Every person has a toxic threshold: that level at which their body can no longer handle the toxins it absorbs. It’s when you cross that toxic threshold that things start to go awry and the body that used to function perfectly now starts to show symptoms ranging from hives to asthma to migraines to neurologic […]
Category: Natural remedies
Natural Help for Bleeding Ears of Cats and Dogs
As our cat has aged, it seems her ears are becoming more prone to cracks and bleeding. Just last night I awoke to feeling drops of liquid hitting my arms and realized the cat was shaking her head and spraying me with blood from the crack on the tip of her ear. Yuck. Luckily, I […]
Playing In the Grass Makes Me Itchy: Natural Relief for Itching, Rashes
Last night, after an hour or so of rolling around and playing games in the park across the street from our house, my daughter came into dinner and began complaining that her arms, legs, and face were itching. I could see her skin was looking irritated. I sent her directly into the shower and held […]
Tart Cherries Combat Jet Lag
Jet lag doesn’t have to be an unavoidable byproduct of traveling if you eat some dried tart cherries. My family recently returned from a fantastic family reunion on the other side of the world. It was a short vacation – only 10 days – without a lot of time to spare recovering from jet lag […]
3 Ways to Improve Your Mood Naturally
Depression affects a huge number of people in our country and prescriptions of anti-depressants are so common that I’ll bet you can name at least two people off the top of your head who take something to feel happier. That’s to say nothing of all the people you know who haven’t told you that they […]
