Turn to your kitchen for your simple, useful remedies

It’s ever so easy to head to the drug store and pick up some pills or syrup for the most minor of ailments, but did you know that overindulgence in antibiotics can result in bad bacteria becoming resistant to them? These bacteria are evolving faster than science can find a cure for them. This alarming information made me take a look back at the all-natural treatments my grandma used to swear by for various ailments. Here are the 9 I can remember:

1. Honey

If you want to keep your body free of harmful bacteria, try drinking a glass of warm water containing a spoonful of apple cider vinegar and a spoonful of honey. If you’ve managed to cut, burn or injure yourself somehow, you can try cleaning the resulting wound with honey.

 

Drinking 2 teaspoon of honey in a glass of warm water along with 2 teaspoons of lime juice on empty stomach, helps in weight loss. It curbs your appetite during the day too.

2. Garlic

Garlic is rich in allicin, a compound that helps fight infections such as the common cold. What’s more, it helps to protect your body from other harmful microbial bodies, such as bacteria, yeast or parasites. All you need to do to benefit from garlic’s antibiotic properties is just ensure that you include it as a regular food in your diet.

 

As I'm a COPD ( chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patient, I get severe bouts of cough with phlegm and wheezing. I boil about 200 ml milk, with 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder, 2-3 pearls of garlic finely chopped till the milk reduces to half. Then add little sugar and drink it as hot was possible at night. You will find your cough and phlegm reducing and also your wheezing.

3. Turmeric

Turmeric is very commonly used in Asian cuisine, however, the spice also happens to be an excellent natural antiseptic. 

 

Try mixing turmeric with honey to make an easily-applicable paste. If you want to give your immune system a boost and increase its ability to fight infection, you can try mixing turmeric with warm milk to stimulate it. 

 

Turmeric is  also anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal. For my fungal toe nail, I made a paste with turmeric powder and Listerine, mouthwash, by applying my pain did disappear. It also helped for akki/ Herpes simplex virus. When I had it, the moment I saw the red rashes coming, I applied the same paste mentioned above, it helped it to dry faster, with hardly any pain!

I mix turmeric powder, dry ginger and fenugreek ( methi) powders in 1/4- 1/2 teaspoon of each, mix with water and drink on empty stomach. Your arthritis pain will disappear, as all are anti-inflammatory. 

For cough see in garlic, how adding turmeric and milk reduces cough, phlegm and wheezing.

Want to get rid of facial hair- make a paste of turmeric powder with coarse rice powder and milk, paste should not be too watery nor too thick. Apply rubbing against the direction of hair growth well. Wash with water after 15 minutes when you can feel your skin tight and pulling. It will make your skin soft, slowly hair will stop growing, especially if you start doing from young age. It will also make your skin lighter.

 

4. Cabbage 

 

The humble cabbage doesn’t get the recognition it deserves as an antibacterial source. For starters, it’s rich in sulfur, which is essential for treating infections and is even believed to be anticarcinogenic. Cabbage is also rich in vitamin C, which makes it highly effective at preventing everyday infections, including the common cold. 

 

Try including cabbage into your everyday diet as a salad, or try using it when making fermented foods. You can also try cabbage juice (include a dash of honey for sweetness). 

 

5. Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV)

This miracle vinegar, which is made from fermented apple extract, is a nutritional powerhouse, and great for maintaining excellent health. This is because it's both antiseptic and antibiotic, making it great for combating bad bacteria. 

 

It’s also great for balancing the pH level (acidity vs. alkalinity) in the body, which means that bacteria have a lesser opportunity to breed.  

 

I can vouch for 2 more properties of ACV - it is one of the ingredients of my cough syrup along with honey, water and dry ginger powder. My friends have found it more effective than the store bought cough syrups.

For liver / age spots no need to buy those expensive creams which dermatologist will prescribe. All you need to ACV, dab it religiously over the age / liver spots at night, once dry sleep. Wash next morning. It will take 3 months of daily use to see the result. I can vouch for this too, as before the time, most of my age spots has lightened a lot, in few more days it will disappear.

I told our electrician to drink ACV 1 tsp mixed in a cup of water 2-3 times a day, to get rid of his kidney stones, it helped !

 

6. Virgin Coconut Oil

A fixture in Sri Lankan cuisine, coconut oil is a highly effective antibiotic, which also happens to be antibacterial and antifungal. 

 

Due to the latter property, coconut oil is an excellent remedy for dandruff or other fungal infections of the scalp. 

 

Furthermore, coconut oil has wonderful antioxidant properties, which means that it can help slow down aging, keeping hair and skin looking their best. 

 

7. Seeded Grapefruits

While the benefits that the consumption of grapefruit has on the skin is talked about widely, not much is said about its antibiotic properties. The fruit’s seeds, in particular, are highly antibiotic. A recent study showed that grapefruit seed extract was effective against more than 800 different forms of virus and bacteria, as well as over 100 different types of fungus.  

 

8. Fermented Food

Fermentation is usually either thought of in the context of produce going bad, or alcohol being made, however, fermentation is actually a process involving good bacteria having an effect on a given type of food. When it occurs, many compounds are generated, thus antibiotic properties are added. 

 

Common examples of fermented food items include pickles, probiotic yogurt, and unpasteurized cabbage. Consuming them will boost your immune system function. 

 

9. Oregano Oil

More well-known for adding flavor to pizzas or salads than anything else, oregano is also great for helping digestion, as well as weight loss. The herb is antibacterial in nature. 

