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Welcome To Natural Health Tutoring!

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:31:11 +0000

Thank you so much for visiting! Our goal is to help you learn about your health, naturally!

What is NaturalHealthTutoring?

NaturalHealthTutoring.com is a blog (weblog) website aimed at those interested in taking control of their own health with natural methods, but just don’t know where to start. It is a blog mostly for beginners.

Content is continually being added so you will find something new to read about each time you visit. You will find articles about:

Specific Herbs and How To Use Them
How To Make Several Remedies
Video Posts About Remedies
Information On Breech Births
… and much more.

Who is behind NaturalHealthTutoring?

NaturalHealthTutoring is run by the Schmidt Family, a homeschooling, Christian family living “down south” in the United States. We have four children, two boys and two girls, who we have treated with natural remedies since their birth. We started this blog not only as only as a business, though that certainly is a long-term goal, but also to join the ever-widening online community of natural health enthusiasts in order to help and be helped.

Our vision is for this website is that it will be a help to those just starting down the road to natural health. Whether you are beginning to travel this road because of personal illness, because of the health of your child, or because it is intriguing to you, we want this to be a starting place for you. A place where you can learn and build a strong foundation without all the hype and all the fads. A place where you can figure out just how much of this is right for you without being confused or forced into taking certain measures. A place where you can begin to take your health into your own hands and be comfortable with it there.

One of our focal points is in the area of pregnancy. Our fourth baby was born breech

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Plantain

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:32:37 +0000

Plantain – Not Just a Weed But Also a Miracle Home Remedy

The plantain has been used throughout the centuries for just about every medical ailment out there. Many people consider this perennial herb to simply be a weed, but those that have studied it know of its wonderful medicinal properties.

Most often, it’s the leaves that are used for medicinal purposed. As a natural cure, they can be crushed and applied to many injuries such as burns, cuts, and scrapes. They have been found to have an anti-inflammatory property to aid in reducing swelling and pain. With their antimicrobial and antibacterial assets they can prevent an injury from becoming worse through infection. The leaves have proven to be effective in slowing bleeding when applied as a poultice. In home remedies, if the leaves are heated, or steamed, they can be applied to an area of the body to assist in drawing out thorns and as a poultice on wounds. Even bee and wasp stings, with their skin inflammations and associated pain, are not a match for the curative properties of the plantain.

In the past, the leaves and seeds have been used to treat many medical afflictions such as asthma, high blood pressure, and fever. When the leaves are used on a wound, often there is little if any scarring that is produced. The roots of the plantain have been used for the treatment of ulcers and diarrhea, even bronchitis. They also can create a natural aversion to tobacco helping smokers to quit the habit. In fact, companies are currently using it in several stop-smoking treatments. The seeds, when eaten, are a bulk laxative, which can help soothe an upset stomach and stomach walls. If a weak tea made from the plant and distilled water is made, it has even been said to have wonderful anti-wrinkle properties and to work particularly well around the eye area.

Plantain as a natural cure has several things you can do easily to keep yourself healthy. For example, if you soak the seeds, also known as psyllium seeds, they create a gel within a few hours. This gel, which is edible, can be smeared on areas of thrush to clear it up.

As a home remedy, you can utilize the entire plant, leaves, seed and root, a tablespoon at a time in a cup of boiling water to create a tea that, when sweetened to taste, will help with colds and the flu by relieving sinus pressure and is also a wonderful expectorant. This may be sipped at all day long. The whole plant can also be turned into a salve when chopped and mixed with lard then cooked.When cool it can be applied to all sores, cuts, burns, and even used as a wrinkle cream for night use.

The Benefits of Cayenne Pepper as a Natural Healing Home Remedy

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:32:13 +0000

Cayenne pepper, or Capsicum, is a popular spice in many ethnic foods. It is also just as important as a natural healing medicinal herb. Many people take cayenne pepper, often in the form of pills, to assist with dyspepsia. It has shown itself effective in reducing the pain associated with the condition. It can also help rebuild stomach tissue and aid the body in the production of hydrochloric acid, which is naturally in the stomach to support digestion actions.

Cayenne pepper is also extremely good for the cardiovascular system. It has been demonstrated to help lower blood pressure in patients with high blood pressure and has been seen to assist with clotting action due to the way it equalizes the blood pressure in the victim. It increases the hearts capabilities to pump blood through the cardiovascular system and even maintains internal organs by invigorating them, thereby increasing the organs’ production of necessary bodily hormones and chemicals. It has even had several claims made for it from heart attack victims, in the form of the extract, who swear it virtually stopped their heart attacks.

This wonderful pepper is also find use as one of the few home remedies for pain. It has been used extensively to relieve back pain when missed in with a poultice or a plaster. It has also recently been proven to help fight severe headaches when inhaled into the nose in small quantities.

Most often cayenne pepper is used in natural healing with coughs and colds. Mixed into a tea with a few other ingredients it can reduce stuffiness, slow or stop coughs, relieve sore throats, and relieve sinus pain. It is also helpful with colds to relieve low-grade fevers due to its sweat inducing properties.

Individuals with arthritis, or who do a lot of work with their hands, are great advocators of cayenne pepper. They use it, generally in the form of a cream or liniment, as a rub for their stiff or achy hands. The resin within the pepper causes the body to react creating heat on the affected area. The nerve endings in this area react to the resin producing a chemical that creates the feeling of heat. Once this chemical is completely used up, the nerves are unable to tell the brain that there is still pain in that area of the body until the nerves can create more of that particular chemical.

Cayenne pepper is also used as one of several home remedies to assist in weight loss. It is believed that by aiding in digestion it helps to control appetite.Often it is included in diet aids, but people have found that including it in their recipes it will have the same effect.