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storing homeopathic remedies
I have read different information about storing homeopathic remedies and want to find out when someone says not to store a remedy "with" something else, such as essential oils, just how close would they have to be stored to each other to be considered too close?I store my homeopathics and essential oils on the same shelf but a few inches away from each other. They are on a top shelf because I don't want my kids to get into them. I know the homeopathics are safe, but I still think it is good practice to keep these types of items away from their reach.
Also on the same shelf because it is high up, I have the only two toxic items we keep in our house about six inches away from my homeopathics. One is a pet odor spray and the other is Pledge that we use to deter spiders. Is six inches too close for these chemicals to be to my homeopathics?
lmhoopes on 2005-05-15
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Imhoops, do you not read other postings on the harm of chemicals? You have no idea what is in them because there is no law that they have to list everything.
Another problem is the manufacture. They are handled with "other" chemicals to "make" what you buy and this is not listed, But deadly.
You are trying to do contradictory things together. Pet stuff is unnecessary. It causes more harm than the possible pet smell. Even clumping cat litter sends some to the ER.
I know from your postings that you are a clean person, do not let yourself become obsessed. No one cares but you. Don't use dryer papers.
The spider thing is even worse. Spiders are easy to spot because they are dumb, right out where you can see. A broom is very effective.
So when you spray, this mist goes all over the room in the cabinets, dishes and the humans. On the table, sofa, beds...etc. Think, picture this in your mind.
When one mops the floor with 409, it is not just the floor that is chemical, the fumes rise up as one mops and gets into clothing and closets and bedding, etc.
Homeopathic remedies must be stored by themselves, like on an upper shelf in the kitchen dishes. A few inches is not sufficient.
Essential oils??? Do you not know that many people are allergic to "natural" things. When you say oil(s), this indicates a large use of many.
(to me). The distillation of the trees to make these oils are harmful to the human body. If not at this very time, will be in the future. If you like aromatherapy, you are playing with fire. It may take time, but eventually your little ones will get burned. Cough, nasal infection, rash???
We live in an invisible chemical world. Women and men's perfume is now made with chemicals, not natural.
Everything just like the antibiotics is chemical. We are being slowly killed with our brilliance in technology, BUT it is ALL for money. We are buying the chemicals and becoming sick while the corporations are getting rich.
We are becoming an environmentally ill world. If you ever met an EI person, you may be horrified at the extent of their disability.
I know women that have had to rent little lonely out of town apts and live in the yard in a tent. Then another cannot live in the tent because the outside is more poisonous to them.
Your wildest imagination would not tell you the extent of the suffering of these EI people. I too, didn't "really" get it until I became friends with two women that are sick in very different ways. I "plan" my day, even two days ahead if I expect to see one for a visit or lunch.
Blessings, Sabra
Another problem is the manufacture. They are handled with "other" chemicals to "make" what you buy and this is not listed, But deadly.
You are trying to do contradictory things together. Pet stuff is unnecessary. It causes more harm than the possible pet smell. Even clumping cat litter sends some to the ER.
I know from your postings that you are a clean person, do not let yourself become obsessed. No one cares but you. Don't use dryer papers.
The spider thing is even worse. Spiders are easy to spot because they are dumb, right out where you can see. A broom is very effective.
So when you spray, this mist goes all over the room in the cabinets, dishes and the humans. On the table, sofa, beds...etc. Think, picture this in your mind.
When one mops the floor with 409, it is not just the floor that is chemical, the fumes rise up as one mops and gets into clothing and closets and bedding, etc.
Homeopathic remedies must be stored by themselves, like on an upper shelf in the kitchen dishes. A few inches is not sufficient.
Essential oils??? Do you not know that many people are allergic to "natural" things. When you say oil(s), this indicates a large use of many.
(to me). The distillation of the trees to make these oils are harmful to the human body. If not at this very time, will be in the future. If you like aromatherapy, you are playing with fire. It may take time, but eventually your little ones will get burned. Cough, nasal infection, rash???
We live in an invisible chemical world. Women and men's perfume is now made with chemicals, not natural.
Everything just like the antibiotics is chemical. We are being slowly killed with our brilliance in technology, BUT it is ALL for money. We are buying the chemicals and becoming sick while the corporations are getting rich.
