5 most important things in my medicine cabinet

In the past several years I’ve learned of some very important items folks should keep on hand not only for the “cold season” but for daily health maintenance. If you have found something particularly helpful please share in the comments section!

• Prayer! Nothing can bring healing to our bodies without our Creator’s will. He is the giver of life and he is our Roffe (Hebrew for healer). Pray that He might reveal what will help you the best and pray for His ultimate will above our own understanding.

• Vitamin D/Cod Liver Oil: Several years ago I learned how important vitamin D is for strengthening one’s immune system. Without living in a sunny equatorial area, you become very deficient from vitamin D (which is suppose to be absorbed by your body from the sun). It isn’t a coincidence that many become sick with a cold or flu during the cloudiest days of the year. For those who live in the northern hemisphere it is imperative for you take take vitamin D supplements or a high quality Cod Liver Oil. Also, please note that the general dosage  ”recommendations” for vitamin D is far too low. Please see: Mercola’s Vit D Resource for more accurate dosage amounts.

• Minerals: Thankfully my husband got me started on taking liquid mineral two years ago.  I thought I was getting enough minerals by drinking our raw goats milk on a daily basis and consuming bone broths every week but the intense carpel tunnel in my wrists was becoming unbearable especially while trying to milk the goats. I was still having “growing pains” in my legs every few days. And, less obvious, I had an uncontrollable desire to pop my knuckles (if I didn’t pop them they would hurt). So after much encouragement from my loving husband, we bought some of Dr. Wallach’s Plant Derived Minerals. After a good three weeks, I had absolutely no wrist pain, no leg cramps and I actually forgot all about cracking my knuckles. I’ll admit, since then, I’ve been hooked on minerals and see how deficient we really are in today’s diets. One great way to put minerals back into your soil is by sprinkling all the wood ashes you can find on your gardens. Please listen to Dr. Wallach’s Mineral Teaching. It may change your life!

• Colloidal Silver: As a child, I remember my parents using colloidal silver but I never remember any success with it. I also became quite leery after seeing photos of folks who took too much colloidal silver and turned bluish. Yikes! Recently however, I found how well it can work zapping virus and bacterial infections. Silver has been used for centuries for medicinal purposes and I really wish it was given more credit. When our family is hit with a terrible bug that just won’t clear up with Probiotics, vitamin D, vitamin C and Echinacea, we use a potent dose of Colloidal Silver (30 parts per million bottle). You are not to use Silver long term because it will not only turn you blue but it will also disrupt the friendly flora in you gut. After using Silver be sure to follow up with some type of Probiotic. Also, my son contracted Conjunctivitis from a neighbor recently. His eyes were draining green discharge and my efforts of breastfeeding (giving him the Probiotics, Buffered Vit C and Echinacea, I was taking through my milk), and using essential oils in a nebulizer just wasn’t cutting it. One spray of Colloidal Silver in his eyes nipped it in the bud. I only sprayed a few more times to make sure all infection was gone. I was sooo thankful and little Yoseph was too! BTW, I also tried spraying a small amount of breast milk directly into his eyes. This is a practice that many cultures use to protect newborn’s eyes with the natural probiotics in mother’s milk. But this method works better when there is still some colostrum in the milk.

• Probiotics: Last but certainly not least, probiotics or friendly flora is so important to consume for your health. In fact, many do not realize that most of your immune system is the friendly flora housed in your intestinal tract. After using antibiotics and eating a diet of excess carbs, the flora balance quickly becomes damaged and outnumbered by bad bacteria. One with a strong flora rarely gets sick because they have an army of micro-organisms protecting them 24-7. You do not need to invest in a packaged probiotic unless you just used antibiotics recently. If you do need to jump start you gut, I encourage you to buy a high grade probiotic like Bio-Kult or Mercola’s Complete Probiotic. I have tried many others with not much satisfaction because they are not strong enough. If you can not afford to buy supplements then make your own probiotics. It’s easy! Choose one or two things your family enjoys that is fermented or cultured. We enjoy homemade goat yogurt as a snack and Asian sauerkraut (kimchi) along with our dinner. You can find recipes for fermented salsas, chutneys, breads and porridges and many cultured dairy recipes online. If you can not handle dairy you can even culture coconut milk (coconut kefir).