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How To Make Beautiful Bath Bombs
Bath bombs are easy and fun to make and use--like a giant Alka-Seltzer for your tub, providing an explosion of fragrance and color, along with the emollience of luxury oils.
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How to Make Easy Homemade Laundry Soap
Save money on laundry detergent—make your own 100% natural laundry soap! You can have fresh, clean clothes while avoiding harmful chemicals.
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How to Make a Great Goat Milk Soap
Learn the tricks to making a successful goat milk soap! I'm sharing my recipe for a lovely soap with my thought process behind the ingredient selection.
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Magic Potions for Radiant Skin: How to Make a Facial Moisturizer With 7% Glycolic Acid
How to make a water-based facial moisturizing toner that is loaded with humectants, NMFs (natural moisturizing factors), nutrients, amino acids, and exfoliants—and with 7% glycolic acid.
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How to Make a Luscious Beldi-Type Bath Soap
Beldi-type soft soaps—sometimes called paste or gel soaps—are easy to make and wonderful for your skin. Here is my own recipe for a luxurious version.
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How to Make a Luxury Beldi Facial Soap
How to make Beldi facial soap to clear acne, nourish skin with quality oils, and rejuvenate aging skin.
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How To Make Natural Homemade Hair Conditioner
How to make your own natural homemade conditioner, customized for your hair's needs, including such additives as panthenol and centrimonium chloride for extra-wonderful results!
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How to Grow Rosemary in Pots in a Northern Climate
What is the trick to growing a gorgeous rosemary plant for your winter kitchen, and how do you move it outdoors in summer to accent your garden? A big pot.
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The Ultimate Body Butter Recipe
Make a homemade body butter that really works for dry skin.
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How to Make Homemade Liquid Shampoo Using Liz Ardlady's Famous Shampoo Bar Recipe
Learn how to adapt Liz Ardlady's famous shampoo bar recipe to make liquid shampoo.
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The Ultimate Rosewater Lotion Recipe
Learn how to make a luxurious lotion to soothe and heal dry skin and eczema that also heals sore or cramped muscles.
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The Ultimate Soap Recipe!
My favorite soap recipe and how it evolved.
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Posole: A Spicy,Tangy Mexican Winter Soup Redolent with Hominy
This exotic Mexican hominy soup has it's roots in the Native American nixtamal--corn converted into hominy. It's hot and spicy, fragrant with cilantro and the rich smell of hominy.
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Red Palm Oil Soap
Red Palm Oil Soap--with about 30% red palm oil--is very skin loving. Here's the recipe!
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How to Build a Bent-Willow Chair
Learn how to build a bent-willow chair using free wood collected from the roadside. They're perfect to use as outdoor furniture so you can relax on the porch during the evenings!
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Soleseife, or Seaman's Brinewater Cold Process Soap Recipe
This is one of many possible recipes for the increasingly popular Soleseife, a popular spa soap made with sea salt, in imitation of “seaman’s brinewater soaps” made with sea water.
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Bastile Soap: Dragon's Blood Ultra-Conditioning Homemade Soap
Dragon's Blood--Another Homemade Soap Recipe. This one is high in oils and fats that moisturize and condition the skin, and it feels heavenly in the shower. Dramatic color and fragrance too!
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Homemade Black Soap Made with Activated Charcoal
This is my adaptation of African Black Soap for the home soaper. It is not true African Black Soap—but may provide comparable skin benefits.
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Homemade Pure 100% Olive Oil Castile Soap
It takes less than an hour to make this classic bar at home--plus a few hours' wait to unmold! Use it to make coconut milk shampoo.
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How To Make Salt Soap
Salt soaps are among the latest stylish new soaps for excellent deodorant qualities, moisturizing, exfoliating, and to firm and protect new skin cells! Hard, long-lasting, quick-drying travel bars.
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Homemade Coconut Milk Shampoo
You can make this pure, natural homemade coconut milk shampoo in your blender in minutes!
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Homemade Herbal Ointments and Salves To Relieve the Pain of Arthritis, Sore Muscles, and Athletic Injuries
Homemade herbal ointments and salves can provide deep healing and relief!
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How to Make Easy Homemade Coconut Oil Soap
Did you know you could make your own soap with coconut oil? Homemade DIY soaps make beautiful all-natural gifts, and making them is a creative and practical craft for providing your family with the best!
