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The Silver Bullet: Making Your Own Colloidal Silver

The Silver Bullet: Making Your Own Colloidal Silver
Silver has been used medicinally and preventatively for centuries. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, and Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar, both wrote of the use of silver to treat wounds and prevent disease. Water, milk and vinegar were stored in silver containers to maintain freshness and prevent contamination since ancient times. As recently as the 1900s, people placed silver coins in milk to keep it from spoiling. It is even used in the water supply at the International Space Station as a disinfectant. Burn wards use bandages soaked in a silver solution to prevent infection when treating 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Today, colloidal silver, a suspension of particles of silver ion in distilled water, is available from most health food stores. The product that you purchase at health food stores is expensive and may not always be available. You can also make your own silver generator fairly easily. You will need: - 8-12 oz glass jar - Ultrafine silver wire (.999) - 3 9v batteries 1. 2. 3. 4. Related:  Homemade

Yes, You Can Make the Special Onion Soup by Yourself, Here is the Secret Posted By admin On Thursday, November 14, 2013 02:52 PM. Under Diseases and Care, General Health, Healthy Drinks The patient should take 1 onion with a size of lemon along with the shell and cut it in small pieces, and then fry it into oil mildly. Afterwards he/ she should overflow around half a liter of cold water and cook it until the onion gets boiled good. The patients can be assured that this soup has an extraordinary taste. During the winter when is the season of flu there is no nothing best than a hot soup. To reduce and stop the coughing beside the ancient recipe with onion pieces that cover the neck with a piece of bandage (wrapped the neck), here we recommend for you a recipe for naturally treacle (molasses) against sore throat, cough and tonsils inflammation. Components: - 500 gr sliced onion - 250 gr honey - 50 gr cloves In a pot put the onion with cloves and ginger. 250 gram of honey is added.

72 Uses For Simple Household Products To Save Money & Avoid Toxins Limiting the amount of products you bring into your home will not only cut down on costs at the grocery store but will keep you and your family healthier. Below is a list of some common uses for seven household products. Add some drops of essentials oils like lavender, rose, or sweet orange to any of them for extra pleasure! Here are a few more tips to help you go green and save money! Cut up old bath towels. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Five important go-to detoxifiers for every home farmacy (NaturalNews) For the health of the nation to change, individuals must stop relying on pharmacies and must instead start creating their own farmacies at home. While pharmacies carry drugs that cover up symptoms, a personal farmacy provides beneficial herbs, spices, roots, vegetables, nuts, fruits, barks, clays, seaweeds and berries that come straight from a garden or are wild crafted from nature. These natural substances don't block normal bodily functions like pharma drugs do, but instead work in a purifying way at the cellular level without bringing all the harmful side effects. These natural substances are curative in a way that works with the body's natural processes. More importantly, using natural substances is a great prevention strategy. Naturally anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antiseptic, the following five natural resources are a must-have for any home farmacy. Apple cider vinegar is an inexpensive go-to remedy with a multitude of uses. Sources for this article include:

Quickly get rid of your colds with Echinacea (NaturalNews) For those of you that don't have the chance to live under palm trees, blessed by the constant warmth of the sun in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the time of the year when days get shorter and the weather gets cooler. As this happens and leads us towards the winter months, many people unfortunately wake up some day with a new cold. The primary goal for anyone is to constantly keep their immune system strong in order to stay away from colds, but if that's not enough, then the next best thing is to at least get rid of it as soon as possible. Echinacea is a perennial that's been used for hundreds of years by Native Americans. Before the rise of pharmaceutical medicine and antibiotics, health practitioners would regularly use Echinacea to treat colds, flu symptoms and bronchitis as well as various types of infectious diseases. Various studies have proven that Echinacea can reduce the severity and length of a cold. Sources for this article include:

Is hummus healthy? Four reasons to include this tasty dip in your diet (NaturalNews) Hummus is a traditional Middle Eastern spread made of pureed chickpeas. Usually blended with tahini (sesame seed butter), olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic, it is a very good source of protein and vitamins. Studies even indicate that hummus has properties to help fight against cancer. Delicious, easy-to-prepare and vegetarian-friendly, why not including it in your diet? Hummus is a nutritious dip rich in vitamins and minerals Here is a list of all the nutrients you get from eating hummus: • Chickpeas are a good source of protein and fiber. • Sesame seeds are also a source of protein. • Lemon juice acts as a tonic that stimulates the liver. • Olive oil is one of the best sources of monounsaturated fats ("good" fats) and is rich in antioxidants such as phenols and tocopherols as well as vitamin E. • Garlic cloves have amazingly high levels of vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), manganese, copper, selenium, iron and calcium.

