Favorite Home Remedies
From Ancient China to Grandmother’s cookbook, no matter what the ailment, it seems someone has got a remedy. I have compiled my top five favorite tried and true home remedies to share with you.
1. Hypertension - For high blood pressure, you had better be chomping on some celery! There is a very special enzyme in chewed (not juiced) celery. To get the benefit, you’ll need to consistently eat two complete stalks per day.
2. Diabetes Type II - For glucose/insulin issues, if your diet is clean, nothing works better than cinnamon. You’ll need to use about ½-1 tsp. of it daily on your oatmeal, in your tea or however you choose but, more does not equal better. Stay within this range.
3. Headaches - For tension or stress headaches, get some peppermint and lavender essential oils. Use two drops of lavender and one drop of peppermint, mixed with a drop or two of olive oil, and rub into your temples and around the back of your hairline. Just be sure your oils are 100 percent pure.
4. Sinuses - For chronic sinus issues, there’s no way around it, you have to eliminate dairy from your diet. Secondarily, take some Vick’s Vaporub and put it on the bottom outside edge of your feet at night. I would discourage long term use due to the mineral oil base, but use it until they clear up. I still don’t know the mechanism behind how this one works, but it definitely does work. For acutely clogged or inflamed sinuses, drop a few drops of Eucalyptus oil in a hot steamy shower.
5. Warts - This works for all kinds of warts, but works especially well for Plantar’s warts. Take a thin strip of the middle of a garlic clove and place it directly on the wart with duct tape (so no air can enter) for 24 hours. The properties of garlic will actually pull the papilloma virus out. If after 24 hours it doesn’t look completely gone, repeat. Just be careful of harming the skin around the wart, as garlic can be invasive.
Now, the question is, why do some treatments, home remedies or otherwise, work wonders for your best friend, but don’t seem to change a thing for you? The answer lies deep within your nervous system. There is extensive research going on currently in Germany on the master control system of the human body, the nervous system. What has been found is that there are two situations that will cause a human nervous system to "down regulate".
Situation 1 - Blocked regulation. If you are someone who finds that you have tried absolutely everything that was technically supposed to work, from diet and exercise to specific medications or supplements, and got little to no change in your situation, this is probably the case for you. When you have blocked regulation, there is something actually blocking your nervous system from utilizing things correctly.
Situation 2 - Switched regulation. When the body is "switched", the parasympathetic (rest and digest) half of the nervous system and the sympathetic (fight or flight) half are working at the exact opposite times. For example, you should be in parasympathetic mode while you are sleeping. If you find yourself awake, mind racing, toss- ing and turning, your body is in the sympathetic mode instead. In this situation, the body will normally act in total opposite of what it should. Such as taking a fish oil supplement for high cholesterol, yet your cholesterol only gets higher.
The research clearly shows that there are five main reasons for these two situations. They include heavy metal toxicity, chemical toxicity, immune challenges (fungus, parasites, viruses, bacteria), food sensitivities, and surgical scarring. These five reasons will not allow the body to properly heal itself. The good news is there are various tests you can perform to find out if this may be your situation. I use an HRV machine every day to see whether or not this is the case for my patients.
Talk to your doctor or natural health care provider for more information, but in the meantime, try these remedies! You’ll be surprised at how well they work!
