all skin types.

Apple night cream

  • Take five hundred grams of apples.
  • One cup of rose water
  • One tablespoon of tincture of benzoin.

Put the apples through the mixer and add the juice and pulp to vegetable fat. Keep the mixture on a small flame and stir till it is well mixed. Remove from the flame and add to it the color and rose water.

Conditioner night cream

  • 3 tbsp. almond oil.
  • 2 tbsp. hydrous lanolin.
  • 2 tbsp. cocoa butter.
  • 2 tsp. rose water
  • 1/2 tsp. honey.

In a glass bowl place a pan of hot water, melt and soft the almond oil, lanolin and cocoa butter. Remove from heat and include rose water and honey and mix well.

Rosewater night creams

  • Take one fourth cup of rose water.
  • Take half cup of almond oil.
  • Half teaspoon of sodium benzoate.

Melt the wax along with almond over a small flame. Include rose water and cool the mix. Include benzoate and leave it for setting in a refrigerator for a day.

Sunburn Homemade Cure

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Sunburn consequences from too much sun or sun- coequal exposure. UVR exposure can come from a range of sources, excluding sun, tanning bed, phototherapy lamp, and arc lamp. An ultraviolet light cause alters in the surface and in the deeper layers of the skin. It decreases the stretchiness of the skin and can effect untimely aging and wrinkling of the skin, as well as the formation of age spots. Deeper in the skin, it causes alters in the structure of cells, and augments the hazard of skin cancers. Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation causes sunburns and enlarges the risk of two types of skin cancer: basal-cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.

Nearly one third of US adults have sunburn per year, and about two thirds of US children have a sunburn each summer. Certain light-skinned and fair-haired people are at larger risk of sunburn injury. Prior hot sun exposure and past skin injury are risks for sunburn, even in limited exposure to the sun. However, usual limited exposure to UV radiation produces helpful vitamin D in the skin. Certain light-skinned and fair-haired people are at extreme risk of sunburn injury. Sunburn can cause a mild fever and a headache. Lie down in a cool, quiet room to alleviate the headache. A headache may be caused by dehydration.

Other symptoms are edema, itching, red and/or peeling skin, hives and nausea. Also, a little amount of warm is given off from the burn caused by the absorption of blood in the healing method, giving a warm feeling to the affected part. Sunburn is better prevented than treated. Drink lots of water and make sure to drink at least 2 glasses of water before going in the sun. A hot shower instantly after mild sunburn can bring about peeling sooner and rid you quickly of discomfort. Vitamin E, one of the antioxidants, can be taken frequently as part of a daily vitamin and mineral appendages or spread as in an ointment on sunburn.

Vitamin C is another antioxidant that will assist prevents harsh damage from sunburn and condenses its effects. Selenium is a mineral that will aid fight sunburn. Try taking a cool shower or bath or placing wet, cold wash rags on the burn. Good old plain aloe vera will assist the healing and have cooling feeling. A paste made of neem stems if dispensed on the skin, helps a lot in curing the burn fast. Sandalwood powder paste prepared with rose water, watermelon juice or cucumber juice helps a lot. Buttermilk too is a good option to heal sunburn. You can wash off the effaced skin with the chilled buttermilk to heal it.

Importance Of Hair Masks

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

The foundation of our hair organization is protein. Thus having a protein full diet for your hair would obtain most of your hair problems solved in no time. If your hair is suitably taken care then your hair would be one of the smoothest, glossy, and shiny and dandruff free hair. Oiling your hair is incredibly essential for the future of your hair. The hair mask works in dissimilar manner in assessment to the conditioner. The attentiveness level of hair mask is much extra than conditioner. Through the high attentiveness of moisturizer your hair is given the further treatment for those bad hair days. This used once a month would be good sufficient slightly than the daily utilize of your conditioner.

