The experts claim that the detox through your feet can be an effective and easy way to help cleanse your body of toxins that build up over time.

Here are a few methods of detoxification

1. Ionic Foot Bath

You can also use ionic foot bath to detoxify your body from toxins. This bath is based on electrolysis, which is a method that uses electrical current to make a chemical reaction.

You should use warm water to open your pores and salt is used as an anti-inflammatory astringent. Ions are absorbed through the feet and your body is getting a detox. If the salt water becomes dark, that means you are eliminating toxins from your body. There are several forms of this bath:

2. Salt Detox Bath

This is the second method, and here is what you need:

• Apple cider vinegar – one cup
• Sea salt – one cup
• Baking soda – two cups
• Epsom salt – one cup
• Two or three drops of some essential oil

How to prepare the bath?

Boil one bowl of water. Add sea salt and Epsom salt and stir. Then, use hot water to fill your tub and pour the mixture inside. In the end, add the apple cider vinegar. Your bath is now ready to soak your feet and keep them there for 30 minutes. The toxins will disappear in a natural way.

3. Clay Detox Bath

This is the third method, and here is what you need:

• Epsom salt – half a cup
• Bentonite clay – half a cup
• Three or four drops of some essential oil

How to prepare your bath?

Boil one pot of water. Add Epsom salt and let it melt. Then, you should add the bentonite clay as well as the essential oil. Keep your feet in this bath for half an hour, and you will get rid of the toxins. Also, your levels of magnesium will be boosted too.

4. Oxygen Detox Bath

This is the fourth method, and here is what you need:

• Two cups of hydrogen peroxide
• A tablespoon of powdered ginger

How to prepare your bath?

Use hot water to fill your tub. Then, add the ingredients in the tub. Take 30 minutes to soak yourself in the bath. This way you will be able to fight allergies and skin irritations, as well as eliminate toxins.

5. Foot detox pads

These pads are usually made from bamboo and tree extracts and you can find them in any health store. These pads, also known as foot detox patches originate from the Japanese culture and it is very easy to use them.

Applying these pads prior to going to bed and removing them the following morning usually does the trick. Most people say that the pads are darkened with toxins when they remove them. People who use these pads claim that they feel fewer headaches, less joint pain, and less fatigue after using them.

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However, due to its specific job, the colon is an easy target to a number of diseases.

Although modern drugs can get control of things and clean the colon, why not go the healthier route and choose an effective homemade remedy?

Simple as it may sound, a combination and pineapple and cucumber does wonders for your colon. Raw fruits and vegetables provide the body that can cleanse the colon. Some of these compounds include polyphenols, natural sugars which serve as laxatives and fiber.

The Benefits of the Cucumber-Pineapple Colon Cleansing Juice

• Mood boost
• Alleviating gas and bloating
• Preventing cramps
• Accelerating weight loss, Encouraging the immunity, Stimulating liver function
• Eliminating toxins
• Increasing the energy

Pineapple and Cucumbers Nutritional Value

Pineapple alone can effectively prevent other ailments as well, including arthritis, laryngitis, and sinusitis, cardiovascular diseases, and atherosclerosis.

This marvelous fruit is packed in relevant nutrients like sodium, potassium, chlorine, sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, calcium, iodine, vitamins A, B, and C.

Cucumber, on the other hand, has very little calories and is rich in vitamins A, B complex, C and folic acid, as well as sulfur, potassium and natural chlorine.

Because of this, this precious veggie helps treat joint and muscle inflammation, hypertension, and dehydration.

Here’s how to prepare this remedy at home:

Ingredients:

• A half Aloe Vera leaf
• An apple, red or green
• One orange, juiced
• A pineapple lice
• Half a cucumber

Directions:

Wash and cut the cucumber and apple. In the meantime, divide the Aloe Vera leaf in tow, and squeeze out the gel of one half.

Throw everything into a blender, and add a glass of water to the mix. Finally, add the squeezed orange juice, and pulse until the mix evens out. As treatment, drink this beverage twice a day, once in the morning before breakfast and once in the afternoon, before lunch.

Know that alongside your drink, you will also have to drink no less than 8 glasses of water daily. First results come along within a week, which mostly shows in your weight.

