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HERBAL FIRST AID KIT RECOMMENDATIONS
It is important that every household have a first aid kit available for emergency situations, not only a conventional first aid kit that contains bandages and other medical supplies, but also a herbal first aid kit containing natural products to quickly treat common ailments, speed healing and prevent infections.
The kit contains frequently used herbs for treating the symptoms of colds and flu, bumps and bruises and skin irritations. Many remedies can be made at home, imparting Nature's special healing qualities.
BASIC HERBAL FIRST AID KIT COMPONENTS
Echinacea Glycerite: Echinacea is given during any illness to provide immune system support. This herb helps to fight infection and reduce complications.
Herbal Remedies: Echinacea Goldenseal Tincture, Alcohol Free, Nature's Way, 1 fl. oz.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Echinacea Glycerite Tincture
Mullein Garlic Ear Oil: This oil blend is used whenever an ear infection is suspected for pain relief and to reduce complications. Do not use if the ear drum is perforated.
Herbal Remedies: Ear Oil Relief, NOW Foods, 1 fl. oz.
Herbal Remedies: Ear Clear Oil, 2 fl. oz.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Mullein Garlic Ear Oil Compound, 1 oz.
Herbal Remedies: Mullein Oil, 2 fl. oz.
Herbal Remedies: Garlic Oil Tincture, Alcohol Free, Nature's Way, 1 fl. oz.
Arnica Montana Homeopathic - 6X to 30C: This homeopathic remedy helps to reduce bruising and muscle soreness.
Herbal Remedies: Arnica Supplements & Products
Camomilia Homeopathic - 6X: This homeopathic remedy that helps with teething, irritability and sleeplessness.
Herbal Remedies: Boiron Camilia Homeopathic Teething Relief, 20 doses
Usnea Tincture: Usnea tincture (Usnea barbata) has antibiotic properties useful for colds, flu, bronchitis, urinary tract infections, sore throat and some fungal infections.
Herbal Remedies: Usnea Tincture, Herbal Remedies USA, 100% Organic, 2 fl. oz.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Usnea Extract Tincture, Wild Harvested, 1 oz or 4 oz
Eucalyptus Essential Oil: Helps to clear congestion.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Tea Tree Essential Oil: Tea Tree Oil is an all-purpose essential oil used topically to fight bacterial and fungal infections.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Tea Tree Essential Oil
Herbal Salve: A herbal healing salve helps abrasions and skin irritations to heal.
Herbal Remedies: Vital Yew (Pacific Yew) Salve, 1 oz.
Yew provides the highest quality, whole Yew plant for the first time ever for home use. Uses: Promotes healing of wounds, rashes, burns, bug bites, and problem skin. For external use only.
Herbal Remedies: Unkers Medicated Salve, 7 oz.
Unker's Medicated Salve has been providing healing and relief for over 60 years. It works great for arthritis, sore muscles and joints, cuts, burns, bruises, throat congestion, sinus problems, psoriasis, and much more.
Herbal Remedies: Comfrey Leaf Ointment, Nature's Way, 2 oz.
Comfrey Leaf Ointment is a 100% Natural, mild scented, herbal ointment used for healing.
Herbal Remedies: Black Ointment, All Natural, Nature's Way, 2 oz.
Nature's Way Black Ointment is a time tested herbal formula made with herbs traditionally used to dry and draw external wounds. This is an excellent herbal wound care product.
Herbal Remedies: Black Salve Ointment, 2 oz.
Black Salve has a strong drawing power to promote healing. It has been used on such skin ailments as boils, abscesses, splinters, carbuncles, felons, skin infections, skin cancer, cysts and tumors.
Herbal Remedies: Bone, Flesh & Cartilage Formula Ointment, Nature's Way, 2 oz.
Bone Flesh and Cartilage, from Nature's Way, is a time-tested herbal healing formula used by tens of thousands. This synergistic combination of herbs is used traditionally to support and speed the recovery of Bone, Flesh and Cartilage.
