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Cold Relief Herbal Soak
Use the following combinations of herbs for the fighting off a cold:
4 parts dried lavendar
4 parts dried rosemary
4 parts chopped fresh ginger root or 2 parts ginger powder
2 parts dried eucalyptus
Use 1/2 cup of dried herbs or one to two cups of fresh herbs. Crush the herbs first to release their essential oils. Mix the herbs and tie them into a square of muslin or a handerchief. Hang the bag under the faucet as you fill the tub. The bag can be used to scrub your skin as well.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~ J. Lubbock
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Wild Senna leaves have been used as a laxative for centuries, American Indians have used it as a poultice for sores and as a tea from the roots for fevers. Some other uses by modern Herbalists have been a treatment for worms, a breath sweetener, for excessive bile in the liver and a diuretic.
