Natural home remedies

What is the Big Book of Home Remedies about?

 If you are interested in home remedies that have been used by generations then this book may suit you.

If you are interested in more natural ways to heal or optimize your health, then this book will be a valuable resource for you.

If you want to rely less on the pharmaceutical industry, this book is for you.

“The Big Book of Home Remedies” A Fit and Healthy Life the Natural Way

It also comes with this huge bonus of 418 articles that you can use for your own use, or as PLR if you are in the wellness niche and want to share or sell articles and blog posts to your community.

 

It's a complete A-Z Guide with nearly 2000 homemade natural remedies for your ailments now and the future!

 

Home remedies you will find in it-just some examples.

 

Common Ailments

Asthma: Page 22

Pink Eye: Page 90

Hair Growth: Page 107

Urinary Infection: Page 237

Sore Throat: Page 221

Hypertension: Page 124

This is an encyclopedia of Natural Homemade Remedies. 

You can get on track to a healthier, fulfilling life regardless of any little illness and do so naturally.

 Natural homemade health remedies are exactly what they state, natural remedies to make you feel better. 

Apart from leaving you feeling healthier and fitter, they are cheaper than a Doctor’s fee.

Every condition comes with a natural solution, with images to match your condition.

If you are seeking a natural, quick solution to your condition without using synthetic painkillers, this book will serve as your bible.

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 Why Natural Remedies?

My own childhood memories were of my mother using natural remedies as the first 'go-to' resource. 

I am of Hungarian origin and we had an old lady boarding with us when my family was in Europe.

She would go out each day and forage in the woods and then use the plants to make teas and tinctures. 

My mother said she was never ill and she died well into her nineties of natural causes.

My mother would make poultices, salves and special teas for us when we had various ailments- and they worked! 

When my husband was very ill constantly, I researched more natural ways to help with his Crohn's as he refused to take to medicine that he was given.

The medicine is very harsh and his doctor had said that once you start taking it, you must take it for life as it is dangerous to stop.  

I bought him Slippery Elm. He became ill in his 30's and he is now 70 and, while we were still married for another approximately 15 years, he only took Slippery Elm and was well. 

I was bitten by sandflies and found out that I was highly allergic to them. 

Both my ankles were a mess. Swollen, red, bleeding, and crusty. I was so embarrassed.

After 16 years of strong pharmacetucial creams (steroid type which burnt my skin), medicines to cope with the intense itching and allow me some sleep, and many topical creams from the chemist, I finally found the simplest remedy of all.

Coconut oil! As soon as I rubbed it on my ankles, the itch subsided until it stopped altogether.

I can now sleep well at night, wear dresses, and sit on the couch without scratching!

 

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Why should you trust natural remedies?

Natural remedies are the wisdom passed down through the generations. 

We benefit from their learning as they did not have chemists. They learnt by trial and error and passed this information down to the following generations.

Natural Remedies have been the main medicine in China for over 2500 years, take a look at Acupuncture.

25% of prescribed drugs contain natural remedies in the USA.

Even medical professionals trust home remedies.

In Germany, a third of Medical Doctors have studied natural drugs.

Natural remedies are FDA approved otherwise they would not be able to be sold across the USA or worldwide for that matter.

I have friends in third world countries who cannot afford pharmaceutical drugs and use tribal medicine for things such as constipation, diarrhea, and fever.

“The Big Book of Home Remedies” explains to you over 100 illnesses in-depth and tells you more importantly how you could start to feel healthy again with remedies in Natural Health that are unique but proven.

You will not be full of chemicals that slow you down.

You will not be full of the feeling of numbness or other side-effects that prescribed drugs often give you.

 

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Does gratitude contribute to wellness?

Does Gratitude lead to Happiness?

I decided to find out how gratitude contributes to wellness as there are many memes and printables focusing on gratitude.  

Have we ever thought about gratitude and its importance to us as a society?

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What is gratitude? 

Gratitude is a social emotion and it connects us to our social world. 

It is directed at someone who has helped us in some way and it can range from a simple act of someone offering their seat on public transport to lifelong gratitude for an act of kindness that may have had grand repercussions to someone, such as an act that may have saved someone's life.

