Featured Alternative: Weeds #1 - Burdock

 Burdock (Arctium lappa) - cultivated as a vegetable in Japan where it is known as gobo. The stalks are scraped and cooked like celery. The roots are sweet and can be eaten raw in salads or added to stir fries.
Traditionally, burdock has been used as a remedy for measles, arthritis, tonsillitis, viruses like colds, throat pain, and as a diuretic.
   Mostly thought to be a weed because it's good for sticking to you and your furry pets. Keep in mind, once its burrs have opened, tiny hair-like needles 'thorn' themselves into your skin. Don't worry, the itching will go away and a rash may appear, but it will be gone in about a day or so.

Featured Alternative Hydrotheropy: Contrast Baths

Partial Baths #1

1. Contrast Baths: The immersion of the hand, arm and hand, foot, leg and foot into a basin or tub of water. It is both simple and effective. Also known as a Alternate Hot and Cold is an alternating plunge of the body into hot water, then into cold and back again. This results in a powerful alternate contraction, the dilatation of the blood vessels, and a general improvement of body circulation. For the particular body area being treated, it removed waste products and greatly improves rapidity of blood flow. Not to mention, the quality of fresh oxygen, nutrients, and white and red blood cells is also increased.
   
   Contrast baths to the hands, feet, arms, or legs are very helpful for fractures, arthritis (both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis), congestive headaches, edema, sprains, strains, trauma (after 24 hours), infections, lymphangitis (2-3 times a day), impaired venous circulation, and indolent ulcers.

What You Will Need: 

For a Contrast Bath, you will need two containers, large enough for the water in them to come up over the extremities to be treated. If necessary, thoroughly cleaned buckets can be used. Medical personnel recommend that an antiseptic be placed in the water if there are open wounds. You will also need a bath thermometer and a bath towel. You will also need a pitcher, to add more hot water from time to time, and ice cubes for the cold water bucket. Sometimes a cold compress (hand towel wrung from cold water) or ice bag is used.

How to Apply It:

1. Place the limb in hot water (105-110F) for 305 minutes. Then put it into the cold (cold tap water or ice water) for one-half to one minute.
2. Begin with the hot water and end with the cold. Change from one temperature to the other 6-8 times (3-4 complete cycles). Time spans are generally 3-4 minutes in the hot and, then, one-half to one minute in the cold. Begin hot immersion at lower temperature as you continue on through the treatment. Add hot water by pouring it over your own hand; add it while the limb is in the cold water. A cold compress (hand towel wrung out of cold water) or ice bag may be needed on the head or back of neck, if a large part of the body is being treated and always if he feels faint. Place an ice bag to the heart if his pulse is over 8- beats per minute. (In serious cases, it is best to check his pulse every 5 minutes during treatment.
3.  End by drying the limb thoroughly. Have him rest afterward for a half hour.

Additional Points:

1.  Do not normally use hot water temperatures above 110F
2. In blood vessel diseases of the legs and feet, do not go over 105F. 
3. Extremes of hot and cold water should not be used in diabetes or in peripheral vascular disease. 
4. When working with rheumatoid arthritis, end with the hot instead of the cold.

...to be continued 

Source: 

Natural Remedies Encyclopedia 5th edition.
The editor of this blog highly recommends the use of this book in every home in America. It can be a  life saver and while it's cost may be a little high it is worth the money!

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What Are The Benefits Of A Yeast Free Diet?

   Let's start with the Problems with yeast! Having yeast in your diet is like have your car exhaust in the atmosphere, it's bad. Yeast can cause all sorts of infections; the infections can occur in the mouth, on the skin, inside of the body, and on the genitals. Too much yeast in your system is what causes these infections and people with weakened immune systems, such as someone with cancer or AIDS, are more prone to acquiring this type of infection. Yeast can also cause day-to-day problems with headaches, digestion, memory, weight, lethargy, and the list keeps going.




Removing yeast from your diet obviously reduces the risk of running into some of the problems listed above. It also helps lose weight, get into shape, remove toxins and chemicals that other foods have released into your body, and can give your more energy. Think about it, yeast is used in the fermentation process beer production, so just imagine what is doing to your body. Yeast removal helps men, women, and children; it can help symptoms of Autism, Crohn's Disease, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Thrush, Eczema, and Psoriasis to name a few.


Eating yeast free foods and cooking yeast free does not have to taste bad, nor do you have to remove bread products. There are several recipes out there that are delicious; I have found recipes for meals, desserts, breads, and there are even recipes for yeast free vegan meals. You will lose weight and feel better all around, more energy, less of the day-to-day problems like headaches, memory loss, aches and pains.

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