It's Allergy Season...Here's A Few Ways To Avoid The Crud!

Golden Rod in BloomIt's almost that time of year! For some of you, it already IS that time of year. What's making us sneeze and itch?

It's not the Golden Rod that's buggin', it has almost NO pollen! Your likely allergic to Ragweed which blooms at the same time and has alot of pollen. Golden Rod is not the enemy (I used to think I was allergic to it myself).  Interestingly enough, you might be able to use a tincture of this herbal extract to combat allergies. 

Golden Rod has properties that make it useful in cases of upper respiratory congestion or as they say in the herbal books, catarrh (pronounced ka-tar). It can be used in the same way for colds and flu's with those associated symptoms. It's astringency has been used for urinary tract infections, cystitis, urethritis & other inflammations of the renal system.

Maybe golden rod isn't so bad after all! Find out more from Susan Weed on the subject of Golden Rod. She's one of my favorite Modern Hippie Herbal ladies:)       I say it with much love:)

Greater Ragweed in it's beginning stages. Look for this uniquely shaped leaf to identify. There is also a "lesser ragweed" that has similar ability to make you sneeze!

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Allergies & Thier Neutralizing Antidotes

For those of you that struggle with allergies, it's NEVER too late to begin healing the intestinal tract, taking nutritional supplements of minerals, amino acids and herbs to reverse- YES, REVERSE, your allergies. All the foods that most can be allergic to are on the left, the minerals, amino acids and other supplements that will help to reverse the allergy are in the next 4 columns. If you don't see what your allergic to, reach out! I'll try to track it down for you! 

Please reach out to me with any questions on this at desiree@modernhippie.org. Thanks!

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Heal Your Leaky Gut and Cure your Allergies!

You may have heard of Leaky Gut Syndrome: But what is a Leaky Gut? 

What happens is many years of poor eating, poor digestion and/or not drinking enough water erodes the lining of the gut. Stagnant wastes sitting around in the large intestine with delayed digestion also create parasite infestations that almost always simultaneously exist when someone has a leaky gut.  Gross I know- but wouldn't you rather know?

Anyway, food materials traveling through the intestines find their way through eroded portions of the intestinal lining and end up in the blood stream (where they DO NOT belong).  The body recognizes them as invaders and launches a response against the invader much the way it would respond to a pollen.  The body is pretty smart and it remembers those allergens as proteins that didn't belong in the blood stream. The body then sees any similar protein substance in the system as an invader.  This is why you see allergies to dairy, wheat, gluten, corn, soy, and so on; All contain proteins. 

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The Liquid Prescription

I woke this morning as normal between 7 and 8am; bounded down the steps with a load of laundry.  As soon as I hit the bottom step I realized something:  I have absolutely NO pain in my feet.  Normally going down the steps the first time of the day is kind of like walking on painful egg-shells.  

My ankles crack my toes protest. Today, nothing.  

Then I realized that my hands which are normally a little puffy in the morning were completely deflated, no stiffness.  I looked in the mirror and what seemed to be my normal face, but instead of having the crusty, itchy, irritated eyes from seasonal allergies; I hardly have so much as an eye goober.  

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Got Allergies? This Neti Pot is your New Best Friend.

It's a piece of cake to use and once your in the habit you'll never go over the counter allergy medicines again. I should know!  I've been aflicted with seasonal allergies since I was about 12.  I would wake up with my eyes glued shut!  Once I got the hot wash cloth on there and pryed my eyes open, my eyes would be terribly bloodshot from itching in my sleep.  It was TERRIBLE!  Now I drink Nettle Tea, I watch the dairy intake, and I do my Neti at least once a week.  During allergy season, once a day:  Here's the instructions. 

• ‎Buy 1 neti pot (under $20)
• Buy 1 container uniodized salt (under $2)
• Add 1 to 2 tsp salt to the neti
• Add Hot Water first to disolve, stir salt water.
• Add Cool water make water Luke warm before you use it.
• DONT USE HOT WATER!
• Place Neti to nostril and lean over sink 
• Tip Neti up to pour water into the nostril, water will travel through the sinus cavity and come out the other nostril.
• First Time users do one full pot per nostril to thoroughly cleanse sinus cavity.
• When both nostrils have been cleansed blow nose GENTLY. I like to have a kleenex box sitting right by the sink waiting for me.
• The sinuses and ears will feel strange for about 20 minutes, feels like when you get off an airplane (congested and squeeky) but it goes away quickly. Within an hour you should feel better.
• People that have been stuffed up for weeks may have to do this 2 or 3 times a day to get the sinuses back to normal.
• One to four times per day should do, or before and after going outdoors.

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