The Health of Nature

07/13/2022 R.C. Liley Leave a comment

It is becoming increasingly important for people to understand the healing potential of plants that grow in their homeland. The Covid pandemic has even increased the interest in natural remedies and knowing what nature’s kitchen offers us. People are looking for ways to find a more holistic approach to medicine and well-being. With the book in the series about ‘Learning from our Natural Environment (https://amzn.to/3n8CqCh)), we are committed to preserving and sharing traditional and modern knowledge about plant medicines.

The book ‘Herbalist Guide to Native American Remedies’ (https://amzn.to/3HGkmc6) teaches you how to approach holistic natural health and wellbeing using healing herbs. It provides recipes and insight on how to listen to your body to find what it needs for healing and recovering and take care of your whole self – mind, body, and spirit!

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This well-structured book has three parts taking you on a journey to learn about Native American herbalism:

Book 1 introduces herbalism by talking about the ancient origins around the world and the different types of herbalism partied by Native Americans throughout different climate zones and tribal cultures of North America, Canada, and the Arctic Region.
Book 2 describes 40 plants and herbs that will serve us as a solid base for understanding their remedy-making uses. You will learn about where to source your own herbs, recommended dosages, and herbs’ healing actions. (this part of the book can be purchased separately (link: https://amzn.to/3n3ksB9))
Book 3 is about how to set up the apothecary table that matches your needs. This well-researched section will guide you in using remedies for first aid, children, energy and sleep regulation, anxiety, immunity, beauty, sexual and reproductive health, and more. Also, get a list of conditions, herbs, dosages, and age-specific guidelines on properly using them.

This book is organized by ailment and need, for easy reference. Its’ informative, and engaging writing makes it an enjoyable read. With this amazing collection, all-natural remedies are just a page away. You will be led to the discovery of easy ways to use herbs suiting your needs.

If you are a prepper, this book won’t leave you empty-handed, you will find ways to prepare yourself for an emergency and survival. In the same line, if you live in the Great Lakes Region, we just published a regional foraging guide including local healing herbs an plants that can be prepared with the remedy-making guidance of our fist book.

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If the community of this page is interested to get examples of healing herbs prepared for your family’s needs I can provide more blog posts on this. I also share recipes on how to include healing herbs and plants into your everyday diet. This is the easiest way to have a regular, healthy intake after all.

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4 Unusual Causes Of Your Headaches

07/12/2022 R.C. Liley Leave a comment

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Everyone gets headaches occasionally, which are usually not a cause for concern. It is estimated that over 8 million Americans visit their physicians for headache complaints each year. Although headaches are somewhat normal, urgent medical attention may be necessary if you experience intense pain and other unusual signs and symptoms. In addition, frequent and severe headaches could be a telltale sign of an underlying health condition. On the other hand, here are some of the most unusual causes of your headaches.

Relaxation after stress

Stress is one of the most common causes of frequent headaches, so it sounds prudent to relax after being stressed out to avoid any migraines. However, you have likely observed that Saturday mornings usually begin with a pounding headache even though you felt fine from Monday to Friday. This severe weekend headache occurs because your stress hormones plummet as the week’s tension subsides. Although reduced stress hormones in the body benefit overall health, you can suffer severe and frequent headaches as a side effect. Low levels of stress hormones in the body cause a quick release of neurotransmitters that send impulses to your brain’s blood vessels. These impulses cause the blood vessels to constrict and dilate, resulting in headaches. Therefore, avoid sleeping in during weekends since this can bring on headaches. Instead, try relaxing through activities like yoga and walking.

Poor posture

You may know the more popular effects of poor posture, including lower back pain, spine curvature, breathing difficulties, and even joint degeneration. However, bad posture may also be behind your frequent headaches. This is because poor posture creates significant neck, shoulders, and upper back tension. This tension can cause you to experience a headache that might manifest as a throbbing pain in the rear of your skull. Fortunately, you can prevent headaches from this cause by simply correcting your posture. Consequently, avoid standing or sitting in one position for long, and sit up straight at all times to support your lower back.

Bad weather

It is hard to say how many individuals experience weather-related headaches. Still, research indicates that more than 60% of people who suffer migraines think they are sensitive to the weather. Indeed, temperature changes can cause migraines, whether it is a cold snap or a heat wave. Furthermore, changes in atmospheric pressure and even rain can lead to headaches. Many experts believe that the pressure changes that cause weather variations trigger electrical and chemical changes in the brain. These changes irritate nerves and cause headaches. There isn’t much you can do to change the weather, but you can monitor the forecast, stay hydrated, wear sunglasses on bright days, and avoid the midday sun to prevent headaches.