 

An oil is made out of oregano, and it’s known as Carvacrol. It’s immensely good at treating both stomach and intestinal tract infections. This oil can also help treat yeast infections.

 

10. Baking soda
Most people of baking soda only for baking. No, it has so many uses, which I've put in the post of many uses of baking soda. Here, want to tell you of 2 simple uses of it.

1) Normally we all buy expensive deodorant from the shops. But, even after using it on a hot, humid day, you find yourself smelling of sweat as the day progresses. Our daughter-in-law told me, ma- you already have thyroid cancer, why do you want to use deodorant and get breast cancer ( though 2 views about it, one says not the cause, another says, it causes). Anyway, by adding baking soda with coconut oil and rose water, I  have my excellent deodorant, not only cost effective but also very effective on all days.

2) For insect bites, mix baking soda with little milk and apply over the place where it itches. soon, your itching will disappear. When our grandkids come, they're the target of mosquitoes and other insects. Come to me saying it is itching, I apply this paste and voila, no more itching.

3) I put some amount of baking soda in my washing machine at least once a week, to take care of the salt deposits.

4)  I put 100 gm of baking soda when my drain when it is clogged after pouring hot water, then I heat 100 ml of vinegar, pour over the baking soda, it will bubble. After 30 minutes, pour hot water again and use, your drain will be clean.

 

 

This is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.   

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14 ways to use onions in treating and preventing health issues

Onion is the most underrated food ingredient present in your kitchen. You can use it in various dishes or eat it in a salad, but the medicinal benefits of onions remain unexplored. Everyone knows that the onion is useful. In general, we perceive it as a kind of anti-catarrhal property, while in reality it is much more useful and multifaceted.

After reading this article, many people will rush to buy onions in the store or on the market, because almost every emerging issue with appearance or health can be solved with its help. It is a natural antibiotic, its detox and antioxidant properties make onion an indispensable ingredient for the natural treatment of various diseases.

It can be used to replace many products sold on the market, which makes it a cheaper and environmentally friendly option. This time we want to share 14 curious ways of using onions. In fact, onions have a huge number of uses outside the cooking of dishes. Definitely, most of the tips collected here are useful to every person:

1. It can work as a cough suppressant. Onions are an indispensable emergency remedy for fever, colds, sore throats, allergies and coughing. I make my cough syrup using onion, honey and apple cider vinegar, those who don't get relief from store bought cough syrups, should try this. If you wish to know message me.

2. Use an onion for soothing a baby. Onion tea can relax muscles and settle the baby’s stomach with ease.

3. Use onion to fight hair loss. In home medicine, onions are used for hair care. Its antibacterial properties help to cope with dandruff, stop hair loss and promote their growth. Just make a decoction of onion peel and apply it to the hair before each washing.

4. Use onion to clear up Chest Congestion. Onion is one of the best products to relieve congestion in the chest. It contains quercetin and sulfur, both of which help to loosen and eliminate mucus from the chest, facilitate breathing and provide relief from congestion in the chest.

5. Use onion to heal cuts. Onions are very useful for healing of small wounds, cuts, skin cracks. You can disinfect a small wound or cut, and also speed up the healing process.

6. Use onion to clear up ear infection. The clogged ears often irritate and worsen the hearing. Try to clear your ears using onion. Take the soft part of the onion and put it in the beginning of the ear canal. Do not push it in your ear, be careful to put it only in the beginning. Leave it overnight, and onion juice will soften the sulfur in your ear. The next day you will remove sulfur and clean your ears without any problems.

7. Soothing bug bites. Onions have anti-inflammatory and refreshing properties that make it an excellent remedy for pain and irritation after an insect bite. Just apply pieces of onion to the affected areas of the skin from time to time to get rid of discomfort and speed up the healing process. Also, onion juice can lubricate the skin to scare off annoying mosquitoes and wasps.

8. Fighting Nausea. Regular consumption of onions in food will help to normalize and improve digestion. The fact is that onions contain soluble fiber, which promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria in the intestines, and also helps prevent and cope with diarrhea. In addition, lovers of this vegetable are much less likely to suffer from a stomach ulcer.

9. Dealing with a sore throat. Cook the onion husks in water and add honey to soften the sore throat. Remove the husks before taking the drink.

10. Purifying the air using onions. Onion perfectly absorbs toxic odors. Just cut the bulb into several pieces, put it on a plate and leave it in a room where there is an unpleasant smell and soon there will be no trace left of it. In addition, onion perfectly kills bacteria, so its pieces can be laid out around the apartment during periods of epidemics.

11. Treating sunburns. In order to avoid inflammation after a sunburn, massage the necessary skin areas with a slice of fresh onion. The sulfur compounds contained in it will speed up all regeneration processes and reduce burning and redness.

12. Use onion to reduce fever. This is the best solution for high body temperature. Put onion slices in socks as a treatment for high body temperature. You will be surprised seeing the results.

13. Treat diabetes to a degree. Eating onion by diabetics is more than justified. It helps to increase the level of insulin in the blood and reduces blood sugar level.

14. Remove eye irritations. Simple onion drops (water + onion juice in a ratio of 1 to 1) effectively treat cataracts.

One more way I use onion is to peel and cut onion, put in a small bowl and keep it near me, when

 I've the first sign of fever or cold. Then it saves me from getting fever or cold. I keep it in the room 

where  I spend most of my time for 5 days. If there are lots of bacteria, then onion turns black, dump 

in  the bin without touching it. This is the reason, it is said, never cut an onion  and keep it open,

 as it will absorb the bacteria. In case, you cut and keep to use later, kindly put it in an airtight 

container.

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