Posted in Tightwad Tuesdays
Good Tuesday to you all, and welcome to Tightwad Tuesday with Canadagirl! If you have a tightwaddy tip to share, please do join us by visiting our lovely hostess Mary for more information.
Today my tip has to do with the high cost of medical care and medication. This is something that my mind has been turning over for several years now, and I am more convinced than ever that most people go to their doctors because it's expected of them. Fear also plays a major role: fear that we will do something wrong. Fears that have been instilled in us by both the medical establishment and this new governmental society. (Did you really think this would be a dormant subject for me after my mini-rant? LOL) We have been stripped of basic free will and the ability to act outside the box, but we all think this is normal. Normal to haul your healthy child to a doctor's office where ill people gather for the sake of the doctor proclaiming them healthy?? What sort of insanity is that? Not once did I take my children to their "well-child doctor visits" (an oxymoron if I ever did hear one) without them becoming ill within days of their appointments. Needless to say, several years ago I finally just stopped dancing with the governmental mindset and kept my babies home. Aside from two ER visits by Jigger and one by Piper (boys - what do you expect?), we have been doctorless for years now. It drives my medically-trained family members batty, but then, they don't really need a reason to look at me weirdly, do they? After all, I homeschool my children. *grin*
Anyway, in my bid to become better versed at taking care of my family (something mothers have always done for their families until recently), I have been studying homeopathic medicine. I am still a rank amateur, but have high hopes of becoming more well-versed as time goes on. In fact, it's one of my 'things to do' this year. Ü
Two weeks ago, as we were getting ready to go up north, my loving husband suddenly came down with a nasty little cold. You know the one - maybe it's already visited your home, or is just making its presence known. Either way, it never avoids any home for long at this time of year. Since we wanted him to be healthy for our weekend, I dug out my DK Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine and went straight to the cold remedies. The boys and I ran to our nearest health food store, and when hubby came home he was pampered back to good health. I have to say that I have never seen anything work this well this quickly. We were both shocked, and he was sold on homeopathy. You see, earlier in the day he had stopped to pick up some over-the-counter cold medicine, which wound up not packing half the punch that our homeopathic remedy did. I highly encourage everyone to try this at least once. The ingredients are all natural, so what do you have to lose?
Homeopathic Cold Remedy
ingredients:
garlic
ginger root
lemon
honey
directions:
Peel and crush a medium-sized garlic clove. Grate/mince a similarly sized piece of fresh ginger, and place both garlic and ginger in a tea ball. Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into a mug, and then add the tea ball, hot water, and a teaspoon of honey. Drink up to 3 cups a day while symptoms last.
In addition to this, I also used an essential oil burner to keep Eucalyptus Oil wafting through the air right next to my poor hubby (he looked truly pathetic that evening). He drank two cups that evening while inhaling the oil, and by morning he declared he felt almost completely better. He's a man, therefore he did NOT follow through with another mug in the morning before work and one more after work/before bed, but he is convinced that had he done that, he would have erased all symptoms of his cold. I smelled this concoction, and his assesment verified my conclusion: this 'tea' tastes like a sweet and spicy lemon tea with the strangest hint of garlic. All in all, quite palatable and much better than chemicals racing through our systems.
I hope this has sparked an interest for some of you, or at least got some questions rolling. I will be posting a little more on this topic soon, as I am currently reading a book that I think may be indispensable to the home healer.
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