Lesser the hair condition superior the hair mask will exertion on you. It will help in producing the more shine and seem to create that impact. A better remedy for weak and dried out hair is the hair mask through lemon juice. You will necessitate: 2 tbsp. castor oil /or almond oil/, 1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice and 1 tbsp. honey. Add the honey and the castor oil to the lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients well and pertain the mixture generously first to the roots and then to the total length of the hair. Depart the mask on for about one and a half hour. Employ gentle shampoo and rinse your attractive hair. Do the mask two times to get greatest results – the mask will nurture and hydrate your hair intensely, while making it emerge healthier and more shining.

Hair masks are huge for improving form but a few of them can be quite expensive. Hair masks come in different brands as well as you can assemble it home and use it. It will demonstrate a great deal of perfection and your hair would be very manageable. Fenugreek masks employed to get rid of dandruff. Immerse a handful of fenugreek seeds during the night in just sufficient water to swathe them. In the morning, pound the seeds in the water to create a paste. Apply to your hair and depart it on for 15 to 20 minutes. Wash it out with a gentle shampoo. There are a lot of ingredients that work in favor of making an outstanding mask similar to honey, egg, almond, yogurt, avocado, olive oil as well as employ of fruit which can offer your hair that extra suave touch.

Diarrhea Home Remedies

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

During some illnesses we have to contend with diarrhea. Here are some recipes to help with that problem.

Diarrhea Relief with Allspice

Put a pinch of allspice in 1 cup of warm water. Add honey and drink after every bowel movement.

Diarrhea Relief with Apple

Peel, core, and puree an apple in the blender. Grate if you do not have a blender. Give 1 apple every 2 hours, while withholding all other food during treatment.

Diarrhea Relief with Apple and Milk

Simmer 1pared apple in 1cup of milk until very soft. Put apple/milk mixture in the blender and blend until smooth. Drink ½ cup after every bowel movement until relief is obtained.

Diarrhea Relief with Blackberries

When blackberries are in season, pick plenty so you can put up plenty of good juice.  When you can the berries, cold pack them, so the juice is extracted. Then you have the use of the berries after draining off the juice.

Black berry juice is very good for treating diarrhea in children. Give a glassful every couple of hours as needed. You will probably want to sweeten the juice a little. My kids always loved this and we would drink it just for the heck of it, even when not needed.

You really miss having the kids pick berries with me, because this was one of our best times together. We always had a lot of fun. Some of the kids come over to go picking now-and you really enjoy that-but it seems that small children can make any situation more fun. Even bugs can create a fascinating conversation. Kids come up with the funniest notions about life. You learn a lot just by listening to them.

Diarrhea Relief with Carrots

Cook 1 pound of carrots in as little water as possible. Cook until soft. When done, puree in the blender. Keep refrigerated and take 1/2 cup every 30 minutes until relief is obtained.

Diarrhea Relief with Comfrey

Heat 4 cups of milk until hot. Add 1 tablespoon of comfrey root. Steep 15 minutes. Strain Drink a glass every hour until relief is obtained.

Diarrhea Relief with Nutmeg

Heat 1 cup of milk. Add 1 teaspoon of nutmeg. Stir well and drink warm. Do this every hour until relief is obtained. Honey may be added if desired.

Diarrhea Relief with Rice

Boil 2/3 cup of white or brown rice in 4 cups of water for 15 minutes. Strain and sip the resulting liquid. Should get relief in a couple of hours.

Diarrhea Relief with Wild Geranium

Mix 1 cup blackberry juice and 1 tablespoon each of wild geranium, shepherd’s purse, and sweet fem, and 1 teaspoon of ginger. Boil for 10 minutes. Cool and strain. Drink ½ cup every hour, or after every bowel movement. Do not eat solids until diarrhea is cleared up. Then start to eat on a light diet.

Diarrhea Treatment for Children

Children dehydrate very quickly by losing fluid and salts in the body due to diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. It is important to replace the fluids through any liquid the child will drink, and to continue to feed them the liquid.

