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Tag Archives: gardeners First Aid
combat chilblains and other cold weather conditions
Chilblains – the medical name is perniosis – occur as a reaction to cold but not necessarily freezing temperatures. They occur more often when cold exposure is accompanied by dampness, icy water or snow – winter clearance of a pond … Continue reading
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Tagged chilblains, cold weather, frost bite, gardeners First Aid
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Make your own Echinacea Tincture
Echinacea Tincture is suitable for internal immunity boosting and external antimicrobial action. This is one you can add to your daily beverages and also apply topically to cleanse around wound site. Ingredients: Echinacea root is best but leaves, stems, and … Continue reading
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Tagged echinacea, gardeners First Aid, herbal cures, Tincture
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WASP STING – the done thing
Wasps (including hornets, yellow jackets and other members of Vespula and Dolichovespula species that regularly visit gardens) have sabre-like stingers that smoothly puncture the skin, release and puncture again repeatedly, delivering a swift inoculation of venom with each sting and … Continue reading
Avocado graze glaze
Functional food is for more than eating………. For second degree abrasions and sundry grazes where inflammation occurs or for larger surface abrasions a poultice of pulped avocado flesh is sublime, the oil is so close to our skins natural oil … Continue reading
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Tagged functional food, gardeners First Aid, healing, Remedy, skin
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quick thyme first aid
Abrasions, light scrapes and grazes are perhaps the most common injuries from which gardeners suffer; they include those surface layer wounds that often you don’t notice at the point of occurrence but may smart or sting later in the day – … Continue reading
Naked solstice after sun remedies
Bheannacht ar an lá – blessings of the day. Today, the solstice, when more than the earths axis tilts towards the sun. Maybe you are naked in a dance to manifest abundance or maybe you are just catching the few … Continue reading
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Tagged gardeners First Aid, healing, Remedy, skin, sunburn, thrifty
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