Natural Herbal Beauty

For a holistic approach to a hangover, choose a homeopathic treatment. Homeopathy considers mental and emotional ‘symptoms‘, as well as the physical ones, and offers suitable remedies. (more…)

There are several flower essences that can help alleviate the symptoms of a hangover. They work primarily on a ’soul’ level and help to realign the body’s subtle energies when you are sick. (more…)

If your nails show some white spots under the surface of keratin, this won’t be healthy, and it won’t be attractive either.  Make sure you have the moisturized and clear nail all the time, because sometimes a little ignorance might lead a big health hazard.

Scientists have agreed the dangerous chemical exposure leading the major nail unhealthy outlook. The simple phenomenon may be easily detected was the nail biting habit. People who found themselves developing nail biting habit might be in trouble of unsettling nail problem.

Choosing the natural nail care products is the important step to keep away the dangerous exposure. To have health and strong nails, nail polish products must be made of natural materials instead of dangerous chemical which might degrade your nails. Normal nail polish we bought from the market used to be made of paint. Imagine you are wearing such nail polish, what might happen to your nails or even your health. So check the ingredients of your nail polish, does a little test for your nail polish before you buy it by smelling the liquid, if it smelled like banana, then you have to give it up, because this smell might indicate it used painting as one of its ingredients. (more…)

These plants each treat a different aspect of this condition. Roman chamomile and lemon balm are relaxing and anti-inflammatory; chamomile can also reduce allergic reactions. Agrimony is a general digestive tonic, while marigold is healing and anti-fungal. (more…)

Family: Cupressaceae.

Part used: Usually berries and needles, but the bark, wood, and root are all active.

Collection: Gather needles, bark, roots, or heartwood at any time. First- year berries, which are green, should be gathered after the first frost, second-year berries, which are bluish-purple, at any time. The berries are ripe when they turn bluish-purple.

Actions: Antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiseptic, antifungal, carminative, anticatarrhal.

Active against: Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Shigella dysenteriae, Streptococcus spp., Escherichja coli, Candida albicans, Salmonella spp. (more…)

Part used: The honey syrup itself.

Collection: In the fall from beehives.

Actions: Antibiotic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, _expectorant, antiallergenic, laxative, antianemic, tonic, antifungal, immune stimulant, cell regenerator.

Active against: Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus spp., enterococcus, Helicobacter pylori. (more…)

4 ounces (113 g) dried licorice root 4 ounces (113 g) dried comfrey root Ninety 300 mg bismuth capsules

1 ounce (30 ml) grapefruit seed extract

2 ounces (59 ml) eucalyptus tincture 2 ounces (59 ml) goldenseal tincture 2 ounces (59 ml) acacia tincture (more…)

Because of the sensitivity of the lids, there is a tendency to blink less often than normal; in fact, you will find that you can keep your eyes open between blinks for much longer periods than you usually do. This is unacceptable. Quite a lot of contact lens unsatisfactory arises from blinking. (more…)

Some wounds do not respond well to a wet dressing like a salve. In that case, I use powdered herbs directly on the wound. Herbal wound powders, ground fine, stop bleeding and facilitate rapid healing while preventing infection. After the wound has begun to heal, switching to a wound salve continues that process. There is probably no more powerful way to treat skin infections than with powdered herbs. I have yet to find a wound infection that will not respond to one. (more…)

• 1 quart (1 l) olive oil
• ³/4 ounce (21 g) echinacea, seeds or root, ground fine
• 1 ounce (25 g) cryptolepsis root, ground fine
• 1¹/2 ounces (43 g) juniper, ground fine
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• 1 ounce (25 g) oak bark or krameria or wild geranium, ground fine
• 1 ounce (25 g) acacia leaf
• ¹/2 ounce (14 g) wormwood, powdered
• ¹/2 ounce (14 g) usnea, powdered
• 4 ounces (113 g) beeswax
• ¹/4 teaspoon (1 ml) vitamin E
• ¹/4 teaspoon (1 ml) eucalyptus essential oil

1. Make an oil infusion by combining all the herbs with olive oil
2. Add the herbal oil infusion back to the pot used to make the infusion and reheat it slowly on the stovetop.
3. Measure out the beeswax and add to the pot. A good estimate is 2 ounces (57 g) of wax to every pint (475 ml) of infused oil (so for this formula, about 4 ounces [113 g] ). Many people like the beeswax grated, but I just break it up into small pieces. Heat until beeswax is melted.
4. Remove pan from stove. Let mixture cool until just before it starts to harden, then add vitamin E oil and eucalyptus essential oil, and stir well.
5. While mixture is still liquid, pour into salve containers and label. Note: Make sure your containers are made to withstand hot liquids before using them.

