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INDIGESTION

  • Stop smoking
  • Avoid: alcohol, coffee, caffeine
  • Eat in small meals throughout the day
  • Avoid emotional and physical stress, take up physical or meditative practices to combat stress, such as yoga, meditation, swimming
  • Get a good night’s sleep
  • Drink half a glass of pineapple juice after eating.
  • Apply an ice bag over your stomach, after eating.
  • Add two spoons of coriander juice to a glass of buttermilk, drink
  • Mix 1 teaspoon of lemon, 1 teaspoon ginger juice, 2 teaspoon honey with lukewarm water, drink
  • Drink a cup of ginger ale or ginger tea, after meals
  • Chew a fresh garlic clove with some salt five minutes before eating
  • Avoid acidic foods like citrus fruits, onions, tomatoes
  • Avoid all junk foods, fatty, fried foods, spicy foods like pickles, curries
  • Maintain a regular exercise routine
  • Drink Peppermint tea to neutralize the acid levels in your stomach.
  • Mix 1 teaspoon of baking soda with warm water
  • Mix raw grated black radish with live yogurt, consume before meals
  • Eat 1 serving of yogurt before each meal

INFERTILITY

  • Add banyan tree root powder to a cup a milk, drink daily. DON’T CONSUME DURING MENSTRUATION)
  • Eat eggplant
  • Drink winter cherry powdered and milk daily
  • Black cohosh is a popular herb for female sterility because of its positive effects on menstruation and thought to encourage proper implantation of the fertilized egg
  • Adding 2 teaspoons dong quai to 1 cup of boiling water/steep/ drink
  • Consume chaste berries, take supplements or drink tincture, to help balance hormonal levels in the body
  • Add 2 teaspoons red raspberry leaves to boiling water/steep/strain/drink. discontinued once conception occurs
  • Massage may help to regulate menstruation and ovulation
  • Apply warm compress/heating pad to relieve pain from fibroids
  • Diet: fresh fruits and vegetables, avocados, nuts, seeds, salmon, corn silk, pumpkin seeds, dates,
  • Avoid: Seafood high in mercury, caffeinated beverages, alcohol, fast foods, processed foods, artificial sweeteners
  • Drink barley juice or eat barley grass powder, add to smoothies, juice, water, rice milk, yogurt or any other foods
  • Consume corn silk and pumpkin seed
  • Supplements: B12, Vitamin C, guaifenesin
  • Exercise daily
  • Acupuncture
  • Massage therapy
  • Drink apple cider vinegar diluted in water daily
  • Drink a glass of warm water, add 1 teaspoon baking soda and 2 teaspoons fresh lime daily

INHIBITED SEXUAL DESIRE

  • Drink a mixture of milk and drumstick flowers
  • Eat a mix of pistachios, dried dates, quince seeds, almonds everyday
  • Kava-kava, gingko biloba, chives, arginine, lepidium meyenii, damiana, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E
  • Massage therapy
  • Acupuncture
  • Reflexology
  • Aromatherapy: clary sage, rose, jasmine and lavender essential oils
  • Eat a few pieces of garlic daily
  • Eat: Alfalfa sprouts, Avocado, Garlic, Ginger, Nuts, Olive oil, Onions, Salmon
  • Avoid: Red meat, tea, coffee, Alcohol, Sweets, sugary items, Starchy foods, processed foods

INSECT BITES

  • Scrape stinger out with edge of credit card
  • Apply cottonseed oil to area
  • Apply a paste of meat tenderizer and water to area
  • Apply paste of baking soda and water to area
  • Apply crushed aspirin to area
  • Apply cool/warm compress
  • Lay a piece of fresh papaya to area
  • Rub area with fresh cut onion
  • Rub with fresh crushed ginger
  • Apply tea tree oil
  • To stop itching, apply lavender essential oil
  • Apply any deodorant to area
  • Avoid wearing perfumes/scented products
  • Don’t wear bright colored clothing
  • Apply an ice pack to help swelling (frozen peas/corn)
  • Take Benadryl to reduce the histamine reaction
  • Common Plantain: Simply find a leaf, chew it up (or otherwise mash it to release the juices), and apply it to the affected area. You can also infuse the leaves in oil and use the oil for treating larger areas, or make a salve from it.
  • Apply lavender, basil, clove, lemon essential oils to area
  • Apply a paste of sugar and water to bite
  • Put a copper penny on the bite, it works
  • Apply a paste of activated charcoal and water to bite
  • Apply paste of Epsom salt and honey to bite, repeat as needed
  • Apply wet tobacco to bite to reduce itching and burning
  • Apply mud (any kind, anywhere) to bite
  • Hold a cut raw potato to area

