Helpful Hints, Home Remedies
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Pneumonia Home Remedies
Comments (3)I suppose if one were in an isolated area with no access to modern medicine it might be necessary to fall back on home remedies for pneumonia, but that is probably what killed so many so soon in the days before modern medicine. Some illnesses are so severe, and move so rapidly, that traditional treatments do not have the strength to work. I have always considered pneumonia to be one of those. Essentially, the way I picture it, you have a concentrated ball of microorganisms rapidly doubling in quantity, and something has to be done to stop that fairly quickly before it kills you. Even today and hospitalized, many elderly still die of it. Traditional herbal treatments often cannot be safely taken in massive doses because they have not been treated by modern processes to remove any non-therapeutic constituents that could be harmful. There probably are remedies that could be taken to help ward off pneumonia, before a lung infection actually developed to the point it could be called that, but I don't know what they would be. I know the buds of forsythia have some antibiotic quality, but the Chinese grow a special strain in which that characteristic is stronger. There would be no guarantee, in either case, though, that the antibiotic quality of the forsythia buds would kill the harmful bacteria, rather than simply kill off more beneficial ones that might help to keep more lethal bacteria strains at bay. Only a practitioner in the area where the infection was occurring who had practiced on others with the same condition would tend to have this knowledge. Herbal treatment was probably by trial and error in the early days, and later patients probably benefited more than earlier ones during any particular epidemic. My theory is that most epidemics begin in more crowded and less affluent conditions, which would enable the ambitious practitioner to exercise his or her best remedies on the more affluent. Since herbs take more space to grow and store than today's pills, and transportation was also more limited, the average herbalist was probably rather limited in the number of remedies actually on hand. There were probably a few standards (like comfrey, because it grows so large and well in a variety of circumstances) which would be tried for almost every malady, since there was such a good supply of it, and other herbal remedies, which might acutually have been more effective, held in reserve for the very worst cases or the wealthiest clients. Herbs from warmer, or cooler, or dryer, or more humid climates than the practicing herbalist's would have been in short supply in the early days. An herbalist that relocated to an area with a different climate, for any reason, would have initially been able to bring a supply of his or her own remedies along, but would soon have needed to resupply with remedies that could grow in the new area, or which were obtainable through reliable trade with other areas. Even for conditions which the herbalist knew how to treat effectively, many probably died because of insufficient supplies of herbs or lack of anything to pay for treatment. All of that, again, would have resulted in those who had the knowledge and resources to do so, growing or gathering their own herbs where possible. It is possible that monks and nuns might have shared clones of valuable plants with parish priests, who then could pass offsets on to parishioners, but I don't know if anyone has documentation of that. Possibly, on pilgrimages, people also were on the lookout for curative plants that could be brought home....See MoreSLEEP Home Remedies
Comments (30)same thing with me... go to bed, hoping I can sleep through the night...no, most nights it's a wake up, every half hour, or 45 minutes, or less..I see the clock, try to sleep... it goes on through out the night. before, I used to take a tablet of paper and a pen. push them under the pillow.. if I woke up and had any thoughts, I'd pull it out and write it down..in the dark..it didn't matter if I had it correct or not, at least I had the idea written. that helped a lot. I had ideas for short stories, poems, things to build, things to paint, others to create with fabric, clay, rocks, or make garden ideas.. and in the end, it didn't matter if I did any of it.. I was just happy to have the idea written down and I could let go of it. I could read it in the morning, cuz I had it in print, or scribbled... it was my doctor who suggested it... he had 7 kids and his best time to study or write his papers, was after the kids were in bed..if he was tired but couldn't sleep, he would do that type of reading and writing. it worked for him, so he suggested it to me. back then, I had most of my kids still at home, too young to get themselves ready for bed.. I was exhausted...and that idea worked! dang, and lately I haven't been able to sleep through the night...so, thankyou, thankyou for asking for advice. I can take my own advice now and go ahead and get to bed..I have paper and pen right here, next to the computer....I sure wish I had remembered this, weeks ago! geez.......... nightee nite............... Becky ;(*_*);...See MoreStress induced mouth ulcers... any home remedies?
Comments (9)I tend to get those a lot, mostly from biting the inside of my mouth or tongue. The best thing I've found is zilactin, which is available over the counter at drugstores, typically by the lip balms and such. Apply as soon as you suspect one is forming, and if you bite your lip, apply it immediately. Apply 3-4 times a day, and they'll heal up in about a week. If you wait too long it takes longer to heal. Without the zilactin it used to take about 3-4 weeks for them to heal for me. Make sure you get the "regular" zilactin, which has alcohol, and not one of the variants which only contain a painkiller. My personal theory is that the ulcer is basically an infection, and the alcohol acts as a disinfectant/antibiotic to stop the infection. There's also a possible link between the foaming ingredient in toothpastes and canker sores / mouth ulcers. I think it's laurel sulfate or something like that. I switched to a non-foaming toothpaste for several years (Closys) and did notice that my canker sores decreased quite a bit. But unfortunately Closys doesn't have fluoride and I got some cavities so I switched back to a "regular" toothpaste. You may want to try the Closys until your reno is over (it's available at Walgreens)....See Morehome remedies & tips- please share
Comments (5)If your dog eats something that it shouldn't, like a screw or pill or piece of plastic, you can induce vomiting with a tablespoon (or two depending upon the size of the dog) of hydrogen peroxide. I would only do this if its fairly close to the time frame of when they ate it - not hours later. I would make sure you do it outside as the dog will make a mess indoors. I learned this years ago, when my dog ate the gel from the inside of a foot warmer. The ingredients didn't seem toxic, but my vet recommended we induce vomiting, just in case. And since then, I've used it a couple other times. Once when that same dog ate a couple screws while I was putting together a book shelf. Another time when my JRT chewed into my gym bag to eat my smelly clothes and she chewed up a pill bottle that was in the bag. The pill count seemed okay, from the date it was filled to the date she ate it, but I wasn't positive so we induced vomiting. She didn't vomit any pills, but she did puke up a few buttons and zipper head. (crazy dog!)...See Morejolanaweb
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