I admire the beauty of flowers. I am desperate of the beauty of peony. (more…)

Oils are exceptionally good for the health and healing of the skin.

• 1 quart (1 I) olive oil
• 1 ounce (25 g) usnea
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• 1 ounce (25 g) acacia
• 1 ounce (25 g) echinacea root or seed
• 1 ounce (25 g) garlic
• 1 ounce (25 g) sage

1. Add the oil to a heavy pot. Use glass or stainless steel, not aluminum or cast iron.
2. Grind all the herbs as fine as possible.
3. Add the herbs to the oil.
4. Heat the mixture overnight in the oven with the setting on low (150° to 200°F [66° to 93°C] ), or heat covered on low in a Crock-Pot for 7 days.
5. Remove the pot from the oven and let the mixture cool. Press the oily herb mixture through a cloth to extract the oil.
6. Store the oil in a sealed glass container out of the sun. It does not need to be refrigerated.

Every day, we may wonder what make you feel safe. Is the natural organic food to feed your stomach? Or the expensive car you are driving? Or a simple herbal therapy you are taking with? (more…)

Oil infusions are exceptionally useful for burns, sunburn, chapped and dry skin, skin infections, and ear drops and for use on wounds as salves. The medicinal properties of the plant are transferred to an oil base. For a salve, the oil is made thick and moderately hard by adding beeswax. (more…)

The elegance of life is not only to enjoy the backyard garden, or snap of a cup of tea. (more…)

It’s really best to resort to sleeping aids — natural or pharmaceutical — only as a last resort. Medicinal sedatives are generally bad news in that they are usually addictive and your tolerance increases, making higher and higher doses necessary for any effect. They have a range of side-effects such as daytime drowsiness, memory problems, confusion, depression, dry mouth, sluggishness and all sorts of other unpleasant symptoms. They are also strong chemicals which need to be detoxified by the body, placing a burden on your liver. (more…)

The vanilla pod or bean is the fruit of the exotic climbing orchid which is native to Mexico, though the plants are now grown in all tropical areas. Vanilla is not a spice, therefore it has no essential oil. Its unique flavour and aroma come not from the living plant, but from the vanillin crystals which form on the surface of the pod. But first it must undergo a complicated process of fermentation which can take up to six months to complete. The plants also have to be hand-pollinated (unless grown in their native Mexico where indigenous orchid- pollinating insects abound). (more…)

The most natural form of aromatherapy comes to us free — from the great outdoors. What better way to experience the aromas of herbs, flowers, trees and grasses than directly as nature intended. Even moist earth smells wonderful, especially during hot weather, when the first summer rains fall on the parched meadows like tears of joy. Then there is the warm, sweet scent of honeysuckle lingering on the air of a sultry summer’s evening, and the cooling aromas of pine, cedar and cypress. Instinctively, we breathe more deeply in order to fully experience their aromas — and the more deeply and fully we breathe, the more relaxed and in harmony we feel. (more…)

Larch: For lack of self-confidence, feelings of inferiority, always anticipating failure.

Essential Oils: Bergamot, rose otto, sandalwood, ylang ylang.

Mimulus: For fear of known things, shyness and timidity.

Essential Oils: Juniper, lavender, neroli, rosemary, vetiver.

Mustard: For those who suffer fluctuating cycles of black depression. (more…)

Agrimony: For inner torture hidden behind a happy-go-lucky facade.

Essential Oils: Bergamot, camomile, geranium, lavender.

Aspen: For inexplicable fears stemming from the psyche, nightmares, fear of some impending evil — that something lurks in the shadows.

Essential Oils: Frankincense, juniper, lavender, rose otto, vetiver.

Beech: For intolerance, criticism and arrogance. Essential Oils: Geranium, lavender, orange. (more…)