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Author Archives: The Holistic Gardener
Quick blitz raw garlic pesto
Garlic in our diet is often touted as a cure all, especially to fortify us against winter ills – but cooking it diminishes its healing chemistry, so here is a handy and very tasty way to get your raw on. … Continue reading
Posted in Food fixes
Tagged garlic, healthy bites, immune function, pesto, raw garlic
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getting the gout out
Gout is a type of arthritis – particularly affecting the big toe and foot but it can also impinge upon ankle, knee, hand and wrist. It is much more prevalent in men than women but post-menopausal women are at risk. … Continue reading
Posted in Gardeners Health
Tagged arthritis, diabetic complication, Gout, joint pain, kidney stones, purines, uric acid
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Treating Arthritis
Arthritis is almost a generic name for any condition symptomatic of joint pain and site sensitive inflammation, there are more than 100 varieties and it is often implicated in other conditions – such as lupus, lyme diesease, fibromyalgia etc. That … Continue reading
How to spare your winter blushes, flushes and facial veins.
Its that time of the year when the cold weather puts the rosy into your cheeks but for some that’s a thorny issue. Blushes – Blushing and flushing can be a reaction to weather extremes in winter and to temperatures … Continue reading
breathe easy homemade clove and mint chest rub
This clove and mint based chest rub is good for winter related breathing issues, including nasal congestion, sinus issues, coughs, colds, flu. Mint yields menthol which is analgesic, cooling and counterirritant as well as vasodilation- so opening up that respiratory … Continue reading
Posted in Herbal Remedy Recipes
Tagged chest rub, colds, coughs, flu, nasal congestion, respiratory, sinus, sinusitus, winter ailments, winter remedy
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turn a new leaf this autumn and get more mindful
Looking this time of the year at the autumn leaves slowly change colour and fall, always reminds me that change is natural and letting go is normal. I see the lessons of cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness within the natural … Continue reading
Posted in Growing mindful
Tagged change is good, letting go, mental health, mindfulness, physical health
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Time to plant a breath of fresh air
Autumn is a brilliant time to plant trees, there is enough warmth and soil moisture to get them established before winter. But more than improving the aesthetic of the garden or local waste ground/school frontage/park/community space, they improve our wellbeing. … Continue reading
heat stress lip care
Long hot summers effect our lips in many ways: the heat dehydrates the lip surface, we may be prone to lick them more often which is not helpful and actually causes chapping, lips are devoid of the skin hormone melanin … Continue reading
Summer protection and treatments for Neck and Décolletage
Other than the face, wrinkles are most prominent on the neck area due to the thinness of skin and paucity of underling fatty tissue, similarly the thinner skin of the décolletage can crinkle (crepe) with age and UV damage. Décolletage … Continue reading
Posted in Gardeners beauty
Tagged beauty, cleavage, Décolletage, natural beauty, skin treatments, Summer skin, wrinkles
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Anti-spirochete herbs to treat Lyme disease
Modern science is still at the very early stages of understanding Lyme disease but medicinal botany and herbalism has been here before – Borrelia the bacteria at the centre of Lyme is a spirochete just like syphilis and leptospirosis – … Continue reading
Posted in Gardeners Health
Tagged Anti-spirochete, Borrelia, borreliosis, Lyme disease, natural antibiotics, tick bites, tick borne disease
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