Okra

Continuing my theme on unusual medicinal herbs I chose Okra, or ladies fingers as it is sometimes called. Okra is mostly used in stews perhaps African style, but has also been used as an alternative medication. The pods, shown above contain large amounts of vitamin A and C, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium. The plant is also rich in mucilaginous substances, which lubricate the intestines and are recommended for soothing duodenal ulcers and reducing high cholesterol levels.

Find out more about honey

Follow this link to find out more about the natural healing powers of honey. Treatment with honey is called apitherapy,which includes replenishing energy, enhancing physical stamina and improving immune systems. Honey also is considered to have a calming effect on the mind and promotes sleep. Honey also helps indigestion and has sometimes been used to treat cardiovascular disease and respiratory complaints. A thin coat of honey can be applied on the skin to disinfect and heal minor skin wounds and chapped lips. (more). Please let me know your experience with regard to honey.

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Natural Cure for pain

This may not work for you but many people believe that cures can be effected by certain people who have a power a healing power merely by touch or sometimes by thought. Cases have been attested through the centuries of "faith healing" or spiritual healing, although healers prefer to call it simply healing as no-one really knows how it works.


Its very simplicity makes healing make healing probably the simplest, safer and most natural of all methods of therapy, and there is more evidence in favor of the theraputic effects of hands on healing than any form of natural therapy, apart from Hypnotherapy.


Healing may well be connected in its efficacy with hypnotherapy in that clearly the relationship of the healer to patient is all important. The healer may be a person with special mental or spiritual powers many religious leaders are credited with " faith cures" and the patient has to believe in his powers for the treatment to be effective.


As the treatment does not manipulate the body in any way or involve ingesting any medicines of any kind, patients with any kind of pain, may be helped by the healing, but , because the personal qualities of the healer are what is supplying the healing, you may have to try several healers before you find the one that works for you.

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The chest infection that will not go away

As you will know I started with a chest infection around Christmas 2010, and my mucus was coloured green. I had three different antibiotics to try and clear the infection, this helped my breathing, but my mucus remained green and it is still green more than twelve months later. So does this mean I have had an infection for more than one year. I have been treating myself using natural treatment during this time using Manuka honey +5 and high doses of vitamin c. I think this is holding the infection in place but not curing it. I have had a sputum test at the hospital which confirms I have a chest infection and was given the same antibiotics that I was first given. I have not taken these.

So what do I do now?. I have been looking for a natural cure for my chest infection, and I could get the +15 dose of Manuka honey, other than that I have not found a cure. I will go back to my GP and advise them that I am not getting anywhere, and keep looking for a natural way I can treat this problem. I will keep you posted on my progress.

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Why I feel great !

Yesterday I went for a foot detox, it was totally amazing. My feet where emerged in about 5cm of clear water, in a detox spa, the water was quite warm. After about 10 minutes I noticed that there was a cloudy solution coming from the centre of the spa. After about 20 minutes I noticed that the water was turning a dirty colour which resembled urine, like a dark dirty yellow. During this time I had been drinking 1litre of clear tap water. So all the toxins where coming out of my body. In total the foot detox lasted 30 minutes.

By the end of the day I felt really horrible, I felt tired and irritable, however I got one of the best nights sleep I have ever had, and the next day I felt really great, I felt that I had lots of energy I could concentrate, and my thought was quick. I was advised to have a foot detox once every two weeks.

Has anyone else had positive results from a foot detox?.

A call for vitamin D in food.

There has been a call for vitamin D to be more in food after an increase in the number of cases of childhood rickets. Sunlight provides us with vitamin D, which protects against such diseases like rickets, and as more children are protected from sunlight with sun block cream children and adults recieve less vitamin D into their body. There is a natural way to ensure you recieve the correct amount of vitamin D and that is by taking a supplement.

As followers will know from my previous posts I use vitamin D supplements to boost my immune system, it is also known to protect from certain cancers.

Report by the BBC >

Rickets was a disease that had almost disappeared in the UK by the 1940's, but the number of cases has risen rapidly over the last 15 years.
Health campaigners say this is evidence that people are not getting enough vitamin D and have voiced concerns that there will also be an increase in related diseases.
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Natural cure for an un-healthy person

Its new years day and I have just been for a four mile walk,and although I feel tied my breathing is better. My weight yesterday was 11st 2ils, heavier than I have ever been, its the mnce pies I know. I should have lost a little weight today. So the first natural cure for an unhealthy person is to get out their and get walking.

After your walk you may want to take a power nap. An afternoon snooze can help to cut the risk of heart problems and keep your energy levels revved. This does not mean sleeping all afternoon, just twenty minutes is fine. Sleeping for long periods during the day could result in problems with insomnia and this could effect our well being.