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How to Make Salves for Cuts, Scrapes, Burns, and Bruises
Homemade natural medicinal ointments and salves are easy to make in your kitchen! Here I provide detailed tips and three recipes for homemade herbal salves or oils.
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Growing The Exotic Passionflower in Your Garden
One species of passionflower is very hardy--a gorgeous vine for growing on a fence or trellis. More tender forms can be overwintered indoors, so you can still enjoy their exotic summer flowers.
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How to Install an Outdoor Spigot for Watering Your Garden
It's easy to install an outdoor water spigot (faucet) for watering your garden!
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How To Make Fry Bread, Wojapi, and Indian Tacos
These traditional Native American foods make wonderful hearty meals and snacks for you family! Indian tacos also make great fund-raisers!
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How To Grow Plants of All Kinds from Seed
How to grow plants of all kinds from seed by using pre-treatments such as cold treatment to ensure your seeds germinate and grow.
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How to Prevent Frozen Pipes in Winter: Move Water Lines Indoors
Here are the basics of how your plumbing works and how to re-plumb with CPVC to move water lines indoors.
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Crispy and Moist Popovers (Aka Yorkshire Pudding)
Popovers are an easy and delicious baked holiday (or anytime) treat. What we in the U.S. call popovers are known in Britain as Yorkshire pudding, where they are served as an accompaniment to dinner meats.
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Healing and Delicious Herbal Teas to Blend at Home
Healing herbal teas can be prepared to help many minor ailments--or just for a flavorful treat to enjoy--from herbs that are readily available, or already in your kitchen.
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Brie en Croute--an Easy and Elegant Solution for Entertaining at Home
Brie en croute deserves to become a family tradition for Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, or the night before Thanksgiving or Easter, study groups, or any time friends and family gather.
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More Powerful Herbs to Cure Colds and Flu--and How To Grow Them in Your Garden
How to treat colds and flu with Lomatiu, Andrographis, Baikal Skullcap, and Boneset, with preparations and dosages--and information on how to grow and harvest these herbs in the home garden.
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Understanding and Managing Type II Diabetes
A discussion of diabetic diet, choosing herbs and supplements that help, and understanding causes of insulin resistance, and the causes of diabetes.
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The Joy of Cast Iron Cookware: How to Season, Rehabilitate, and Care for Cast Iron Cookware
Cast iron cookware is easy to care for, and you can easily re-season used cast iron from thrift stores and junk stores to make it good as new!
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How to Grow Lisianthus from Seed
You can easily grow glorious lisianthus ("Lizzies") from seed started early indoors. It just takes patience!
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Winter Home Heating Strategies That Work
Lower home heating bills and provide backup heating for power outages: Wood stoves, vent-free gas, kerosene, electric space heaters, foot-warming stones, and kotatsus.
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The Stockpot and the Art of Soup
Soup is some of the best of all cold-weather foods, and the best way to make homemade soup is to begin with homemade soup stock!
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Eating the Acorns: How to Make Acorn Bread and Other Acorn Recipes
Acorns have been used as a staple human food for thousands of years. Today, interest in using this healthful and abundant native wild food has been revived. Try some delicious acorn recipes.
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Growing a Doomstead Garden
Gardening for self-sufficiency during the zombie apocalypse
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Best Emergency Lights for Power Outages
Ideas for stocking up on emergency lighting for your home during power outages.
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How to Install a New Showerhead: Another Ladies' Craft Project
Longing for one of those fancy new “rainshower” showerheads? Or maybe what you’d love best is one of those combination overhead and hand-held showerheads. Replacing your showerhead is one of the easiest of all plumbing projects.
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Natural Home Treatment for Stomach Flu--Vomiting and Diarrhea
Herbal and Natural Treatments and Home Nursing Care for Diarrhea and Vomiting, Symptoms of Stomach Flu and Food Poisoning
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How to Replace Leaky Drain: A Ladies' Craft Project
Does your kitchen sink drain leak? The fix for a leaky sink drain is to replace the strainer, and it’s easy!
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How To Make Wilted Lettuce
Wilted lettuce is an old-time traditional favorite that can serve as a main dish or light dinner unto itself, though our family generally includes a more substantial second offering. This hearty salad can become a satisfying complete meal just by...