We are becoming an environmentally ill world. If you ever met an EI person, you may be horrified at the extent of their disability.
I know women that have had to rent little lonely out of town apts and live in the yard in a tent. Then another cannot live in the tent because the outside is more poisonous to them.
Your wildest imagination would not tell you the extent of the suffering of these EI people. I too, didn't "really" get it until I became friends with two women that are sick in very different ways. I "plan" my day, even two days ahead if I expect to see one for a visit or lunch.
Blessings, Sabra
♡ sabra last decade
Hi Sabra, Thanks for the information. I can do without the Pledge for spiders because I am starting to be less creeped out by them. We have so many of them in this house. Strangely, I became less nervous about them after one crawled across me in bed one night! But they really are harmless spiders.
I will have to decide what to do about the pet odors. There may be some solution made out of vinegar or baking soda I can use.
I don't really use many of the oils very often. I do use tea tree oil regularly because I put a couple of drops in the diaper pail to keep it fresher smelling. But I will pay attention to the reactions of my family and see if this may be adding to some illnesses.
Anyway, thanks for the info.
Linda
I will have to decide what to do about the pet odors. There may be some solution made out of vinegar or baking soda I can use.
I don't really use many of the oils very often. I do use tea tree oil regularly because I put a couple of drops in the diaper pail to keep it fresher smelling. But I will pay attention to the reactions of my family and see if this may be adding to some illnesses.
Anyway, thanks for the info.
Linda
lmhoopes last decade
Next time you find a spider, get brave and look it over. Especially one in bed.
A brown recluse is hardly ever bigger than a quarter, and the back part is usually smooth and unmarked. It is medium colored.
The deciding mark is a violin shape on the top of the head between where the legs are placed. This spider does not have the 3 sections as most spiders. The front piece and middle parts are almost the same piece. The eyes are underneath the body. It is so small, one has to go by the violin mark.
This is hard to do, so you need a see-through plastic container (like the new throw-away ones) and capture it against the covers and slide the lid under. Only change the sheets if it is a recluse.
This dangerous spider venom consumes the flesh and spreads over a wide (12 inches or more) area and is hard to treat. One can loose parts of the flesh with this bite. One does not feel it until several hours later and it is speckled like a splash of acid. Painful.
99% of the time, it is a common small house spider and it has a mark on the belly top.(back) Somewhat like a stripe from the head to bottom. I have friends delivering spiders to me all the time and they are almost always this same type.
The big grey long-legged, fast-moving spiders are harmless, just scary. My grandmother used to have them as pets. Fed them.
I have been studying spiders for years. Some bite, but most do not. The brown recluse is the only really dangerous, body damaging one in the states.
A Black Widow is dangerous, but not very common in the home. More in a basement or shed or under the stairs outside. They do this in the fall to stay warm. They are black, curved legs, skinny, and a raised big belly. Marked by a red hour-glass on the belly bottom. They look like they walk on tip-toe.
In most bites, give a combo of Echinacea, Apis, and Ledum.
Seek medical help for diagnosis and possible treatment. It is good to discuss the bite and learn what is best to do.
The funnel spider from Australia is a stinker that will search out a human to bite. Serious.
Get out the canister vacume and go over the edges of the walls regularly. Do around the beds and how it is put together. Check any bed headboard that is flush against the wall. And shelving.
This is where a colony of brown recluse were living the last time I saw where a woman was bitten several times by recluse spiders. (this is VERY unusual as this is their name...recluse, they are shy and hide).
Spiders do eat small insects, but mostly they eat the micro mites and their feces. All the shed skin from humans. And human mites we are totally unaware of.
I know this is far more than you ever wanted to know about spiders, especially as they give you the willies. BUT, better to know the spider than live in ignorance and fear.
Use baking soda in the cat litter. Before sweeping or vacuming around a pet area, sprinkle baking soda around and then sweep and vacume up all. Wash dogs every seven to ten days. This helps smell, but also rids it of the pet dander that causes allergies with some people.
___________________________
Been talking to a friend about fall and spring colds. (and flu) Our study says to us that the vents of the heating system has collected all sort of dust, mites, feces, etc, that, when turned on, blows out most of the fall problems into the home.
The fact that this may also be a central air conditioning system, these same vents now pour out all that has collected during the winter.
