Below is an incomplete compilation of home remedies to save me from repeating myself:
It was inspired by the 3rd person this fall who I felt moved after they sent me a personal text or whose facebook post I saw and felt "nudged" to want to respond, so I wrote it like a "letter." Enjoy, and be well.
Dear _____,
I know that you know about PH, the things I share are meant to augment that base.
Here is a VERY effective you and your household can do right now----good to do together, then it is mutually offensive!!! LOL. My singer friends think I am awesome for this one...I did not think it up...it came from an ND I used to work with back in the 90's. It is simple and you can do it NOW. It works VERY well.
Garlic Germ Chaser: (my name for it)
Take out a coffee mug with a flat bottom
place a whole but peeled clove of garlic into it
use a small flt bottomed juice glass to crush it into the bottom of the mug
do not crush it on your cutting board..do it in the mug...that way you get ALL the oils
remove the juice glass...lol!
squeeze the juice of half of a lemon into the mug
then fill with boiling water
drink it down as soon as possible
adding salt, or honey to get it down is OK....but honestly, straight is best...
I have a DoTerra Bomb using 3 drops each of these oils into a capsule diluted with a few drops of fractionated coconut oil & taken immediately:
oregano, thyme and melaleuca (DoTerra only)
always dilute...oregano is so "hot" it can burn your skin, and worse on the inside!!!
also OnGuard (Thieves oll if using Young Living Brand) 3 beadlets or drops in and empty capsule ...also diffused into the air
And Sambuccol from Trick or Treat night to when Easter baskets are empty...some winters, we did this, because everyone around us ate junk food and were always sick. Suz could NOT miss rehearsals, or she would be removed form the cast list....yes, that strict!
There's plenty of help at local health food stores too, Like Probiotics and etc. All Drs in northern regions should check patients for Vitamin D Deficiency. Add more D3 when it's cold and dark and your immunity is down. Ask your REAL MD, if he does not know about that, change Drs.
I used to mentor in this area...Unofficially. I represented no company or products. I started out innocently, teaching all mama's who would bring their kids to church nursery with runny noses...then I stopped because I was getting weary of hearing myself talk about it. The ones who were eager to learn picked it up and went on to surpass me and mentor others...Now I ONLY take the time on those who are VERY serious...mainly singer friends now...since we get so desperate to avoid or at least shorten the course of colds! {Author Note: Now I will send a link to here!]
Here are two or three remedies that are not always on hand, but is ALWAYS on MY arsenal, and should be in every singers RX:
Alkalizing PINE TAR and THYME mouthwash:
http://heritagestore.com/alka-thyme-alkaline-mouthwash-16oz-liquid.html
Herer is the origila patenst---I used to use...but hated the ide of red dye:
http://www.glyco-thymoline.net/orderonline.html
If you order this dye free version get this too:
http://heritagestore.com/atomidine-2oz-liquid.html They might all be at Whole Foods already...under Heritage Products.
Gargling Atomidine deeply kills bacteria, and instantly removes the yellow/white infected layer off of canker sores and thrush sores....often happening back of the throat during a viral illness. it is so potent, it can make you hoarse, so NEVER on a singing Day, only on an off day, or early in the morning on a singing day, followed with hydration and vocal rest. Gargles deeply, I have only never needed tio use this product for more than 2 consecutive days. A trace of iodine might get into your system, but that is OK as it jump-starts the immunity at the glandular level.
Take Lysine (two at the end of every meal and snack, until healed or at least the sores or sore throat are gone) with all viral illnesses...What reverses retro-viral flares of herpes and canker sores, heals other viruses as well. FAST! When the pain goes away, back it off and discontinue.
Now, the Thymol Mouthwash products are much more than mouthwash, and more than they can say on their ads....never taken internally, but can go into the nose like salt water rinse---diluted 2 parts water one part product, can be compress behind ears and on chest to get the mucous flowing down and out....as a mere mouthwash, it is a mucus mop.
Gargle it way back and deeply it clears mucous from above and below...warm compress on the chest for congestion and to open airway (like Vicks*) for more productive coughing, behind ears to quickly drain fluids via the Eustachian tubes, on conjunctivitis in the eyes, and believe it or not---a room temp glyco compress draws the fluid out of poison ivy, without breaking the skin. (My neighbor swears by Vicks* on the feet, socked and well coveted at night...she is 80- and so she KNOWS!!! Do not throw out good old Vicks!)
I learned about Glyco-Thymoline and Atomidine and eating clean form a chiropractor who treated the Amish community. before I met him, my older kids were always on antibiotics and had ear infections and colds etc...also, I used to get pneumonia every Sept and April....He coached me with this and clean eating 21 years ago, and I have only had pneumonia once since, and that was due to a structural injury during childbirth, a torn lower esophagus, where my stomach herniated through and paralyzed my diaphragm. (Making me unable to sing for 7 years! Glad that was found all scarred over...and I could sing again!) Kids then 4 and 6 broke the antibiotic cycle, littler kids never got on that trap...it worked great!
This is personal and unpleasant, but he also prescribed saline retention enemas for any airway-challenging illness and well as any illness involving fever, even vomiting, both which severely dehydrate. The ratio: 2 qts warm pure water, 1 heaping tsp of salt, one level tsp of baking soda (dissolved into the water and mixed well. His premise was that it dramatically reversed severe dehydration, thus reducing fever and liquidating mucousa all through the body, and also that it quickly alkalized the lower digestive system, making digestion, as well as the proper downward flow of waste and mucous....like clearing a a sewer clean-out out on the front yard will will allow the kitchen and bath fixtures to flow freely upstairs. it sounds drastic, but...I hate to admit, it works. At our house, none of us resorted to even thinking this unless very desperate and begging to be passed a warm pitcher of solution through the bathroom door...if nothing else, the very thought is so threatening and daunting, that it makes a person drink more to to avoid it! Persons who eat clean should rarely ever have to resort to that!!! But there it is.
Lastly, he said to starve out fevers. Feed nourishing soup broths and lots and lots of fluids Digestion overwhelms the body, and takes away energy form the battle front. All soup here is de-fatted anyway....skin removed prior to all cooking. Do not fear, there is STILL enough fat in the dark meat of poultry to make the broth yummy or the roast or barbecue moist! If I see a shiny puddle of grease/fat on the surface of soup or stock, I throw a lettuce leaf onto the top of the pot, and quickly pull it back off. Surface oil will stick to it, and be removed-a lettuce leaf grease mop! I never cook anything with skin on here. We use all organic meat. My husband gets rashes from additives and hormones and chemicals in grocery produced meat. Than slowly add in vege based carbs and lean meat during recovery. When the first person in my house is sick...I start soup...a spooning on broth to those who could not eat....soups had fresh herbs or drops of oil into individual bowls, or both All herbs mentions for use on the DoTerra "Bomb" capsules, and garlic (see garlic ginger chicken recipe on another post) ...chicken soups so laced with herbs, it looks green! Low carb is better too. The broth is full or nourishment if no solids are allowed...nobody here starves, even when we are "starving, and is "starving a fever" or merely asking "When is supper going to be done Mom?"
Hot baths baths with Epsom salts and fresh ginger slices to bring on healing fever, if the illness is not spiking then relenting, but rather slow to come on and get over, and go away.
And do not even get me started on how much I LOVE Throat Coat tea! The singer's gig-saving grace!!!
Be Healthy and Well -All year round!!!