Perfumes

A 2016 study discovered that over a third of Americans experience severe health effects from fragranced products. The three most popular effects were respiratory difficulties, skin irritation, and migraines. Different reasons explain why certain scents cause headaches. For instance, experts believe that strong odors like perfumes, even if they are pleasant, can cause blood vessel swelling and dilation. This swelling and dilation can, in turn, stimulate the nervous system in the brain associated with headaches. It is also possible for people to be simply allergic to chemical elements in perfumes. Luckily, the best way to steer clear of scent-related headaches is to avoid strong perfumes as much as possible.

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How To Keep Your Family Safe On Road Trips

07/08/2022 R.C. Liley Leave a comment

The road trip is a pretty popular form of travel, and it’s quite easy to see why. After all, it’s a great way of getting around, it tends to be quite an affordable way to have a holiday, and it is altogether more eco-friendly than flying somewhere to go on a trip. But there is one major concern that might be playing on your mind if you are thinking of taking a road trip, and that is safety.

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It is, after all, hugely important to make sure that you are keeping your family safe on the road at all times. In this post, we’ll take a look through some of the major ways in which you can hope to do just that.

Plan Out The Route

One of the most important things you can do here is to make sure you are planning out your route beforehand. The more fully you plan it out, the more likely it is that you are going to remain safe and keep your family safe too. Why? Because when you know where you are going and how long you have to drive each day and so on, you can simply relax and focus on the road itself.

Make sure you plan out each day, including where you are going to stop and when you will pull over for lunch and so on. The more fully you plan it out, the better.

Make Sure You Eat

It might sound simple, but you really need to make sure that you are eating regularly when you are out on the road. This helps you to concentrate more effectively, and means you have a faster reaction time, while also helping you to keep your wits about you and manage your emotions. All of that means you are driving better and that you are more likely to avoid collisions and other such incidents, so it’s surprising what a difference it can make to simply ensure you are eating.

Always have plenty of food with you in the car, and make it a rule that you eat as soon as you are hungry. This is the safest approach, and it will help in ensuring that you and your family are much safer while traveling on the roads.

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Think Carefully About Peak Times

If at all possible, you should aim to avoid driving through busy metropolitan areas during peak times, as this is when you are most likely to get into an accident on the roads. It is much better to plan ahead and to think about how you can avoid driving in cities and other major areas at such a time. It’s one of those small planning things that you can do if you want to make sure you are keeping yourself and your whole family perfectly safe while driving.

This might mean some of your journeys are longer, but that’s worth it if it means that you will be safer, and that your kids will be safer as well.

Buy A Safe Car

The car you drive is another hugely important thing you need to think about here. Some cars are just considerably safer than others. If you are looking around for a new car, it’s a good idea to make sure that you compare the available vehicles enough so that you end up with one that you feel as safe as possible in.

How can you know that a car is more likely to be safe? Sometimes it’s down to the brand and the dealership combination – going for a Hoffman Ford is always a good bet, for instance – and there is also something called the reliability index that you can look up for any car you are choosing to buy. As long as you are careful about what car to drive, you should find this really makes a huge difference.

Check The Weather

Certain weathers are obviously a lot more dangerous to drive in than others, so it’s important that you are always keeping one eye on what the weather is likely to do, before you drive anywhere. As long as you have done that, you can at the very least avoid the worst weather, such as hurricanes and storms and so on, where you are always more likely to crash or sustain an injury. This is again one of those very simple things you can do which end up making a significant difference to how your road trips turn out. And you and your family will feel a lot safer for it.

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Sleep Well

If at all possible, avoid driving while tired. The statistics infer that driving tired is more dangerous than driving drunk, so it’s definitely something you should think carefully about. You should do all you possibly can to try and sleep well every night, as this is going to help you to drive a lot more safely. Your reaction times will be quicker and you will avoid many more accidents this way. If there are two of you driving, you always have the option of switching drivers if one of you is too tired, so that’s something to consider too. It is not worth the risk, and it’s important that you appreciate just how dangerous it really can be to drive while tired.

Reduce Distractions

There can always be all sorts of distractions when you are on the road, and your aim should be to keep them to an absolute minimum. The fewer distractions there are, the easier you will find it to drive safely, and you are going to find that this makes everyone feel a lot better in general. If you have your whole family in the car, complete with kids and so on, there are a lot of distractions that can arise, so it’s going to prove important to keep a good control over your kids as well in order to help with this.

If you have done all that, you will find that your family is kept much safer on your road trips.