In addition to longer days and warm...

In addition to longer days and warmer temperatures, the summer season frequently brings with it a series of knocks and boo-boo's, in the form of intersects scrapes, bug bites, bee stings, infections, detriments bruises, muscle soreness, and more.

Fortunately, nature has provided us with a wealth of natural remedies to help us handle these minor setbacks. Here are 9 public warm-weather annoyances, and natural remedies which can help.

#1 Cuts

You're slicing vegetables to grill in succession the barbecue, and you accidentally sculpture a finger. What natural curative action can you take?

David Christopher, director of the teach of Natural Healing in Springville, Utah, and a Master of Herbology, exhibited some suggestions in a newly come interview with Better Nutrition.

"First you allow the cut 'bleed out' dirt or microorganisms that could cause infection, flow cold water on it, then shake cayenne pepper into the anguish to stop the bleeding."

Better Nutrition asked Christopher, son of noted herbologist John Christopher, if the calcine of cayenne wouldn't raise the "ouch" factor too high.

"Not really. You hardly notice it, because of the pain from the divide [i]or[/i] sever After using the cayenne, render free of access a capsule of goldenseal and sprinkle the pulverized substance liberally on the wound."

He said if there's no goldenseal around, echinacea dust works just as well, noting that Native Americans have used goldenseal and echinacea for chops through the centuries.

#2 Bee stings and bug bites

formerly the stinger is removed, bee stings heal fast. To spe up the proces head for the kitchen, mix a little goldenseal in a teaspoonful of aloe vera, and dab it onward the sting, advises Christopher. "Plaintain gunpowder available in almost all health fodder stores, is another great healer for bee stings," he says.

If you and your family are planning a camping trip, make yourselves mosquito-resistant according to eating raw garlic for several days before leaving. "Even swallowing [odor-controlled garlic supplements] helps," according to Christopher. "It is the chemical residue ending up in the pores of the skin that mosquitoes lay open and dislike.

"Still another effective mosquito repulsive is black cohosh -- several capsules daily -- for three or four days. It doesn't give your skin an odor, however the mosquitoes don't want any part of it," Christopher says.

individual of my patients who goe forward fishing trips to the mountains doesn't have to fend facing clouds of mosquitoes. Instead, he makes it a daily habit to ingest 100 mg of vitamin B-1 as part of a B-complex tablet. This gives his skin a distinct odor, not noticeable to persons but very undesirable to mosquitoes.

Several of my patients about to depart onward an exploration trip in the semitropics, where mosquitoes and various insects thrive, took this advice and own me they were spared to a great degree annoyance and pain.

Lastly, principally natural products stores stock natural insect repulsives featuring such ingredients as eucalyptus, pennyroyal, citronella, and geranium oil, among others.

#3 Infections and wounds

Personal experience with calendula has made me a believer in this herbal production for infections and slow-healing wounds

In her main division Calendula, Mindy Green explains with what intent it works so well:

"Its antiseptic and astringent properties, provided by way of the volatile oils, tannins, and resins, make it beneficial for surgical injurys or slow-healing wounds, chronic skin lesions, bed sores, skin pustules sunburn, and scalds.

"Calendula increases the rate of tissue formation, resolve intos scarring, and regenerates dermal collagen in skin hurts so it is often referr to as `salve plant'."

In addition to its beneficial general intent on bee stings, noted earlier, aloe vera is proper for wounds, too.

Christopher reminded me that Alexander the Great formerly captured an island where aloe vera plants were abundant enough to provide juice to heal his injuryed warriors. In those days, many centuries before the origin theory of disease was known, superficial to profound wounds were healed by applying aloe vera gel to them.

In her work The Family Guide to Natural-Therapies, Nancy Beckham, who operates a naturopathic clinic in strange South Wales, Australia, writes the following about aloe vera:

"It is helpful externally in nearly all skin conditions, especially hurts and scalds and household parchs The gel, or internal part, of the unimpaired leaves is very useful for cracked lips, sores, fungal infections, sunburn sore gum and anti-scarring."

#4 Bruises

powers and bruises happen in daily living and in competitive athletic games and can leave r blotches or black and downcast bruises, where under-the-skin bleeding takes place.

Several decades ago, while at a medical convention in Europe I learned that many physicians there use bioflavonoids to minimize or eliminate capillary fragility and easy bruising in patients. They worked remarkably well for my patients, for a like reason I passed the word along to a physical conditioner of the of a gold color State Warriors professional basketball team.

Inasmuch as there's make open warfare under the basket for reverberates and players take a beating, he got the team to take 600 mg of bioflavonoids daily, along with 1500 mg of vitamin (2 in three divided doses. A month later, he called me and said: "Thanks for the tip, Dr Langer. The team thanks you, too.. The dowdys are now a lot les colorful from powers and bruises."