The power of gratitude is its ability to build repricocity in others so if you practise gratitude towards others, they are more inclined to reciprocate gratitude themselves.

 Gratitude becomes a circular event that connects us socially, with warm feelings towards other human beings.

Scientific research has shown that practising gratitude, with you being the giver or receiver, stimulates the frontal cortex of the brain and this sets a chain reaction that ultimately leads to a boost in our mental wellbeing. 

Practising gratitude helps us become better human beings by being less selfish in our wants and perceived needs, and develops humility in ourselves.

 Instead of focusing on perceived deficits, such as the lack of material wealth, we focus on our blessings by actively thinking about the 'positives' in our daily and long-term life.

It is so easy to focus, for example, on one bad thing that has happened and not let it go. 

That one thing masks the many good things that have also happened and we need a jolt in our thinking to put things in perspective as focusing on negatives can impact your mental wellness.

What prompted me to start thinking about gratitude?

As I spend a lot of time on Pinterest, I saw an idea that I loved. It was the Gratitude Jar, wherein you write one thing you are grateful for each day and place this note in the jar. 

At the end of the year, you should have 365 memories of things you were grateful for throughout the year. 

I thought it was a great idea and what a lot of lovely memories you would be reliving, that you would ordinarily have forgotten. 

It is a great way of training your mind to think of something that was positive and uplifting, and that you are grateful for. 

Throughout my life, I have seen others who spend most of their time ruminating on all the negatives in their lives and focusing on bad memories. 

They were emotionally draining, unhappy people. 

Should you make an effort to practise the art of gratitude?

 

As mentioned earlier, practising gratitude has a beneficial effect on our brain and mental and physical wellness. 

On social media, time and time again, I have often read that if we ever saw the effects negative thought had on us internally, we would never have a negative thought again. 

I was listening to an audiobook prior to sitting down to write this part, and it was discussing the effects that negative and positive thoughts have on us and it made an astounding statement.

 Along with the claims that are perhaps expected, it said that when we are in a negative zone e.g. we are scared of bees that may be in our line of sight, we emit our anxiety so powerfully that a bee can actually pick up our vibrations, interpret our anxiety and sting us. 

I have never been scared of bees so that may explain why I have not been stung, even though there were plenty of bees around as I grew up.

 I have decided to add this in as an interesting fact, and you may or not believe it!

One article went into depth about how a negative thought triggers a set of physical reactions within our body and it was staggering to read how many reactions our bodies experience, without us being aware of the potentially harmful chemical surges within our body.

Having negative thoughts sets a train of events inside our bodies that we cannot fully perceive as it is invisible to us. 

So it is valuable to train yourself to practise gratitude until it becomes a habit.  

 I have witnessed a total lack of gratitude in others who are unable to say 'thank you' for a present or unexpected handout, for time spent helping them or mentoring them in a new job and they are negative souls and you can never get their loyalty. 

Needless to say, they have fractured relationships in life and this turmoil cannot be good for their mental or physical wellness. 

If you feel you have nothing to feel grateful for or think that you are a 'half-glass empty' person who dwells on the negative, remember that :

Today

• someone took their last breath 
• someone received news that they had a life-threatening illness
• someone was just retrenched
• someone lost a baby
• someone didn't have enough money when shopping and had to put groceries back
• someone suffers from depression in silence
• someone had news that their partner had just died 
• someone who needs to work has a sick child but manages their family
• someone has a child with a diagnosis that means lifelong special care
• someone is in an abusive relationship but it is better than living on the street or being stalked
• someone whose marriage has deteriorated and finding it hard to keep up the pretence
• someone is having a breakdown and being judged by family

What to be grateful for each day:

Do you appreciate 

• someone you don't know smiling at you unexpectedly?
• offering you a seat?
• making you a cup of tea or coffee?
• cooking dinner?
• taking you out for dinner?
• helping you with a project?
• staying after work to talk to you?
• a child bringing you a flower? (I get this sometimes from school children)
• letting you go first in the queue?
• someone picking up something you dropped?

So many possibilities!

