Stinging Nettle Remedy

Posted on June 16, 2009
Category: health | 2 Comments

My apologies first of all for not posting for a while here at Alternative Cures, but I’ve become so widely spread lately that its getting hard to get round all my blogs like I used to be able to! Still, at least when I do post, its quality!

This time around, I want to re-visit an aspect of alternative health that I touched on almost two years ago and that involves the use of the humble stinging nettle. To many, this invasive weed is something to be stamped out of one’s garden, but to a true gardener, and us natural health aficionados, it is an all rounder that possesses many healing properties as well as being useful to the gardener as a compost activator and producer of liquid plant feed for free! But that’s for another blog…

Plenty of people are finding this blog looking for a stinging nettle remedy and while my original post went some way into it, there is more to tell. Of course that depends upon whether you’re looking for a remedy that makes use of the stinging nettle in some way, or you’re looking for a cure to the actual sting from the plant!

Well, I can tell you that while the sting from the plant is irritating in the extreme for a short while, it soon dies down of its own accord, although rubbing a dock leaf that you will often find growing nearby into the area of the sting will sooth it. Other remedies for the sting include vinegar (a great all round sting calming liquid), Aloe Vera or am infusion made from the nettle tops themselves!

So on to other uses for this incredible plant.

Burns. The juice extracted from the plant makes a good soothing and healing balm for burns

Cuts. The juice of the stinging nettle is stringent and therefore useful in staunching bleeding in wounds.

Insect Bites. Again the plant juice acts as an antihistamine and helps to nullify bee and wasp stings as well as sings from the plant’s own stingers!

Of course, there is more information which you will find by visiting the older post on stinging nettles in this blog here: Stinging Nettles for the rest of the info!

Ok, at the start of this post, I did say quality and not quantity. Right now I simply do not have time for one of my epic thousand word plus posts, so this smaller one will have to do just so that you know that I’m still here and this blog is still being updated!

See you again sometime (soon I hope!)

Terry Didcott
Alternative Cures

Alternative Diabetic Cures

Posted on March 28, 2009
Category: healing | Leave a Comment

I’m back again here at Alternative Cures with another look into the world of alternative treatments for mainstream health problems that either have some basis in fact proven by modern research or have overwhelming anecdotal evidence to their effectiveness. In this article, I’m going out on a limb in many respects because diabetes is a very mainstream illness that is very treatable by mainstream medicine. That makes it less of a priority to look into natural remedies for diabetes, although there is still some validity in some areas that I will touch upon.

However, the main focus on this article is not so much the cures themselves, rather some preventative measures that can make a huge difference in the susceptibility to the symptoms of diabetes. There’s not much need for me to quote official figures as to the actual numbers of people who suffer from diabetes. Just about everyone has a pretty good idea on this as its in the news so often.

So lets get straight to it. What we know for certain is that diabetes comes in two main forms, type I and type II, the former being the more severe and its sufferers usually need to inject insulin at certain times as prescribed by their doctor. The latter is far more prevalent in society and while less severe, can still bring on a host of related illnesses ranging from eyesight problems to tiredness and lethargy, kidney problems and many others. Essentially, diabetes the body’s inability to regulate its own blood sugar levels effectively in varying degrees of severity. No point in going into the medical side of it either as again, its in the news so often that most people have a pretty good idea of the causes and symptoms. So where am I going with this?

Potential Preventative Measures

Diet is your best form of preventative defense against a blood sugar imbalance severe enough to cause lethargy leading to unconsciousness and coma. You probably hate to hear it, but being careful what you eat and drink can make a huge difference. Its about watching the level of sugars that you take in so as not to overload your bloodstream with too high levels exacerbating your body’s inability to produce sufficient insulin to cope with it.

A big misconception that diabetics are under is that while its not ok to drink fizzy drinks laden with sugar, it is ok to drink the diet versions, or those containing artificial sweeteners. Come on, take your head out of the sand and read up on what those artificial sweeteners are doing to your body! Aspartame, Sorbitol and Saccharin are the big three and they have all been linked to cancer amongst other things. And that’s only where they’ve been researched individually. No one knows yet what the consequences of combining them in any foods or drinks.

Aspartame is a minefield of trouble. Its like playing Russian Roulette with a gun loaded with more than one bullet! Do you want to take that great a chance with your health? Among other things, this artificial sweetener may replace sugar which you know is harmful to diabetics, but it still acts in the same way as with non-diabetics, in that it actually stimulates a feeling of hunger causing you to eat more and gain weight.

What is weight gain to a diabetic?

A cause for extreme concern, that’s what. It can mean the transformation from type II to type I diabetes if not held in check. Keep drinking those artificially sweetened drinks and that’s where you’re heading my friends.

So what’s the alternative?

Why, isn’t it as plain on the nose on your face? Stop drinking canned and bottled drinks, stupid! Why do you need them? You don’t. Why do you want them? Because the TV advertisers make you want them. So you’re a slave to the TV advertisers, right? You can break free from that easily, just as you broke free from taking in too much sugar. Just say NO!

If you must have a fizzy drink (which your body really does not need) try sparkling water. If that’s too plain for you, mix it with some natural fruit juice like freshly squeezed orange, pineapple etc. Your body will thank you for the extra vitamins and no more artificial crap slowly killing you.

Does that sound harsh?

Well it damn well is meant to be, because the sooner people wake up to the fact that their diets is almost completely controlled by the advertisers, the sooner their health will improve. The same goes for processed foods and junk foods that you buy in fast food restaurants. Its all laden with bad stuff that is detrimental to your health and if you suffer with diabetes, its even worse. Hamburgers, fires, pizza, hot dogs etc are all full of artificial crap, often fried in oil that is in itself bad enough to make you break out in acne and the nation practically lives on it.

So the true natural or alternative diabetic cures are no more than common sense, when it all comes down to the lowest common denominator. You are what you eat. And if you eat crap and drink crap, then your body will give you crap in the form of diseases such as diabetes.

End of sermon!

Terry Didcott
Alternative Cures

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