• Gently scrub acne with a mixture of chickweed herb and water to reduce inflammation.
  
• Apply garlic oil and cayenne extract, or a redmond clay poultice to draw out toxins and to heal the acne.
  Avoid eating chocolate, fried food, and refined sugar.
• Take B-complex and zinc supplements daily to strengthen the skin's resistance to acne.
• The herbs cayenne, garlic, ginseng, burdock, and sarsparilla taken orally can help rid the skin of blemishes.
• Avoid overwashing the skin, this dries out the skin and irritates it.
  
  

• Rub the affected area with white vinegar.
  Apply brewer's yeast and honey twice daily.
• Dust feet with cornstarch before putting on shoes or socks.
• Avoid plastic or vinyl shoes.
  
  

• Apply one of the following to bites or stings to reduce pain and swelling: aloe vera gel, garlic oil, baking soda and water,vinegar, honey, plaintain tea, or safflower oil.
  
• Use lemon juice and corn starch or lobelia extract and myrrh to relieve persistant pain and itch.
  
• Pennyroyal tea mixed with a drop of eucalyptus oil can be applied to the skin as an insect repellant.
• Dried tomato leaves can keep bugs out of your house when hung by windows.
• Taking garlic supplements, or eating garlic will lessen your chances of bug bites (and vampire bites).
  

• High blood pressure results in part from a sodium-potassium imbalance caused by too much salt consumption. Bananas and whole wheat bread are rich in potassium to balance sodium levels.
  
• Stay away from salt, sugar, dairy products, processed food, and meats.
• Take valerian root to relax.
• Take dolomite in water.
• Exercise daily.
• Cayenne, garlic, and the herb passion flower regulate both high and low blood pressure.
• Ginseng, hyssop, and hawthorn, taken together, regulate high and low blood pressure.
• The herb barberry dilates the blood vessels and helps to bring high blood pressure down.
• vitamin E and zinc, taken daily, will help reduce high blood pressure.

  
  

• Rub the throat with eucalyptus oil, lobelia extract, garlic oil, or a natural vapor rub. This will help expel mucus, relax the body, and reduce inflammation of the throat.
  
• Gargle with a strong tea made from sage leaves and elder blossoms. Add a drop of almond oil, oil of clove and some honey. This soothes the throat and lessens the severity of the cough.
• Inhale the steam from a strong coltsfoot tea. Drink the tea with honey and lemon to further soothe the throat.
• The herbs garlic, lobelia, comfrey and licorice work well together to combat coughing.
• A strong tea of red raspberry, honey suckle, or licorice with honey also soothes the throat. Make a cough syrup out of the juice of a baked onion, strong comfrey tea, and honey. Take as needed.
  
  

• Take extra potassium, and vitamins E, C, and B-complex to help keep the blood sugar at a healthy level. The herbs licorice, juniper, goldenseal, ura ursi, buchu, and cayenne may be taken in capsules to help heal diabetes.
  
• Take garlic pills to keep blood sugar levels down.
  

• Rub lobelia extract on sore muscles. Lobelia is a strong muscle relaxant.
  
• Prepare a strong comfrey tea and drink to reduce a swollen back.
  
• Take the herbs lobelia or valerian root with cayenne to relax the muscles, to help you rest, to relieve the pain, and to heal the injured area.

• Brush the teeth well and floss regularly.
  
• Cleanse the colon. Bad breath is often caused by toxins stored in the large intestine.
  
• To cover odor, eat parsley, drink peppermint tea, chew cloves, take chlorophyll, or gargle with barberry tea.
  
• Take acidophilus or chew uemboshi plums to improve intestinal flora.
  
• To insure proper digestion, chew food well, and drink water in between meals.
  
• Calcium, B-complex and C vitamins and the herb myrrh can prevent bad breath when taken daily.
  
  

• Always wear a moisturizing sunscreen when the skin is exposed to the sun.
  
• Avoid using baby oil or lotions that contain lanolin because they encourage as well as intensify burns.
  
• Apply aloe vera gel to the skin before and after sun exposure.
  
• Use a lotion that contains PABA to deepen a tan without excessive sun exposure.
  
• Apply chilled apple cider vinegar, aloe vera gel, or plantain frequently to a burn to nourish it.
  
• Try one of the following for a sunburnt face: Apply a mixture of milk and whole wheat flour to the face. Leave until dry and remove with warm water.
• Rub olive oil onto a burnt face. Apply a paste of barley flour, honey, and raw egg white. Leave on for thirty minutes and then rinse with warm water.
  

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