Category Archives: Gardeners Health

help for optimum health, emotional wellbeing, and a variety of gardeners conditions

Winter vomiting bug / Norovirus

Posted on December 1, 2021 by The Holistic Gardener

The winter vomiting bug is a name given to seasonal outbreaks of a Norovirus – the same agent for gastroenteritis and sundry digestive system upsets. It presents with stomach pain/cramping, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting with ancillary symptoms of elevated temperature, … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dehydration

Posted on July 20, 2021 by The Holistic Gardener

Dehydration is what happens when your body loses more fluid than you take in. It is an ever present threat when under the influence of gardening activities. Even on days not forecast as heat wave. You can perspire just as easily mowing … Continue reading →

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Heatwave coolers

Posted on July 18, 2021 by The Holistic Gardener

We gardeners are great at watering the plants and forgetting to water ourselves. The steady loss of water and salt through excessive perspiration on hot days can lead to dehydration. Dehydration is no laughing matter — it is not just … Continue reading →

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Help with Heat Exhaustion and Heat stroke

Posted on July 17, 2021 by The Holistic Gardener

Heat Exhaustion is a form of shock principally triggered in gardeners by a combination of dehydration and sustained gardening activity. It manifests as heavy sweating or clammy skin sometimes with body/core temperature near normal but the feeling of not quite … Continue reading →

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Go plant a tree

Posted on March 26, 2021 by The Holistic Gardener

This weekend is the ideal time to plant a tree – A brilliant addition to any garden, a support to our planet and local wildlife plus a great outdoor activity that is improving your physical and mental wellness in the … Continue reading →

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Aches and pains

Posted on March 1, 2021 by The Holistic Gardener

Sundry aches and pains are perhaps the most common complaint for gardeners – due to the physicality of maintaining a garden and the potential for repetitive strain or just plain old injury – never mind the headache of greenfly.   Whatever … Continue reading →

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Diy hand sanitizer

Posted on June 24, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

So while spirit Alcohol (vodka, whisky etc) has long been utilized as a disinfectant and does exert strong antibacterial and milder antiviral activity, the strength/proof required to outright kill a virus is one found in the pharmacy/chemist as opposed to … Continue reading →

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Time to muster a mustard foot bath

Posted on March 14, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

The ground powdered spice of Mustard (Brassica alba, b. nigra, b. juncea) is traditionally utilized in footbaths to ease migraine and other tensions via the belief that drawing blood to the feet lowers cranial pressure, certainly a mustard foot bath … Continue reading →

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The essential on steam inhalations for respiratory ailments

Posted on March 13, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

There is a knack to it and more on that later but utilizing steam therapy (inhaling steam) to relieve respiratory complaints has been around a long time – back to edo period Japan, back to the ancient Rome and the … Continue reading →

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Three reasons to boil a kettle in flu season

Posted on March 11, 2020 by The Holistic Gardener

For clogged up nasal congestion, raspy breathing or a boost to under-the-weather mugginess, the best thing you can do is boil a kettle. I have three tricks here that you can use the boiling water for. a mustard foot bath … Continue reading →

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