Natural remedies are effective at helping the body speed up recovery from illness and injury. These are a combination of herbs, supplements and lifestyle adjustments to help your family bounce back from ill health.
Natural Flue Remedy
Turmeric Milk for Cough
Every winter, a few viruses are circulating, and especially now with Covid.
Flu is a common infectious viral illness spread by coughs and sneezes. It can be very unpleasant, but you’ll usually begin to feel better within about a week.
You can catch flu– short for influenza– all year round, but it’s widespread in winter, which is why it’s also known as “seasonal flu”.
It’s not the same as the common cold. Different viruses cause flu, and the symptoms tend to start more suddenly, be more severe and last longer.
Some of the main symptoms of flu include:
• a high temperature (fever) of 38C (100.4F) or above, tiredness and weakness, a headache, general aches and pains, a dry, chesty cough
• Cold-like symptoms– such as a blocked or runny nose, sneezing, and a sore throat – can also be caused by flu, but they tend to be less severe than the other symptoms you have.
Flu can make you feel so exhausted and unwell that you have to stay in bed and rest until you feel better.
What to do
God has provided us following healing ingredients that will expedite the healing process:
• ½ lemon with peel
• ½ Orange
• ¼ grapefruit
• ¼ large onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• 2 drops peppermint (essential oils)
• Small piece of horseradish
Blend above in distilled water
Tale 1 tablespoon every 2 hours
Whenever I start feeling my through is tingling, and I know the cough is just about to kick in, this is my secret remedy. Since we’re heading into winter now, I thought it would be nice to share this delicious healing recipe which is my twist on an age-old remedy for winter coughs and colds—the special ingredient, turmeric & honey.
Turmeric is a spice that works on the digestive, hepatic, immune, musculoskeletal and circulatory systems. It has a bitter, astringent and pungent taste and a wide variety of traditional uses (anaemia, blood purifier, blood tissue formation, jaundice, hepatitis, circulation, inflammatory bowel disease, haemorrhoids, water retention, indigestion, gas, clearing mucous, protein digestion, urinary infections, fever, bruising, acne, and as a natural antibiotic and general anti-inflammatory agent among many others).
Its antimicrobial properties make it particularly useful for treating the common cold, whilst anti-inflammatory compounds may help relieve inflammation and airways congestion in those with a chronic cough.
Honey is a natural sweetener, better than sugar.
It is rich in antioxidants, can help improve cholesterol, promotes burn and wound healing. Honey soothes the sore throat, and it’s an effective cough suppressant, too. In a study, children age two and older with upper respiratory tract infections were given up to 2 teaspoons (10 millilitres) of honey at bedtime.
In Ayurvedic medicine, a popular way to prepare it is as a milk decoction, gently heating milk with turmeric and other spices to make a warming and healing drink.
Ingredients 1:
½ cup Warm milk
1 tsp Honey
½ tsp Turmeric
Blend all together and drink warm
Bay Leave For Weight Loss
These are “Bay leave.”
Do you know why you add bay leaves to foods, especially red meat and poultry? Somewhen asked reply: to add flavour to the food.
But did you know that If you boil some bay leaves in a glass of water and taste it, it will sometimes have little or no flavour?
Now, why do you put bay leaves in the meat? Well, you will be pleased to know that the addition of bay leaves to meat converts triglycerides to monounsaturated fats, and for experimentation and confirmation:
Cut the chicken in half and cook each half in a pan and place on one bay leaf and the other without bay leaf and observe the amount of fat in both pans.
If you have bay leaves, there is no need for a pharmacy. Recent scientific studies have shown that bay leaves have many benefits & help eliminate many health problems and illnesses.
There are vast benefits of bay leaf, here are a few:: –
Bay leaf treats digestive disorders and helps eliminate lumps, Heartburn, Acidity & Constipation.
It helps regulate bowel movement by drinking hot bay tea.
It lowers blood sugar, and bay leaf is also an antioxidant
It allows the body to produce insulin by eating it or drinking bay tea for a month.
IT eliminates lousy cholesterol and relieves the body of triglycerides.
It’s instrumental in treating colds, flu and severe cough as it is a rich source of vitamin “C”; you can boil the leaves and inhale steam to get rid of phlegm and reduce the severity of the cough.
Bay leaf protects the heart from seizures and strokes as it contains cardiovascular protective compounds.
It’s rich in acids such as caffeic acid, quercetin, eugenol and bartolinide, substances that prevent the formation of cancer cells in the body.
It eliminates insomnia and anxiety, if taken before bed, helps you relax and sleep peacefully.
Drinking a cup of boiled bay leaves twice a day breaks kidney stones and cures infections.
Like ginger, garlic, onion and chillis, bay leaves must also be part of my spice collection.
