Herbs for First Aid

When you have a medical emergency you can also look to herbal remedies for First

Aid.

 

When it comes to an emergency such as insect bite and sting your best course of action is to make a compress out of charcoal. This can be immediately applied to the bite or sting to help reduce inflammation. The herb lobelia is also helpful.

 

You can also buy calendula ointment in natural health food stores to soothe stings and bites.

 

Otherwise your best bet is to not be bit in the first place. Goldenseal and tea tree oil are natural insecticides. Pennyroyal oil is also an insecticide.

 

To repel insects try burning citronella candles or you can buy commercial bug repellent oil prepared for the skin to keep away bugs.

 

Everyone at one time or another suffers from this painful condition that is caused by too much exposure to the sun or even minimal exposure to the sun while taking drugs that cause photosensitivity such as antibiotics or antidepressants.

 

Probably the most effective herbal treatment for sunburn is aloe vera, which is a remarkably great treatment for any kind of burn. You can simply take pulp from the fresh plant and apply it as needed.

 

You can also buy salves for sunburn that are made of calendula and St. John Wort, which can help to soothe the pain and promote healing.

 

Taking a bath that contains six drops of chamomile oil or lavender oil will also help to soothe sunburned skin.

 

A cotton gauze soaked in gotu kola tea can also help reduce the inflammation from sunburn.

 

Supplementing your child's with horsetail, which is a good source of silica, can help aid in tissue repair.

 

If you have a toothache you should see a dentist immediately. However there are a few herbal remedies that can be helpful for the pain and inflammation in the meantime.

 

Calendula, chamomile, peppermint and yarrow are all natural anti-inflammatory so rinsing your mouth with the tinctures or teas of these herbs may help.

 

Clove oil is helpful for toothache pain. Apply one or two drops with a cotton swab as needed.

 

Alcohol free goldenseal extract can be used as an antibacterial mouthwash until you can get yourself  or your kid to the dentist

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Places to Hide a Nanny Cam

So after a long search you have finally found that nanny . Now you are wondering exactly how well she will attend to your child.  Will she plunk your kid down in front of the television drinking, watching television and smoking cigarettes? Or will she spend the day playing and caring responsibly with your child as they promised?

You did not hire your nanny or so that you could be in the same room so the answer is some type of surveillance system. These are called nanny cams.  They take footage of the live in couple or nanny and relay the images back to you on your computer or you can watch the footage on a VCR later.

You have probably seen this type of thing on Oprah. Oprah devoted several episodes of her show to nanny cams and using them to catch bad nannies doing things like swatting children and shaking them.

There are many great places in your home where you can hide a nanny cam.   A good place is through a two way mirror. You will probably get lots of footage of your nanny putting on her lipstick and brushing her hair.

Lamp stands are also a good tucking place for a camera.  Umbrella stands, sculptures, ceramic busts and teddy bears are all great places to hide a wireless camera.  You can roll tape and record or just always have the camera running in live mode and check up on what's happening at your leisure on your computer at work.

A vase of flowers can hide a camera.  The same goes for any type of container that has hany oles in it through which lenses can see the world.

One way to keep your nanny or live in couple on their toes is to simply put tiny little bullet cameras in every room and the nanny they may or may not have those cameras on any time. This means that they must be on their best behaviour at all times. These types of cams also are cheap, wireless and can usually relay back views of any room that you want within seconds.  You simply view what is happening on your laptop or from any computer in the world.

You can be nice and also inform your employees that you have hidden cameras and just dnotto tell them where in the house you have them.

The best places to hide a nanny cam are in the kid's rooms and the living room. There may actually be privacy laws against having a cam in your bathroom and some trouble would definitely be caused if you hid a cam in the nanny or live in couple's quarters. That would be an invasion of privacy.

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