I do try to avoid chemicals both in my personal life and the garden although due to the old hart having a few misfires over the last couple of years I do have to take a two pills to say alive apparently.
You mention echinacea I do enjoy taking the seeds from the flower head and giving them to an unsuspecting friend and watch as their gums starts to numb
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I bet you're a really popular guy @Hampshire Hog I have consistently failed to get echinacea to grow in my garden so I have to find an alternative source. But I do have comfrey, calendula, lovage, borage, arnica ............ most of the things I use regularly anyway.
Sorry to hear about the heart trouble, that's when chemicals are useful.
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Often use dock leaves (mixed with spit - sorry!) for nettle stings ... seems to work. I make lavender pillows with my lavender cuttings, which are soothing at nightime. 'Hidcote' makes the gentlest aroma; many others gave a background onion smell. Tried infusing lemon sage as an inhalent for my sinuses - this did NOT work - just left a weird woody smell for hours! I'm currently looking for a plant-based antiinflammatory if anyone knows of anything. I have spinal arthritis and I'm fed up of constantly having to take prescription tablets. 😕
I think it did well in trials by the Arthritis Society and she really rates it I work in a pharmacy and so many anti inflammatory drugs are very hard on the stomach.
I used apple cider vinegar for verrucas........bathe feet every evening, gross bit........pick out as much of the growth as you can, after it's been softened. Use cotton bud soaked in acv and rub around centre and then the outside of wart/verruca, try to really get between growth and new skin, may sting a little. I no longer have a verruca.
An Irish friend of mine made me buy her wart for 50 p in the 80s. Worked for her.
Lots of us on here take turmeric supplements for arthritic bits. Works a treat. Joyce21 started it on the advice of her medical daughter and then passed on the info. My GP approves.
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You mention echinacea I do enjoy taking the seeds from the flower head and giving them to an unsuspecting friend and watch as their gums starts to numb
Salicylic acid works on warts.
Sorry to hear about the heart trouble, that's when chemicals are useful.
I make lavender pillows with my lavender cuttings, which are soothing at nightime. 'Hidcote' makes the gentlest aroma; many others gave a background onion smell.
Tried infusing lemon sage as an inhalent for my sinuses - this did NOT work - just left a weird woody smell for hours!
I'm currently looking for a plant-based antiinflammatory if anyone knows of anything. I have spinal arthritis and I'm fed up of constantly having to take prescription tablets. 😕
Mint oil for IBS and nausea
Lots of us on here take turmeric supplements for arthritic bits. Works a treat. Joyce21 started it on the advice of her medical daughter and then passed on the info. My GP approves.