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[derketchup]

Thanks for joining us in Oh my aching..something! Please feel free to share any home remedies you've used for illnesses/injuries.

Please use caution and common sense when using any home remedies. If you have any questions or concerns, contact a health professional before treating yourself or anyone else.

Originally Posted by HUDSON21 I have complied a list of the remedies given for the RAOK...please feel free to continue to list remedies that you believe might benefit someone else and I will add them to the list. Let's try to minimize all those aches and pains with items we have around the house! Swimmers Ear: Use a 50/50 mix of peroxide/alcohol for ear drops. Athletes Foot: soaking your feet in an apple cider vinegar solution and putting baking soda paste between the toes can help relieve athletes’ foot. Fever: Cut an onion in half. Place the cut side against the soles of each foot and put on a pair of socks. Hit the couch. 30-45 minutes and the fever is much improved if not gone, and the edges of the onion are cooked! Equal Alkaline/Acidity of Skin: Put vinegar on poison ivy-exposed sites while showering and it equals out the alkaline/acidity of the skin and removes oil Diaper rash ointment: Mix plain Maalox, or Milk of Magnesia, with plain corn starch until it crumbles. Mix this mixture with Aquaphor until it makes a spreadable paste. You could use petroleum jelly but it won't 'stick' as well. Slather on kiddo's rear when he has a diaper rash. Especially great for the 'acidic’ diaper rashes due to antibiotics, or citrus. The antacid will take the acidity out, the cornstarch will help absorb the liquid, and the Aquaphor will help protect the skin.

Originally Posted by misse croup: boil an onion in water and give baby a drink of onion water. i was so amazed and it worked well on my son when he was a baby. he let out a loud burp and tooted then went to sleep.

Originally Posted by neesie03 use castor oil to make eyebrows grow(just rub a little in every night)

Originally Posted by KrazyKatie Baking soda and water paste - soothes minor 1st and 2nd degree burns. I have not tried it on 3rd, and I hope I'll never have to. Replace paste when it dries out if the pain is still there. I had a 2nd degree burn on my finger and had to go to bed with it. I kept the paste moist by putting a ziplock bag and a sock over my hand. I also took some Excedrin PM to help me sleep. (Excedrin PM basically has Benadryl in it, which helped with the redness and swelling long-term.) Next morning, my finger didn't hurt anymore and hasn't since.

[derketchup]

Yeast infection: This works best if you catch the infection at the early stages. Get a syringe without a needle (or a similar device) and fill it with plain yogurt. You apply the yogurt the same as monistat (while lying down insert it into the vagina), right before you go to bed. It is advisable to wear something to protect your panties/sheets. You should do this for a full week. This introduces good bacteria to fight the yeast. It also won't aggravate any other infections that you may confuse with a yeast infection (STD's, vaginosis) as monistat can.

Some women with recurring yeast infections use yogurt internally once a week as a preventive measure.

Other things you can do to soothe yeast infections

• wear cotton underwear and avoid synthetic/tight underwear/pantyhose
• do not use tampons, diaphragms, or any similar device until the infection is gone
• keep the groin area as dry as possible -- moisture encourages yeast growth
• limit intake of sugar and other sweets as sugar makes yeast grow
• eat yogurt daily to help bring the bacteria in your body back into order

Of course, if the above doesn't work there are OTC medicines and prescription medicines your doctor can prescribe.

PLEASE if you have never had a yeast infection before do not try to treat yourself! See a doctor immediately!

[wannabefree]

Use colloidal silver (liquid from health food store) for all sorts of things but my favorite is for bladder infections. I used to get them all the time but now colloidal silver is my new best friend!

Also to add to derketchup's great post, you can also insert an acidophilus capsule before bedtime similar to the way you would a monistat one.

[derketchup]

