A hot bath infused with dried herbs and salts helps to rejuvenate and relax the body.
Bath salts are fun, easy, and inexpensive to make. Personalize the mixture by adding the garden aromas of home-dried lemon-verbena, scented geranium leaves, rosemary, lavender flowers, or calendula petals. A few drops of your favorite essential oils, intensifies the fragrance.
My favorite salts
Epsom Salt: A hydrated form of magnesium sulfate named for the mineral-rich spring waters of Epsom, England.
Celtic Sea Salt: A brand of unprocessed salt with trace minerals from coastal France.
Himalayan Salt: A rock salt mined in Pakistan that sometimes has a pink tinge from iron oxide.
Healing combinations:
Invigoration, headache, and indigestion
2 cups salt
4 to 8 drops peppermint essential oil
1 or 2 Tablespoons dried rosemary leaves
Dermatitis
1 cup salt
1 cup Epsom salt
1/2 cup baking soda
4 to 8 drops lavender essential oil
1 or 2 Tablespoons dried calendula petals
Relaxation
2 cups salt
4 to 8 drops lavender essential oil
1 or 2 Tablespoons dried lavender flowers and rosebuds
Sore Muscles
2 cups salt
4 to 8 drops wintergreen or lemongrass essential oil
1 or 2 Tablespoons dried lemon verbena leaves
Tomorrow edition, A fire cider tonic, sure to cure just about anything, easy to make, store, and gentle on the budget.
Lists of toxic ingredients to avoid for life:
www.ewg.org
www.safecosmetics.org
www.cosmeticsdatabase.com
Simple Herbal Remedies
Ailment | Herb |
Acne | Calendula, aloe, tea tree |
Alcoholism | Evening primrose, kudzu |
Allergy | Chamomile |
Alzheimer’s disease | Ginkgo, rosemary |
Angina | Hawthorn, garlic, willow, green tea |
Anxiety and stress | Hops, kava, passionflower, valerian, chamomile, lavender |
Arteriosclerosis | Garlic |
Arthritis | Capsicum, ginger, turmeric, willow, cat’s claw, devil’s claw |
Asthma | Coffee, ephedra, tea |
Athlete’s foot | Topical tea tree oil |
Attention-deficit disorder | Evening primrose oil |
Bad breath | Parsley |
Boils | Tea tree oil, topical garlic, echinacea, eleutherococcus, ginseng, rhodiola |
Bronchitis | Echinacea, pelargonium |
Burns | Aloe |
Cancer | Bilberry, blackberry, cocoa (dark chocolate), green tea, garlic, ginseng, maitake mushroom, pomegranate, raspberry, reishi mushroom |
Cankers | Goldenseal |
Colds | Echinacea, andrographis, ginseng, coffee, licorice root (sore throat), tea (nasal and chest congestion) |
Congestive heart failure | Hawthorn |
Constipation | Apple, psyllium seed, senna |
Cough | Eucalyptus |
Depression | St. John’s wort |
Diabetes, Type 2 | Garlic, beans (navy, pinto, black, etc.), cinnamon, eleutherococcus, flaxseed, green tea |
Diabetic ulcers | Comfrey |
Diarrhea | Bilberry, raspberry |
Diverticulitis | Peppermint |
Dizziness | Ginger, ginkgo |
Earache | Echinacea |
Eczema | Chamomile, topical borage seed oil, evening primrose oil |
Fatigue | Cocoa (dark chocolate), coffee, eleutheroccocus, ginseng, rhodiola, tea |
Flu | Echinacea, elderberry syrup (also see “Colds”) |
Gas | Fennel, dill |
Giardia | Goldenseal |
Gingivitis | Goldenseal, green tea |
Hay fever | Stinging nettle, butterbur |
Herpes | Topical lemon balm, topical comfrey, echinacea, garlic, ginseng |
High blood pressure | Garlic, beans, cocoa (dark chocolate), hawthorn |
High blood sugar | Fenugreek |
High cholesterol | Apple, cinnamon, cocoa (dark chocolate), evening primrose oil, flaxseed, soy foods, green tea |
Hot flashes | Red clover, soy, black cohosh |
Impotence | Yohimbe |
Indigestion | Chamomile, ginger, peppermint |
Infection | Topical tea tree oil, astragalus, echinacea, eleutherococcus, garlic, ginseng, rhodiola |
Insomnia | Kava, evening primrose, hops, lemon balm, valerian |
Irregular heartbeat | Hawthorn |
Irregularity | Senna, psyllium seed |
Irritable bowel syndrome | Chamomile, peppermint |
Lower back pain | Thymol, carvacrol, white willow bark |
Menstrual cramps | Kava, raspberry, chasteberry |
Migraine | Feverfew, butterbur |
Morning sickness | Ginger |
Muscle pain | Capsicum, wintergreen |
Nausea | Ginger |
Premenstrual syndrome | Chasteberry, evening primrose |
Ringing in the ears | Ginkgo |
Seasonal affective disorder | St. John’s wort |
Shingles | Capsicum |
Sore throat | Licorice, marshmallow, mullein |
Stuffy nose | Echinacea |
Tonsillitis | Goldenseal, astragalus, echinacea |
Toothache | Willow, clove oil |
Ulcers | Aloe, licorice |
Varicosities | Bilberry, horse chestnut |
Yeast infection | Garlic, goldenseal, Pau D’arco |
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