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Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of coconut oil
• ¼ teaspoon of raw honey
• 1/8 teaspoon of sea salt

This amazing combination will help your body soon be in the “sleeping mode”. It regulates the production of stress hormones, regulating your cortisol levels. Cortisol is the hormone to blame for your sleep problems. Wake up refreshed using this!

How to prepare the remedy? These ingredients can be used in two different ways.

Mix the coconut oil and honey well. Consume the remedy and drink one glass of water in order to push the ingredients down.

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Benefits of Eating Honey with Cinnamon Daily

1. Prevents Heart Disease

• Prepare a paste of both honey and cinnamon.
• Put this paste on Toast and eat this every morning for breakfast.
• Eating this paste with toast keeps your heart strong and healthy.
• It helps to reduce your cholesterol levels.
• It prevents heart attack.
• Consuming honeyand cinnamon rejuvenates the arteries and the veins.(2)

2. Helps with Arthritis Pain

• Take one cup of hot water and mix two teaspoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
• Drink this solution every day that helps to treat chronic arthritis.

“Recently it has been reported by Copenhagen University that consuming a mixture of cinnamon and honey relieved 200 arthritis patients. The arthritis patients who were not able to walk started to walk within a month of taking this solution.”

3. Treats Bladder Infections

• Mix two teaspoons of cinnamon powder and one tablespoon of honey in a full glass of mild hot or lukewarm water.
• Drink this mixture daily.
• Drinking this blend helps to kill the germs of the gall bladder.(3)

4. Regulate Cholesterol Levels

• Take two teaspoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder, then combine in 16 ounces of tea water.
• Drinking this solution helps to regulate or control your cholesterol levels and it cuts cholesterol level in the blood by 10 percent in two hours.
• Take this solution three times a day, this helps to cure chronic cholesterol easily.

5. Treats Cold & Cough

• The persons who have been suffering from severe and harsh colds can mix one teaspoon of lukewarm honey with 1/4 tablespoon cinnamon powder.
• Consume this paste for three days constantly.
• This process helps to get rid of chronic cough, cold, and, clears sinuses instantly.(4)

6. Relieves Upset Stomach

• Take honey with cinnamon powder and use it daily to clean your upset stomach
• Eating this paste also helps to remove ulcers from stomach

7. Strengthen Immune System

• Using honey and cinnamon on a daily basis that strengthen or boosts your immune system.
• If you consume this intake it aids to prevent bacterial and viral attacks in your body.
• Honey is rich in Vitamin and is a huge sources of iron, so, regular use of honey and cinnamon boost the white blood corpuscles that carry DNA and also helps to combat with several viral diseases.

8. Treats Digestive Disorders

• Mix cinnamon powder with 2 teaspoons of honey.
• Take this before your meal.
• It helps to improve your digestive system.
• Using this paste also relieves from heartburn or acidity.

9. Increases Longevity

• In three cups of boiling water mix four tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder to prepare a tea.
• Drink ¼ cup of this tea at least four times every day
• Drinking this tea rejuvenates your skin and increase your longevity
• It helps to provide you a youthful skin along with increasing your life span and makes you feel young always.

10. Treats Sore Throat

• Take one teaspoon of honey
• Start sipping this honey until you feel relief from sore throat
• Sip in every three hours until the throat get relaxed
• Repeating this method helps to get rid of a sore throat at once.

11. Cures Pimples

• Combine three teaspoons of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and create a paste of them
• Apply this paste on your face on the pimples before going to bed
• Rinse your face in next morning with lukewarm water
• Repeating this process every day for two weeks constantly helps to eliminate the pimples from your skin

12. Kills Skin Infections

• Take honey and cinnamon according to your need and make a paste
• Apply the paste on the affected area of skin that easily treats ringworm, rashes, eczema, and other skin problems.

13. Reduces Weight

• Mix honey and cinnamon powder in one cup of boiled water.
• Use this combination daily at morning before one and half hour of breakfast on an empty stomach and also consume at night before sleep.
• Drinking this solution at morning and night every day helps reduce your weight instantly.

14. Remove Bad Breath

• Combine one teaspoon of honey and a cinnamon powder in warm water.
• Take this drink at morning that works as a mouth fresher and refresh your mouth.

15. Restore Hearing

• Consume honey and cinnamon powder daily in morning and night.
• It helps to restore your hearing.