The Benefits of Gratitude

The benefits of gratitude are twofold: physical and mental wellness. Some people are better at it than others so, for some, it is a habit to be acquired by practising with deliberate intention. 

Without gratitude, we lose the 'glue' that binds us, not only to those we know but to the rest of humanity. 

Those who helped Jewish people escape from the Nazis, by hiding them in their houses, did so at their own peril. 

The gratitude felt by those who were saved was a lifelong feeling towards those strangers.

 

Gratitude develops trust towards the humanity of others.

 If people are kind to strangers, we feel safer and more secure in our place in the world.

How to start developing the habit of gratitude.

It takes 30 days to develop a new habit and this habit is a worthwhile, important habit for your overall happiness.   

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What are 5 Health Habits You Can't Live Without?

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What are 5 Health Habits You Can't Live Without?

Many chronic diseases are caused by lifestyle issues.

People tend not to exercise as much as they should, they allow themselves to become overweight, and they eat unhealthy foods that lead to things like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes.

The problem with lifestyle issues is that they are difficult to turn around. Many people try to change their lifestyle all at once, which is extremely difficult to accomplish.

 As a result, they often give up all of their healthy habits and resort to the usual negative health habits that they had been doing before they attempted a healthy lifestyle. 

Sometimes it just takes a few days or a few weeks of trying to live healthy before the individual becomes overwhelmed and stops living healthy. 

They stop exercising and go back to eating processed foods and junk foods.

This is why it is better to change your health habits one habit at a time so that you don’t become overwhelmed and stop trying to be healthy altogether. 

Most weight loss programs work if they are done carefully and don’t deprive the individual too much. The same is true of exercise programs.

If you choose an exercise that you really enjoy or increase your physical activity more gradually, you can usually stick to the program so that you don’t become discouraged and quit exercising altogether.

The trick to healthy living is to begin gradually.

Don’t try any trendy diet or fitness fad. If you try these things with gusto, you are likely to respond negatively and you won’t stick with the programs. 

There are a few simple things you can do to live a happier and healthier life. 

Start with just these 5 changes in health habits:

     1. Try eating at least one healthy meal a day.

Even if you eat processed foods most of the time, if you try to eat just one healthy food each day, you will feed your body with good nutrition and healthy proteins.

Healthy meals consist of mainly fruits and vegetables, supplemented with whole grain products, and lean meats.

It doesn’t matter how much you eat because, if the food is healthy for you, it won’t usually contain a lot of calories and won’t cause weight gain as can be seen when you eat junk foods or highly processed foods.

Even so, you should try to watch your portion sizes. Protein is calorie dense so keep your meat portions the size of your palm.

I tutor young students each Saturday morning and they are expected to do a short mini-test in each of their subjects each week.

So I tell them that they need to eat a carbohydrate to wake their body's engine up in the morning, and a protein to wake their brain up and be ready for the test.

I found the times I ate my meals had a great impact on my cravings and energy levels. 

I used to have afternoon cravings and, as I got older and became more in tune with my body, I realised that the less I ate earlier in the day, the worse my afternoon and evening cravings were.

As I ate breakfast around 6.30-7 am, I decided to have my lunch at morning break, weaned myself off endless cups of coffee and replaced it with a large glass of water.

I ate my snacks for lunch and I did not have hunger cravings after this as I felt full all day long. I started not even wanting to eat my fruit until after work, on my way home. 

I also started to cook slightly more at night so I would take this for lunch, instead of sandwiches.

After a couple of years, people who had remarked on this habit changed from sandwiches daily to “left-overs”, as well.

     2. Drink a glass of water before each meal.

Water is perhaps the best liquid you can drink.

When you decide to drink a glass of water before meals, (an 8-ounce glass is enough), you will feel fuller before eating, and you won’t eat as much at the meal that follows a drink of water.

If you like, you can squeeze some lemon or lime into the water. 

I found that adding water or lime to my water decreased my appetite and I found it more refreshing. It is great as part of a weight loss program too.

Our bodies can give us signals that are hard to read, in terms of hunger and thirst. 

