Marisa Lee - Natural Remedies: Homemade Organic Remedies for Your Health and Appearance to Prevent and Heal Sickness

Natural Remedies

Homemade Organic Remedies for Your Health and Appearance to Prevent and Heal Sickness

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T he time has come when more people like you are looking for more natural ways to cure and prevent common ailments. People are trying to stay away from chemicals found in many medications and different types of cream medications. This book is just the thing to get you started on the road to happy, natural health.

Inside this book you will find out how common items found in your home can help to cure colds and keep asthma under control. You probably never guessed what benefits lemons, cucumbers, strawberries, and baking soda could bring to your health.

You dont just have to be ill to use natural remedies; there are plenty of appearance issues that people deal with on a daily basis that can be helped with natural remedies. You dont have to pay the doctor to remove a little wart on your toe or pay for expensive lotions for pimples.

Learning about natural remedies will open the doors to many different ways that you can keep your body healthy without spending a small fortune and without running to the doctor every time you see a blemish on your skin. You can save time as well and feel good inside and out.

During the course of the book you will learn about the ingredients and how these ingredients work with and on the body. Each of the ingredients has its own components and properties that make it react the way it does to cure your ailments. These are remedies that you can use for yourself or others in your home if the need arises.

Towards the end of the book you will also be learning about over the counter natural remedies that can be used to help in the treatment with other more serious ailments. These are going to be the most common natural remedies used and by reading the book you may find the one that is going to work for you.

Not only will you feel better; you are going to look better too after finishing this book and be all natural!

I n this chapter, you will learn:

• About the history of natural remedies
• Why some people choose natural remedies

T he use of natural remedies dates back thousands of years. Nearly every country in the world had several plants that they used for various medicinal purposes. These plants and other natural remedies were given and taken in many different forms. Some countries would brew teas and other might chew on bark of certain twigs and trees. Japan and China were both well known for their tea remedies and in parts of these two countries the remedies are still used. During these times there was no knowledge of chemicals and medical contents of these plants that were being used. It is thought that this began with people consuming large amounts of certain herbs and figured out that the medicinal qualities were remaining in the body to take the form of a natural vaccine.

One of the biggest plant forms that was used and still is today is ginger. It was used for sore throats and the flu. Ancient Indian tribes were known to use opium poppies and the wattle tree for headaches and aches and pains. In the land down under; Australia wild plum extracts were used to cure diabetes. There were several locations that used the Cinchona tree was used as a cure for fatigue. If you were a person that would sweat excessively; you might have found yourself rubbing a raw potato on yourself to help with that. For those were suffering from respiratory problems they were given chicken soup and stinging nettle.

How Home Remedies Affected the Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry would not be at the level it is today had it not been for the knowledge of natural remedies from the past. A perfect example is the quinine tablet; it was due to the discovery of the Cinchona plant medicinal purposes that lead to the tablet. For many, many years Asia and South America used aspirin for fevers and aches and now it is used on a worldwide basis. With the invention of the wonderful aspirin scientists and pharmacist were inspired to look into the wattle tree to discover that it had very high concentrations of acid acetylsalicylic. This particular acid helped to reduce pain and it could even be given to children that had a fever and could not sleep through the night.

How It Came to Pass

Most of the natural remedies used were simply to help with the reduction of pain. A lot of the time natural remedies were used for simple generic reasons and it was discovered that they worked for more. There are many natural remedies that were found on accident, but, once a family had the knowledge about the medicinal advantages it would be passed down from generation to generation. There were very limited side effects because the body is preprogrammed to use the medicinal content it needs and then send the rest out of the body through the urine. In years past there were some specific natural remedies that were used to treat serious conditions like heart disease and blood clotting.

The word phyto refers to plants and most of the natural remedies were rich in medicinal properties and were classified as phytonutrients and phytochemicals. With the use of the nutrients and chemicals pharmacists were able to produce better quality medications that would work for various aches and ailments. The strength would depend on the magnitude of what ailment is trying to be treated.

I n this chapter, you will learn:

• Natural remedies for common problems that dont require a doctor
• What to use, how much, and how often for natural remedy formula

I t is unfortunate, but, it is a fact that sometimes a cough can get you and it isnt fun. There are a number of natural remedies to follow that will help you deal with that irritating cough. If you are suffering from a dry hacking cough that isnt productive is one that you want to get rid of as soon as possible.

Honey A study done at Penn State University showed that honey can be more effective on a cough than most over the counter medications. With its stickiness and high viscosity it coats and soothes the mucus membranes. It also contains anti-bacterial qualities and an enzyme that is delivered by bees when they are harvesting to make honey. If your cold is due to a bacterial issue; honey can shorten the length of time you have the cold.

If you use this remedy you should be using raw, organic honey. Take one to three tablespoons each day as you need it to control your cough. If the coughing is keeping you up at night try taking a tablespoon before bedtime. If you are administering to a child you can reduce the dosage to one teaspoon.