My mother was very frugal and it took, even though I didn’t live with my parents after age 15.
I use turmeric not just for food but for “golden milk”, and keep a small container in the bathroom for “owies” of all kinds. Sprinkle a little on cuts heals them up very fast, making a paste for infections, pimply things etc.
Turmeric has so many medicinal benefits it has the most pages in many of my herb books.
Rosacea is tricky, I had it very badly a few years ago and finally it went away, am trying to help treat someone with it now.
Cooling herbs would be good to add, I would go this route:
Any kind of powdered sandalwood (authentic, not with any added fragrance)
Tumeric
Neem (has to be ordered, not expensive, MANY uses but especially inflammatory skin disorders)
Spearmint
Rose - very cooling for “hot” conditions, and also anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory
Then instead of mixing with water to make a paste, mix with milk and/or rosewater. I buy rosewater at Arab/Indian grocery stores, usually 12 bottles at a time. I make rosewater and glycerine for cracked skin and other uses.
Thanks for the rosacea recommendations. When you say spearmint, what do I use? I have spearmint out in the garden… I notice it’s coming out well.
Where do you get your turmeric. I have capsules that I take daily. I also have a small jar for cooking. But the both of those are probably an expensive option
Real interested in your uses for turmeric. My mother was a nurse back in the early 1900s, but also used home remedies. We also made homemade bandages the same way your mother did. Had a huge rag bag. In fact, when I was first married, I had to beg some of mothers rags til I got my own supply established. Paper towels had not been invented then. No plastic wrap either. Just imagine. When bread started coming in plastic bags, we washed the bags, dried them over a milk bottle and used them over and over.
I think it was DelaWhere that gave us an inexpensive source for ordering herbs in bulk. I intended to get together with my daughters and order all the spices and herbs we all needed, but never did (sigh).
having trouble posting this. Guess I spelled DelaWhere incorrectly so have stopped trying to ping him. Hope this is not a duplicate post.
For cuts, use cayenne as an alternative to turmeric. It works just as well and helps to stop the bleeding. Sprinkle it on the wound and allow to stay there to dry.
https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/top-10-uses-cayenne-pepper-medicine/
http://health.in4mnation.com/cayenne-pepper-benefits-uses/
https://draxe.com/cayenne-pepper-benefits/
https://www.fabhow.com/use-cayenne-pepper-for-health.html
Hubby swears by a warm water cayenne gargle when feeling a cold/flu coming on. He’ll gargle several times a day and overnight it works wonders. He wakes the next morning feeling much better, fever gone, sore throat gone.
I was just wondering where you get the glycerin from? I have super dry skin.
And where is that 4 hour French bread recipe! :-) It’s about 3 o’clock here and I would love to make some French bread for tonight. I didn’t plan well enough to have that overnight rise, so your recipe would be perfect.