Holistic Herbal Solutions

“Take Control of Your Health Naturally”

Holistic herbal solutions can also be defined as or simply called natural home remedies. There are more ways than you can possible think of to help yourself be naturally healthy or healthier.

Medicinal Solutions

Aching Feet

Pour boiling water over basil leaves and soak feet to relieve foot pain

Bad Breath

Chewing parsley neutralizes mouth odors.
Chew on mint leaves.
Gargle with a small cup of lemon juice to kill order causing bacteria. Then eat a serving of plain unsweetened yogurt. This has lactobacillus bacteria which replaces the smelly bacteria. Together they neutralize the odor which lasts 12 to 24 hours

Bad Mood

Eat 3 oz of white Albacore tuna. It contains 800 mg of omega-3’s which have been known to help treat depression.

Burns

Apply aloe vera gel to the burn as needed. You can use juice directly from the plant as well.
Apply extra virgin olive oil to skin after sunbathing to help prevent skin cancer.

Chapped Lips

Use olive oil as moisturizer for your lips. It will serve as an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant as well as a lubricant to heal your lips.
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Cold Sores

Use lemon balm for healing and preventing cold sores.
Put toothpaste on area as soon as you feel burning sensation. Let it dry and wear overnight.

Common Cold

Drink tea made from lemon thyme to treat colds before bed. (Don’t use thyme when pregnant.)
Drink a hot toddy Ingredients: juice from half a lemon, teaspoon of organic raw honey and half shot of brandy

Cough

Mix two teaspoons of honey along with 500 mg of Ester C 30 minutes before bed.
Eat one or two squares of dark chocolate. Yes, dark chocolate. The chocolate’s theobromine compound helps suppress that persistent cough without the side effects of drowsiness and constipation.

Decongestant

Place a handful of mint leaves in a small bowl and cover with boiling water. Lean over it draping a towel over your head and breathe in the steam.

Detox

Drink lemon thyme tea as an antioxidant. (Don’t use thyme while pregnant)
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Dry Skin

Soak in an oatmeal bath. Place whole oats in a sock, sealing the end with a rubber band. Drop the sock in a hot bath. Soak for 15 to 20 minutes.

Fatigue

Drink a bottle of water with a packet of Emergen-C. Vitamin C’s ability to combat oxidative stress helps provide energy, and the vitamin plays a key role in metabolizing iron, which helps your body move energizing oxygen through your bloodstream.

Fever

For fever above 102 degrees F take a cool sponge bath to lower temperature
Drink linden flower tea. Drink 3 – 4 cups a day. Linden tea stimulates the hypothalamus and dilates the blood vessels inducing sweating.

Foot Odor

Take a daily foot bath in strong black tea for 30 minutes. Tea’s tannins kill bacteria and close the pores in your feet. Bacteria grows better in moist environments and your feet do not sweat as much with closed pores.
Soak your feet in a foot bath of 1 part vinegar and 2 parts water. This will eliminate bacteria causing odors.

Hair Growth

Try applying peppermint essential oil topically to hair follicles to encourage hair growth.

Hangover

Drink water and take a B-50 Complex supplement before you go to bed to help break down the alcohol in your body.
· Drink water and take activated charcoal before you go to bed to help remove the toxins in your body.

Headache

Rub crushed basil leaves on your temples for headache relief.
Try relaxing magnesium (200 to 400 mg) to reduce the muscle tension and spasms. Make sure the supplement contains at least 200 mg of active elemental magnesium. This is more a preventative measure so if you know when you usually get headaches you can take this the day before.
The 37 g of carbs in a medium potato can ease a tension headache by upping serotonin levels, as long as you keep the fat and protein below 2 g

Heartburn

Chamomile Tea: Steep 2 teaspoons of the Chamomile in 10 ounces of very hot water for 20 minutes, covering the cup to keep the essential oils in the water.

