Official Poll: What's your favorite/most useful natural remedy?

[baymule]

I have tried the "ACV for good health" thing where you take a shot of it every day. I barfed it up most of the time when I was feeling good, can't imagine taking it when I was feeling poorly. glad to hear that it helped you.

I mix ACV half and half with honey, sometimes more honey than ACV. Then I dilute it with water and sip it. It's not so bad mixed with the honey.

 

[Denim Deb]

I've done that as well. That reminds me, I need to get honey today.

 

[Britesea]

I've done the honey and ACV, and tried mixing it with seltzer... not a bad "soda"

 

[rhoda_bruce]

A while back, my godchild was having too many seizures because of changes to her medical coverage and out of desperation, I pulled out all my books and decided skullcap was what I needed to order for her.
Apparently it suppresses the nervous system. So the same herb can also treat anxiety or chronic tremors, if they are caused by problems not related (but acting like) to parkinson's.
I am also treating my father's tremors and helping a friend with insomnia.

 

[Beekissed]

Hey, castor oil is different than it used to be back in the old days! It now is odorless, colorless and tasteless...yes, tasteless!!!! Must have some taste of some kind, as my dogs will lick a spill of that stuff like it's beef broth, not stopping until every last vestige is gone.

Gum pain? Rub a little CO on it. Muscle ache? CO Knee pain? Works like a charm and mine is gone and stays gone until the next time I do something stupid with it.

Mom found it works fast on getting really, really bad cold sores into remission and healed up, reducing the scarring as a side benefit. She awakened one morning to find that inside her nose, her lips and all around her mouth just covered in blisters...never saw anything like it.

Ordinarily she would still have a cold sore for a couple of weeks, and pick on it for another week after that....but this was so extensive and painful that we dreaded what it would become. So, I advised her to put CO on it now, for the pain and inflammation, and to keep it soft after the blisters opened and it got too crusty. We were amazed at how this worked to get the pain out, to take down the swelling and to keep the area soft.

Now we can barely even tell where this had happened and this event was just last month. Her sores were totally gone in under 2 wks and by the third week were a memory, just a faint pinkness where they had been.

 

[baymule]

For bug bites, ant bites and rash, we use aloe vera gel with lidocaine. Find it with the sunburn stuff, it is good to have on hand. One bottle of it lasted us 15 years! We just had to get another bottle of it last year.

 

[Mini Horses]

Aloe is also GREAT as an anti burn lotion is you are exposing that winter white skin to harsh sunshine. The islanders told me this and it has always been true when I used it. No burn, just nice tan.

 

[lcertuche]

I had a bottle of aloe vera gel in the refrigerator until it walked off(?). I definitely am going to get castor oil next time I go to WallyWorld. I like to take cinnamon, ginger and turmeric as an anti inflammatory. It works great in green smoothies. Better than ibuprofen. I also use plantain for skin irritations. My grandson and I just picked a bunch of it last weekend. I put it in my dehydrator. I'm hoping eventually to get around and make a salve out of it.

 

[Britesea]

never heard of the eggshell lining one... do you dry and powder it, or what?
the outer skin of chicken gizzards (the part you peel off) is almost pure pepsin-- dry and powder it for a great stomach aid

 

[milkmansdaughter]

@Britesea, there's another post here somewhere talking about the egg membranes and what they can be used for. I remember someone was discussing ways to save them, and dehydrate them for further use. Maybe you can find it in the search section...