Health Tips
Marti, Betsy, John and I have been pursuing natural health for over 35 years. We have a lot of secrets that we have found and have come to rely on to keep us in health. We’ve created this page to share these secrets with you because they are just too good to be kept under our hats.
The New Alternative Doctor Brigade
Has your mail become like ours? We get a “health” magazine every week from some doctor who has jumped on the alternative bandwagon and has vowed to fight the medical community to his last breath. Most of them I’ve never heard of before. Some have famous names and are on tv but don’t really have the substance we prize.
We want to tell you about one that we have come to trust and rely upon quite a bit. His name is Dr. David Williams. A description from his website:
“Dr. Williams is known for his independence and down-to-earth personality. He also has a hard-earned reputation as one of the world’s leading authorities on natural healing. Often years ahead of the conventional medical establishment, he has traveled worldwide to locate, evaluate, formulate, and write about proven treatments and cures for practically every major health concern today.”
We have subscribed to his newsletter for years and have a wonderful library of how to heal just about anything as a result. If you have been wanting to get away from the standard fare doctors and pharmaceutical drugs and learn more about natural health Dr. Williams is a great place to start. Here is the address of his website and we especially encourage you to sign up for his newsletter. He also offers compilations of past issues. We recommend you get as many of these as you can as they cover most every health condition and come in handy when you need some knowledge.
Link to Dr. David Williams. I cannot recommend him highly enough!
The Neti Pot for Sinus Troubles
The use of a neti pot or nasal irrigation pot is a great tool for any type of sinus infections. Using an oddly shaped pot (available online or at health food stores) you run a warm saline water solution into one nostril and let it run out the other. For any kind of sinus problem whether it be allergies or a cold we love using this and it gives great relief immediately. Besides putting the salt into the water we also like to add 1 to 2 drops of Oxygen Elements Max. It floods the sinuses with oxygenated salt water and flushes out anything growing in there. It also leaves a residual solution that continues to kill off bacteria, fungi and viruses. I believe I can chase off an oncoming cold by doing this 2 or 3 times a day at the first signs of the cold. Here’s a Link to an NPR story on the pot!
Having Detox? Try detoxifying Baths!
Salt Bath Tip:
Once the toxins are stirred up, it’s good to get them out. One way to help is with a hot bath using real sea salt (not Epsom salts).
The formula: Two cups of real sea salt; hot, but not too hot (102 to 104 degrees F; 39-40 degrees Celsius) water to cover most of the body; stay in it for 15 to 18 minutes. This can be taken every few days if you wish.
We always feel better right away after one of these as they draw the poisons right out through the skin.
Real sea salt also charges your body with minerals and sea trace elements -lots of health benefits! We get our salt in bulk from here: realsalt.com (we are not affiliated). We like the powdered salt 25 pound bag’s price -works great for baths! You may find sea salt in smaller bags at your local grocery or health food store.
Ginger Bath Tip:
While a sea salt bath pulls toxins out through the skin, a ginger bath moves the toxins out by moving them through the body first and then out. To make a hot ginger bath take fresh ginger root (about the size of a fist or larger -available at most grocery stores), slice them thin as coins and simmer in 2 or 3 quarts of water for 30 minutes.
Fill your tub with hot, but not too hot (102 to 104 degrees F; 39-40 degrees Celsius) water to cover most of the body; pour the ginger tea through a strainer and stay in your tub for 15 to 18 minutes. This can be taken every few days if you wish. This bath is a bit stronger than the sea salt bath for detoxifying the body.
While going through any type of detox, whenever we felt too bad we would take one of these baths and felt better almost immediately.
Candida under control but -Why am I still so tired and foggy?
If you have your Candida under control you may still have low energy, mind fog or depression. Having a Candida overgrowth is very taxing on your body. It wears you down and depletes your adrenal and/or thyroid glands. These tiny glands can affect you much more than you would imagine.
To the Rescue!
There is a company called Herb Pharm (most health food stores) that makes herbal preparations that can be quite helpful for this. If you have a natural healing person to go to you could have yourself tested for these two things; adrenals or thyroid. We recommend using someone who has experience with this kind of thing and who will help you pinpoint if it is one of them that needs help. Chiropractors, N.D.’s or other natural healers with experience often know about this.
If you don’t have those kind of people around to help diagnose you here is what you might try. First, I would recommend getting the Adrenal Support Tonic by Herb Pharm. It will either help or not, but it won’t hurt. I suggest buying the small book put out by Herb Pharm also which demonstrates how to use their herbal tinctures.
If your adrenals are worn out you will feel better almost the first day of using this tonic. After about a week you can probably stop using it and then just use it when you’re feeling worn down.
One other product Marti likes is called Shizandra Adrenal Complex by Planetary Herbals. It is of Chinese origin and can be found in health food stores.