Honey is one of the most effective natural products that has a varying number of benefits for your health, skin, hair and to cure diseases. The uncountable effects of using honey with cinnamon have been indicated in this article to help everyone improve their health and general well-being.

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If we could let these things go, stop wearing them on our sleeves and our hearts, what would we have the energy, clarity and time for? What could we create or appreciate? How would our lives change if we simply said, enough is enough when it comes to these three things.

1. Stop wearing the guilt of your past.

Guilt and regret about the past actions and behaviors aren’t helping you show up for your life now, in the present moment. In fact, because of that guilt, you aren’t fully enjoying your current life.

Whether it is guilt about letting go of something in your closet that you spent too much on, or guilt about a past relationship or anything in between, you have paid enough. You’ve paid with your money, time, attention and emotion. You can stop paying now.

Let go, apologize, forgive and choose to live free of guilt and regret. As they say, life is too short. We can’t spend our time stressing over things that have already happened. Learn what lessons the past offered you and then release what came before so you can be present for your life today.

2. Stop wearing the pressure to prove yourself.

I rarely bought clothes, accessories, skirts or boots because I actually needed more clothes. I had plenty. Instead I purchased clothing to feel a certain way and to be perceived a certain way … to prove myself. I wanted to feel smart, beautiful and loved. I wanted other people to think I was those things too.

I tried to prove who I was by what I wore and by what I accomplished. I was always measuring myself by how much I got done. Check marks on my to-do list were a measuring system that failed me over and over again. The problem was that there was always more to do and more to prove and eventually I forgot who I was in the process.

Over time I decided to slow down, choose happiness and prioritize what was important to me instead of what I thought might be important to everyone else.

If you have to prove yourself to people you love, that isn’t love. If you struggle to prove yourself at work, maybe you aren’t doing the right work. If you don’t believe me, just stop for a while. Stop pushing and proving and wishing that people would see you the way you think you need to be seen to succeed. Instead, let them see you for you.

Once you stop proving yourself, you can be yourself.

3. Stop wearing the weight of other people’s expectations and judgements.

Society wants to tell us what to wear (inside and out) whether we are teenagers, middle aged or older women and I finally reject all of it. One of the most astounding realizations I made in the first three months of Project 333, the minimalist fashion challenge that invites you to dress with 33 items or less, is that no one cared what I was wearing. No one even noticed! Once I figured that out, I wondered why was I trying to please anyone with my clothing choices or my life choices.

Giving myself permission to let go of my need to meet other people’s expectations or to feel any kind of way based on judgements (good or bad) helps me to trust myself and allows me to love my life regardless of outside feedback. I’m not good or bad or right or wrong because of what anyone else thinks. I can’t control what they think and I’m not going to change myself trying.

It’s a relief to know that I can love someone and not care what they think about me at the same time.

When you stop wearing the weight of other people’s expectations and judgements, you’ll be light.

Wearing these things is wearing you down. You can stop now. Please stop.

Wear the clothes you want to wear. Live the life you want live. Be you.

But what outfit should you wear?

I’ve been pretty clear about the things to stop wearing and you might might be wondering what you should wear. It may take some time to figure it out as you break free of the expectations of others and forgive yourself for past mistakes. The outfit I suggest you wear as you decide what is best for you is curiosity, pared with gentleness, love and of course, a little glitter.

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All willow species contain some amount of salicin, so it’s easy to find a tree in your area for making natural aspirin.

IDENTIFYING WILLOW

There are more than 300 species of willow, and each one is slightly different.  They all contain salicin in varying amounts, as the family name Salicaceae suggests.

Willow comes in both trees and small shrubs.  In Central Vermont, small willow shrubs are common just about anywhere with poor drainage. 

We planted quite a few willow native shrubs in areas where we have standing water in the spring.  They’re known to be highly evaporative, and they can help dry out land that’s waterlogged.

They’re easiest to identify in the early spring when they put out tiny fluffy catkins.  They pop before leaves enter the landscape, and their glowing white/yellow color helps you pick them out of an otherwise brown landscape pretty easily.

USES OF WILLOW BARK ASPIRIN

Willow bark can be used for all the same purposes as traditional aspirin.  It reduces pain and fever and acts as an anti-inflammatory.  In one study, willow bark was shown to be as effective as Ibuprofen in treating low back pain.

