Herbal Household Remedies

apple cider vinegar, chamomile, onion

• Apple cider vinegar is a great conditioner. Just rinse your hair with it after washing, using a spray bottle. If you rinse the hair afterwards, you won’t even smell like a pickle until the hair is dry.
• The following chamomile tea works great as a hair conditioner, especially for blond hair, making is shinier, and easier to comb too. The same tea makes for a wonderful face wash too, so don’t worry if ti runs over your face while you condition your hair with it: Bring a pint of water to a boil, remove from heat. Add 2 tsp of dried chamomile flowers and let steep for about 45 minutes. Strain. Use when luke warm to cold.
• Another great conditioner is a tea made from onion skin. This tea will also enhance the color of your hair and even soften some of the gray hair if used weekly: Collect the dry outside skin of golden or brown onions (not the moist inner skins) until you have about 2.5 cups of lightly packed skins. Put them in a pan and cover them with 1 quart of boiling water. Cover and let steep for 50 minutes, strain using a sieve. After shampooing your hair and rinsing, towel dry it and then rinse again with the onion tea several times. Finally, rinse again with water.

apple, chicory, endive, grapefruit

• To make gall stones pass, drink nothing but apple cider vinegar for a day, 1/2 a cup five times a day. For the next three days, drink a mixture of 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar and 1/4 cup of pure virgin olive oil mixed together, again five times a day. On the 5th day,the stones should pass, never to come back.
• Eating more apples will prevent cholesterol-induced gall stones from forming in the first place.
• A tea of chicory root and endive tea helps expelling gallstones very well. Bring 1 quart of water to a boil, add 3 tbsp of chicory root, reduce heat and let simmer for about 20 minutes. Remove from heat, add half a cut of raw and finely cut endive. Cover and let steep for 45 minutes. Drink several cups of the tea twice a day between meal times. Make sure that one of the two times is about 2 hours before retiring for the night.
• Expelling gall stones and stopping gallbladder pain can be achieved by taking 2 tbsp of olive oil every morning, followed by 1/2 cup of grapefruit juice.

apple cider vinegar, banana, carrot, juniper berries

• Apply gauze soaked in apple cider vinegar to injured areas to relieve pain and heal burns.
• The inner surface of ripe banana peel applied directly to the skin relieves pain from and heals burns, rash and boils.
• Dress burned skin in gauze dipped in carrot juice and lightly wrung to reduce swelling and inflammation. Repeat treatment several times a day over two days or as long as needed
• Juniper berry tea made from 8 tbsp. berries in 1 qt of boiling water steeped for 1 hour may be used to wash burns, scalds, sores and all kings of infected wounds several times a day for relief and healing.