Your First Aid Kit - Items to Have on Hand: Digestive Enzymes, Tea Tree Oil, Activated Charcoal, etc.
In the case of emergencies, nothing should ever be substituted for proper medical care.
This focus of this article is to alert you to natural products that you can have on hand that can help you deal with most non-critical situations. By having these products on hand you will be well prepared for many conditions.
The proper use of enzymes in most non-critical situations will be of great benefit to you and your family. This is because regular use of enzyme support can save your from developing more serious health concerns later.
In many cases if you have a stock of enzymes on hand when life's little emergencies occur you can effectively handle most situations with natural enzyme supplementation rather than incurring expensive medical bills.
This following information provides a partial list of first aid remedies when enzymes can provide assistance in balancing the body. You might also benefit by getting a copy of a book on enzyme therapy. One you might really like is DicQui Fuller's "The Healing Power of Enzymes" which contains a goldmine of information.
If you want to learn more about each type of Enzyme formula, just click on the link and you will be taken to a HealthyNewAge resource page filled with information on each digestive enzyme and its benefits.
You may also go directly to Enzyme Essentials to learn more about healthy plant enzyme formulas.
- PureZyme: Helps with infections, kidney problems, colds, flu, abscesses. You need to take on an empty stomach for this effect.
- GastroZyme: Helps with heartburn, mucous congestion, gout, and diarrhea.
- ReleaseZyme: Helps with constipation, food poisoning, parasites, and allergies.
- CalmZyme: Helps with nervousness, stress, nightmares, hyperactivity, headaches, insomnia, migraines, and anxiety.
- DigestZyme: Is benefical for indigestion, alcohol consumption, flatulence, and sinus issues (also add PureZyme to counteract effects) dairy or sugar intolerance, diarrhea, and gallbladder stress.
- Plantadophilus: Aid symptoms of herpes, PMS, candida, flu, bowel irregularities, and lactose intolerance, along with colds and the flu.
Additional Must-Haves for Your First Aid Kit
- Tea Tree Oil
- Activated Charcoal
- Colloidal Silver
- Willard Water
Tea Tree Oil
Tea Tree oil is a must for any first aid cabinet. Use tea tree oil in cases of insect bites, shingles, fever blisters, rashes, and cuts. If you feel a fever blister coming on, quickly dab tea tree oil where you feel the tingle on your lip or rub it into the jaw if the tingle is going down the nerve pathways of the jaw. If you feel a sore throat or cold coming on, try mixing some tea tree oil with olive oil and massage it around both ears, down the sides of the neck and in front of the neck. Oregano oil works even better but if you don't have that, then grab the tea tree oil.
You can also mix tea tree oil and water and spritz on your mattress every month or so, to kill dust mite. You can spritz places that attract mold like the basement with this same mixture and it helps to control mold and mildew.
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Activated Charcoal
Activated Charcoal is another item no first aid kit should be without. it is wonderful to have on hand for your animals in case they ever get hold of something poison, but also keep it on hand for me.
Healthcare professionals utilize the special properties of activated charcoal to address:
- Elimination of toxins that can contribute to anemia in cancer patients.
- Filtering of toxins from blood, in cases of liver or kidney disease.
- Effective deodorizing and disinfectant for wounds.
Activated Charcoal can also help cut down on the odors some lleostomy and colostomy patients deal with, purify the blood, treat overdoses of aspirin, and treat some forms of dysentery, diarrhea, dyspepsia, etc. as well as to absorb toxic substances such as aconite, amitriptyline hydrochloride, amphetamine, arsenic, barbiturates, Ben-Gay, camphor, chlordane, chlorpromazine, cocaine, darvon, diazepam, digitalis, doxepin, elavil, gasoline, kerosene, penicillin, pesticides, radioactive substances and many, many more toxic substances. Activated charcoal is also excellent for simple indigestion.
Some instances where charcoal might be good to have around, certainly not as a substitute for needed medical attention but as something that could help until you can get to the doctor:
- food poisoning
- accidental ingestion of poisons
- poisonous spider
- snake or bug bites
Nature's Way Activated Charcoal (from Indian Hardwood) is known as one of the best natural adsorbent agents. Activated Charcoal is commonly used to adsorb digestive gas and toxins including poisons because each small particle actually contains vast small chambers and cavities that can bind-up various unwanted material or gas. Activated Charcoal is listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. The Poison Control Center recommends Activated Charcoal for use in poisoning.
Colloidal Silver and Willard Water
Colloidal Silver works for so many different situations now that it's hard to remember them all. This combination of Colloidal Silver and Willard Water come in handy in almost every instance of a first aid need. However, since Willard Water does not have the documentation that silver does as a help in such cases, let's consider Colloidal Silver as the third "must have" for your first aid kit. There are wide ideas about what constitutes an effective silver. Most vote for a lower ppm (parts per million), say 5-10 pts like this excellent product. Of course, if you are high on silver when you check your minerals, then you may want to go with Willard Water. Some say silver is not toxic, yet others feel that if your body is holding onto silver, why add more of this mineral.
Colloidal silver can help anytime there is an infection present and when colds, flu, upper respiratory, symptoms are effecting you. Also, infection from any other sources such as yeast (also apply oregano oil, diluted in olive oil to base of both feet, around ankles, and on abdomen in cases of yeast), parasites (also do Detox in case of suspected parasites.), dental abscesses, ear infections (you can also use mullein oil and garlic in ears if infected, as well, and massage the trusty oregano oil, diluted in olive oil, around lymph nodes at ears as well), etc. You can also use colloidal silver whenever your water supply might be suspect, such as when you travel out of the country, etc. Pure Lemon Essential oil works well as a purifier too. We keep mentioning essential oils so here is a great source for organic essential oils.
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