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FOOT DISORDERS
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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