Posted on 11/17/2013 12:51:10 PM PST by ToastedHead
I used this again this week (with great results) so I want to share, since we're all paying the first $6000 dollars out of pocket now for healthcare.
My little girl came home from school Wed and one of her eyeballs was red. Throughout the evening, it got worse. She started to get the eyeball snots in the inside corner, and along the lower lashline.
I sent Hubby to the store for activated charcoal. This is the exact product he bought at CVS, around 10 bucks. It can be found in the aisle by the Tums and Maalox, because it's marketed as anti-gas.
I boiled a cup of water in the microwave, and then opened three capsules (grab on either side and twist) and dumped them in. Then I poured it through a coffee filter. After it cooled down a bit, I dipped plain old tissues in. I gently wiped both eyes (separate tissues) with enough of the clear black water to get them really wet.
In the morning, her eye was not worse, but still a little pink. I kept her home as a courtesy to the other parents, and I treated her two more times throughout the day.
By Friday morning, she was good to go. No pediatrician required.
Quite a few people here at FR have been taking care of themselves for years...we're ahead of the curve.
As usual.
If yours is like the ones in Ill. - yes.
The plus to boric acid is that it’s a great non-toxic way to get rid of ants. Mix a little with sugar and water, put in an old jar lid and leave in the ants’ pathway.
Day or two and they’ll be gone. Even works with those big, nasty carpenter ants.
I’ll have to try that next time I see ants. I’ve used cinnamon by the kitchen sink before and that seemed to work a little but I still ended up calling in the big guys with the hard chemicals.
Yes 100%
I find that by using honey as the antiseptic, it heals faster than using Neosporane or other ointment.
I think the big difference is in the petroleum jelly clearness
they use in the optical ointment, as long as your using it at night while sleeping, you never notice it. I told my eye doctor about it and he told me it was ok.
I hate to post this in a pink eye thread but, that triple antibiotic is great for hemorrhoids too.
I’m looking forward to trying it so I can see the difference before my eyes. Of course the kids are not fighting today.
No - we don’t take it every day. We just use it if we’re getting a scratchy throat, etc. Maybe take it for two days, every 3 months or so, in the winter. Neither my husband nor I are on statins. And the lichen itself grows in hardwood forests, so I can gather my own.
I heard to grab a cat’s tail and rub the tail on the infected eye. It is one of those folklore’s to help with pink eye or a sty, don’t recall which.
Bear Grylls on the survivor show used it after eating something bad when he got diarrhea and a upset stomach, he actually made his own from burnt wood coals.
Real honey is awesome for burns- son got a 3rd degree burn on his thumb, Dr told him to get some real honey and apply it to the burn. It healed and no scar.
Also, husband accidentally cut the tip of a finger off; Dr who did Masters in the study of honey told him to apply honey on the wound and it would heal and actually he would recover a small portion of the tip. It worked, took a few weeks.....
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I prefer H2O2 over Clorox. I put a fine sprayer on the brown bottle.
Don’t let her use your phone. My doc told me the telephone is a common transmitter of pink eye but people don’t think about it.
I got mine from a keyboard an infected person had been using.
When the SHTF, I volunteer to make soap!
Boric acid cuts the roaches. It does not poison them.
We put it boric acid behind baseboards and where sinks were going when we built our house. Never had a roach problem. Besides, roaches eat dead roaches and then they die and on and on. The stuff is really good.
I had to leave Bear behind after I watched him spend the night inside of a camel carcass to keep warm.
I have no skills other than making money. I’ll be useless in a SHTF situation. Feel free to BBQ me and use me as food:)
Never cared for the smell of peroxide, but isopropyl alcohol is nice. Use it all the time at work.
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