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Your Natural Healthy Family, "If it burns, it should clear you up!"
February 10, 2009

Your Natural Healthy Family
February 10, 2009
This issue:

  • This Week at NaturalHealthyFamily.com

  • What's New for Home Learning Center Members?

  • Quote of the Week

  • Natural Decongestant

  • This Week's Healing Herb: Onion

  • This Week's Healthy Recipe: Black Bean Salad

  • Coming soon!

This Week at NaturalHealthyFamily.com

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What's New for Home Learning Center Members?

There is a new tutorial video on the Community Resources Page. (In the Getting Started section.)

We will also be posting a new tutorial video for the wiki-Herbalpedia soon. Hopefully this will make it a little easier for you to use, add to, and edit this resource.

If you haven't had a chance to, go check out the new questions and assignments and take the end of course surveys that we posted last week.

Remember, you can visit the Home Learning Center any time, day or night by following this link:

http://www.bio-kinetictesting-hlc.com/membersarea/

Quote of the Week

"That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, 'It's cool, he's with me'".

Mitch Hedburg

Natural Decongestant

In doing our research on onions this week, we discovered that they are a natural decongestant. This isn't too surprising. Anyone who has chopped a particularly strong onion can attest to the power and potency of it's effect on the nasal passages.

But it got us thinking about what else could be used as a natural decongestant.

So, we did a little digging and came up with a few more.

First, let's start with this week's featured healing food...

The Onion

Raw onions are a well known natural decongestant. As we said, they are so strong that even the act of cutting them up can help to loosen up nasal congestion.

If that doesn't work, just add raw onions to whatever food you happen to be eating. They are great on salads (see this week's recipe) and sandwiches.

Anything Hot and Spicy

Once again, no surprise here. If you have ever eaten at an authentic Southern, Mexican, or Far Eastern restaurant, you know how much spicy food can make you sniff and sweat. Any hot pepper, or even wasabi. If it burns, it should clear you up!

Other Natural Decongestant Herbs and Supplements

Tea made from herbs like fresh ginger and peppermint
Vitamin C
Marshmallow Root
Mullein
Eyebright


Here is an Indian remedy that we ran across. We haven't had a chance to try it yet. Let us know if you do.

Add 2 tsp of honey and 1 tsp of turmuric powder to a mug of warm milk. Have this at least 2-3 times a day.

Non-Food Decongestants

An old and effective treatment for congestion is to use steam. Take a hot shower. Boil a pot of water with a little Eucalyptus added to it. Or even put your face over a steaming hot pan of water and make a tent over your head with a towel. (Be careful that you don't burn yourself.)

Inhaling salt water is also a natural decongestant, and it probably works really well. Not our preferred method though.

It's interesting to note that most of the natural decongestant treatments can also be used as a form of mild torture. Kind of a frying pan into the fire thing.

As always, we love to hear from you. If you have questions or comments about the Natural Decongestant, then reply to this message, or even better, go to our blog and leave us a comment.

Herb of the Week: Onion

We're not sure if onions are technically an herb or not, but they have some great healing properties and they are delicious! And that's good enough for us.

"Onions (Allium cepa) belong to the lily family, the same family as garlic, leeks, chives, scallions and shallots.There are over 600 species of Allium, distributed all over Europe, North America, Northern Africa and Asia. The plants can be used as ornamentals, vegetables, spices, or as medicine. There are over 120 different documented uses of the Alliums."

Quote from: http://www.vegetarian-nutrition.info/updates/onions.php

For more information on onions, visit the new Onion Page on our website.

This Week's Recipe: Black Bean Salad

Here is a great Onion Recipe for you. This Black Bean Salad is super easy to make, delicious, and a perfect dip for tortilla chips, or a topping for a fresh Mexican style or Taco Salad!

Coming Soon to NaturalHealthyFamily.com!

7 Days to a Natural Healthy Family

We haven't forgotten our promise! We built a download page for all of the audios and e-books last week, but then promptly had technical difficulties with it. We'll make sure that you get a link and password this week for sure.

We are constantly posting new content on the site, so keep checking back with us to see what's new.

As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or requests. (You can just hit your reply button. We love to hear from you.)


To YOUR health,

Beth, Josh, and Family

www.NaturalHealthyFamily.com

Taking the guesswork
out of keeping your family healthy!


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