Other studies have shown it to be an effective treatment for osteoarthritis.  The standard dose in both of these trials was 240 mg of salicin per day.

It’s tricky to get an exact dosage with homemade willow bark aspirin because each tree is going to contain different amounts.  If you’re looking for precise dosage, go with a pre-made willow bark capsule.

HARVESTING WILLOW BARK

Willow bark is foraged in the early spring, just as the plants are breaking bud.  As the sap rushes up to create new leaves, the inner bark is more pliable, and it’s easier to separate the bark from the wood.

Willow bark can be harvested directly from the trunk of the tree, but be aware this causes damage to the tree, and may cripple or kill a willow.  It’s always important to think of the ethical implications of your actions when wild foraging, and consider whether or not you can accomplish the same thing by gentler means.

The Herbal Academy’s Botany and Wildcrafting course is a great resource for beginning foragers just learning the ropes of ethical wild-crafting, and they note, 

“Many people assume that it is ethical and sustainable to harvest from the trunk of a living tree. However, when considering the reality that you are creating an open wound that can introduce disease or cut off the circulation of the tree’s food and water, it starts to sound like a really bad idea.”

Harvesting too much can cause the tree to die, and even small amounts can open the tree up to disease and deformity.  Trunk harvesting should be limited to survival situations, or in cases where the tree has just fallen from a storm.

Luckily, for most willow species, it’s not necessary to harvest from a large trunk.  Many have scrubby growth habits, and the native willows on my land look more like bushes than trees.  Harvesting bark from small branches is actually easier anyway, and the bark can be stripped away with a pocket knife.

When harvesting from the trunk, you have to pull away the outer bark to get access to the medicinal inner bark. 

On small branches, the outer bark is very thin and can just be incorporated into the medicine.

WILLOW BARK TEA

The most common way to take willow bark aspirin is as a tea.  The bark can be used fresh if it’s just been harvested, but more commonly it’s dried for later use.  Either way, start by boiling water in a pot.

Dried willow bark can be cut or broken into chips so it’s easier to measure.  Add about 1 tablespoons full of bark chips for every cup of water.  Boil the bark for 10 minutes, and then remove it from the heat and allow it to steep for about 30 minutes. 

In that initial boiling phase, some of the water will cook off and then more of the water will absorb into the bark.  If you want 1 cup of finished tea, start with 2 cups of water and 2 tablespoons full of willow bark.

Once it’s finished steeping, go ahead and drink it.  It’s bitter, but not intensely so.  I think willow tastes a bit like a hoppy beer.  Pleasantly medicinal, but not over the top. 

If you have trouble with bitter flavors, a willow extract is a better way to take willow bark.

WILLOW BARK TINCTURE

The best part about a willow bark extract is that it’s ready to go.  Once the bark is harvested in the early spring, it can be kept as an extract all year and used whenever it’s needed.

Other methods, like willow bark tea, require boiling water and steeping the dried bark.  With an extract, all you need is a few drops and you’re ready to go.

An extract of willow bark, known as a tincture, can be made by steeping the herb in alcohol. 

To make a willow bark extract using the folk herbalist method, start by packing a jar about 2/3 full with willow bark.  Cover the bark completely with a neutral alcohol such as vodka.  Fill the jar to within an inch of the top and then cap it. 

Give it a shake, and store in a cool dark place for a few months.  Shake it anytime you think of it.

Once the extract is complete, strain out the willow bark and store the tincture in amber dropper bottles.  Total salicin content will vary in homemade willow bark extract, but you can buy standardized extracts here if you’re hoping for an exact dose.

WILLOW BARK EXTRACT

I love the idea of a convenient tincture that’s ready to go when you need it, but I’m not so keen on the alcohol part.  When I’ve got a headache, the last thing I want is a shot of vodka, even if it is medicinal. 

You can make an extract using vegetable glycerine, and there are glycerine tinctures available on the market.  I just can’t get past the taste.

Plenty of people find it inoffensive, and it has a natural sweetness, but I can’t stand it.  I’d rather drink vinegar.