Sticks and Bones- A Praise of Bone Broth | Artemis Herbals Mmmm the warm smell of nourishing bone broth fills my home with its rich scent and heady perfume. The combination of roasted bones and aromatic vegetables mingle for hours, and I mean hours, slowly extracting every last bit of yummy goodness. Can mere writing extol the virtues of something so primal, so deeply nourishing and satisfying? I don’t know, but I feel bone broth is such an important thing to share that I’m going to attempt it. Here we go! Introduction to broth Bone broth has been made for thousands and thousands of years, transcending cultural bounds and is found amongst nearly all traditional cultures the world over. Benefits Ok so we’ve espoused the flavors of bone broth and talked a bit about how to enhance the flavor even more but what about the health benefits? See that spoon practically standing up? Adequate nutrition is vital to our health. Bone broth is also extremely economical and can be made for mere cents. The Sticks The broth 5lbs bones (roasted or unroasted)

Let's Talk About: Tinctures, Elixirs, and Cordials | Pixie's Pocket I love herbs, and I also enjoy alcohol. You dedicated readers know for sure that I adore honey…so I generally do my best to combine those three ingredients in as many forms as possible. My cabinets are full of jars, and those jars are full of strange floating bits in colored liquid. It makes me feel my most witchy to open that cabinet and bring out strange brews to share with friends. I have many jars that are medicine, and jars that are for fun, and jars that are a bit of both. Tinctures are medicinal extracts of herbs in alcohol. The process for making a tincture is simple: Get an herb, fresh or dried. Now, tinctures are potent! Elixirs are the sweetened version of those alcohol-expressed medicines. Then there are the less-than-tasty herbal medicines…adding sweetener to the more bitter or astringent herb tinctures can make ingesting them a more palatable experience, especially with kids. Elixirs are easy to make: You can start out with a tincture and add a simple syrup (recipe below).

A Home-Made Anti-Itch Lotion This information originally appeared in the Manning Dog Training newsletter about a year ago. Since then, I've had so many requests for the info that I'm posting it here forever. Betty Pace gave me this "recipe" last year when my pit bull Lizzie was having severe skin problems. I used it on Lizzie with limited success, because her itching was caused by demodectic mange, which was a bit more complicated. You can get all these ingredients at any drugstore. Fill the spritzer bottle about half and half with the witch hazel and aloe vera gel. How to Detox Your Home Naturally, 7 Ways Researchers now say indoor air can be 10 times more polluted than the air outdoors. This is due to the many toxic products we have in our homes, such as formaldehyde and benzene released from furniture, rugs, plastic and paints. These products can then trigger headaches, fatigue, wheezing, allergic reactions, or a blue mood. Of course eliminating products that out gas and using no VOC paint products is the best way to start. When I lived in Korea, I noticed bamboo was used everywhere to clean the air. 2) A SALT CRYSTAL LAMP - (see my photo below and links) I’ve used this both in Korea and now in the USA. 3) CINNAMON - (see photo) The photo that you will see is of real cinnamon. Only real beeswax will do, and they should be made from 100% natural beeswax. My cat loved my cactus. Once again it is the negative ions at play (or work), like the salt crystal lamp and the beeswax candles. I think the most popular and most commonly used air cleaner is the house plant.

