My Favourite Home Remedy Is That Which My Body Provides!
We are blessed by all the amazing medicinal plants that nature provides for us. I treat my whole family with natural remedies and have done for years. My children have never been to see a doctor, never had any antibiotics or medication of any sort enter their blood stream and they are all super healthy and strong. My way on this earth is to live naturally and I am able to do that because of the abundance that nature provides.
I use medicinal herbs and homoeopathy if I feel treatment is necessary, but most things clear up naturally. It is so important that our childrens immune systems are allowed to develop naturally. Our bodies are amazing and are more than capable of healing themselves once they are allowed to do so, nature provides us with everything we need to assist in that process if the need arises.
But today I am not going to be talking about plants. Instead I am going to talk about the amazing healing properties of Breastmilk. As A woman, our female bodies are perfectly adapted to feed our babies and the composition of milk that we produce changes as our children grow. Meeting all of their needs, at every milestone. That in itself is pretty amazing. But I am not here to sing the praises of breast feeding, and yes there are so many, I will leave that for another day. Instead I wish to talk about the benefits of breast milk as a home remedy.
Yes I am one of those mothers who will be heard saying, ' just put some breast milk on it'. I have huge faith in our bodies ability to heal and that is especially true when it comes to breast milk. It is pure liquid gold, containing natural antibodies, as well having anti-infective, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties. It is so much more than food. I have used it successful for ear infections and eye infections i.e conjunctivitis. It does help that I can hand express, I would usually put 1-2 drops of breast milk in the ear and allow it to work it's wonders. My eldest daughter really suffered with ear infections for a while and this always worked. She no longer suffers anymore.
For eye infections or conjunctivitis, I put some milk onto to some organic cotton wool, allow it to soak in and then gently wipe the babies eyes from the inside to the outside. This has always worked for me and the infection would clear up quickly. It is quite normal for babies to get eye infections, it is their bodies way of getting rid of pollutants from the body.
I live in a hot country and my girls get cuts a lot and so do I and it is always hard to keep the area clean as we are outside most of the time. Because of the heat the cuts can easily become infected, at the first sign of infection I will put breast milk on the cut and 9 times out of 10 that will be the end of it. The antibodies found in breast milk form a sort of liquid shield, preventing germs and harmful bacteria from festering on wounds or injuries. I also use breast milk for burns, it is soothing and it is a great disinfectant and really does help to heal, when it is put on straight away you will find that their is no blistering. It is best to express milk into a bowl or plate and allow the burn to rest in the milk.
I have also used breast milk successful for dry skin and I have always used it to treat sore nipples after feeding. I have always advised mothers to use breast milk for any sort or rash on their babies, especially nappy rash. My girls were not always in nappies so they never suffered from nappy rash, although I do know that nappy rash can also be linked to teething. In my research about the amazing properties of breast milk, I have found a wealth of information on some of the other benefits that it provides. One of them that really blew me away was a study done in 2010 which claims that A Substance in breast milk kills cancer cells, known as HAMLET (Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made LEthal to Tumour cells).
As well as the above information, a few months ago a friend of mine sent me a link to a website and on it was a photo of Breast Milk Repelling Harmful Bacteria, which you can see below.
The photo, posted by a biology student in England, features nine Petri dishes completely colonized with the bacteria M. Luteus, except in the center, where tiny puddles of breast milk have created what looks like “moats” of protection around themselves.
The student, Vicky Green, said she had similar results with Petri dishes full of e.Coli and the dreaded anti-biotic resistant “super bug” MRSA.
I also read a lot about how breast milk is also a great remedy for acne and I found an great blog that a woman wrote providing great photos about her journey using breast milk to help treat her acne. I would normally link acne to diet,
however after 5 days applying breast milk to her face and leaving it for a few minutes, her acne cleared up. You can check out her blog here.