Home Remedies Journal

Best Self-Healing Ever  All these years I've been taking pills and trying all sorts of weird-tasting herbal remedies, but my migraines still haunted me daily. I don't know what exactly causes my migraines. Even my doctor told me it could be a multitude of factors: diet, sleeping habits, fitness, and the most dreaded one of all - stress. When doctors can't pinpoint what is wrong with you, they push the blame to stress. It's vague enough to stop you from doing all the things that stress you out. Which is basically everything in life. So I began asking all my friends and family to see if anyone else had a problem with frequent migraines. And it turned out that my cousin Lily, whom I haven't seen in ages, used to have them! But I didn't know, because she always skipped out on family gatherings due to her feeling under the weather. I guess now I know exactly how she felt. Lily told me she used to get such jarring headaches that she would have to stop...

The first thing I noticed was my nails changing color and becoming brittle. I thought a good scrubbing and changing socks and shoes would do the trick… And for a time it seemed to, at least slow the infection. But this did not pay off… I am a tax consultant by the way and as work piled up I had less and less time to properly take care of it… Sometimes, I didn’t leave the office for 2-3 days and soon I could see the infection spreading! So… I finally took the next logical step, and went to a podiatrist. After a brief examination he recommended LAMISIL as the best oral medication to treat the mold, yeast, or fungal portion of the infection… And again, for a while it seemed the infection was receding, but then the side effects of the treatment really started kicking in: At first there was the fever and sudden chills and then joint pains and then I felt the sores in my mouth and throat. I started losing weight and patches of my skin were turning purple. The final straw was upper sto...

Subject: This embarrassing disease can actually kill you: toenail fungus   Toenail fungus. A gruesome disease that plagues over 30 million Americans is much more than a simple aesthetic embarrassment. It’s a highly contagious disease that doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t matter if you’re a man, woman, young or old, in tip-top shape or overweight, everyone can get this nasty infection. With that being said, there are some groups of people that have a high chance of being afflicted by this microscopic parasite. Elderly folks, people suffering from diabetes and people that excessively sweat are the most exposed to this dangerous fungus. Also there are those that have a genetic predisposition for getting this illness and if you’re mostly wearing closed shoes rather than flip-flops or sandals, you’re creating the perfect environment for the fungus to develop Now, while in and of itself this illness isn’t live threatening, its presence can be. Research into this seemi...