We may often be thirsty and we think it is a signal that we want to eat. This is another benefit of drinking water regularly throughout the day.

 

 3. Be active during lunch. 

    Even if you are given a half-hour to eat, it usually doesn’t take that long to eat your meals. Try eating your meals and then take some time to exercise. You don’t have to work out excessively but you should be able to take a brisk walk.

    Not only will this energize you but also it will help burn off the calories you just ate and will aid in the digestive process.

It really doesn’t matter what type of exercise you do as long as you choose something reasonable that will help you feel better after eating your lunch.

    Exercising during lunch also helps decrease the stress of your job and will make the rest of your day go easier. It also takes the focus off food and moves you away from the table.

     If you are at home, you can do a spot of gardening, walk the dog or do some shopping.

  4.     Try a Meal Replacement Bar. 

    

     This involves eating a healthy protein bar as a snack instead of junk foods. Most meal replacement bars contain a lot of good nutrition and fibre.

       They are also not as calorie-rich as you would think. They help stave off hunger pangs that are so typical of the mid-afternoon time.

Keep a stash of these protein bars in your desk at work or in your purse or briefcase so you can grab one whenever you feel hungry.

It will keep you from going to the vending machines and eating poor food choices. Try eating a meal replacement bar that is high in fibre and that has at least 10 to 15 grams of protein per bar.

If you are going to eat something, always try to make it the healthier choice- or the lesser of two evils, if your choices are limited!

5.     Exercise regularly.

You can keep it simple and walk for half an hour 3 times a week initially.

I found that when a walked twice a day and ate anything I wanted,  I consistently lost 3 kilos in a fortnight, with a pleasing corresponding loss of inches.

An inspiring walk for me was to meet up with a walkers group every Saturday morning to walk around the beautiful Botanical Gardens early in the morning when the scent of the gardens wafted from the gardens.

Twice around the gardens was 8 kilometres and it is amazing how quickly it goes when you are part of a group.

If you have a gym membership, try going there at least 3-4 times per week. Choose an activity you enjoy and make the most of it for at least a half hour per session.

This will help energize you, may build muscle mass, and will help you lose weight by burning off excess calories. 

If you are interested in more self-care strategies, you will be interested in these strategies. 

I use these to feel better, get rid of headaches, or become alert on the way to work or when I need to be focused. 

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How Do You Thrive? 5 Natural Ways to Thrive

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How do you thrive? 5 Natural Ways to Thrive

What does it mean to thrive?

According to standard definition, it means to grow, to flourish, to prosper.

This is a beautiful term, something that resonates deeply with anyone who wants to encourage and inspire wellness. 

In terms of wellness then, to thrive means that we are constantly encouraging wellness within ourselves, within our bodies, and of course, within our minds.

It is something we all aspire to develop throughout our lives. 

It is an overall sense of wellness and trust in ourselves that we will continue to grow in a positive manner as time passes, and be able to meet the challenges that lay ahead of us.

 To thrive is something beautiful and it is something that each of us can learn how to do. 

How Do We Thrive?

We thrive, quite simply by allowing ourselves to and by encouraging ourselves to do so. 

For some, this is easier said than done. 

There are many people who have tried to thrive, but who have faced too much difficulty in their lives, and they eventually give up believing because they think their life is just not cut out for it. 

For some, early difficulties in life have robbed them of their belief in their ability to thrive and seek professional help.

 Some may overcome their negative beliefs by finding a loving relationship. 

Sometimes, we enter really difficult times in our life when it just seems too hard- when we are grieving because of a death of a loved one or a relationship breakdown, or extreme financial difficulty or loss of a job at a late stage in life. 

I believe that all of us encounter times when we feel as if we are stagnating but there is no static cycle to thriving- the cycle between ups and downs may just be longer at times. 

Eventually, most of us get to a point where we think things have turned around and we are thriving and coping well with meeting life head on. 

 There are some things that we must understand about thriving, about constantly evolving, growing, and moving forward.

Knowing How To Thrive

To know how to thrive we must fully understand the process. Thriving, though the definition is of growing, prospering, and flourishing, is not always a case of thriving.

