This may be an odd way to start a post on home remedies for earaches, but before we get into the nitty gritty of easy homemade ear drops, warm salt socks and other comfort measures, I want to take a moment to discuss one of the most common misconceptions about ear infections. Is it really an infection? According to Dr. Allan Lieberthal, [...] Continue Reading
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8 Natural Remedies When Your Baby Is Congested
For the past three nights of nonstop baby congestion, Micah has concluded the best place to sleep is on my chest. While I'm sitting up. It's pretty inconvenient, but I know it's for a good cause. Micah's practicing his housekeeping skills . . . at least his immune system is. What mama wouldn't want THAT? My sweet boy is currently a miserable [...] Continue Reading
Bread Pudding Recipe
When I was growing up, a family friend, Paul, nonchalantly mentioned that leaving a film of Ivory soap under ones arms would result in a fever by morning. For YEARS my sister and I tried in vain to get it to work. We hoped and prayed and (most of all) scrubbed in hopes of a sick day at home with mom, but all we got for our efforts were very [...] Continue Reading
Home Remedies For Poison Ivy, Oak, And Sumac
Have you ever rolled out of bed the morning after a wonderful day in nature and realized that - instead of the peace and calm that forest bathing is supposed to bring - you're going to be having a different experience for the next 1-2 weeks? Oozing secretions, raised red skin, and the urge to scratch in odd places in front of strangers - all [...] Continue Reading
8 Benefits of Yarrow – And How To Use It In Your Kitchen
Old Man's Pepper. Soldier's Herb. Knight's Milfoil. Thousand Weed. Nose Bleed. <<-- Yarrow has a colorful list of names, and an even richer and more colorful history of use in European, Native American, and Chinese medicine. The ancients called it Herbe Militaris - the Military Herb - because it was often used to staunch bleeding and [...] Continue Reading
Soothing Salt Sock Remedy For Earaches
Ahhhh, unintended consequences. Sometimes things work out - like when a certain kitchen helper forgets to add an egg to the lemon poppyseed muffin recipe you're tinkering with and accidentally perfects it. Sometimes . . . not so much. Take, for example, the once common practice of giving antibiotics to children with earaches. Although most [...] Continue Reading
Magnesium Body Butter Recipe For Relaxation and Sleep
So this thing is happening, and it aches and fills me with joy and makes me wish for a pause button at the same time. One minute I'm standing in a grocery store aisle nodding my head to a "those were the days" comment - while mentally calculating how much longer I can shop before a toddlerpocalypse, of course - and the next I'm standing [...] Continue Reading
14 Benefits of Holy Basil + Tea Recipe
Sometimes called "The Elixir of Life," holy basil has been revered as one of India's most powerful and sacred plants for over 3,000 years. (1) Its Sanskrit name, Tulsi, literally means "the incomparable one," which gives you a sense of how venerated it is. In addition to being an adaptogen - aka an herb that helps us adapt to [...] Continue Reading
