Natural Herbal Beauty

Herbal Formula for DETOXIFICATION

After over-indulgence of alcohol, incorrect eating, smoking, or in times of anger, stress and anxiety, the following herbs will help rid the body ofharmful toxins.

Include the following in the diet: celery, parsley, sage, salad burnet, fennel, thyme, rosemary, watercress, radishes, beetroot, melons (particularly watermelon), sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and apple cider vinegar. (more…)

Problems such as earache are particularly common in children, and they may be linked to infections in other areas, for example tonsillitis.

Earache (Otitis)

Pain in the ears can be caused simply by loud noise and exposure to cold, windy conditions, or, more seriously, by infection. A heating pad or wrapped hot-water bottle held over the ear will ease the pain. (more…)

Modern medicine tends to consider “catarrh” as a uniform problem; however, for the herbalist it can be either “hot” or “cold”. Cold catarrh is copious, thin and watery; hot catarrh is thick, scanty and yellow with more inflammation of the mucous membranes. Those with a tendency for “cold” catarrh are often the cold, damp, “phlegmatic” types, with a sluggish digestion. Hot catarrh is a characteristic of more active, tense, “choleric” personalities. While cold catarrh is more characteristic of common colds, some types of sinusitis would come into the “hot” category with thick, yellow mucous that stubbornly refuses to move. (more…)

Herbs have a long history of use in treating eye and ear problems: before the days of universally available hearing aids and spectacles, itinerant herb doctors would often specialise in eyes or ears and travel the countryside treating patients with brews designed to improve sight or hearing rather than simply alleviate the sort of minor ailments we would treat in this way today.

Old herbals are full of remedies — the vast majority unproven — for restoring sight to the blind and curing tinnitus or deafness. Some, such as the legend about greater celandine seeds restoring sight to blind swallows, go back to ancient times and were once very widely used. Other remedies we now know do have a relevance: eating carrots certainly has a role in improving night vision, since Vitamin A is needed to maintain the relevant components in the retina. (more…)

The things we hear, see, smell and taste make our lives interesting. So, whenever any of these senses is dulled or impaired by illness, it makes our world a little grayer. Luckily, Mother Nature provides us with different kinds of herbs to help remedy the situation. Over the years, we humans have managed to take nature’s gifts and make them into good remedies.

EARACHE REMEDIES: Heat seems to help stop earache pain. Place a warm damp washcloth over the ear and lay ear on a heating pad to keep warm. Pain that persists should be seen by your physician, as it could signal an ear infection or eardrum perforation. (more…)