Kitchen Cabinets Basic and First Aid Kit
Many foods, herbs and other products that you may keep in the kitchen can also be used to treat common ailments. The following examples are helpful for a variety of illnesses. Check appropriate articles in: Health and Fitness, for advice on correct usage.
- Apple-cedar vinegar: For arthritis, colds, fungal skin infections, hair and scalp problems, indigestion, insect bites and stings, itching.
- Bicarbonate of soda: For allergic skin reactions, cuts and gazes, gum disease, insect bites.
- Carrots: For appetite loss, coughs, weak nails, threadworms. (As broth, for dermatitis and dry or chapped skin: apply cooled carrot broth to the skin.
- Bag of frozen peas: To use as ice pack.
- Extra-virgin peas: For diluting essential oils and for treating earwax, earache, dermatitis, indigestion, sore lips.
- Garlic (fresh): For cold hands and feet’s, earache, fungal skin infections, treadworms, warts.
- Ginger (fresh): For colds, fever, indigestion, nausea, menstrual cramps, poor circulation (cold hands and feet).
- Honey: For colds, coughs, fever, allergic rhinitis, splinters (in a poultice) and skin infections, and for sweetening herbal teas.
- Lemons: For corns, fever, indigestion, infections, sore throat.
- Mustard seeds or powder: For cold hands and feet and to make warming footbaths to treat colds.
- Prunes and figs: For constipation.
- Salt: For diarrhea (to make a sugar-salt mixture see below), earache, gum disease, mouth ulcers, sore throat.
Replacing salts and fluids: Make your own rehydration fluid with:
First aid kit
Gather the following items for first aid and keep them all in one place , such as a suitably marked box or closet, so that you know where to find what you need in an emergency.
- Sterile cotton: For cleaning wounds.
- Clean cotton fabric: For making supporting sprained muscles.
- Stretch bandages and safety pins: For supporting sprained muscles
- Gauze bandanges: For holding dressings in place.
- Surgical adhesive tape: for securing gauze bandages or holding dressings in place.
- Large triangular piece of cotton fabric: For making an arm sling.
- Noneadherent sterile dressings: For cuts and burns.
- Adhesive bandages: For minor cuts and grazes.
- Scissors : Useful tools for cutting bandages ,gauze ect.
- Eye bath: For bathing irritated or infected eyes.
- Sterile eye-pad with ties: For eye injuries.
- Tweezers: For removing splinters, insect stings and ticks.
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