192 The Complete Home Guide to Herbs, Natural Healing, and Nutrition
life. Nighttime is a prime time for this to fl are up, as with other ill-
nesses. Place pillows and blankets snugly around the child at bedtime.
Then put a few drops of lavender and sage essential oils on the pil-
low; or the plants themselves, placed at the head, can help calm fears.
Talking with children about recurring dreams and nightmares may
also help this affl iction.
For acute appendicitis(^) ~ Call for an ambulance or your doctor. They can take a long time to
arrive; the following procedure will help in the meantime.
~ Use a hot ginger compress or a castor-oil pack over the area for pain
relief.
f If no help is at hand, then stop food immediately and quickly admin-
ister a hot enema of chickweed leaf, catnip leaf, spearmint leaf, or
wild yam root, or just plain hot water if nothing else is at hand. This
treatment may have to be repeated several times until the worst
symptoms have subsided. At the same time, put compresses of the
same herbs over the area, using ginger packs and the hot and cold
treatment, or a castor-oil pack.
arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis
Both arterioscleorosis and atherosclerosis conditions involve hardening of
the artery walls. The arterial walls lose their elasticity and become
blocked with debris. This debris can consist of yellowish-white clumps
called plaque, which is made up of cells, connective tissue, and large
quantities of fat. At the same time, the arteries absorb calcium from the
bloodstream, becoming gritty, hard, and narrowed, much like old
encrusted pipes in ancient house plumbing. This calcium debris produces
arteriosclerosis. The fl ow of blood is restricted by the plaque, with
dangerous implications. This process of artery encrustation isn’t
exclusively the province of the old. A much-quoted study of soldiers killed
in the Korean War showed that nearly three-quarters of these young men
already had some arteriosclerosis in their coronary vessels.
Read up on calcium balance and cholesterol care in chapter 4.
- Take beet and grapefruit juice with cider vinegar to dissolve deposits.
- Refer to the dietary advice for heart disease, below, and stop all alco-
hol and sugar intake.
Garlic cloves and burdock root will help to dissolve fatty deposits.
f - good combination of herbs to help with calcium removal is three parts
hydrangea root; two parts each turmeric rhizome, gravel root, parsley
leaf, and marshmallow root; and one part each licorice root, dande-
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