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Garlic, Fenugreek
Posted by Robin (Wilkes Barr, PA) on 03/17/2006
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For a boil on my neck, I first tried tea tree oil. then i went to the dr. finally I used garlic clove, fenugreek, and red clay combination. it worked.
Oatmeal
Posted by Ann (Minnesota) on 06/29/2024
What are the measurements? How much water, salt and oatmeal?
Foods to Avoid
Posted by Karen (Monroeville, PA)
This is a remedy, not a cure so to speak. I was having many problems with large and painful boils on my lower buttocks and the back of my thighs. I was taking clydimycin phosphate gel to relieve them, but they kept coming back. One day my husband suggested that the High Fructose Corn Syrup might be the reason. I started to look it up online and they said the sugar fed the bacteria that is naturally on the body. So I stopped eating it and they went away within a few days. I ate some again to see if it was REALLY related and they came back. So I cut it out of my diet and now read labels more carefully since you can't tell by looking if a food has it or not. I no longer have trouble with them.
I started to get them again in my butt crack, so I'm trying the 40% zinc oxide baby butt cream and it feels better already.
Turmeric Recipes
Posted by Susan (USA)
When we made a pot of vegetable soup last winter, the flimsy packaging of turmeric slipped and about 4 tablespoons of turmeric got dumped into the soup pot. We had made blended soup with green peas, green beans, 2 sweet onions, 5 cloves of garlic and vegetable stock. We thought it would taste terrible, but after adding cayenne and pepper it turned out to be delicious!
Iodine
Posted by Earth Clinic (USA)
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Use colorless (aka "decolorized") iodine on the face, as iodine will stain your skin orange. Hold a q-tip soaked in iodine to the boil for several minutes. Replenish the iodine if the q-tip dries out too much. The boil will burst. However, it does scab and take about a week to heal. Cover with fresh aloe or dab with hydrogen peroxide 3x a day to speed healing.
Baking Soda
Posted by Lea (TAS, Australia) on 04/12/2009
I am just wondering if the Baking soda is the same as the bi-carb soda in Australia? or is it the baking powder?
Garlic
Posted by Andrea (Mesa, AZ)
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Occasionally, I've had a problem with boils. I take a 1000 mg gelcap of garlic and that's all I need to do. I take it once a day, and the boil drains, usually in the first day. Sometimes it takes two days.
