Health Tips Blog

When it comes to natural treatments and natural remedies, I can tell you for sure that two different things that work wonders on many different things come to mind – honey and cinnamon.  While most people do not think that honey and cinnamon are actually a miracle together, I can tell you from personal experience that they are.

Honey by itself has actually been proven useful to a lot of things like acidity as well as diabetic ulcers and can event reduce swelling, scarring and has a natural stoppage for a lot of wounds that you might get.  Honey is also incredible for sore throats and for healing a lot of coughing that you might have.

Cinnamon is definitely a little different and has been known to treat Type 2 diabetes mellitus and is also fantastic for insulin resistance.

Now that we have talked a little bit about zinc, let’s move onto astragalus.  This particular herb is actually been used in traditional Chinese medicine for years and it is a preventive herb.  What it can do is actually help you prevent getting a cold or the flu and it can certainly strengthen your immune system immensely.

Astragalus has also been known to be used as an antioxidant and has even been suggested to use to treat heart disease.  It is actually being investigated as a possible herbal treatment for those people that have a very, very weak immune system.

You can actually find astragalus in many different forms, from capsules to teas to even the dried root!

The cold is a very, very difficult thing to fight off and if you have one right now because of the changing of the seasons, I can tell you that there are a ton of different remedies out there that can help you.  For example, Zinc is something that is essential for you and it is definitely something healthy for you.

Zinc is actually a mineral that is required by our body to have and it is found in a lot of different things.  For example, meats, liver, seafood, eggs – these are all things that include Zinc.  If you have a cold right now, you might actually want to invest some money into zinc lozenges.

The reason for this is because zinc can actually help reduce the cold symptoms and certainly help get rid of them if you take it 24 hours after the symptoms started.  You could avoid a cold all together!

As we talked about in the last blog, we all know that Rheumatism is actually something that is very, very hard to deal with, however – taking a bath in Dead Sea salt is thing that has been known to severely push down the effects of Rheumatism and that – to me, is amazing.

For those of you that have no idea what the difference is between Dead Sea salt and regular sea salt that you cook with, it is the location and the minerals.  Dead Sea salt has been known to have all sorts of minerals and vitamins packed inside and that is exactly what can bring the swelling down and really make you feel better.

Dead Sea salt, while it might be difficult to find at first, there are a ton of different places online that sell this stuff by the bucket – so get some!