Extra filters can be placed behind the vents where it blows outward. Then changed a month after turning on the system, and this will help the first blow of whatever you did not reach with the vacume and mop.
Wear a mask to do this. Do it at the end of summer before one uses the heat for fall, and then again before one decides to use the air cond. for the summer.
Out with the long vacume hose again and clean out all the vents before the first turn on. Of course change the filters more than once per year. Maybe 4 times.
Very extreme, and I hope others read this posting. My EI friends and clients are educating me way beyond anything I could have known on my own.
This is a way to at least keep the home as clean of pollen, dust and mites feces as possible.
Outside the home, yes, things are blowing around, but paint, new carpeting and the above information have made people move away from their homes so their children and they can live in cleaner homes and have less illness that is all Environmental.
______________________
Recently my own landlord cleaned out all the ducts in this place. I was watching and noticed a container half full of liquid. I inquired what it was. They told me they were going to deodorize the ducts. I replied, NO you are not!! This made them mad, but I said if they attempted to do so, I would call the police.
I was very sick last year when this unit tarred the parking lot and painted around. I was so poisoned, I was not able to figure out the problem until I began to get better, 3 months later, after taking all sort of supplments and remedies.
I know, I write too much, but at least one can make their own choices with something to go on to do so.
Blessings, Sabra
A brown recluse is hardly ever bigger than a quarter, and the back part is usually smooth and unmarked. It is medium colored.
The deciding mark is a violin shape on the top of the head between where the legs are placed. This spider does not have the 3 sections as most spiders. The front piece and middle parts are almost the same piece. The eyes are underneath the body. It is so small, one has to go by the violin mark.
This is hard to do, so you need a see-through plastic container (like the new throw-away ones) and capture it against the covers and slide the lid under. Only change the sheets if it is a recluse.
This dangerous spider venom consumes the flesh and spreads over a wide (12 inches or more) area and is hard to treat. One can loose parts of the flesh with this bite. One does not feel it until several hours later and it is speckled like a splash of acid. Painful.
99% of the time, it is a common small house spider and it has a mark on the belly top.(back) Somewhat like a stripe from the head to bottom. I have friends delivering spiders to me all the time and they are almost always this same type.
The big grey long-legged, fast-moving spiders are harmless, just scary. My grandmother used to have them as pets. Fed them.
I have been studying spiders for years. Some bite, but most do not. The brown recluse is the only really dangerous, body damaging one in the states.
A Black Widow is dangerous, but not very common in the home. More in a basement or shed or under the stairs outside. They do this in the fall to stay warm. They are black, curved legs, skinny, and a raised big belly. Marked by a red hour-glass on the belly bottom. They look like they walk on tip-toe.
In most bites, give a combo of Echinacea, Apis, and Ledum.
Seek medical help for diagnosis and possible treatment. It is good to discuss the bite and learn what is best to do.
The funnel spider from Australia is a stinker that will search out a human to bite. Serious.
Get out the canister vacume and go over the edges of the walls regularly. Do around the beds and how it is put together. Check any bed headboard that is flush against the wall. And shelving.
This is where a colony of brown recluse were living the last time I saw where a woman was bitten several times by recluse spiders. (this is VERY unusual as this is their name...recluse, they are shy and hide).
Spiders do eat small insects, but mostly they eat the micro mites and their feces. All the shed skin from humans. And human mites we are totally unaware of.
I know this is far more than you ever wanted to know about spiders, especially as they give you the willies. BUT, better to know the spider than live in ignorance and fear.
Use baking soda in the cat litter. Before sweeping or vacuming around a pet area, sprinkle baking soda around and then sweep and vacume up all. Wash dogs every seven to ten days. This helps smell, but also rids it of the pet dander that causes allergies with some people.
___________________________
Been talking to a friend about fall and spring colds. (and flu) Our study says to us that the vents of the heating system has collected all sort of dust, mites, feces, etc, that, when turned on, blows out most of the fall problems into the home.
The fact that this may also be a central air conditioning system, these same vents now pour out all that has collected during the winter.
Extra filters can be placed behind the vents where it blows outward. Then changed a month after turning on the system, and this will help the first blow of whatever you did not reach with the vacume and mop.
