41: Natural Remedies for Back to School
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
School is starting again in many places… Whether we are sending our children to a traditional school or beginning school in our own schoolrooms, this time of year tends to bring with it more time inside and more exposure to illness.
It seems hard to believe as we enjoy these last weeks of summer, but cold and flu season isn’t far away as the days get shorter, we get less Vitamin D from the sun and we are exposed to more illness while spending time indoors.
Natural Remedies for Back to School
I always begin preparing many of my natural remedies for Fall and Winter when we begin school again and this almost always ends up as the perfect time to start.
We don’t typically need these remedies for a few months (and hopefully not at all because we are ill), but making them now is helpful because some traditional remedies, like tinctures, take months to make.
My favorite remedy for warding off illness or helping kick a cold or flu once it hits is elderberry syrup. This one can be made in a couple of days, but the dried elderberries needed for the recipe are often out of stock once cold and flu season hits. Since this recipe stores easily in the fridge for a long time, I prefer to make it ahead and keep it ready for when we need it. (Here’s the recipe)
Unlike elderberry syrup and some simpler remedies, tinctures take at least six weeks to make and are really important to have on hand before you need them. Certainly, you can use herbal teas to get the benefits of many herbs if you don’t have tinctures pre-made, but tinctures are more concentrated and often more effective. This is the perfect time of year to make tinctures to have on hand.
Herb infused oils are similar to tinctures in that they are most effective when they have 6-8 weeks to infuse before being used.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com. |
| 0:26.8 | As you know that the word drug comes from the Dutch word, Drug, which means dry or |
| 0:31.6 | too dry, which is in reference to how ancient healers and physicians would use dried plants |
| 0:36.3 | as medicine. |
| 0:37.3 | Also, the World Health Organization estimates that up to 80% of the world's population |
| 0:42.1 | still uses herbal medicine. |
| 0:43.8 | In fact, 7,000 compounds used in modern medicine are derived from plants. |
| 0:49.4 | Today, in today's episode, I'm going to be talking about natural remedies and getting |
| 0:53.5 | your home ready for cold and flu season with natural remedies that you can make in your |
| 0:57.4 | kitchen. |
| 0:58.4 | But first, I want to send a quick thanks to the sponsor of this episode, a cool new company |
| 1:02.5 | I found called Oxibump. |
| 1:04.6 | And they make a natural remedy product that I discovered a few months ago and have been |
| 1:08.2 | using since then. |
| 1:09.9 | So it's called Oxibump and this is a natural homeopathic and oxygen nasal spray. |
| 1:14.7 | And from what I've read, two women founded this company after reading about the benefits |
| 1:18.3 | of oxygen and opening an oxygen bar in Canada that allowed people to get the benefits of |
| 1:23.9 | oxygen themselves. |
| 1:24.9 | And of course, oxygen therapy or hyperbaric therapy is used for people who have diabetes |
| 1:30.0 | or other conditions that can cause infection in the limbs. |
| 1:33.7 | And so they opened this oxygen bar in Canada and then went on to found a whole line of oxygen |
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