External Treatments using Kitchen Ingredients

Here are three simple ways to try to keep an illness process moving! And they only involve ingredients that you probably have in your kitchen cabinets or pantry. Sometimes our body just needs a little extra help so that a process doesn’t get stuck.

Chamomile steam for a badly congested nose and sinuses, or for an ear that won’t “pop” after air travel:

Boil several cups of water, and then pour them into a broad bowl. Add several teaspoons of chamomile tea (loose tea works a little better, or break open the tea bags if all you have is packaged tea). Stir in well and then with a towel or sheet make a little tent over your head and breathe in the chamomile steam. It can get hot and humid, so be sure to take breathes of cool air so that you don’t become light-headed and fall over! You can often even find chamomile teabags in a hotel, which is handy if your ear won’t pop after you have traveled far away from home.