"Home Spa Lady Tips" Ezine Collection

This is the place where you can access all of the Home Spa Lady's Tips of the Week. To get these Tips of the Week emailed directly to your email, go to http://www.HomeSpaLady.com

18.2.10

How Ancient Egyptians Balanced Their Colon February 17, 2010

How Ancient Egyptians Balanced Their Colon (How
to Cleanse Without Fasting)




Ancient Egyptians Used "Psyllium"

One of the practices they used to balance their intestinal system was to take psyllium every day.

Psyllium is a wonderful soluble fiber that has so many health benefits.

Psyllium is a fibrous seed and often made in the form of a powder for cleansing.

It was used in ancient Egypt and had been described in the Ebers Papyrus (medical documents of 1500 BC).

Its use was for its laxative and antidiarrheal properties. Isn't that interesting - what does that tell you?

It tells you that it can have both effects - one of which it is that you need at that time - so therefore it is "balancing".

Here is a video where you can see the effects of how it works inside of you. This will show you why it "scrubs" your colon wall as it leaves the body.


Click here to watch 2 minute video on

'How Psyllium Works in Your Body'










Psyllium had other early Old World uses of psyllium seeds were to treat sores of the mouth and throat, stop nosebleeds, treat complications of the liver, and help to fix loose teeth. Psyllium was
administered to assuage complications from scurvy and worms.

The plant itself is 'plantago' and other parts of the plant are known to be medicinal as well.

Native Americans and Aztecs used plantago husks and leaves as cough remedies, for wounds, insect bites, and headaches.

Where do we get psyllium? Many intestinal cleansingproducts on the market contain psyllium. One of the most popular products found on grocery store shelves is Metamucil - but that has other stuff in it including lots of sugar.

Here are two sources for a more natural and healthy psyllium product:

1 - Trader Joe's Store (if you are lucky enoughto have one near you) has a product of pure psyllium call Secrets of the Psyllium.


2 - Young Living Essential Oils have wonderful internal cleansing products. ICP, the Multiple Fiber Beverage is one of them. And the effects of the essential oils in this product makes it that much more powerful.

One very important thing to remember when youtake psyllium: Drink Water!

16.2.10

How To Scent Your Valentine Card / February 10, 2010

How to Scent Your Valentine



Click here to watch 2 minute How To Video

Make your Greeting of Love "Scent"sational !

This is a quick and easy way to scent your Valentine's card or any love message.

It will help makea lasting impression and your Sweetheart will really ''sense' ('scents') your love!

Valentines Day is just days away - so buy your card and follow the instructions in the video on how you can do this RIGHT NOW!!!!

For this and othergreat videos (and a whole lot more!) consider joining Home Spa Lady's Inner Circle!)

4.2.10

Super "Bowel" Sunday - Colon Cleansing / February 3, 2010

Super
"Bowel" Sunday




Not interested in
the Super Bowl game this Sunday?

Make Sunday a day of self-care centered around another bowl - in the bathroom!

A private colon cleansing session in your bathroom can be a Super Day for your Bowel especially if your lower intestines have been a bit sluggish and aren't emptying comfortably enough for you, or if you are feeling toxic and need a cleansing.

There is a difference between a nutritional cleanse and a mechanical cleanse.

Nutritional cleansing is where you would take supplements or ingest something to cleanse.

Mechanical colon cleansing is where you literally wash out the colon with water, soapy water,
or a therapeutic variation (some people use salts/baking soda/essential oils in their water).

I'm going to briefly give you some tips on doing this in your bathroom by yourself - without having to buy any special equipment worth hundreds of dollars (like a colema board or a colonic machine).

As a nurse and certified colon therapist and a long time proponent of colon cleansing for health and beauty, I believe everyone needs to have an understanding of this option for self care, especially women.

I believe that colon cleansing helps prevent breast cancer.

This is just my hunch, but its a strong one. I often wonder how many women who
are diagnosed with breast cancer have a history of constipation.

I don't think there are any studies on this - but if any of you know of any please let me know.

Anyway ...

These tips can answer many questions that you may have if you have considered cleansing at home.

This is not a step by step instructional. It's just information to get you started either thinking about it, trying it for yourself, or learning more.

Colon cleansing with water has been done for eons. The Essenes did it with river water and the Egyptians with herbal concoctions.

Many of you reading this probably had a grandmother or great grandmother who used enemas as a way to heal the body of sickness.

The holistic approach to a home enema for a general colon cleanse is not about going to the pharmacy and buying a Fleets pre-mixed liquid in a disposable container and using that (as in preps for medical procedures - although it does cleanse).

The home enema for a general cleansing is about using distilled water at room or body temperature with your own personal (reusable) equipment.

The equipment that I recommend runs under $20 and can be purchased at many local drug stores. It would be a kit consisting of a red hot water bottle and tubing and a few different
nozzles, one of which is an enema nozzle tip.

You can warm up a gallon of distilled water by submerging the closed bottle in the bathtub full
of hot water for a short time. You would want to get it to be even with your body temperature.

You would not use sink water because it has chlorine and that would kill the good flora.

Yes, the flora will be slightly affected with a gentle enema but if you are using water or even
gentle soapy water it won't be that disruptive.

Many colon therapists will open an acidophilus capsule and put it in the final rinse water with your colonic - and you could do the same with your enema.

Think of this as an internal bath where you are just rinsing out the lower colon. The benefits
are amazing - such as a fresh taste in your mouth, the whites of your eyes get brighter, your skin feels softer, you can breathe easier - and this is only a few things of what can happen, even after one little cleanse!

If you want to learn more about this I suggest Bernard Jensen's book Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management (also - take Marilee's "Healer, Heal Thyself Course - and consider
joining Home Spa Lady's Inner Circle!)

1.2.10

This Helped My Frozen Shoulder Soooo Much! (tiny video) January 27, 2010

This Helped My Frozen Shoulder
Soooo Much!

This is where I was........

Serious Frozen Shoulder
I was told this would take about
8 months to heal


This is me one week later..........



Click here to watch this short video


I did many things (natural therapies) to aid my healing process for my frozen shoulder such as acupuncture, chiropractice, nutritional supplements, healing foods, but my all time favorite thing I used is the application of Balsam Fir essential oil!


By the way - Balsam Fir is on F'REE this week at Young Living (with a minimum purchase)!