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All natural secrets to a healthy fall | Moms – NRToday.com

Michelle Hamlin

Age: 30-something

Family: Husband, Aaron and four wonderful daughters

Occupation: Domestic Engineer

About: Michelle is a homeschooling, songwriting, God-fearing lady. Aside from business planning, laughing and spraying poison oak with her husband, she dedicates much of her time homeschooling her four girls (and sometimes herself). Because life doesn’t have a rash-wound-or-sting-free clause, she has developed a passion for natural remedies, tea drinking and salve making.

Crafts, music and fascinating random facts are crammed in there somewhere. As an almost natural by-product and with a strong liking for words fitly spoken, Michelle has been writing with honesty on her Christian life as a woman, wife and mom on her blog, Remnants for Riches. You can find much of her natural remedies there too.

Fall is upon us and with cooler temperatures mixed with the crowds of children starting a fresh year – things that are inevitable will surely creep in.

Today I have some aid for these mere mortal bodies of ours in the small things, such as cold sores, chapped faces/lips, concentration and sore throats. These things can help us all.

Cold sores: This is a tough outbreak to deal with but there is a mineral that can help prevent. Lysine is a mineral that we can easily become deficient in. You can find it in buckwheat flour, milk, yogurt, cheese, cod, salmon, oats, and chicken (and more). You can now buy lip balm with this added in or lysine capsules to take when you think you are susceptible.

Topical options also include: Lavender, Tea Tree or Eucalyptus oils. If I were treating one, I would add about 5-8 drops of an essential oil with a dab of coconut oil (like 1/2 tsp.) and mix it in a glass dish. Then apply throughout the days. I would also make sure to increase Lysine in whatever fashion I was most comfortable. These oils are antibacterial, anti-fungal and antiviral. Keeping your vitamin C intake on the high side is always a benefit too!

Also consider sterilizing your lip balm tubes or throwing out old lipsticks that could have the virus. As for children, keep those favorite cups clean and sterilize toothbrushes with peroxide. It’s contagious and if you have had them before you can be susceptible based upon hormones, stress, fatigue, immune health and other factors.

Chapped Faces/Lips: This seems harmless but it can easily become a real bother. One of my daughters always deals with bright red cheeks and bright red lips during colder seasons and it is a pain. Then she licks her lips – NOOOOO!!! The cycle continues.

Simply providing a good moisturizer will really help. Make sure water is drank aplenty too. And if you can, rub in your Vaseline, Shea Butter, salve or what have you on before heading out to the football game or early morning walk – if at all possible. Just a little could help a lot. And if someone has nasal allergies or congestion this will intensify because you are breathing through your mouth more than normal. Preventative care is best.

*Also watch for soaps and toothpastes that contain sodium lauryl sulfate, as this can be a possible irritant to certain skin types.

Concentration: I wrote an article on this months ago about sleep and certain deficiencies that can interrupt a person/child’s concentration. If you are curious or concerned take a minute to read it. But mainly, I would make sure there is enough magnesium in the diet, as this contributes a great deal to brain function.

Lately I have really started to appreciate the “breaks” too. Get up and circulate your blood to your brain. Let your arms and legs shake – do the hokey pokey if appropriate. Have your kids get up and do 10 jumping jacks then sing a fun song and sit back down. I’m sure at work you could come up with your own perfect “brain break” too!

Sore Throats: This is really a monster to write about but I thought just a few basic ahead-of-time things could be most helpful. First, raw honey is a wonderful resource. It has over 75 different compounds in it and is a natural antibiotic. (Not for children under 2 years). So is garlic but I get it – I don’t want garlic breath either. Capsules maybe?

You can make my “Lemon Tea” recipe, or my wonderful “Healthy Hot Cocoa”. Both are on my personal blog with further recipe instructions (see below). Now that sounds fancy – I’m not fancy, I’m simple. I just like to be educated in these matters. So don’t feel like you can’t do these things.

When I give a class on cough syrups or salve making I always say “If you can make mac and cheese, you can do this.” It’s true and more about what is proven and safe and what ingredients to use. That is what I’m here for, your amateur guide to simple remedies (to the best of my non-PHD ability). J

What a wonderful time of year, these hopefully will keep it wonderful. Blessings.

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