Sounds contradictory doesn’t it? Let me explain.

The tree that thrives in nature faces many obstacles.

 It faces potential destruction in its early stages by animals walking by that could possibly crush it underfoot. 

It has to compete with all the other trees and plants in the forest to get the sunlight it needs and even when it has fully matured still it must face gales and storms and through all of this, it must continue to strive towards thriving.

It can be seen then that thriving is not actually something that is achieved; rather it is something that one must aspire towards and to do that we must accept that we will face challenges.

Indeed in order to thrive it is essential that we face challenges and it is also essential that we overcome those challenges or at least have a mindset that will strive to overcome them.

5 Natural Ways To Thrive

Motivate Yourself  

Without motivation, it is impossible to thrive. 

Motivation is inspired through passion, whether that is related to doing something for yourself or for others, maybe your passion relates to providing a future for your children. 

It doesn’t matter what motivates you, use your motivation to thrive. 

Use it to grow, and to push you to the next level.

If you follow your passion, it does not seem like hard work.

 'Do what you have to do until you do what you want to do' is a great saying by Oprah that I use to motivate me when I am doing my work online.

I don't try to compete with others who have been working online for many years so I listen to their wisdom and try to add my personal touches.

In terms of achieving my goals, there is a saying that has helped me and really sticks in my mind.

 'If you continue to work on your goals, you may or may not succeed but if you give up you definitely will fail.' 

 Everyone is different so this may not do it for you, but it certainly does it for me. 

Giving up on your goals and dreams equals 100% failure. So find a positivity quote that motivates you and hits home base for you.


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Accept all challenges 

When you are challenged, you are forced to thrive. 

This doesn’t mean that when somebody challenges you to a game of pool for example, and you win the match easily, that you are thriving.

No, a true challenge is something you find difficult, something that you cannot easily achieve, something that requires that you grow, or learn a new skill, or visit a new environment or face a fear, to achieve. 

This is true thriving, pushing your boundaries, expanding your limits, forcing yourself to thrive.

Another great quote that inspired me was 'If someone offers you a challenging task, say yes then figure out how to do it later.' 

This worked for me as I was a perfectionist and would shy away from things if I did not know the steps to get there!

Face your fears 

Face Your Fears

Fears, in every case, are designed to limit us. 

By facing our fears, we are pushing ourselves into an area of life that we have been too afraid to visit. 

To truly thrive we must want to be able to do anything and we must be able to do everything without limitation.

 In order to do this, we must allow the formation of mental barriers to what life presents us with.

Everything that comes our way can be used as an opportunity to thrive and by facing our fears, we will make the most of every opportunity that does.

Early in my career as a teacher, our placements and many promotions were based on numerical rankings. 

When I shifted to another state, I had to attend job interviews for the first time and I was highly anxious. 

The way I got through this was to say to myself' 'what is the worst thing that can happen?'

 The answer, of course, was that I would not get the job but I would gain experience. 

However, by pushing and preparing myself, I am happy to say that I was successful at 5 job interviews! So it was certainly worth pushing through my fears and anxiety.

Balance 

Balance your life from the perspective of ‘Body & Mind’.

 In order to truly thrive,  we must develop a way of life that promotes balance. 

If we cannot promote physical wellness then our mental wellness will struggle and the same goes in reverse. 

By developing balance physically and mentally, we allow our spirits to thrive.

I learnt the hard way as I let go of all the things I enjoyed and just focused on work....... and paid the price for it!

 My close friend said that I had undergone a complete personality transformation as I was trying to be an excellent teacher in autism (autism was new to me) and I was also trying to be there for a partner and elderly parents.

I can now understand things that were beyond my earlier understandings and I write from personal experience, not from a psychology or medical degree.

Develop harmony

Harmony is something that is very important when it comes to thriving. 

Without harmony, we face too much opposition in the world, and this opposition leads to restriction of our ability to express ourselves.

If we cannot express ourselves freely, we cannot thrive.

 Learn to accept what happens around you and even within you.

Be selfless as it encourages harmony and not only will you thrive, but you will see that everyone else that you interact with will also, in their own way, will thrive.



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