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Home Medicine 101 is amazing
I find the Home Medicine 101 lectures here to be absolutely amazing. I have been sick, and it has really helped. Also that nice doctor that runs the Cures A-Z app is quite informative, I saw a lecture he gave about spices in the kitchen. How do we learn more about functional medicine / home medicine? I am very interested.…
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Mindfulness: the art of being here now
I like this idea of mindfulness, that is why I share this email from Mark Hyman with you. Being here now is not easy, but is worth trying. It seems to be a kind of a trend in Europe. Is it popular in other parts of the world? I think that Mark Hyman gives good practical ideas how to start being here now. This epidemic is…
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Calming Cookies. Recipe.
Calming Cookies (Nerven Kekse) This is a recipe adapted from one by Hildegard von Bingen, a famous herbalist from the Middle Ages. She left many recipes such as medicinal wines, remedies and biscuits which are still in use today but, interestingly, they did not taste bitter or unpleasant. These biscuits (recipe below) are…
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Lyme borreliosis. Any experiences?
I got it. Lyme Borreliosis. I was so proud saying that ticks do not like me, because I eat a lot of garlic that I did not bother using any essential oil before going into the meadows or woods. I had a tick, pulled it out. After 10 days I got a typical expanding red rash. I knew diagnosis before going to the doctor for a…
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Herbs for Hair Growth
I wanted to ask what herbs help with hair growth in general and also what helps thicken facial hair (I want my beard to be thicker so I can actually grow it out lol).
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Additional alternative antibiotics
It's amazing what is kept under the radar. A case in point regarding pharmaceuticals. My horse Cigar has upper ringbone. It's a type of arthritis. Equioxx is a commonly prescribed medication for the pain related to it. It's better known as ferocoxib. The human version is Vioxx, and the dog version is Previcox. As most…
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Practice intermittent or extended fasting for weight loss, health, longevity etc?
Hi all For the past few years, I've been practicing some form of intermittent, extended, or modified fasting on a regular basis. Fasting was the only way I was able to lose weight during peri/menopause and I continue to do it to maintain that loss and for the well-documented health and longevity benefits. I do a 16/8 to…
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Brain fog
I have Brain Fog. Sometimes its ok and other times, I am a walking mess. Stress makes it worse and if I get lax with decent eating I notice a decline. Exercise, proper sleep ( a big problem for me, especially in winter) and working on decreasing inflamation in my system helps immensely. Lately with the corona virus and…
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Wine for health
Today, in Beaune in Burgundy, in France I visited Hospice from 1443 built for the poor ones. It was functioning as a hospital until 1971. It is a marvellous example of taking care of people and a most beautiful building. Among many interesting treatment practices I found this one - treatment with wine. I hope you will…
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Pine Essential Oil
Does Pine essential oil have the same compound that wipes out Spike protein? Also to channel my inner @LaurieLovesLearning Please keep this apolitical.
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Doctors - MD or DO
I am not much on going to a Doctor, unless totally necessary. But there are times you need to. I am looking for a new doctor. Mom at her age (92) needs a doctor and possibly a few specialists. But when selecting some is a MD or DO better?
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Need help with extreme muscle pain
I am reaching out to the TGN group, hoping for help with my husband's problems. Over a month ago, my husband got the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine. He came home complaining that the shot was given too high up on his arm and his shoulder was hurting. That night he had a fever, body aches and racing pulse. Symptoms…
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Age Spots and Castor Oil
Thought I'd share this article along with a bit of testimonial. age_spots_home_remedy.php The summer before the lockdowns I attended a high school reunion. Of course that makes one look at how old we are actually becoming! I don't have many age spots but did have a fairly large one on the side of my nose. I applied castor…
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Vaccine for sterilization
This is concerning that the WHO has been trying to develop a permanent sterilization method for decades: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1874951/
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Runny nose in elderly when eating
As soon as my mother starts to eat her nose runs. I don't think its a food allergy. I think its a type of Rhinitis. It can bother the elderly more from what I have read. Has anyone experienced this in their family?
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Uses for activated charcoal
Seems like it would be a good idea to keep some around.
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Free Hidden Causes of Disease on Health Means - June 14-20, 2021
I have seen some of their other summits and they are always very informative. Here is the link: https://hiddencauses.byhealthmeans.com/?idev_id=22&rh=oqvcUMcBHw
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Free End Game Series
Here is a link to the free End Game series on how to prepare for future disasters: p.s.: Sorry for posting this late.
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Using raw honey for healing wounds
has anybody used raw honey for healing smaller or bigger injuries, wounds? I have read quite a few articles about it, bet never tried myself.
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Pneumonia
My mom is in the hospital for Pneumonia (not covid related) . What should I expect when I get her home and how can I rebuild her? She is definitely weaker. With the loss of her son she is double stressed and down so how can I make her life better and more healthy? I'll be down later. I'd be there now but hospital hours are…
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My Project
Hello All, I had a project for my Biopsychology course in college so I made it about herbalism's affects on cognition. I got sources from this discussion: https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/846236/herbs-that-affect-the-brain-cognition#latest. There is a lot of great information in that thread for anyone…
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Herbs that affect the brain/ cognition
Hello Everyone, I am trying to pick a topic for a project for my Psychology class. My question is are there any herbs that affect the brain and/or cognition?
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What is the coolest rock you've ever found in the garden?
This rock took me years to chisel just right...just kidding I found it in the garden like this!!!
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Pulled Back Muscle
Anyone have any suggestions for a pulled back muscle? Not sure how my husband pulled a muscle in his back yesterday. He came home from teaching school complaining about his back. He thought maybe he'd been sitting to long since he has to teach the kids in person & online at the same time. He can't get up and walk around…
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Daisy the beautiful
Daisy, the beautiful Spring. Every day brings new herbs for soup, salad, herbal butter, herbal cottage cheese... Today I noticed my first daisy blossoms. We have a saying here: if you see three daisy blossoms - spring is here and if you eat them, you will be healthy all year round. Guess, what I did with those three…
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Warts. Natural wart removal tipps
I found old recipes on how one could get rid of warts and I feel like sharing with you. The recipes come from Pfarrer Künzle’s book “Herbs and weeds”. ...” she dabbed these warts (she had them on her both hands) three times a day with a little garlic juice; after 8 days they were all gone. She advised this to many. Others,…
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Spring herb Ribwort Plantain
Yesterday, to my surprise, I found a few green leaves of Ribwort Plantain. There is still plenty of snow in my garden so I was even more happy to find the first green herbs. This is my favourite plant for cough, hoarseness, throat ache. I pluck a leaf and chew it slowly. I feel the mucus from the plant and this mucus…
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Sweating feet is a positive problem
I have come across an interesting thought, that sweating feet is basically a good thing. It is the healthiest of all body problems, as sweating cleanses the body, helps to get rid of toxins... and one should not hem the sweating, because then one hems body’s self cleaning process and all kinds of illnesses may develop. I…
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Delicious and easy way to get rid of constipation
I have found an easy and pleasant recipe for constipation and thought it’s worth sharing as constipation is a cause for so many uncomfortable feelings and even illnesses. I found this recipe in the book by famous Swiss herbalist/priest Johann Künzle “Herbs and weeds”: “Figs cure. Pfarrer Kneipp after thirty years of his…
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Food banks
Food banks are becoming a norm around here as job are disappearing or hours are being drastically cut. Many of our local churches have food pantries and I help with several. Right now I do not have excess garden food to share but soon I will be putting garden seed packets together so people can start to grow their own…
