Hair loss happens. It is certainly normal to loose strands of hair every day, sometimes hundreds. These strands regrow as part of the normal growth and loss cycle. Typically, this is not a cause for concern, until it is. If you have ever been the victim of clumps of hair coming out throughout the day, you know how scary an experience this is. What … [Read more...]
Natural Health
Health Benefits of Coconut During Pregnancy
In tropical countries all over the world, coconuts have long been praised as having fertility and pregnancy enhancing properties. In India, for example, a woman hoping to conceive will go to her priest for a special coconut; Thai babies receive, as their first solid food, three spoonfuls of soft coconut meat from their priests; a Balinese woman is … [Read more...]
5 Reasons Rose Is The Herb For You
Do you have roses in your yard? Do you enjoy their aromatic beauty? Did you know that not only is the rose beautiful, but it is also a potent medicinal plant? For centuries, the rose has been thought of as an ornamental plant, prized for its scent and delicate beauty. A gift of roses has long symbolized love, femininity and romance. However, … [Read more...]
How To Make Sunscreen Using Coconut Oil, Carrot Seed Oil, and Raspberry Seed Oil
I have a few posts up on my site that generate a lot of email questions. It seems like everyone wants to get their hands on my secret recipe for sun protection! I guess my "I use this and this and this" isn't quite cutting it. You kind readers want and deserve specifics! Therefore, I am giving them to you TODAY! Before I get to my secret recipe, … [Read more...]
Natural Oils as Sun Protection
The sun is out full time these days, at least here in the desert! Most of us, especially those of us with children, are spending more and more time outside, soaking up the Vitamin D and filling our cups with warmth and solar energy. Certain natural oils offer SPF protection from the sun that is better than protection found in any commercially … [Read more...]
16 Tips To Slash Your Juicing Bill In Half
Juicing is possibly one of the healthiest things you can incorporate into your diet. Adding massive amounts of vitamins and nutrients into your diet from real food can never be a bad thing. Whether you are adding a juice here and there or doing a complete juice cleanse, some people find it hard to keep up with the extra cost of juicing. Cause … [Read more...]
Celebrate Your Second Spring
Spring is just around the corner! What do think of when you hear that phrase? I think about the renewal of nature, the rebirth of all the green, growing things, the actual birth of baby animals, as well as the clearing out of winter - everything that has piled up over the long sleep.... spring cleaning, spring detoxing and the first few glimpses … [Read more...]
Substituting Sugar and Natural Sweeteners With Fruit
In A Hard Look At The Benefits And Concerns Of Natural Sweeteners, I outlined the benefits and the concerns of most of the major natural sweetening agents on the market today. I declared honey to be my first choice of sweeteners with “real” stevia as another viable option. One method of sweetening that I intentionally left out was fruit. … [Read more...]
Headache Be Gone Herbal Tincture
Headaches stink. Period. I have yet to meet someone who jumps for joy when their head starts pounding. I'm not prone to headaches but when I get one, I feel like the world is coming to an end. Basically I am a big ol' baby about it. As a lover of all things natural health related, I prefer not to dull the pain with over-the-counter remedies. … [Read more...]
Tools To Help You Stay Healthy All Winter
In the last post, we explored various factors that contribute to winter illness and how we might begin to shift some of those factors and their impact on ourselves and our families. In this post, I'd like to delve into some of the more practical tools and techniques that can be used effectively to prevent and alleviate winter illnesses and the … [Read more...]
DIY Mucus Buster Chest Rub and Cough Buster Steam
Whooping cough is no joke. I know because I came down with it the day after Thanksgiving. My poor little girl followed a week later. It was 10 weeks of sheer awfulness. There were times when I thought we were not going to make it through. Unfortunately, we didn’t discover that our illness was whooping cough until it was too late to really do … [Read more...]
How to Stay Healthy All Winter
With cold and flu season underway, many of our families are being hit hard by illness. In fact, some people have learned to just expect that at least one member of their family will be sick at all times throughout the winter season. Colder temperatures and inclement weather have most of us spending much more time indoors, with doors and windows … [Read more...]
A Holistic Approach To Cancer
Cancer. The "C" word that no one wants to hear. It elicits fear, despair, and panic. In a sense, cancer has earned these emotions. It is an epidemic after all. One that is partly of our own making. Cancer does not have to be a death sentence. It does not have be a horrifying disease from which to recover from. With the right treatment, anyone … [Read more...]
Looking For An Alternative To Antibiotics? Try These 4 Herbs.
When I was a young child, my doctor prescribe antibiotics like they were candy. I had so much amoxicillin, tetracycline, and other antibiotics that is makes my head spin just thinking about it. By age 6 (the age of my daughter), I probably has paid at least 3 big pharma executives’ salaries. The crazy thing about it all was this was in the late … [Read more...]
Coconut Oil for Constipation
Backups happen. Sometimes they are within our control and other times they are not. Either way, constipation sure isn't fun! I mean, who wants to be stuck on the throne for hours and hours, red-faced, bored to tears, pushing with all you've got, just to see a pea sized nugget of nothing at the bottom of the bowl. Not me thank-you-very-much. In … [Read more...]
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