Thank you, Steve.
Wow, Aunt Bea!
It sounds like a nightly tea of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger in a Peppermint tea wound be a great daily nightcap would be perfect for me. I'll try that tonight, I've got all the ingredients on hand. Thanks for the idea! XOX
I get the same thing but with my right ear. Do you let the tea bag get cold?I'm about to go steep some chamomile tea bags for my night time brew before bed. My left ear is feeling stuffy so I will let the tea bags chill a bit and put over my ear to help it drain. Have not had an ear infection since I started doing this, I was used to having them at least two or three times a year.
In Girl Guides we were taught "Vinegar for wasps; Bicarbonate for bees" ie cures for stingsWhenever anyone in the family get a bee/hornet sting, I make a moist paste of MSG and apply. Stops the pain and makes it easier to remove the stinger.
In Girl Guides we were taught "Vinegar for wasps; Bicarbonate for bees" ie cures for stings
My other go to thing when I have a mouth ulcer is honey. It removes any nasty gunk from the ulcer, and my dad used to swear by it as a topical treatment for his psoriasis flare ups.
I get the same thing but with my right ear. Do you let the tea bag get cold?
My parents always put meat tenderizer disolved into hot warm water on our stings. The logic was that meat tenderisers break down protiens and bee/hornet/wasp venom is a protien. Don't remember how well it workes.
Honey is supposed to have all sorts of anti-bacterial properties. I wish I could find the article I read about it being useful in treating MRSA. All I can find at the moment are a bunch of "articles" that are basically adds. The one I read talked about honey being a super-saturated solution so it tends to draw water out of cells. It dehydrates some types of bacteria. There is also an enzyme in it that might kill bacteria.
When our cat had problems with fleas both he and I had not so fun reactions to all the treatmemts. We found a bunch of people recommended rosemerry tea as a treatment. We checked animal poison control and rosemary wasn't listed as harmful to cats so we tried it. It worked really well and no nasty reactions!
Apparently, when they opened Tutankhamen's tomb they found jars of honey that were perfectly sound and edible (not that I'd want to be the one to test it).Honey is used medically as a wound healer, for the reasons you list. I for one have never seen mold on honey or in plain sugar/sugar solution. It's only when other things get added that you can get mold.
Google Medihoney...that is the brand name. It's cheaper to buy local honey and use it.
Apparently, when they opened Tutankhamen's tomb they found jars of honey that were perfectly sound and edible (not that I'd want to be the one to test it).
One of the hospitals in the Manchester (England) area, which is held to be THE burns unit in the country, has been using honey on severe burns for some years. And I read not long ago that there is a study somewhere into the use of honey for healing bed-sores in long term bed-ridden patients.
Unfortunately honey has a bit of a jokey rep in Britain as there used to be a rather flamboyant English authoress of regency bodice-rippers, called Barbara Cartland who swore by honey for everything you could think of from putting on your bread to preserving your youth. (I seriously hope you haven't come across this woman's books because they were awful. She was trying to ape Georgette Heyer and not succeeding by miles. Mainly because GH researched her backgrounds so well and wrote intelligently. Neither of which BC did.)
Apparently, when they opened Tutankhamen's tomb they found jars of honey that were perfectly sound and edible (not that I'd want to be the one to test it).
One of the hospitals in the Manchester (England) area, which is held to be THE burns unit in the country, has been using honey on severe burns for some years. And I read not long ago that there is a study somewhere into the use of honey for healing bed-sores in long term bed-ridden patients.
We have been using medical honey for years at my facility. You wouldn't believe how many elderly come to us with bed sores. We get them healed, they go home and are back in 2 or 3 months with another bed sore.
I remember when I was in the hospital after having my first child, a woman came in from a nursing home. She had been on bed rest for most of her pregnancy. She had a huge bedsore on her hip. One of the nurses was outraged. She wanted to report the home. I can clearly hear her saying in a loud voice so that all the nurses on the floor could hear her say, "Bedsores are caused from bad nursing." The patient started to cry when the nurse put the first wet strip of whatever it was on the sore. "This is the first time anyone has even really looked at it." She was so grateful. The head nurse used that patient to teach all the nurses about bedsores. She used to hold classes when it was time to change the dressings. Some of the nurses had never even seen one. Even some of the young doctors were sickened by it.
These days, for the most part, they come from home or the hospital with bedsores. QUOTE]
We moved to Ohio from Oregon to be near my DH parents. When we got here his Dad was not well. He had Alzheimers. The family was trying to care for him at home but it was not working. He spent the majority of his time in bed. I will never forget how horrible his hips were. Both sides - huge and deep bedsores.
I was outraged as the family just brushed it off saying he did it to himself.
DH and I got him to his Dr within 3 days of arriving here and the Dr immediately put him in a nursing home so he could get some proper care.
The bedsores eventually healed and for the last few months of his life he was actually enjoying being alive.
To this day I am still angry at those people for not taking care of their own flesh and blood. My DH - for a long time - blamed himself for his Dad not getting care. We were on the west coast - they were here in the same house with him .. the reason they didn't take him to the dr - they didn't want to spend his money You know what that means .. they are all a bunch of greedy creeps (that was a nice word and not the word I wanted to use).
So of course they became enraged with me because I took the lead and got him to a Dr.
The end result is that none of the family will talk to DH or me because we "stole" part of their inheritance ... they are sad sad pathetic people.