Hemorrhoids

The 3 g of fiber in four dried figs helps create soft, regular stools that will keep hemorrhoids from returning.
Two capsules of activated charcoal will help create soft, regular stools that will keep hemorrhoids from returning

Hiccups

Simply submerge a few sprigs of mint in an eight ounce glass of water and drink up.

High Cholesterol

One medium pear has 5 g of dietary fiber, much of it in the form of pectin, which helps flush out bad cholesterol, a risk factor in heart disease.

Immune-System Booster

Eat one tablespoon of chopped parsley daily.

Indigestion

Drink a soothing cup of peppermint tea after your meal. Mint helps with muscles spasms.
Use minced fresh basil in sauces or salads to help kill troublesome bacteria that causes nausea and digestion issues.

Insomnia

Before bed eat a handful of cherries which are full of melatonin.
Take a hot relaxing shower before bed
Aromatherapy with lavender essential oil.
Eat a 3-ounce serving of turkey 30 minutes before you go to bed to help your body produce serotonin and melatonin which are hormones that regulate sleep.

Intestinal Gas

One and a half cups of live-culture yogurt helps food travel more efficiently through the gastrointestinal tract thus producing less gas.
Use minced fresh basil in sauces or salads to help kill troublesome bacteria that causes nausea and digestion issues.

Kidney Stones

Four dried apricot have 2 g of fiber, only 3 mg of sodium, and 325 mg of potassium. These three items help keep minerals from accumulating in urine which form the most common type of kidney stones.

Memory Booster

Add a few drops of peppermint essential oil in your aromatherapy or boil crushed leaves in a pot of water and let the scent linger through the house.

Menstrual Cramps

Take ½ to 1 teaspoon of cramp bark tincture every 2 hours on the days of your worst cramps.

Nausea

Drink mint tea to sooth nausea.
Infuse fresh ginger in hot water. Strain and freeze in ice cube trays. Crush the cubes and eat throughout the day for a steady calming effect.
Drink ginger tea.
Use minced fresh basil in sauces or salads to help kill troublesome bacteria that causes nausea and digestion issues.

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Poison Ivy

Apply cold mint tea bags to infected area for a soothing cooling effect.
Apply a solution of water and peppermint essential oil or a cloth soaked in peppermint tea to infected area for a soothing cooling effect.

Puffy Eyes

Apply cool damp black tea bags as a compress to closed eyes for 10 minutes.

Repelling Mosquitoes

Bush mint essential oil is very effective on keeping mosquitoes from landing on your skin.

Sore Throat

Gargle twice a day with a solution of six pressed garlic cloves mixed into a glass of warm water.
Gargle twice a day with a solution of salt mixed into a glass of warm water.

Sprains

Contrast hydrotherapy – a quick blast of hot, then a quick blast of cold to get the blood pumping through the muscle tissues again. 30 seconds hot, 20 seconds colds. Alternate three times ending with cold.

Stained Teeth

Crush a few fresh strawberries into mush and mix with a pinch of stain-removing baking soda and enough water to make a paste. Apply the mixture to a soft-bristled toothbrush and polish for a few minutes once every 3 or 4 months. More than that could remove enamel.
Rinse mouth with hydrogen peroxide. Be careful as to not swallow any. Your mouth will keep foaming. Keep spitting it out. Then brush teeth as usual. Do this once every 3 to 4 months. More than that could remove enamel.

Stress/Anxiety

Eat a banana. A banana contains 30% of the day’s vitamin b6 which helps the brain produce serotonin.

Ulcers

Eat Cabbage: sulforaphane, a powerful compound in cabbage, kills the bacteria that causes gastric and peptic ulcers before it can get to your stomach and may even help inhibit the growth of gastric tumors.

Yeast Infection

Garlic contains essential oils that can inhibit the growth of the fungus which is the culprit in the pain, itch, and vaginal discharge of yeast infections. Include garlic in sauces, salad dressings, and marinades.
Thyme, cloves, and even the essential oils from oranges are also effective fungicides. Include these in sauces, salads dressings, and marinades.

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