3 Best Natural Hangover Remedies and 1 Unnatural Remedy Heather CallaghanActivist Post It happens. While celebrating, it might not take much in the way of alcohol to bring on a nasty hangover the next day. Unless it's an emergency situation, these remedies are sure to relieve suffering quickly. Obviously, staying hydrated is one of the best things anyone can do to ward off the effects of a hangover. Here are three lesser-known, inexpensive all natural remedies to ward off a hangover after drinking too much and one surprising unnatural remedy. Nux Vomica 30c Homeopathic - three pellets under the tongue at the onset of symptoms of overindulging food or drink. Activated Charcoal - there's a reason this is used in emergency rooms for toxic overload. Asparagus - a study found that asparagus contains a compound that protects the liver and cells from the toxicity of drinking and can ward off hangovers. Benadryl - here is the unnatural remedy best for the hangover headache. Image: Wikimedia Commons

The secret to making delicious green juices Mon. Feb. 3, 2014 by Linda Kordich (NaturalHealth365) Making green juice delicious is as easy as what I call using the ‘magic 3’ – and boy are they magical. It’s amazing just how much this simple little secret can change the way our taste buds react to dark green juice recipes. Believe it or not, even your children will love green juices – if you make them correctly. Okay, get your pen and paper out – here’s the easiest way to make those healthy green juices come alive and taste spectacular! 1. 2. 3. *Note: We do not recommend adding any other fruit into the green juice combinations – because if you add too much fruit, you will mitigate any real value in absorption of nutrients, and especially the tonic then becomes less (by far) alkaline, and most fruits are high in sugars. If you use the following leafy and nutritious greens, then the ‘magic 3’ will dramatically improve the taste of your health beverage. Make 70% of your tonic made from any one of the top 10 greens. SUBSCRIBE TODAY!

5 Food-Medicines That Could Quite Possibly Save Your Life Some of the most powerful medicines on the planet are masquerading around as foods and spices. While they do not lend themselves to being patented, nor will multi-billion dollar human clinical trials ever be funded to prove them efficacious, they have been used since time immemorial to both nourish our bodies, and to prevent and treat disease. So valued were these in ancient times that they were worth their weight in gold, and entire civilizations either rose to great power or collapsed as a result of their relationship to them. What is even more amazing is that many of these "plant allies" are found growing in our backyards, and often sitting there in our refrigerators and spice racks, neglected and under appreciated. Though Mother Nature's formulas are proprietary, she does not grant patents. Garlic, in fact, has several hundred therapeutic properties, confirmed by a growing body of scientific research, which you can view directly on GreenMedInfo.com. Source: Green Med Info Related:

Canker sore relief with natural bee propolis Wed. Feb. 12, 2014 by Karen Sanders, staff writer (NaturalHealth365) There is no doubt about it – aphthous ulcers – more commonly known as canker sores – can be excruciatingly painful. They are also surprisingly common; up to 20 percent of the population has, or will have, one of these troublesome mouth lesions, which can linger for up to two weeks and cause severe stinging sensations that make eating and talking difficult. To make matters worse, doctors don’t really know what causes canker sores – although some nutrition experts believe vitamin deficiencies may be to blame in some cases – and there is no conventional ‘cure’. Once again, Mother Nature comes to the rescue – propolis, a substance made by bees, is emerging as a drug-free treatment – which can not only relieve symptoms but help to limit outbreaks of recurrent aphthous ulcers. What exactly is propolis? Also called bee putty and bee glue, propolis is a resinous substance used by bees to caulk, seal and secure their hives. Dr.

How To Make My Tincture To Cure Cancer Chuck's prostate cancer disappeared. Rick's 10-inch tumor went away. Jack's advanced lung cancer cleared up. Don Imus's prostate cancer is getting better. Those are some of the successes my recipe has helped to bring about. So what you've got here is almost like having the keys to the kingdom when it comes to better health. You can read more about my complete recipe on another one of my hub pages. To simplify things when I started sharing my recipe, I instructed people to grate the habaneros and garlic. Today, I'd like to share with you a simple way to make a tincture, which simplies your efforts. Making a quick, easy tincture prevents getting the hot pepper and garlic oils in the eyes. It is also plenty powerful. Making an herbal tincture is really, really easy. You need three things to make the tincture: Habaneros peppers, enough to fill your blenderGarlic cloves, one or two bulbsCheap vodka or brandy, or Apple Cider Vinegar with "the mother" (cloudy stuff at bottom) Voila!

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