A willow bark extract using raw apple cider vinegar has the benefit of being probiotic, and it can be taken straight or made into an oxymel by adding in a bit of raw honey.  I make an elderberry oxymel every year to help keep my family healthy, and a willow oxymel might be just what the doctor ordered for headaches and fever.

WILLOW BARK CAPSULES

If you’re able to harvest just the inner bark, it can be dried, ground and put into capsules.  Your homemade capsules won’t be standardized like purchased capsules, but they are convenient for quick use.  Unlike a tea, you don’t have to wait nearly an hour for it to cook and steep.

Once the willow bark is ground, use a capsule holder to fill empty gelatin capsules.  A tiny spatula can help with this delicate work.  Honestly, filling capsules is fiddly and frustrating work in my opinion. 

I’m willing to put the effort into foraging willow, but I don’t have the patience for stuffing it into capsules.  I’ll stick with tincture and tea.

WILLOW BARK DOSAGE

Multiple studies have shown that chronic conditions are greatly improved by a dose of 240 mg of salicin per day.  That’s not actual willow bark, that’s a measure of the salicin.  Most of the willow bark supplements on the market are packaged in 400mg capsules, but they’re standardized to contain 60mg of actual salicin per capsule.  They’re taken in doses of 2 capsules twice daily, for a total of 240mg per day.

But how much do you take when it’s not a standardized capsule?

For willow bark tea, an approximate dosage is 3-4 cups of tea per day, each made with between 1 and 2 tablespoons of bark.

For willow bark extract, the dosage is about 1 teaspoon per day or about 100 drops from tincture bottle, spaced out over the course of the day.

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My excuse, if I have one, is that with a toddler and new baby, I hadn’t quite figured out that “mom of 2” thing yet. By the time I did kinda sorta figure it out, lots of those weeds were taller than I am. I may be short, but still…

So, I changed my perspective. I took a closer look at the weeds thriving in and between what used to be rows. I discovered that, while my winter squash looked like miserable survivors trying to eke out an existence on the slopes of Mordor, I was growing a shire-worthy crop of yarrow, sweet sorrel, lambsquarter, and joe-pye weed.

Rather than try too hard to turn my garden around, mid-growing season, I found it a less-daunting challenge to find new ways of using the nutritional bounty that I was already growing. We had wonderful salads with the sweet sorrel. We picked yarrow for salves and tinctures, and dried it for tea. And I found that I particularly enjoyed making use of the lambsquarter.

Growing up, I’d known this plant as “pigweed”. I could remember my grandmother saying how much she loved it as an edible green, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember anything about how she actually prepared it. So I called gram.

When I asked her how to cook it, she told me, “Oh, you know – just cook it like spinach.” Then she went on to recount a tale from her newlywed days, when her new Mother-in-Law (my great-grandma Florence) came to dinner. Gram had served lambsquarter as a vegetable with the meal, and Great-Grandma Florence just raved about what wonderful spinach that was! “I never did tell her it was really weeds!” recalled Gram, with a chuckle.

And so, in my own little kitchen, I found myself using lambsquarter in every way that I would use spinach. I loved knowing that it’s a nutritional powerhouse – full of B Vitamins, as well as Vitamins A and C. It’s also a fantastic source of minerals, including calcium, manganese, potassium, magnesium, and iron.

From salad to smoothies, we ate a lot of it that summer. I also fed it by the armload to the pigs. But still – I had an enormous crop, and was certain there must be good ways to put some of it up for the winter. So I took to canning (more on that in another post), and dehydrating it.

Turns out, it’s extremely easy to dehydrate, and makes an absolutely wonderful dried herb. The smell is bright and fresh – almost like alfalfa, and it keeps its color beautifully. I find that it brings a wonderful depth of character to roast lamb or chicken (I use it in my recipe here), and it makes a pleasant addition to beef stew. I ended up dehydrating several pints, and it has become one of my go-to spices this winter.

Drying lambsquarter to stock your spice cabinet is so easy. Pick it in the morning when the nutrient levels are highest. Rinse it free of any dirt, but don’t intentionally wash off the white “dusty” outer part of the top leaves. Those are especially mineral-dense, so you want that part.

Press gently between towels to dry off the bulk of any water remaining on the leaves. Then, spread out on your dehydrator trays. (This is the dehydrator that I use and love.) I dehydrate mine right on the stems, and you can see from the picture that I really put quite a lot on the trays. These dehydrate WAY down.

