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Home Remedy for Sinus Infection

December 29, 2015 By Gwen Brown 4 Comments

Our home remedy for sinus infection is quick, effective, and you can use whatever you have on hand in your yard or natural remedy stash. A couple of my family members tend to have colds and allergies go to their sinuses and just hang out there. The headaches, achey face, and headaches tend to linger,…

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Filed Under: Cough Cold & Flu Remedies, Essential Oils, Health and Natural Remedies, Herbs From Your Yard, Herbs In Your Kitchen, Natural Remedies & Recipes Tagged With: cold remedy, kitchen remedies, recipes for remedies

Goldenrod Herb

October 16, 2015 By Gwen Brown 2 Comments

Goldenrod herb is a new project for us this year. It’s an herb that grows prolifically here, but we’re just now getting to know this gorgeous plant. And after reading about all that it does, I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to play with it. Today, we’ll talk about the myth of goldenrod…

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Filed Under: Cough Cold & Flu Remedies, Digestion Remedies, Health and Natural Remedies, Herbs From Your Yard, Natural Remedies & Recipes Tagged With: anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, bitters, cold remedy, diabetes, eczema, indigestion, sore throat remedy

Rabbit Tobacco Tincture

October 9, 2015 By Gwen Brown 8 Comments

Rabbit tobacco is one of my favorite herbs for the cold & flu season. I’ve already written about Rabbit Tobacco a good bit here on the blog: how to ID it and how I use it. I mostly think of it as a great congestion remedy. But I recently saw herbalist Darryl Patton talking about how he…

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Filed Under: Cough Cold & Flu Remedies, Health and Natural Remedies, Herbs From Your Yard, Natural Remedies & Recipes Tagged With: antiviral, cold remedy

Identifying and Harvesting Rabbit Tobacco

September 3, 2015 By Gwen Brown 19 Comments

Last week I shared a post introducing rabbit tobacco- it’s one of my favorite home remedies for chest congestion and colds here at our home. We talked about the history, uses and actions of this herb. Rabbit Tobacco is a folk herb, so it’s not commonly known or an herb that you can find at any herb…

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Filed Under: Cough Cold & Flu Remedies, Health and Natural Remedies, Herbs From Your Yard Tagged With: cold remedy, flu remedies, sore throat remedy

Eating Raw Garlic: You’re Doing It Wrong

July 15, 2015 By Gwen Brown 438 Comments

eating raw garlic- why you should and the best ways to eat it.

Eating raw garlic may not sound too appealing, but MAN is it effective in kicking germs to the curb. And that’s why so many of us have at least attempted to suffer through eating raw garlic in times of dire discomfort or pain. Maybe you’re wondering: Why Would You Eat Raw Garlic? Well, the quick answer…

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Filed Under: Cough Cold & Flu Remedies, Health and Natural Remedies, Mother & Baby, Natural Remedies & Recipes Tagged With: blood pressure, cold remedy, flu remedy, garlic, mastitis, sore throat remedy

Cold & Flu Brew

April 28, 2013 By Gwen Brown 17 Comments

My favorite spiced cider recipe got a healthy makeover for cold and flu season.  You can see more of my favorite cold and flu remedies and prevention tips here, but I wanted to put this awesome recipe in the spotlight and give you a nice printable recipe page. This Cold & Flu Brew may not…

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Flu Remedies and Prevention

January 28, 2013 By Gwen Brown 4 Comments

A friend wanted home remedies for the flu, and had heard about using vinegar to avoid getting sick.  This was my response to her, and what I’d do if we ended up battling the flu: “My Mom used to give us vinegar when we were sick, and honestly, I hated it. I’m MUCH more inclined…

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Our Family Home Remedy List

December 17, 2012 By Gwen Brown 13 Comments

Usually, I can ramble off remedies all day long and twice on Tuesdays if it’s somebody else’s child with the stomach virus or poison ivy. But the minute my little one comes in clutching their tummy, my palms get sweaty, my mind blanks out, and get all “Mizz Scarlett! Mizz Scarlett! I don’t know nothin’…

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