INSOMNIA

  • Meditation practice may help to promote sleep by slowing breathing and reducing stress hormone levels
  • Visualization
  • Listen to soothing music before bed
  • The scent of lavender oil may lengthen total sleep time, increase deep sleep, and help people feel refreshed in the morning. Put a lavender sachet under your pillow, apply a few drops on a handkerchief or add to a diffuser
  • Soak in a warm bath of sea salts/Epsom salt and lavender, marjoram, chamomile, ylang-ylang, geranium or rose essential oils (or combine some oils) before bed
  • Natural Sunlight can increase the body’s melatonin production, which regulates your sleep, you can also buy home light therapy units
  • Avoid in evening: Caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, sugar, tea, soft drinks, chocolate, cough and cold medicine
  • Things to eat before sleep: carbohydrate snacks, sunflower seeds, bananas, legumes, seeds, dark leafy green vegetables, wheat bran, almonds, cashews, blackstrap molasses, brewer’s yeast, and whole grains
  • Yoga
  • Drink Tea: (add honey) valerian, lemon balm, chamomile, hops, passionflower
  • Acupuncture
  • Apply warm coconut, mustard or sesame oil on head and feet
  • Kava can help with sleep
  • Exercise helps to promote deep sleep, avoid intense exercise close to bedtime it can increase adrenaline levels, leading to insomnia
  • Get a comfortable bed and pillows (makes all the difference in the world)
  • Make sure the room is quiet (earplugs), dark, comfortable and cool
  • Turn off the TV
  • Avoid taking naps
  • Establish a sleep ritual and stick to it. Go to bed the same time every night and get up the same time every morning. Even on the weekends.
  • Drink a cup of warm milk, add honey or teaspoon of nutmeg or cinnamon
  • Take 1-3mg melatonin 2 hours before bedtime
  • Drink a glass of juice: apple, grape, papaya, pear, pineapple before bed

IRRITABLE BOWEL DISEASE

  • There is no cure, but there is management
  • Avoid: oranges, tangerines, onions, beans, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, red and green peppers, carbonated beverages, spicy foods, wheat products, sugar, chocolate, butter, oils, sugarless gum, candy
  • Stop smoking
  • Keep a journal, write the foods you eat and your body’s reaction to the food. Your activities and how your body reacts. This was you can better avoid triggers and adjust diet and lifestyle that works best for you
  • Peppermint Oil is the only herbal supplement to get the seal of approval from the American College of Gastroenterology due to its effectiveness in reducing abdominal pain, relax the muscles of the gut, and thus reducing the muscle spasms that contribute to abdominal pain
  • Slippery Elm may calm irritation, by coating the lining of the intestinal system.
  • The fruit of the amalaki tree, grown throughout Asia, can have a positive effect digestion and act as a laxative
  • Triphala, translated (three fruits) is an herbal mix that combines the fruit of the bibhataki, haritaki trees and amalaki tree, it may reduce abdominal pain, reduce bloating and have laxative properties
  • Drink aloe vera juice daily
  • Drink Tea: chamomile, blueberry, blackberry, raspberry leaf
  • Acupuncture
  • Avoid laxatives for constipation
  • Exercise regularly 30min a day, 5 x week
  • Reduce stress. Pilates, yoga, aerobics, walking, cycling or swimming
  • Take a break from work and learn to make time to relax
  • Drink 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice in 1 cup warm water 3 x day

  • Vitamin A, Vitamin B, B-Complex, Vitamin C, Folic acid, magnesium, selenium

  • Don’t drink through a straw (worth a shot to try)

  • Drink 1 teaspoon of blackstrap molasses in a cup of warm milk

  • Try a diet called low FODMAP