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Rid Your Home of Fleas Naturally
There is no need to spray your home with toxic pesticides to get rid of fleas--and flies, too. Several essential oils repel and kill fleas and flies, especially when used in household cleaners.
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Grow a Beautiful and Practical Garden of Medicinal Herbs
Passionflower, meadowsweet, rosemary, lemon balm, thyme, Sweet Annie, chamomile, catnip, mint, ecinacea, black-eyed Susans, and Bible leaf make a lovely and useful herb garden.
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Cooking from Scratch for Busy Moms: Bruschetta
Another of the fast, easy recipes that fed my family over many years as a single or busy mom.
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The Versatile and Gluten Free Banana Pancake
At last! A gluten free pancake!
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The Medicine Garden: Best Medicinal Herbs to Grow in the Home Garden
A selection of medicinal herbs that are both beautiful and useful
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Matzo Ball Soup: The Ultimate Comfort Food
This comfort food is a favorite of children and sick folks. Most of the preparation is fast and easily done ahead. Matzo ball soup also freezes well.
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How to Plant, Prune, and Care for Wisterias
Wisterias are beautiful vines known for their vibrant, traffic-stopping colors. But they are also notorious for growing aggressively. This article will explain how to successively grow and care for one.
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Cooking from Scratch for Busy Moms--Easy Fajitas
One of many mostly fast and easy (and reasonably cheap) recipes that got me through more than a decade of single parenthood.
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Cure Psoriasis with Natural Methods
Herbs that are reputed to cure psoriasis are slippery elm and American saffron (safflower),
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Easy-to-Grow Flowers for the Beginning Gardener
Several perennial flowers provide amazing displays of flowers and foliage, yet require almost no care! Here are three to provide the backbone of your home flower garden.
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Home Birth--With or Without a Midwife
Many women have opted for a joyous home birth experience! Planning a home birth carefully is important.
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Cure Foot and Leg Cramps
Foot and leg cramps are almost always caused by magnesium deficiency--or, more accurately, insufficient magnesium intake in relation to calcium intake. The fix is easy! Get more magnesium!
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Coconut-Almond Madeleines
Here is my original recipe for coconut-almond madeleines, as well as the basic recipe and the recipe for chocolate madeleines--along with some (perhaps heterodox) tips.
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Wild Autumn Olive Berries for Jams and "Tomato" Sauce
Autumn olive berries are one of the most abundant—and nutritious—of wild berries. They can often be gathered by the gallon in woods and fields.
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How to Make Easy Elderflower Champagne
Elderflower champagne--a refreshing traditional English summer beverage--is as easy to make as Kool-Aid!
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Make Herbal Teas from Wild Plants of the Fields and Roadsides
There are many wild plants growing in the fields and along the roadsides that make delicious and healthful herbal teas!
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Cure Impetigo with Home Remedies
Homes remedies for impetigo include black walnut hull tincture (which you can make at home), colloidal silver, and elecampane root.
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How to Make Elderberry Juice, Rob, and Syrup for Winter Colds
How to make elderberry juice, elderberry syrup, and elderberry rob.
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Foraging and Cooking Wild Foods
Here are a few commonly available wild plants for foraging, along with some simple recipes for making yummy wild food dishes!
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Cure Head Lice with Tea Tree Oil
Cure head lice without putting pesticides on your child's head--and prevent re-infestation--with inexpensive herbal treatments.
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Top Four Most Useful Herbal Preparations You Can Make at Home
Make echinacea tincture, mullein oil, black walnut hull tincture, and wild cherry cough syrup at home.
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Cure Kidney Stones with Herbs
Kidney stones may be passed painlessly and/or dissolved without surgery or other conventional medical treatment using inexpensive herbal treatments.
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Cure Gout with Natural Remedies and Herbs
Gout can be cured with natural remedies, diet, and herbs, without conventional medical treatment.
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Cure Children's Bedwetting and Accidents with Herbs
An herbal cleansing and toning approach to leaky children that focuses on toning the urinary tract and the nerves
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Gooseberry Jam with Elderflowers
Elderflowers added to gooseberry jam impart a delicate “muscat” flavor, and give the jam a beautiful “calico” look, that makes these jams excellent for giving as gifts.
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Cure Cold Sores with Herbal and Natural Remedies
Apple cider vinegar, olive oil, slippery elm, and probiotics are all reliable cures for most cold sores.
