Comments on: Stocking Your Natural Herbal Medicine Cabinet

By: Lora (kneadnprayer)

Lora (kneadnprayer) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:04:21 +0000

Clove oil is also great to put on your furniture legs to keep the puppy from chewing them up ! Just thought to throw that out there for all those looking at Christmas Puppies !

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:42:33 +0000

I use papaya’s mainly for heart burn and stomach problems. In general, soaking your beans and grains really helps with digestion, which is usually a main gas causer.

By: C

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:29:06 +0000

Hi Lindsay. Do you have recommendations for reducing gas/bloating during pregnancy? Did you take the papaya enzymes then? What about reducing gas in general?

By: Michele M

Michele M — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:34:19 +0000

Lindsay,

Is elderberry is capsule form as effective as the syrup?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:52:46 +0000

I bought the majority of items from Vitacost, including the essential oils. The throat spray and teas, I buy through Mountain Rose Herbs. I also bought the bath salts through MRH.

By: Tammy Jo

Tammy Jo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:29:17 +0000

Lindsay,

I have shared your blog with all my homeschool friend and food co-op ladies! Thank you for being such a blessing to our family! I scrolled down through the list of comments but I don’t think you mentioned where you buy each item in your medicine cabinet. Do you buy most everything from Vitacost? Essential oils? I was going to purchase some of your reccommendations,but I wanted to be frugal in the process. I thought you would be the best place to ask!

On a side note, I have treated my children (some now adults) for almost 20 years with garlic oil! It works! In fact, I just finished treating our 8 year old with it this week!

By: April

April — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:15:38 +0000

My step mother has had trouble with ear infections and shared this with me…

A natural mixture to prevent an ear infection (or help at least) is equal parts rubbing alcohol and equal parts white vinegar. I place it in a container to keep in the bathroom closet and shake before using.

Turn your head to the side, or lay your child on your lap and use a medicine dropper to drop a few drops in your/their ear. Let it sit for a little bit and then tip your head the other way onto a cloth to drain. Repeat for the other ear. The alcohol dries up any liquid in the ear and the vinegar fights the infection or the other way around, either way it works!

It does not sting and is great to do when your kids get a cold or are teething just as a precaution.

Thank you for your blog it is truly a blessing in my life!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:40:48 +0000

What a great tip! Thanks for sharing!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:01:24 +0000

RAW HONEY…the best thing ever for burns. A few years ago, when my youngest daughter was three. She was running and fall into the woodstove that was burning hot! She caught herself going all the way with the palm of her left hand. When I picked her up the skin on that hand looked like melted wax. It was all hanging in one pile. It was gross and it was bad. She was screaming in pain. I remembered reading about honey. So I grabbed the raw honey and applied it. Wrapped it up and waited for my husband who was on his way home from work to take us to the ER. We never went. When he got home 15 minutes later, it already looked a lot better and she calmed down within in 1 minute of applying the honey. We kept it covered for about a week only putting fresh honey and bandages on in the morning and evening. Never did we wash anything off. We just added liberal amounts of honey and rewrap. Two weeks later, you could not tell that she had ever been burned. I tried it myself when I had a terrible steam burn and it worked wonders.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:25 +0000

Oh my! I don’t know if even the best smoothie would hide raw garlic.
You could use a garlic poultice to get the garlic to the bloodstream. Here’s a video of how to make it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4QQj85blWk