The article below is full of interesting and unconventional pieces of advice, herbal and otherwise.

Via: Star-Telegram.com

Your body can throw you for a loop at any time. You wake up with a sore throat on the day of your office Christmas party, a seafood-salad sandwich leaves you with grumbling indigestion, or you overdo it at the gym and arrive home with a stiff neck. Wouldn’t it be great to have a live-in doctor/therapist/trainer to tend to your everyday aches and pains?

Here’s the next best thing: all-natural, expert-recommended ways to treat ailments quickly, safely and effectively at home. So clear some space in your bathroom cabinet, refrigerator and kitchen cupboard for these surprisingly effective (and inexpensive) remedies. They’re like having a doctor on call 24 hours a day.

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Catnip tea is very good for overcoming dizziness of any kind, and besides helps you to sleep better if you drink it as a night cap. The following tea also reduces fever and the misery that comes with hay fever and nausea:

Bring 1/2 cup of water to a boil, add a tsp of freshly cut or dried catnip after removing the water from the heat and let steep for 20 minutes. Drink lukewarm, and you can add honey to taste.

catnip, Valerian

• Catnip tea helps with insomnia, a common symptom of anxiety, if you drink it as a night cap, and it assists with relaxing in stressful times. The following tea also fights dizziness, and reduces fever as well as the misery that comes with hay fever and nausea:  Bring 1/2 cup of water to a boil, add a tsp of freshly cut or dried catnip after removing the water from the heat and let steep for 20 minutes. Drink lukewarm, and you can add honey to taste.
• Valerian root is well known for its sedative qualities.  To fight anxiety, a tea from Valerian root may help:  Steep 1.5 tbsp of dried Valerian root in 1 pint of boiling water for half an hour.  Drink 1-2 cups daily.  This tea can also be used to treat hysteria, high blood pressure, backaches and migraines.