The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition

diseases 271 Intestinal parasites like giardia, ascarids, hookworms, and amoebas are now becoming very common too. They were onc ...

272 diseases 272 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition or dead worms and parasites. Cancer and Other ...

diseases 273 nervous system (see chapter 9). Immune-system enhancers and lymphatic cleansers like echinacea root, grapefruit see ...

274 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition just as the herbs in their other forms are. Other requireme ...

first aid 275 (^11) First Aid Knowing how to give fi rst aid in emergencies can and does save lives. Herbal remedies have their ...

treatment. For profuse vaginal bleeding that is persistent, try beth root (Trillium erectum), but only under practitioner superv ...

first aid 277 is short-lived. (Midstream urine or breast milk can be used to fl ush out the eye in an emergency.) gashes and lac ...

shock and fainting Use lobelia leaf tincture; a few drops on the tongue will help in any shock situation, from grief to a car ac ...

cider vinegar or lemon juice fi rst. Then treat with applications of lavender and chamomile essential oils for two or three days ...

as you feel better. Echinacea root can also be very effective when put directly on an infected cut. If you do not have any echin ...

magnifying glass notepad and pencil plasters and butterfl y stitches (homemade or purchased slim pieces of sticky, bandage tape ...

282 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition 3 teaspoons coffee tincture — for alcohol poisoning and ot ...

first aid 283 constant; yet it will not allow damaged arteries to lose dangerous quantities of blood, as it also assists blood c ...

menthol crystals, arnica flower, St. John’s wort flower, chile oil, and marigold flower in a base of olive oil. Marigold and com ...

(^) Appendix 1 Parts of the Herb to Use Appendix 1: English to Latin Translation and of the Herb to Use common name part botanic ...

286 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition a qualified herbalist should make up this formula because o ...

Comfrey leaf Symphytum officinale Corn silk Zea mays Cramp bark bark Viburnum opulus Cranesbill root Geranium maculatum (America ...

Juniper leaf, berry Juniperus communis Kola nut Cola acuminata Lady’s-Mantle leaf Alchemilla vulgaris Lavender flower, leaf Lava ...

(^) Appendix 2 Latin to English Translation botanical name common name Achillea millefolium Yarrow Actaea racemosa Black cohosh ...

Prickly ash berry, bark Zanthoxylum americanum Psyllium husk Plantago psyllium Pumpkin seed Cucurbita pepo Red clover flower Tri ...