The 19 Best Natural Remedies For Common Ailments That We Often Overlook

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1. Arthritis

Are you suffering from arthritis? Try eating plenty of fish! Eating fish actually reduces the risk of developing arthritis. Fish such as salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines can actually help prevent arthritis altogether.

2. Asthma

I’m not sure if you’ve heard of this already, but apparently eating red onions can actually help ease the constriction of the bronchial tubes. Onions (specifically red onions) are quite useful and they even help fend off other contagious ailments, such as colds, coughs, bronchitis, and gastric infections besides being a natural cure for Asthma.

3. Bladder Infection

If you’re suffering from a bladder infection, try drinking 100% pure cranberry juice for 2 straight weeks and that ought to rinse out the bacteria out of your system. Try drinking about a quart of pure cranberry juice per day in that 2 weeks if you can, High-acid cranberry juice actually regulates harmful bacteria.

4. Bone Problem

If you’re suffering from a bone problem, try eating pineapples because pineapples actually help build healthy bones and heal bones faster at the same time. Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be avoided by the ‘manganese’ contained in a pineapple. Manganese, a trace mineral, is essential to the development of strong bones and construction of connective tissues.

5. Blood Sugar Imbalance

Do you have blood sugar imbalance? Try eating Broccoli. According to researchers, the chromium in broccoli helps regulate insulin and blood sugar. Therefore you should eat broccoli if you want to improve your blood sugar level.

6. Breast Cancer

If you want to avoid breast cancer, try eating wheat bran and cabbage. Apparently eating both the wheat bran and cabbage helps sustain estrogen at a healthy level.

7. Clogged Arteries

Have you got clogged arteries? Try eating avocados; avocados are a superb source of vitamin E and essential fatty acids, the Mono-unsaturated fat in avocados actually lowers down your cholesterol.

8. Cough

Coughing like a dog on steroids? Try increasing your consumption of red pepper. Believe it or not, a substance similar to that found in cough syrups is also found in hot red pepper as well.

9. Diarrhea

Are you running in and out of the toilet as if your butt is on fire? Try grated, raw and sweet apples because they’re a rich source of pectin which is a soluble fibre. Peel an apple, let it turn a bit brown and then eat it in this condition. Try eating banana as well, bananas and apples usually normalize colonic functions in the large intestines and therefore helps prevent diarrhea.

10. Hay fever

Hay fever can be as annoying as a relentless zit. Therefore, try eating a large consumption of yoghurt before the pollen season. The ‘bacilli’ which can also be found in yoghurts can relieve you from your hay fever.

11. Headaches

If you’re experiencing constant headaches try eating plenty of fish. For some reason fish actually helps put an end to those nasty headaches. Try taking ginger as well since ginger actually reduces inflammation and pain.

12. High Blood Pressure

People with high blood pressure may be able to reduce their high blood pressure by incorporating a constant high olive oil intake in their diet – especially extra virgin olive oil. A daily dose of celery has also been discovered to lower blood pressure as well. An old Chinese remedy for high blood pressure actually involves drinking celery juice; you can make it using your blender. Let me warn you though – celery juice is not for the faint hearted!

13. Insomnia

Can’t sleep? Try using honey as a sedative. Honey actually has sleep inducing properties that can help you with your insomnia.

14. Lung Cancer

A good remedy for lung cancer is beta-carotene, which is a form of vitamin and is found in orange and green vegetables. An increased intake of green leafy vegetables and orange in your body may reduce the risk of lung cancer.

15. Memory problems

If you’re having memory problems or if you simply want to just increase your memory capacity, then try eating oysters. Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying Zinc in your body which is a significant element when it comes to improving a person’s memory.

16. PMS

Well we all know how cranky women can get when they’re on their PMS moment right? Most of the time it’s either shut the hell up or get the hell out of the way! Well did you know that women can actually ward off the severe effects of PMS by eating cornflakes? If you didn’t know that, well now you do! Cornflakes actually help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

17. Stroke

According to studies, tea drinkers are actually less likely to have a stroke than their colleagues and friends. Regular quantity of tea in your body can prevent the build-up of fatty deposits on your artery walls. Drinking at least three cups of green or black tea a day can significantly reduce the possibility of a stroke.

18. Ulcer

An ulcer is an open sore that is found in the lining of the digestive tract, cabbage actually contains a chemical that helps heal ulcers. Cabbage juice has in fact been proven to heal ulcers; drinking a cup of cabbage juice four times a day can apparently heal stomach ulcers within ten days.

19. Upset stomach

Bananas and ginger are your best bet if you want to settle your upset stomach. Bananas can help alleviate an upset stomach by stimulating mucous production within it. Ginger is also a known cure for an upset stomach which is also a cure for morning sickness and nausea so you get to nail 3 ailments for the price of one! In China for example, ginger has been used to assist digestion and cure stomach upset for more than 2000 years. Using ginger and eating a banana for an upset stomach is definitely a more natural and cheaper treatment than any over-the-counter medicine.

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