Easy Home Remedies For Almost Everything

Forget about those costly sore throat sprays and sore throat lozenges, try this cheap and effective home remedy for sore throat pain.
All you need for this home remedy is a cup of water and a teaspoon of salt. Dissolve the teaspoon of salt in warm water (as warm as you can stand it in your mouth) and gargle.
The warm salt water will moisture and soothe and dry, scratchy throat. Plus salt is a natural antiseptic, it will kill the germs and bacteria in your mouth and throat and help your irritated sore throat to heal faster.
Gargle with this warm salt water solution as often as needed while you have a sore throat, it’s all natural and the warmth feels good in your sore throat.

Do you experience bouts of gas throughout the day, especially at the most inopportune times? There is a simple home remedy that will prevent that gas buildup and release before it starts.
Take a teaspoon of olive oil every morning on an empty stomach and it will prevent gas and the bloating from gas all day. The olive oil must be taken straight, not mixed with anything and you’ll need to take it while your stomach is empty from the previous night’s fast.
The olive oil home remedy is cheaper and more effective than over-the-counter gas busters like Gas-X or Beano, plus you will derive the health benefits that olive oil provides.

An uncontrollable dry cough often hits us at inopportune times during the winter months, the dry hacking starts when we are in a room full of people and focuses their attention on us. Even if a dry cough hits you at home when you’re all alone, it’s not a pleasant experience and here are several home remedies to help get rid of your dry cough.
Quite often a dry cough is caused by low humidity. The dry cold winter air outside and the dry, re-circulated heated air indoors dries out our naturally moist nasal and throat passageways. Restoring a moisture balance in the air and in yourself will often help to stop a dry cough.
Drink a warm cu of tea with a squirt of lemon and a tablespoon of honey. The honey in the tea will help to coat your irritated throat and enable you to stop coughing.
A warm glass of milk to which you’ve added a tablespoon of honey will help stop a dry cough during the night. Drink this slowly before bedtime to prevent nighttime coughing.
Keep a package of peppermint candies in your pocket and so you can put one in your mouth at the first sign of cough.
If you can’t eat peppermint candy or dislike the taste of it, try ginger. Ginger can be a very effective cough remedy. Peel a small piece of fresh ginger and chew on it slowly.
Adding moisture to the air in your home will remedy a dry cough. A humidifier will add humidity to the air inside your home and for a quick blast of humidity inside your home, head to your bath and turn on the shower. The steam from a warm shower helps to hydrate your dry, irritated throat passages and stop the dry cough. Stand in the shower for at least ten minutes and breathe in the warm steam.

Those cold drafts that come in under doors can raise your heating costs this winter. A simple home remedy to stop those cold drafts is an easy DIY sewing project.
Cut a rectangle of fabric that is 9 inches wide and 4 inches longer than your door. Fold the fabric in half length-wise (right side together) and sew up one short end and the long end of the fabric.
Turn the fabric right side out and fill it with dry rice, leaving two inches of fabric, then tuck in one inch of fabric and hand stitch the open.
Place your rice tube at the bottom of the drafty door and it will keep the cold air out and warm air in, saving you money on heating costs.

We hear so much about the dangers of high blood and rarely hear anything about low blood pressure. Low blood pressure is not as dangerous as high blood pressure, but low blood pressure will cause dizziness, fainting nausea, blurred vision and diminished concentration.
A simple home remedy for anyone who experiences a drop in blood pressure is to simply drink a glass of water. Quite often low blood pressure is caused from the person being dehydrated.
If you have been experiencing the above mentioned symptoms for inexplicable reasons, take your blood pressure, and if it’s low, drink a tall glass of glass of water and see if that doesn’t correct the problem.
If you are prone to bouts of your blood pressure dropping below normal, drink some water every hour throughout the day to help keep blood pressure stable.

This home remedy for pest control is easy to make and very effective organic insecticide that is safe to use on all vegetables and flowers, and safe for use around children and pets. To make organic insecticide with garlic, you will need the following: 1 head of garlic, water, blender, strainer and spray bottle.
Combine 1 head of peeled garlic and 2 cups of water in a blender and blend on high until the garlic is finely pureed. Pour the mixture into a covered container and allow it to set overnight.
The next day, pour the mixture through a strainer to remove all the garlic bits and add the mixture to 1 gallon of water. You now have an organic insecticide made with garlic.
Pour the organic insecticide in a spray bottle and use as needed on plants. Keep unused portion in a tightly sealed container.

If you suffer with an ulcer, there is an easy home remedy that will heal that ulcer in about a week. As you know (if you suffer with an ulcer) there are certain foods and beverages that irritate an ulcer and cause you even more pain, like spicy foods. Just as there are foods that and beverages that irritate ulcers, there is one beverage that will heal an ulcer.
Cabbage juice.
Cabbage juice contains an amino acid called glutamine. The glutamine strengthens and repairs the lining of the stomach by increasing the blood flow to the stomach.
Drink 2 cups of fresh cabbage juice each day for a week and see how your ulcer feels, it should be either well on it’s ways to being healed or completely healed.
Exact the cabbage juice from half a head of cabbage either via pressing the cabbage in a kitchen press or by liquefying in a blender.

Those pesky summertime flies can be kept at bay with this easy home remedy. Fill a Ziploc bag half full of water, drop four pennies into the water, seal the Ziploc bag. Using a thumb-tack, tack the Ziploc bag over a door or window and it will keep the flies away.
This home remedy works and no one knows for sure why or how it works. In theory, the light reflecting off the water and pennies appears to the many-eyed fly as a multitude of predator bugs waiting to eat the fly if it enters your home.
Use this non-toxic home remedy to keep flies off your screened in porch or patio by hanging several around on the porch posts about 5-6 feet off the floor. Hang a Ziploc bag over any house windows you want to open and over the exterior door you open most often.

Being tired, being stressed and/or having a build up of toxins in your body are some of the causes of dark circles under your eyes. The home remedy for this problem is quite simple, cucumbers and water.
Increase your daily water intake to flush the toxins out of your body and relax for 20 minutes at least once per day (twice per day would be better) with slices of fresh cucumbers placed over your closed eyes.
Flushing the toxins out of your body will make you feel better and more energetic, and resting for a few minutes each day will help relieve stress and tiredness and the cucumber slices cool and refresh the delicate eye area so the dark circles will disappear.

So many different things can cause us to have excessive gas and cause us to toot our own horns at the most inopportune times.
Eating raw vegetables, eating a high fat diet, eating too fast, eating beans, IBS, constipation and too much bacteria in our intestines all cause excessive flatulence.
Keep slices of fresh ginger soaking in fresh lime juice so you can grab a slice and chew after each meal to stop the gas build up.
Anything with peppermint eaten or chewed after a meal will also some gas buildup and bloating. A drop of peppermint oil on the tongue, a hard peppermint candy or chew on a peppermint leaf will act as a home remedy for gas.