Natural Remedies
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: cancer, disease, elderly care, family, fitness, health, illness, medicine, men's issues, natural remedies, other, surgery, therapy, Uncategorized, unclassifiedLots of people think that we are taking too many pharmaceutical products and it certainly is a fact that we are taking more than we ever have done before in history. Our generation has forgotten lots of the natural treatments that our grandparents (or even further back) took for normal
On the other hand, many of the pharmaceutical remedies on the market are made from natural things like plants, but are more highly concentrated. A pharmacist also has access to plants from other continents and can mix plant extracts to improve the effectiveness of the final product.
Despite all that, lots of people still feel that we have gone too far and ought to attempt to redress the balance at least a little. I live in Thailand now and a day does not pass that my wife says something like: ‘Old people eat this for medication. Old style remedy for good blood’ - or good heart or beautiful skin.
I have no medical training so I am not qualified to say whether these old style solutions are any good or not, but I have collected a couple of them in this article out of interest and if you find them worthy of note too, you could do some more research yourself.
You can buy most of these items and ask for more info from health food shops and if you like the effects, you could try to cultivate them in your backyard.
Zinc or at least products containing zinc are thought to cure colds. Zinc is easily obtained from good chocolate, watermelon seeds and sesame seeds, so next time you feel like a snack, try these instead.
Cranberries are well-known for helping sort out urinary tract infections (UTI’s). Women suffer more from UTI’s than men, but it would be worth having a bag or dried cranberries in the cupboard or a litre of unsweetened cranberry juice in the fridge.
Aloe Vera is universally known to heal skin issues and dried aloe vera is said to make a tea that lowers blood pressure. If the climate is right, everyone should have a plant or two in the garden.
Garlic is known to help clean the blood and cut down on the danger of heart problems. I know many people who eat two or three raw small, hazelnut-sized bulbs of garlic a day.
St. John’s Wort is thought to cure depression, although you would have to research how the plant is prepared.
Citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit are good for curing the common cold, something that the pharmaceutical industry admits by making almost all of its cold cures taste of lemon.
White vinegar will alleviate feet soaked in it of foot rot, toe fungus, athletes’ foot and such like.
Cinnamon is an old, traditional remedy for high blood pressure and is easy to take on cakes and puddings. Cinnamon tea is delicious as well.
Grape seeds are said to be a remedy for prostate concerns, although not prostate cancer.
Ginger tea is an old aid to digestion and banishes flatulence.
The list goes on and it just;y takes a little homework to find more time-honoured treatments.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now involved with natural cures for prostate cancer. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?
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