Athletes foot
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Tea tree oil! I make soap with 1 ounce of tea tree oil per pound of soap (if you don't make your own, just get some of the "melt and pour" glycerin soap base and use it) and hubby never has athlete's foot any more. Since he practically lives in rubber boots and is on his feet 15 hours a day, that's nearly a miracle.
I suspect you could make your own "medicated foot powder" by putting cornstarch in a ziplock bag, adding drops of tea tree oil and kneading and shaking it to disperse, if you prefer using a powder.
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I suspect you could make your own "medicated foot powder" by putting cornstarch in a ziplock bag, adding drops of tea tree oil and kneading and shaking it to disperse, if you prefer using a powder.
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My foot cream is getting great reviews for AF. You can find it on my website.
Vicks vaporub gets rid of toenail fungus. You know it has terpentine in it. That is strong stuff! My grandmother says everyone she knows that has ever had the toenail bad thingy has used the vicks. She says it works no doubt about. I would use the over the counter foot fungus treatment cream for the athletes foot though. Vicks for the toenails though!
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Simple. Take a .25 (1/4th) ounce bottle and fill half with tea tree and half oregano essential oil. Keep the nail cut back as much as possible. Apply 3 drops of this mixture 3 times a day to a dry nail. Then on top of this mixture apply a couple of drops C-Silver. Does the job every time at half the cost of preperations sold in stores.
Internally take capryllic acid with Pau De Arco. Very antifungal combination. It will take about 6 weeks of this protocol to kill the fungus. It is more prolific this time of the year as our feet are kept covered due to the cold. Nice moist warm atmosphere for fungus to grow.
The oil, unlike cream mixtures evaporates and leaves no moisture behind. This is why the essential oil used direct works so well.
Internally take capryllic acid with Pau De Arco. Very antifungal combination. It will take about 6 weeks of this protocol to kill the fungus. It is more prolific this time of the year as our feet are kept covered due to the cold. Nice moist warm atmosphere for fungus to grow.
The oil, unlike cream mixtures evaporates and leaves no moisture behind. This is why the essential oil used direct works so well.
I make a body oil to use on my feet. I use 2 oz. pure jojoba oil with 10 drops of tea tree oil mixed in. I use it for psoriasis as well as a deodorant (I am allergic to most deodorants). I also use it on my feet to prevent any abraisions from getting infected as I am a diabetic. I have never had athletes foot, but I don't see why it wouldn't work for that as well. I get my jojoba oil by the pint from Select oils
http://www.treefrogs.biz/carrieroils/jojobagold.htm
I keep this oil in a small 2 oz. squirt bottle so it is easy to use. I am sure you can find them inexpensively in many places . You can make this as weak or as strong as needed to suite your applications. The jojoba is as close to skin oil as any other oil on the market.
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http://www.treefrogs.biz/carrieroils/jojobagold.htm
I keep this oil in a small 2 oz. squirt bottle so it is easy to use. I am sure you can find them inexpensively in many places . You can make this as weak or as strong as needed to suite your applications. The jojoba is as close to skin oil as any other oil on the market.
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I went through all kinds of things for 2 decades trying to fix the recurring blisters, peeling between toes, etc. Soem creams would fix after a couple of weeks, but only for a couple of more weeks. Spot treating the feet was a losing proposition, and an expensive one.
2 years ago I poured straight cheap white distilled vinegar in a plastic shoebox and soaked my feet for half an hour (at least 20 minutes each time. NOt sure how long was really necessary.) morning and night for a week (actually more like 4 days, and then once a day a couple more times). The feet were clear. Period. For the last 2 years. Well... I have sprayed them with straight vinegar every few weeks, just to be safe.
NO more itching, scaling, blistering, peeling, bleeding... Wow. Just sitting here thinking about the painful and gross stuff that my feet used to do to me. Seems like another life now.
NOw if I can just get rid of the asthma that started up about that time. Hmmm... vinegar fumes scarring lungs?
2 years ago I poured straight cheap white distilled vinegar in a plastic shoebox and soaked my feet for half an hour (at least 20 minutes each time. NOt sure how long was really necessary.) morning and night for a week (actually more like 4 days, and then once a day a couple more times). The feet were clear. Period. For the last 2 years. Well... I have sprayed them with straight vinegar every few weeks, just to be safe.
NO more itching, scaling, blistering, peeling, bleeding... Wow. Just sitting here thinking about the painful and gross stuff that my feet used to do to me. Seems like another life now.
NOw if I can just get rid of the asthma that started up about that time. Hmmm... vinegar fumes scarring lungs?
Soak athletes feet in hydrogene peroxide.
The extra oxygene molecue in peroxide kills fungus and infection.
As for asthma. You should be eating local honey aabout a few spoonfuls every day. Because the bees processed all the pollens of the area, the honey acts as a medicine to protect you from the local environment. As you eat honey, you are eating antibodies.
When you buy honey, make sure its not from Californina or Argentina if you live in Maine or Oklahoma. Make sure it is from your hometown.
I started feeding honey, as per instructed by my 86 year old Washington State neighbor to my newborns beginning in 1977. Was babies first food after breast milk and formula. And we still use it like medicine first sign of lung or sinus illness. Honey has as a tendency to DRY OUT the drip or cough.
We, as a family, have never experienced lung, sinus, or allergy problems..........(except my son, who has had sever pnumonia problems since joining the military and receiving numerous vacinations)
The extra oxygene molecue in peroxide kills fungus and infection.
As for asthma. You should be eating local honey aabout a few spoonfuls every day. Because the bees processed all the pollens of the area, the honey acts as a medicine to protect you from the local environment. As you eat honey, you are eating antibodies.
When you buy honey, make sure its not from Californina or Argentina if you live in Maine or Oklahoma. Make sure it is from your hometown.
I started feeding honey, as per instructed by my 86 year old Washington State neighbor to my newborns beginning in 1977. Was babies first food after breast milk and formula. And we still use it like medicine first sign of lung or sinus illness. Honey has as a tendency to DRY OUT the drip or cough.
We, as a family, have never experienced lung, sinus, or allergy problems..........(except my son, who has had sever pnumonia problems since joining the military and receiving numerous vacinations)
The honey idea is a good one, but you need to be careful with giving it to infants. Along with the pollen, raw honey will have live bacteria, viruses, bacilli, etc. in rather small quantities.
Raw honey has been the source (or at least the official source) of several babies illness, some to death. Unfortunately once honey is heated enough to kill everything, some or most of the pollen is denatured enough to make it useless for desensitizing. I think the medical profession suggests not giving raw honey to anyone under 2.
Of course, the paranoid conspiracist among us might suggest that this is yet another way the allopathic community keeps us as repeat customers...
Raw honey has been the source (or at least the official source) of several babies illness, some to death. Unfortunately once honey is heated enough to kill everything, some or most of the pollen is denatured enough to make it useless for desensitizing. I think the medical profession suggests not giving raw honey to anyone under 2.
Of course, the paranoid conspiracist among us might suggest that this is yet another way the allopathic community keeps us as repeat customers...