Dehydrate at 125 for about 5-6 hours, until leaves and small stems are brittle, and crumble easily when crushed between your fingers. It’s ok for the thicker, main stems to still be a little flexible.

Remove from the dehydrator trays. Over your food processor, slide your fingers down the stems, stripping the brittle leaves and small stems into bowl. Discard any larger, still-flexible stems.

A few quick pulses, and it will look like a dried herb that you’d buy – something between basil and oregano in appearance. Store it in an airtight container, out of the light – just as you would any spice.

Do you use lambsquarter in your cooking? I’d love to hear about the ways that you enjoy it!

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It’s no surprise then, that more and more people are turning to natural remedies and antibiotics, such as usnea. You might be wondering if natural and homegrown antibiotics could cause side effects or be harmful to certain people? Sure, just like prescription antibiotics, there can be side effects. However, unlike more commonly known prescription antibiotics, usnea can be completely natural without unhealthy chemicals…and you might even be able to find it right in your backyard. 

What is Usnea?

Usnea is a fairly common and intriguing lichen found in many forests and woods across the world. A lichen is defined by Merriam-Webster as: “any numerous complex plantlike organisms made up of an alga or a cyanobacterium and a fungus growing in symbiotic association on a solid surface (such as on a rock or the bark of trees).” The usnea lichen, which has a body with a netted hair-like texture, is developed through a mutual relationship between fungus and algae. 

While there are several types of species of the usnea lichen, the one with the highest degree of medicinal value is often referred to as “Old Man’s Beard”, due to its appearance. Often found on trees, it can easily be identified by lightly pulling the main branch of the lichen apart. If it’s usnea, the green outside layer will break, exposing a stretchy white band substance found inside, which should remain intact. However, due to this species being ultra-sensitive to polluted air, it’s rarely found within city limits.

Possible Medicinal Value and Uses of Usnea

Usnea has been used for medicinal purposes since ancient times by Egyptian, Greek, and Chinese healers. This is not a new plant, nor a recent or temporary fad. It has been around for a very long time for use in healing people with certain ailments. The outer portion of the lichen, referred to as the cortex, holds the antibiotic composites, and the inner part (the thallus) contains a substance that stimulates the immune system.

Common ailments and conditions that are thought to benefit from the application of usnea, include the following:

• Fever
• Inflammation
• Weight loss
• Yeast infections

Some people with HPV (human papillomavirus) have also found some benefit in using a form of usnea. It’s suggested that a person apply a product containing usnic acid (found in usnea) and zinc sulfate to the vaginal area before and after the surgical removal of HPV lesions. Doing so could help speed up the healing process and diminish the chances of recurrence of the infection.

Although it’s been used globally since ancient days, for various purposes, usnea has eluded various herbal traditions that solely focused on vascular plants. However, the usnic acid is found to interrupt the cellular system of Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus and Streptococcus, while leaving the necessary natural microbiota intact.

It is a particularly formidable medicinal tool for inflammation and dampness often associated with respiratory and urinary tract infections. Applied topically, usnea can also be effective in fighting against MRSA, and fungal infections such as candida.

Used as a wound dressing, usnea could be a wonderful remedy for infected wounds, such as cellulitis. The drying and cooling attributes of usnea help to reduce heat and redness stemming from the infection. Due to the natural anti-microbial properties found in the lichen, it is often applied directly to an open wound to fight off infection. It can either be mixed with water to form a mixture to be applied, or used as a powder after it’s been dried.

A spray could also be used to apply on areas where fungus might be lingering, such as the feet, either between the toes on in the nails.

Finding and Developing Usnea as an Antibiotic

Usnea can be applied either externally, or internally. It can be developed into various forms, such as the following:

• cough lozenges
• a tincture or extract

• mouthwash to gargle with, by mixing water with a usnea tincture
• a salve for wound dressing, to apply externally

Some of the above forms can be found in a health store. But, you can also make your own. And, a walk through the woods might be all you need to find the main ingredient. When looking for usnea lichen to make your remedies, you can often find it in the woods, either on trees or on the ground after falling from the trees. Look for hair-like growths, similar to an overgrown beard. If you find it, place it on cotton or paper until you can get it home. From there, you will have diverse options in developing a viable antibiotic and treatment to use for the ailments and conditions mentioned earlier.