Originally Posted by YouPdWhat Believe it or not, relief from various ailments doesn’t really necessitate a trip to the emergency room of a hospital. Sometimes, the kitchen can actually hold some quick remedies for the heath challenged. Here are a few: Sore throat. Forget the drops and the mints. Instead, get some ginger, boil in hot water and drink. Ginger’s slightly antiseptic qualities will help heal sore throats. If you want more than some gingery-flavor in your ginger tea, add some cinnamon to it or boil the ginger with some bay leaf. Enjoy! Bruises and fevers. Break fevers by washing the patient with a mixture of water and vinegar. Although, difficult to explain as to how vinegar works exactly, this is a very old cure that our grandmothers employ. Vinegar is also useful for alleviating bruises, it seems the acidity of vinegar, helps relieve the physical affect of bruising while speeding-up the healing process. Our take: vinegar may have antiseptic properties, while its application to the body maybe similar to touch therapy. Bum stomach. Hold the attapulgite just yet. Bum stomachs are just as much a result of stress as anything else. If you feel tired and frazzled because of a bout of what some people call a Delhi Belly, just reach for a cool sport drink from the fridge. The sport drink will not only alleviate deep thirst but will restore much needed electrolytes as well. The same sports drink (and its variants) can help relieve headaches as well. My achy, break-y muscles? Old age aside, some of us experience muscle pain from time to time. To help bring relief to sore muscles, get some olive oil, add mint and massage the affected parts. If you don't have mint or olive oil, get an empty bottle (with stopper), fill with hot water and roll it on the affected areas. The heat from the warm water will soothe tired and aching muscles.

[GaiaRaain]

Wart remover:

Needs:
3 onions
3 lemons
tin foil
a muffin pan
q tips

Cut onion in half at the "equator" (I don't know what it's called). Remove just enough of the onion to make a well, but not enough so that there's a hole in the bottom. Cut a lemon in half, and squeeze the juice of half the lemon into the half onion. Wrap in tin foil, and place in the muffin pan (just to keep the onion upright so the juice doesn't spill). Bake at 350 degrees for 2-3 hours, until the onion is translucent. All through the day, whenever you think about it, rub some of the juice on the wart with the q tip (you could probably use your finger or something else, too, if you don't have any q tips).

Repeat this for 6 days. While you're doing this, drink a couple cups of good anti-viral tea every day (I'm drinking licorice tea because I have it on hand). If it's storebought packaged tea, make it really strong, and keep the cup covered while it steeps to keep the essential oils from escaping in the steam.

This won't work right away. My herbalist friend says that you'll wonder if it did any good, and about 2 weeks after you're done, the warts will just slowly start to disappear. I'm on day 2 of this treatment...if I remember, I'll come back and edit this to say how it turns out. I've been trying to get rid of a plantar wart for years, and when I went to the stupid doctor (spent $50 to go in twice), not only did it not go away, but it SPREAD! So, now I have about 20 tiny plantar warts surrounding the Big Mama that I've had for years. I'm looking forward to seeing this thing GONE.

Joy

[billig]

On Yahoo:
Soothe wounds

Unused ketchup packets pile up across America by the millions, as hurried diners and service staff often grab huge handfuls, only to end up using a few. Lisa posted over on Seacoast Online that she freezes leftover ketchup and soy sauce packets to use on her children's "small booboos and bumps." She claims, "The kids LOVE them." Apparently even the mere appearance of the packets often makes their hurts go away.

[derketchup]

Originally Posted by billig On Yahoo: Soothe wounds Unused ketchup packets pile up across America by the millions, as hurried diners and service staff often grab huge handfuls, only to end up using a few. Lisa posted over on Seacoast Online that she freezes leftover ketchup and soy sauce packets to use on her children's "small booboos and bumps." She claims, "The kids LOVE them." Apparently even the mere appearance of the packets often makes their hurts go away.

Wow, that's a great idea!

[clp8904]

Raw potatoe for stye on the eyelid.
My husband swears by this and it seems to work for him.

Just cut a raw potatoe and hold on the portion of the eye wear you have a stye, the juice from the potatoes makes it go away. You should see an improvment or it will be gone the next day.

[Emikat]

Ear Ache possible Infection
Luckily between my 2 DD's we have only had one ear ache unfortunately it hurt my lil one a whole lot and ended up taking her to the Doctor where she was prescribed antibiotics for the first time in her life well they did nothing for her. I warmed some Oilve Oil with chopped garlic and used a needleless syringe to put a few drops of the slightly warm oil in her ear ( no garlic pieces just the oil) and within minutes she stopped fussing did this every few hours for one day and hear inflammation and pain were gone.

[jen276here]

Ready for a use for all that Mennen Speed Stick??!! It gets rid of warts! My son had terrible planters and mosaic warts on his feet. The Podiatrist said we could do this the painful expensive way or the cheap somewhat strange way. He said to take any Mennen's (Must be this brand - I guess there is something specific about it or maybe the mfr paid him lol) and rub it on the warts everynight before bed then put socks on. He said (referring to the extent of my sons feet) that it would take maybe a month before they turn dark, die, and shed away) I'm not kidding you w/in two weeks he had almost nothing left. By the time we were due back at the Dr, his feet were clear. It was awesome!