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Gathering and Using Elderflowers to Make Lotions for Beautiful Skin and Healing Salves
Elderflowers blooming in the fields and along the roadsides in June are a beauty--and healing--bonanza!
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Cure Ringworm with Easy Home Remedies
Ringworm is easily cured at home using iodine, black walnut hull tincture (which you can make at home), and other simple products.
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Cure Yeast Infections with Yogurt or Probiotics
Here’s how to cure yeast infections (Candida albicans) naturally.
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How to Cure Fevers, Plus a List of Danger Signs
A comprehensive discussion about fevers, including danger signs and natural/herbal treatments.
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Cure Children's Growing Pains
Children's growing pains--muscle cramps that usually occur in the feet and legs--are nothing more than magnesium deficiency.
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Get Rid of Warts, Moles, and Skin Tags With Castor Oil and Baking Soda
Trying to get rid of warts, moles, or skin tags? Can't figure out how to do it yourself? You can avoid costly medical procedures and remove warts, moles, and skin tags painlessly at home using castor oil and baking soda.
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Dislocated Wrist in Toddlers and Young Children--What To Do
A child who seems unable to use her hand, but lets it hang limply her side, may have a dislocated wrist. Here’s what to do.
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Cure Plantar Warts with Oil of Thyme
Plantar warts can be cured without , laser therapy, cryotherapy (freezing), acid treatments, or surgery, and without wasting time and money on frustrating and discouraging over-the-counter products.
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How to Resolve a Toothache With Echinacea
Got tooth pain? You're not alone. Painful toothaches caused by an infection or an impacted wisdom tooth can be reduced with echinacea. Who knew that a simple herb you can grow yourself could ease tooth infections?
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How to Cure Scabies Naturally, without Chemical Pesticides
Scabies can be cured with Vitamin E oil applications, or with diluted oil of thyme. There's no need to see a doctor or apply chemical pesticides.
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Cure Burns with Slippery Elm and Comfrey
An Easy Home Remedy for Burns, Wounds, and Other Skin Affections
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Cure Shingles Fast with Echinacea
Shingles can be cured in 24-48 hours with Purple Coneflower.
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Pink Eye (Conjunctivitis) Relief With Castor Oil
Can't get relief from pink eye? I learned of this remedy when I took my oldest daughter to a naturopathic physician for a severe case of pink case. Since then, I've successfully used this treatment many times.
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The Best and Most Fragrant Roses for Making Rose Water
To make the most fragrant rose waters and potpourris, use the most fragrant roses. Modern roses often lack the sweet perfume of the old-fashioned roses traditionally used to make an attar of roses.
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How to Make Real Wild Cherry Cough Syrup at Home in Your Kitchen with Wild Cherry Bark
Real wild cherry cough syrup is easy to make—and it’s the world’s most effective cough remedy!
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How to Make Herbal Medicines: Infusions, Decoctions, Tinctures, Syrups, Oils and Salves
Many of the expensive tinctures and other herbal preparations available from health-food stores and herb dealers can be prepared at home for pennies!
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How to Relieve a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) With Echinacea
Do you struggle with UTIs? You're not alone. You can cure a UTI in a couple of hours using a tincture made of echinacea, also known as purple coneflower. Read on to discover how to make your own!
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How to Make Echinacea Tincture--Growing and Using Purple Coneflower for Medicinal Use
You can easily make Echinacea tincture at home, using the roots of your own Echinacea plants from your garden and a pint of vodka.
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Cure Menstrual Problems--Excessive Menstrual Flow (Menorrhagia) and Bleeding Between Menstrual Periods (Metrorrhagia)
Many menstrual problems are simply an indication of iodine deficiency, possibly along with other micro-nutrient deficiencies, and can be easily cured by adding seaweed to your diet.
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Cure Your Bad Back
Does your back periodically "go out," leaving you prostrate and with severe back pain for weeks? Chances are, all you need is magnesium!
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How to cure bronchitis naturally
A fast cure for bronchitis: a few drops of the essential oil of sandalwood on a lump of sugar. Real wild-cherry cough syrup and elecampane root tea give this cure a boost.
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How to Cure Ear Infections with Olive Oil, Mullein Flowers, and Brewer's Yeast
How to cure ear infections--permanently--using herbs and nutrition!