Health Blog

One of the easiest and attractive herbs you can grow with its lovely lemony scent and flavor.

We share lots of ways to use lemon balm leaves.

And you can even chew on the leaves for an instant breath freshener!

Unfortunately, hemorrhoids can often cause considerable pain and discomfort.  Also often referred to as piles, hemorrhoids are vascular structures in the anal canal. 

When normal, they are the cushions that help with stool control but they become a problem if they are swollen or inflamed.

Warts on the hands can often appear and look like bumps on the skin, sometimes with a rough texture both to look at and to feel.

The technical name for a wart is verruca vulgaris and they often appear in those areas of skin that grow faster than normal due to a virus called human papilloma virus (HPV).

We share the signs and symptoms to look out for and what you can do to get rid of them...

Those varicose veins - and the pain and discomfort they bring - are basically caused by malfunctioning valves in your veins, valves that are unable to bring blood back to your heart effectively as they work against gravity.

We share natural ways to prevent and treat the symptoms of those tiresome varicose veins.

We have written about the problems of pollution in the home before and how indoor plants can be one solution. 

We should be doing everything we can to reduce our exposure to poor air quality both in our homes and outdoors too.

We share some solutions for this problem...

I recently had the opportunity to enjoy several sessions in an infrared sauna and found it to be very relaxing and beneficial.

Sharing the host of benefits from this top of the range technology...

One of the most common problems for many of us today is making sure we get a good night's sleep.

So many will toss and turn to get off to sleep in the first place or we will suddenly find ourselves wide awake at two or three in the morning with no prospect of getting back to sleep again for several hours.

But how do we know how much sleep we need and what can we do about it?

Raw honey has so many more health benefits than processed honey including a superior taste, extra enzymes, more antioxidants plus the ability to relieve allergies. 

If you suffer from hay fever for example, eating raw honey from your local area can help to alleviate the allergy.

We share a recipe using raw honey to make your very own detox drink...

These are two different conditions but both causing pain and discomfort in the same area.

In fact, hemorrhoids and fissures can even occur at the same time.  And because they both cause similar symptoms, they are often confused by those who experience those symptoms...