Herbal Remedies: Olbas Analgesic Salve, Natural Menthol, Swiss Made, 1 oz. Tube
This Menthol Olbas Analgesic Salve delivers a combination of deep, penetrating relief of aches and pains in muscles and joints, and is particularly effective to soothe backaches and the inflammation and discomforts from arthritis, strains, bruises and sprains.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Herbal Salves & Balms
HERBAL FIRST AID KIT RECIPES
These are the remedies you will reach for most often. All of these items are available in health food stores and online through various herb and dietary supplement retailers (see links further down on this page). Here are some recipes you can make yourself. Making herbal remedies yourself can be fun and economical, saving your family lots of money and assures you the highest quality product with the healing ingredients that you are familiar with and without chemical preservatives or other unwanted ingredients often found in commercial products.
MULLEIN GARLIC EAR OIL
1/4 cup Mullein Flowers
3 cloves Garlic
Olive Oil
Chop the garlic into small pieces. Place the garlic and mullein flowers in a small glass jar with a lid. Cover the mullein flowers with olive oil and allow to set in the sun for several days, or heat over low heat for 4 hours. If you are using fresh mullein flowers, cover your jar with cheesecloth rather than a lid to allow moisture to escape. Strain the oil through cheesecloth and store your oil in a small dropper bottle in the refrigerator.
To use warm the oil to body temperature by placing the bottle of oil in a glass of hot water for a few minutes. Insert 2-3 drops in the affected ear 2-3 times per day. If there is fluid oozing from the ear or any chance that the ear drum is perforated do not use the ear oil.
HEALING HERBAL SALVE
1 part St. John's Wort
1 part Calendula
1 part Comfrey leaf
1 part Plantain
Olive Oil
Beeswax
Vitamin E Oil
Great all purpose salve. Use for insect bites, itching, wounds, burns and on fungal infections. Note: If 1 part equals 1/3 cup then you will need 12 to 14 ounces of oil and about 1 ounce of beeswax.
To begin your salve, measure the desired amount of herbs into an enamel or stainless steel pan, or into a crock pot. Cover the herbs with oil. Use enough oil to cover the herbs plus another inch of oil above the level of herbs. Heat the herbs and oil over a low heat for several hours (about 3 hours). If you are using roots you should heat the oil longer (about 5 hours). A crock pot is highly recommended for heating your oil because it operates at a controlled low temperature which is less likely to be a fire hazard. If you do not use a crock pot then use a double boiler.
After heating, cool your oil for awhile. Set up a strainer lined with cheesecloth then pour the oil through to strain. When most of the oil has filtered through the cheesecloth, pick up the cheesecloth, keeping the herbs enclosed, and squeeze as much oil as possible from the herbs and cloth.
Add beeswax to the oil and heat it until all the wax is melted. To test to see if your salve is hard enough, put some on a spoon and set it in a cool place for a few minutes. If your salve is too soft, add more beeswax.
If you are using essential oils or Vitamin E you can blend them in now. Finally, pour your salve into containers and label.
For more information about making salves and ointments and healing salve recipes:
MoonDragon's Health Therapy: Herbal Ointments Index
USNEA TINCTURE
1 ounce Usnea Barbata
1 cup 100 proof vodka
To make an alcohol tincture you will need the herb, 100 proof grain alcohol (ethyl alcohol) and a labeled glass jar. Do not use isopropyl rubbing alcohol which is very toxic when ingested!
Place the chopped herbs in a glass jar and cover with alcohol plus another inch of alcohol above the level of the herbs. Shake the mixture well to bring the alcohol into to contact with all surfaces of the herb. Label the jar with the contents and the date. Shake your tincture everyday throughout the next six weeks. Strain and use as needed.
Usnea is best extracted in alcohol as some constituents are not soluble in glycerin. If you do not wish to consume alcohol it is possible to put the required dosage into a cup with an few ounces of boiling water. The heat will cause the alcohol to evaporate leaving the therapeutic qualities of the herb in the water.
ECHINACEA GLYCERITE
2 ounces Echinacea Purpurea Root
4 ounces pure Vegetable Glycerine (Glycerin)
2 ounces Distilled Water
Follow the same basic instructions for making the alcohol tincture substituting glycerin for alcohol. To make a glycerin tincture you can cover your herbs with 3/4 part glycerin with 1/4 part water.
