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Aching Feet

Give your feet an ultimate treat. Chop up unpeeled cucumbers and blend until they are a thick mulch and apply to your feet. Sea Salt: add 2 tbsp. of sea salts or Epsom salts to a foot bath. Essential Oils: use any or a combination of the essential oils listed above in a foot bath and foot massage oil.

Kombucha: soak in a warm kombucha foot bath, then apply a friction rub with kombucha tea.

Ice: rub an ice cube over hot, swollen aching feet to soothe and refresh them.

Athletes Foot

This is a most irritating fungal infection when the PH of the foot changes from acid to alkaline. It is mostly found in between the toes and can affect other areas of the skin. The area between the toes becomes itchy, moist, cracked and smelly.

To control athletes foot keep your feet dry leaving them out in the sun a lot. Walk barefoot and wear open-toed sandals. To prevent infection spreading use separate towels. It is highly contagious and thrives in warm, moist conditions.

Water: wash the effected are with acid water then with alkaline water.

Vinegar: wash with equal amounts of apple cider vinegar and warm water.

Essential oils: can be added to foot baths, lotion, oils or ointments, such as lavender, rosemary, eucalyptus or tea tree.

Kombucha: use the kombucha culture to rub onto the affected areas. Soak in a kombucha foot bath then apply kombucha cream. Honey: apply raw honey mixed with onion juice in between toes before going to bed. Cover feet with cotton bed socks.

Herbs: comfrey and thuja is used as an ointment or as infusion of both

herbs are used in a foot bath. Thuja infusion is used as a fungicide wash

for cleansing the shower to stop athlete’s foot from spreading.

Kefir: massage kefir or natural yoghurt in between toes and leave on over

night.

Urine: every time you urinate, rub the urine in between the toes. Oil: make up a mixture of 3 drops thyme, 2 drops sage, and 5 drops of each of the following essential oils, rosemary, eucalyptus, lavender, tea tree. Add to 50 ml olive oil, 1 clove of fresh garlic. Mix all ingredients together, leave to steep for 2 weeks. Discard garlic clove. Rub oil into the affected area nightly after a foot bath.

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Solar Keratosis

I received the following letter from M.B.B .

“… solar keratosis covering a large area, raised red painful areas across my forehead at the hair line and on my nose, requiring frequent bum freezing by local GP. Using the treatment I started to cleanse my skin with papaya facial cleanser followed by an application of papaya ointment. This treatment has reduced the problem significantly, so much so that the painful bum freezing treatment has not been required for some considerable time, in fact since I first started using the papaya ointment.”

Sunburn

Urine: wash the affected area with urine, also apply before exposure.

Foods: buttermilk, cucumbers, raw egg yolk, honey mixed with equal parts of wheatgerm oil, kefir, milk, olive oil, yoghurt, diluted vinegar or kombucha,

Herbs: aloe-vera gel, dry comfrey root tea mixed with water to make a paste.

Essential oils: bergamot, geranium, lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, chamomile

Cold pressed oils: sesame seed oil is a natural sun filter, and has a cooling affect on sunburn.

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Papaya is used in skin products for a natural ‘face lift’ and rejuvenation. The green fruit is used in cosmetics as it contains papain and other enzymes, papaya is beneficial for skin care and repair. Old dead skin cells, dandruff and other disorders can be treated or eliminated with Papaya and even the signs of premature ageing can be reduced. Papaya is also used for treating skin disorders such as eczema, psoriasis, acne, sores, wounds and ulcers. The papain in papaya, has an incredible ability to digest dead tissue without affecting the surrounding live tissue.(See also skin disorders)

Papaya tea and fruit contains an enzyme that dissolves surface cell debris making it a great facial peel.

Caution: In rare cases and long term application of a highly concentrated Papaya, sensitivity and/or skin irritation may be experienced.

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Sour milk-The solid portion of sour milk is composed of casein. It is too valuable to throw away, use it as a cleansing cream.

Tomato skin-Rub the inside of the skin over blackheads, also great for sunburn.

Watermelon-The thick rind is bound around the forehead and temples to relieve headaches. To relieve pain of the gall bladder or liver apply a poultice made from mashed rind and the pulp placed directly over the organs.

Watermelon seeds and rind are dried and made into a decoction and taken as a diuretic. This has a soothing effect on bladder inflammation.

Walnuts Green or immature black walnut is used. Make an incision into the outer shell and rub the juice onto blemishes, ringworm’s, warts and age spots.

To make up a hair dye, take 1-1/4 cups each of bruised walnut husks and leaves, soak in a gallon of rain water for 24 hours. Then pour the liquid into a saucepan and boil until half the liquid is reduced. Cool, strain and bottle then add 1 tbsp. of alcohol. Apply to hair daily until a darker colour has resulted.

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