Usnic acid isn’t soluble in water. So, it’s best to extract it in alcohol, oil, or heat. Depending on which form you are seeking to create, or use, the extraction method can differ. For example, when making a tincture or extract, place the usnea into a jar, then cover it with vodka. Let this mix sit for several months, then strain it into a dropper bottle.

Consulting an herbalist would be beneficial if you have any doubts or questions on how to make the proper form, how to apply it, or where to find it.

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Its unique nutritive potential could help you clear up skin can, overcome difficult menstrual cycles and even treat painful arthritis.

Aid in Healthy Digestion

Plantain is your cure in case of constant digestive problems due to antibiotics, food allergies or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The leaves and seeds of the plant are believed to aid in reducing inflammation and help repair damage to the gut lining.

When steeped, plantain leaves can be turned into an extract for use as a gut healer. The seeds of plantain are also beneficial in maintaining a clean digestive tract, acting similarly to psyllium husk in absorbing toxins and creating firmer stools.

A Wound-Healer

Life Advancer Explains: “Because it draws toxins from the body with its astringent nature, plantain may be crushed (or chewed) and placed as a poultice directly over the site of bee stings, bug bites, acne, slivers, glass splinters, or rashes,”.

So, one of the numerous uses is that it can serve as an astringent for wounds and bug bites. Simply chewing plantain leaf or crushing and grinding it, produces an effective poultice to draw out poisons from the skin and prevent infections and scarring.

Treatment of Hemorrhoids

“Plantain is one of Western herbalism’ s primary topical healing agents, used as a lotion, ointment, compress, or poultice for cuts and bruises,” adds Hoffmann in his book. “It may be applied topically for hemorrhoids and skin ulcerations.”

The same abovementioned astringent properties that make it an effective wound- healer, also make it an effective remedy for hemorrhoids. When processed and turned into a lotion or ointment, plantain can be applied to hemorrhoids to stop the flow of blood, which is also useful in the treatment of cystitis accompanied by bleeding.

Treatment of Congestion, Respiratory Problems

Plantain is an impressive expectorant, due to the large quantities of mineral silica it contains. This makes it a fantastic means to effectively treat coughs, clear up congestion and mucus, colds and various other respiratory ailments.

“Plantain acts as a gentle expectorant while soothing inflamed and sore membranes, making it ideal for coughs and mild bronchitis,” wrote David Hoffmann, FNIMH, AHG, in his book Medical Herbalism: The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine.

Treatment of All Blood Diseases, and Nearly All Other Diseases

“Plantain is almost a panacea for the human body, treating everything from all menstrual difficulties, all digestive issues, to nearly all skin complaints, and even arthritis,” claims Life Advancer about the amazing healing potential of plantain.

To be on the up and up, there seems to be very few health conditions that plantain can’t treat. According to The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, written by Dr. Finley Ellingwood, MD, in 1919, plantain is effective against virtually all blood diseases, diarrheal conditions, female disorders, injuries, bites and rashes on the skin, many glandular diseases and mercury poisoning.

To sum up, simply use this miracle whenever you can: “add it to salads, chew to ease thirst, or enjoy it in stir fries. This versatile wild vegetable will keep you healthy and satisfied for years to come!”

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This Master Tonic will boost your immune system, improve the blood circulation, aid digestion, and treat cold and flu symptoms. It is made from fresh ingredients and powerful.

Here is the recipe:

Master Tonic Remedy

Ingredients:

• 700 ml of organic apple cider vinegar
• ¼ cup of finely chopped garlic
• ¼ cup of finely chopped onion
• 2 fresh hot peppers
• ¼ cup of grated ginger
• 2 tablespoons of grated horseradish
• 2 tablespoons of turmeric powder or 2 pieces of turmeric root

Instructions:

First, take a bowl and mix all the ingredient, except the apple cider vinegar. Put the mixture in a jar and pour the apple cider vinegar over so all the ingredients are covered.

Then, close the jar and shake it well. Keep the jar in a dark and cool place for 2 weeks. Bear in mind that you should shake the jar every day. After 2 weeks, store the mixture in amber bottles.

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