Baking soda and coriander for bee sting

         Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is great remedy for bee sting and ant bite. I have read it somewhere and it worked for me and people I know.

         Make paste from 1 teaspoon of baking soda and 1 teaspoon of distilled water (if you don't have distilled water plain will do), put it on bitten area, keep it for a while, repeat if necessary. In case of a bee sting, first remove the sting with tweezer. This paste will neutralize the poison, help with pain and sweeling.

         Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) is great for swellings, it is a remedy from ayurveda. Once I stepped on a bee. It was very painful. Such a bad sting that even the wonderful soda paste didn't help much.

Then I tried coriander.

Wash the leaves (water will help in making paste) and chop them finely. Put it on bitten area and secure with bandage. After some time leaves will dry, so if it's necessary make fresh paste. My swelling lasted for few days but coriander really made it better.

Wine for the heart

This is a recepie from Hildegard von Bingen. It is good for all heart conditions even the severe.

Put 10 fresh parsley stems with leaves in 1l of natural wine (red or white) and 1-2 tablespoons of pure wine vinegar. Cook for 10 minutes on lower heat (be careful couse it foams).

After that, add 300g of honey and cook it for 4 minutes (cooking honey is optional). Strain it hot and pour in to bottles (rinsed with little bit of concentrated alcohol), close it well.

Take one, two or more tablespoons of wine during the day.

Sore and inflamed throat

Sage tea is a very useful herbal remedy for sore throat and inflamed throat, I have tryed few times with good results. I have used it as a tea to drink and to rinse my throat.

         Rinsing can help even with inflamed throat, I tested it once I had such inflammation that my throat was so narrow, hurt a lot, and I had a case of a cold, the one when it hurts all over.

         To make tea put 1 teaspoon of dry sage in a cup of boiling water, cover it, after 2 minutes strain it. For rinsing throat alwayes rinse and spit, and repeat.

         Except sage tea I have used another remedy, for witch I than didn't belive that it will work so good, as it did. My mother convinced me to try. She boiled 3 potatoes with skin, big as an egg, until they were cooked. Then put them on a cloth, fold it over the potatoes, and squeeze them. She put this cloth around my neck, potatoes should be hot, but not to hot to burn.

         She put a shawl over it, cap on my head, and I layed well covered with blanket. It's important to lay on the back, well warmed, cover arms, and stay for 1-2 hours or if a person falls a sleep until person wakes up.

         This really worked excellently for me, the next day my throat was better and my cold was gone.

Yarrow oil

Yarrow oli is a herbal remedy I use when ever I need something for different aches and pains, just like hyperici oil (St.John's Wort Oil). It is good for massage (for back pain, neck, joints, etc), used by itself or mixed with hyperici oil. Can be applied without massage, always externally.

Has a good affect on muscular aches and pains, after hard work or exercise to relieve pain and inflammation. Is good for the skin.

It is made from yarrow (whole plant, fresh, chopped) and extra virgine olive oil. Put yarrow (Achillea millefolium) in a glass jar, pour olive oil to cover the herbs, close it and leave it in the sun for a few weeks (2-3). Then strain it, keep in a glass botle, dark one or in a dark place.

It is always good to have yarrow oli and/or hyperici oil as a universal remedy.

Changing

Before, when I didn't know anything about herbs, it was funny to me that herbs can heal. I tought that doctors (allopathic) know everything, know how to heal. But when I saw and experienced, more then once, that they can't do much, expecially about chronic diseases (allergies, headaches, etc). I have changed.

Yes I was the one that laught, couse I didn't understand that something from the medow can be so useful. Now I am a different person.

I've tryed a lot of herbal remedies, some worked excellently.  Using and learning more about herbs, it was like a door to a whole other world opened, and not just about health. Herbal medicine is just a part of that world.

I like the idea that I can heal myself if I need to and that everything I need is given to me.

Hip tea for cold and flu

     Hip is the fruit of wild rose, Dog Rose (Rosa canina). Tea from rose hip is an excellent tea for cold and flu. Hips are rich with vitamin C, who is an antioxidant.

     It is best to drink few cups of this precious and tasteful tea at the first sign of illness. That will remove the symptoms and you will feel better. Of course, it is also good to drink tea if you are already ill. It always works for me.

     Recepie for tea: put one teaspoon of hips in to one cup of boiled water, leave it covered for 10-15 minutes. After you strain it, put 1 teaspoon of honey and lemon juice (from one slice), that will give wonderful taste and better curative properties.

In this tea you can add cinnamon and clove. Clove has antibacterial and antiseptic powers. Clove and cinnamon are excellent disinfectants.

     Recepie for  hip tea with cinnamon and clove:

Put one teaspoon of hips in to water, add 1-2 cloves, and some cinnamon. Put it on fire. When it boiles remove from fire, add half a lemon (sliced). It is good if the lemon is organic. Leave it covered for 15 minutes or more, strain and sweeten with honey.

    

Urinary infection and nettle

Drinking nettle tea is a good herbal remedy for urinary infections. From personal experience, I am convinced of its good affect.

As a medicine it is very cheap, you can pick it yourself (if you recognize it) or buy it in a pharmacy, and it is natural. In a way it clears urinary tract and makes you stronger.

If you have a very painful infection, and take pain medicine (pills,etc) it can be good as a first aid, to block the pain. But if you're using only painkillers, you wont feel the pain, so you may damage your urinary tract some more if you are not carful when you urinate (slower), there is no pain to alert you to slow down. This does't mean you should suffer, just be careful if you block the pain.

It is necessary to take some remedy that is a cure. Nettle (Urtica dioica) cures urinary infections, some other herbs are also good, as well as some herbal mixtures that can be bought, or  made.

Antibiotics can be used as a cure, but they also after a while (more times you use it) can make the problem worse, and infections more painful. The bacteria get used to antibiotics, and they don't act the way they should.

To make tea put 1 teaspoon of dry nettle in a cup of boiled water, leave it covered for 2 minutes, then strain it; half a minute if you are using fresh herb. It is best to pick nettle when it blooms, but it can surve it's purpose even when it isn't blooming.

In case of infection drink 2-3 cups of nettle tea a day, or more if you want to. Drink it for a few days to clear the infection, and from time to time as a prevention. Also drink water to purify urinary tract. This tea can be used if you are using antibiotic.