Wear a mask to do this. Do it at the end of summer before one uses the heat for fall, and then again before one decides to use the air cond. for the summer.
Out with the long vacume hose again and clean out all the vents before the first turn on. Of course change the filters more than once per year. Maybe 4 times.
Very extreme, and I hope others read this posting. My EI friends and clients are educating me way beyond anything I could have known on my own.
This is a way to at least keep the home as clean of pollen, dust and mites feces as possible.
Outside the home, yes, things are blowing around, but paint, new carpeting and the above information have made people move away from their homes so their children and they can live in cleaner homes and have less illness that is all Environmental.
______________________
Recently my own landlord cleaned out all the ducts in this place. I was watching and noticed a container half full of liquid. I inquired what it was. They told me they were going to deodorize the ducts. I replied, NO you are not!! This made them mad, but I said if they attempted to do so, I would call the police.
I was very sick last year when this unit tarred the parking lot and painted around. I was so poisoned, I was not able to figure out the problem until I began to get better, 3 months later, after taking all sort of supplments and remedies.
I know, I write too much, but at least one can make their own choices with something to go on to do so.
Blessings, Sabra
♡ sabra last decade
Recluse spiders are seldom found inside the home. Mostly under the structure or sheds never used much, dark corners under and back away from things that humans use.
Blessings, Sabra
Blessings, Sabra
♡ sabra last decade
Thanks Sabra. I'm pretty sure that these spiders are not brown recluse. We have lived with them before and I think that is part of my fear of them, but I was just thinking over the weekend that I may as well make friends with the ones that we have right now.
lmhoopes last decade
Hi Sabra,
In light of this discussion about chemicals, etc., do you have a recommendation for keeping mosquitoes away? They love my son.
The choices out there are very toxic or, as with Burt's Bees,still oils and very greasy anyway. Avon seems harmless enough, but just wanted to hear your ideas on bug repellants.
I often put him in long pants when he is going to be outside if it is not scorchingly hot. And he sometimes asks not to wear shorts because I think he has learned that the long pants protect him. But his arms and face still are exposed.
In light of this discussion about chemicals, etc., do you have a recommendation for keeping mosquitoes away? They love my son.
The choices out there are very toxic or, as with Burt's Bees,still oils and very greasy anyway. Avon seems harmless enough, but just wanted to hear your ideas on bug repellants.
I often put him in long pants when he is going to be outside if it is not scorchingly hot. And he sometimes asks not to wear shorts because I think he has learned that the long pants protect him. But his arms and face still are exposed.
lmhoopes last decade
There are woodden boxes (chests) available with number of holes in them, so as you can keep your medicines, safely there.
This is the best way to store homeopathic medicines, as they are shielded from light,odors, and most of all insect sprays.
Make sure that the odors are no more felt, before you open the chest.
As Sabra suggests it is best to avoid the insect sprays, as they may antidote any medicine you are taking.
Murthy
This is the best way to store homeopathic medicines, as they are shielded from light,odors, and most of all insect sprays.
Make sure that the odors are no more felt, before you open the chest.
As Sabra suggests it is best to avoid the insect sprays, as they may antidote any medicine you are taking.
Murthy
bandarbabu2000 last decade
Well, this might be closely related to 'natural oils', but I read that citrus oils repel mosquitoes. Citronella is recommended, but what I'd do is spray the stuff from orange skins directly onto exposed areas. Worth trying, I think.
Minsa last decade
Sabra..I don't know where you reside but I know the hobo spider has taken over the west coast. We don't have as many recluse as we once thought...the bites are generally from hobos..(aggressive house spider) they live outside in woodpiles, garages, etc. Make their funnel web in the grass..They often make it inside. The bite is sometimes deadly..causes necrosis of the tissue and 59% go systemic with the 'tegenarism' sx. It can be very dangerous. Unfortunately, most MDs are not versed on spider bites as they are a CDC reportable incident (it's hard to prove unless you have the actual spider). I have a 'suspected' bite on my shin...open lesion for nearly three years now. Doctors look at me like I'm crazy when I say I believe it to be a hobo spider bite. I am going to try some Ledum to see if it will help. The doxycycline I took helped but didn't totally take it out of my system. I don't think the wound will heal until the tegenarism is resolved....prittykitty49
prittykitty49 last decade
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