A trickier thing we have found is dealing with the thyroid. Our own healer who is a student of oriental Shiatsu diagnosis and Macrobiotics has just learned something he feels is very new about helping the thyroid. That if your thyroid is either Hypo (underactive) or Hyper (overactive) it is good to take the tinctures for both conditions together.
Nettle Bladderwrack is for Hypothyroid.
Bugleweed Motherwort is for Hyperthyroid.
(Yes, I know it sounds like witchcraft with the names of the herbs but what can you do? That’s what they’re called.)
I found my head clear up so nicely with this program. It made a huge difference.
We took: 20 drops of each in the am. Then 20 drops of each again in the early afternoon. Somehow supporting the thyroid from both ends like this just seems to work. If you find yourself waking up in the wee hours of morning you need to either; take more Bugleweed Motherwort before bed. Or start cutting back on the amount of Nettle Bladderwrack in the afternoon or even in the morning. Finding the right balance takes a little time and will even change over time as the thyroid gets balanced and starts working better.
The thyroid can also be much more severely compromised than can be handled by these 2 herbal combinations and sometimes needs medical attention. So keep that in mind. We are not doctors here, just sharing what has worked for us over the years.
Also, if you find you get constipated once you start this it is the Nettle Bladderwrack doing it, more precisely the Nettle in the Bladderwrack. I had to go to straight Bladderwrack from Herb Pharm and I still got the benefit but not the problem.
One other natural treatment for these glands comes from a company called Standard Process Laboratories. We learned about this in one of Dr. David Williams issues of Alternatives (April 2008, Volume 12, No. 10) These compounds are usually based on bovine (cow) glands. For adrenals the product is called Drenamin. For the thyroid the product is Thytrophin PMG. These products can be found at a good Chiropractor’s office. Follow the directions on the bottle.
Colloidal Silver Generator $240
Get rid of nasty toenail fungus and athletes foot.
One aspect of suffering with Candida fungus is that it can present itself in the extremities of the body. Some of these presentations are difficult to deal with; fungus in the ears, the eyes and on feet/toenails.
In the instances of stubborn fungus or yeast in these areas it can be beneficial to work on them topically using colloidal silver as a soaking agent.
First, I want to say that while we at Candida Support believe in colloidal silver’s many external uses, we do not believe in taking much colloidal silver internally. Many claims are made about what it can cure and we do not support those claims.
Colloidal silver can work miracles for those with certain candida presentations that just won’t go away. I know of one woman who had Candida so bad that the yeast infection in her ears would actually ooze out. Threelac had done a wonderful job of eliminating most of her symptoms but this one was not fully under control.
She began putting a few drops of colloidal silver into her ears each day and within a week the ears were completely dried up and clear.
Sometimes the eyes can be affected by yeast and they become red and itchy. This can be caused by allergies and other things but if yeast is the problem a few drops of silver into the eyes 2 times a day will eliminate that problem too.
One of the worst and most persistent types of body fungus is toenail fungus. Once foot or toe fungus takes hold it can really be hard to eradicate. Here is my formula for cleaning up the feet.
Daily -soak the feet for an hour in a dishpan with a few inches of colloidal silver. I do this while I’m watching a tv show or reading so it goes by quickly. You can use that same silver in the dishpan 2 or 3 times. I just cover it with the towel I use and pull it out again the next evening.
Do this for 2 weeks running. In severe thick toenail cases you can continue it for 3 weeks or more. This seems like a long time but it really does the job and you may not have to deal with this problem again for years. It also works for athletes foot.
Another way of doing this is to target just the area you have problems with -say fungus on one or two toes. You can wrap some cotton around those toes, soak it in colloidal silver (I keep some in a bottle with a dropper), wrap your foot in a corner of a plastic grocery bag (cut corner of bag off with a scissors) and put on a sock and slipper or shoe. You can walk around with it like this (not over an hour). I sometimes will refresh the cotton with a few droppers of new silver.
While our Threelac program is attacking the root of your fungal problem from within these techniques can help eliminate your most nagging external symptoms a little sooner.
The Cost
Now if you go to the health food store and buy silver in bottles the cost will be prohibitive. But I’m going to tell you how you can make your own silver for just pennies a quart and you will have the ability to do so for years.
We own a micro-particle colloidal silver generator for which we paid about $240. Once you own this you have colloidal silver for the rest of your life. The silver strips used in the process last for a long long time. This particular generator is state-of-the-art as it produces the tiniest micro particles of silver that more easily penetrate the areas you wish them to go. We are not affiliated with this company. Silver Generator link
Tea Tree oil (mellaleuca) is also a way to rid yourself of toe fungus and athletes foot. Get a good quality pure tea tree oil from your health food store or from Young Living Essential oils (maybe the best there is) and mix it half and half with some grape seed or almond oil in a dropper bottle. Apply this 3 times daily to the affected area of athlete’s foot or toe fungus.