Glycerin is very sweet and will dissolve mucilage, vitamins and minerals. It will not dissolve the resinous or oily properties of herbs very well. Because glycerin is sweet it is an excellent choice for children's remedies. Make glycerin tinctures in small amounts because it will not last as long as an alcohol tincture, about 1 to 3 years. Be sure to use 100% vegetable glycerin.
For more information about making tinctures and herbal extracts and tincture recipes:
CALCULATING DOSAGES FOR CHILDREN
Dosages for children are not provided in most herbals. To determine the correct dose you need to consider the size of the child, the ailment, the power of the herb you intend to use, and the adult dosage.
A basic rule (called Clark's Rule) for determining dosages divides the weight of the child by 150 to give the approximate fraction of the adult dose. Dosage for a 40 lb. child: 40/150 =0.26 or approximately 1/4 the adult dose.
Another dosage recommendation used is by a child's age (as long as your child is within normal growth patterns for his or her age:Recommended doses for most remedies are for adults over the age of 18.
For a child between 12 and 17 years, reduce the dose to 3/4 the recommended dose.
For a child between 6 and 12 years old, use 1/2 the recommended dose.
And for a child under 6, use 1/4 the recommended dose.
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Useful, convenient, cleansing, and invigorating, cosmetic clays are one of the most widely applied skin applications, always promising us remarkable results. These exceptional quality clays have a multitude of purposes and each one carries substantial quantities of minerals for general skin health. All of their clays have been pre-screened and analyzed to guarantee consistency with an unsurpassable mineral content. All 1 pound clays come in an attractive and recyclable stand up foil pouch with a zipper top to prolong freshness. Or you may buy in bulk 5, 50 and 55 pound bags. Each and every clay product they offer is manufactured and processed naturally through sun dried methods and they have not been altered or remanufactured in any other way.
HerbalRemedies: Burt's Bees Pure Refining Green French Clay Mask, 100% Natural, 1 oz.
Their carefully crafted selection of eight dried herbs and flowers stimulates circulation leaving your complexion cleansed, renewed and radiant.
HerbalRemedies: European Montmorillonite Clay Powder (French Green Clay), NOW Foods, 6 oz
French Green clay is an excellent cleansing facial clay. French green clay is exceptionally pure and readily mixes with water and is highly absorbent.
Mountain Rose Herbs: Aromatherapy Essential Oils
The essential oils offered by Mountain Rose Herbs are 100% pure steam distilled plant oils with an unsurpassable fragrance, exceptional depth, magnificent keynote, and are free of carriers, diluents and other inputs. Here you will find some of the worlds most magnificent oils from reputable distillers and suppliers we know, trust, and have a wonderful working relationship with. Mountain Rose Herbs essential oils are processed from freshly harvested material within clean distilleries, thus promising you some of the most magnificent oils available on the market.
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Mountain Rose Herbs: Hydrosols & Flower Waters
Flower waters also known as hydrosols, hydroflorates or distillates are products from the direct steam distillation of whole plant materials. Unlike their "essential oil added to water" counterparts, true steam distilled hydrosols contain all the beneficial components that whole plant materials have to offer, and are more true to their scent. They are wonderful and inexpensive as a facial splash, as a deodorant, an air freshener, in the spa, for skin application, during massage, as a base in your body care recipes, and most may be used in culinary creations. They are moisturizing, fragrant, cooling and contain similar properties as essential oils but in much less concentration, which makes them a lovely alternative to those with sensitivities. Mountain Rose have now expanded their entire line of hydrosols, which have all been distilled in improved stainless steel cookers and processed through certified organic methods. They are excited to offer you these exceptional quality flower waters which are quality control supervised from cultivation to distillation by Mountain Rose Herbs. Each of their 4 oz hydrosols is packaged in an amber bottle with a black mister. The bulk 8 oz, 16 oz ounce and 1 gallon waters are packaged in HDPE plastic bottles.
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