Prepare the following dehydration drink and give at the onset of diarrhea. Mix together 1 teaspoon of table salt, 8 teaspoons sugar, and add to 5 cups of water (if you have time, sterilize the water by boiling it, but be sure to cool it before giving it to the child). Give 1 cup each time the child has a bowel movement, ½ cup for a smaller child. Spoon-feed a baby. Let the child drink as much as they want. You can stop giving it as soon as the child stops having loose bowel movements or loses desire for the rehydration drink.

Seek help if the child displays symptoms of dehydration, if there is severe vomiting, or if they will not drink. For babies, you should seek help immediately. The rehydration solution is for emergency use only; it is just to tide you over until you can seek medical help. Deaths from dehydration are common, so do not hesitate to contact your physician

Diarrhea Treatment with Plantain Infusion

Plantain is easy to find, so dry plenty of it. It has many uses. The ribbed plantain is the best for medicinal use, so try to collect only that kind.

This recipe is good for treating diarrhea. Pour 1 cup boiling water over 4 tablespoons dried plantain leaves. Cover and steep 20 minutes. Strain and sweeten. Drink in ½ cup doses every 2 hours until relief is obtained.

Headache Migraine Home Remedies

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Headache Caused by Mental Fatigue

Mix ½ teaspoon each of sage, peppermint, rosemary; and hops. Pour 2 cups boiling water over herb mixture and let steep 10 minutes. Add a pinch of ginger and sweeten. Drink warm before going to bed.

Headache Help with Peppermint

Chop 1 cup fresh peppermint. Pour 2 cups boiling water over the herb and steep for 5 minutes. Strain and sweeten. Add lemon if desired. You may use this one for the first twinge of a headache. Sometimes you can just think about getting a headache and that’s enough of an excuse to sit and drink a cup. Very relaxing for you.

Favoritefor Headaches

Use 1 heaping teaspoon of dried chamomile flowers for each cup of boiling water. Steep 10 minutes. Strain and sweeten with honey. It’s a good relaxes. Caution: Do not use if you suffer from ragweed allergies, as chamomile is in the same family. There are too many other herbs that you can substitute for you to take a chance of suffering from an allergic reaction. Great for those that can use it.

Migraine Headache

Many people suffer from migraines. From what you understand the pain can be terrific. Migraines can be precipitated by allergic hypersensitivity or emotional disturbances. Most people who suffer from the disorder come from a family background where over 50 percent of the family members suffer from the debilitating headaches. Rest in a darkened room is recommended. Try several of these remedies to find one that will work for you.

Migraine Relief with Elderberries

Put 10-15 elder berries in 1 cup of water. Mash berries and bring to a quick boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain, sweeten, and drink. This should be taken as soon as you feel a headache start on, as the analgesic effect is mild.

Migraine Relief with Hair Dryer

Many people get relief from turning a hair dryer on medium setting at the first sign of a migraine headache and allowing the heat from the dryer to soothe their headache.

Migraine Relief with Lemon Coffee

At the first sign of a headache, make a strong cup of coffee, adding 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. The caffeine in the coffee seems to help some migraine sufferers.

Migraine Relief with Nettle

Put 2 tablespoons of dried nettle in 2 cups of milk. Simmer for 10 minutes. Strain and sweeten with honey. Drink while warm. Do not use if you show an allergic reaction to nettle. Substitute peppermint if need be. Test for allergic reaction by taking small sips the first time this recipe is tried. If no reaction or rash shows up, it’ is safe to use.

Migraine Relief with Stinking Iris

This is a natural painkiller and is good for migraine headaches. Chop 1 tablespoon of stinking iris (iris foetidissima) and add to2 cups of water. Boil gently for 15minutes. Strain and take up to 3 tablespoons per day. Has a slight laxative effect so you may want to weaken it further.

Migraine Relief with Vinegar

Mix equal parts of vinegar and water and bring to a boil. Inhale the fumes for several minutes. Repeat as needed.

Tension Headache Relief

Put 2 tablespoons each of mugwort, valerian, chamomile, and agrimony to 2 cups of boiling water. Allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Strain and add to bath water. Very good for aching muscles.