When you get that tense, headachy tiredness after a stressful day, rub a little rosemary oil gently into your temples; it soothes and relaxes. Peppermint oil is good for all muscular tiredness. Lavender oil is gentle and relaxing to painful rheumatic joints; and thyme oil, the most powerful of all, can relieve migraine headaches caused by tension and overstrain.
Many recipes and instructions for simple aids to health and relief in illness have been included in the chapters on each individual herb. In general, don’t attempt to diagnose the illnesses of your family, your neighbours and your friends and prescribe herbs for them until you have either a comprehensive knowledge of natural medicine or a good solicitor or both! Orthodox medicine and the law still frown on unqualified or unskilled practitioners. Any natureopathic physician can help you with diagnostic problems, and then you can with his advice include in your diet the herbs that can be beneficial in your particular case.
No one, of course, can be stopped from dosing himself; and, as you learn about herbs and their uses, you can make herb teas or simple medicinal preparations with the fresh leaves and dried roots from your own garden. Never take more than the suggested quantities. Most herbs have a powerful immediate action within the body, and increased quantities will not mean speedier relief. Nature works slowly to remove not the symptoms of disease but the cause of it. It’s no use trying to stop the sneezing misery of hay fever or chronic asthmatic troubles by treating the mucous membranes of the respiratory system if the cause of the disease is faulty kidney action, or some vitamin or mineral deficiency. It may also take the body a long time to throw off the cumulative effects of drugs built up over a long period. So don’t be impatient at the apparent slowness of natural treatment. Your satisfaction will be the greater in the end if you get rid of the cause and therefore of any symptoms.
My own son, who for several years had chronic hay-fever that did not respond to orthodox medical treatment, lost it completely in three months after natural herbal treatment of the cause. He has never had an attack since.
Of course, you must first want to be healthy. So many people now seem, in that lovely Victorian phrase, to “enjoy ill health”, literally. It becomes an acceptable excuse for dodging life’s problems. If you really want to enjoy good health, it is up to you to do something about it.
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