Homeopathic Remedies

Hello!  I have made a list of some basic homeopathic remedies that are must-haves for anyone who wants relief from anything.  That means all of us, right?

Here are what mine look like in my little remedy drawer. 
You can get them at a health food store or (again) online from iherb.com.  Sorry, I know I repeat that a lot but it is a great place.  I believe they are $6.99 each there.  A little more at the health food store, but not much.  You twist the cap until you see 5 in the lid, pop the lid off, and put them in your mouth to dissolve.  It's that easy.  They work much faster if you start them  at the onset of something.  You can take them every 10 minutes for 30-40 minutes until you see improvement.  Then every 3-4 hours.  Stop when you are better.  Remedies are very specific but if you don't have THE VERY ONE you need, one that is in the general area of your need will do.  Here are just a few with the symptoms they address:

Arnica (everyone needs)  trauma, muscle pain and stiffness, swelling from injuries and bruising
Oscillococcinum-flu symptoms
Arsenicum album--symptoms of food poisoning (but will work with any nausea or intestinal thing
Belladonna--high fever with sudden onset and perspiration (I told you they are specific)  Belladonna also works for headaches
Coffee cruda--sleeplessness with mental hyperactivity
Dulcamara--joint pain triggered and worsened by damp weather
Galphimia glauca--hay fever
Hepar sulphuris calcareum--painful and hoarse dry cough worsened by cold weather
Ignatia amara--nervousness and hypersensitivity due to everyday stress
Ipecacuanha--nausea and vomiting with hypersalivation
Kali iodatum--colds with frontal sinus
Mercurius solubilis--sore throat with offensive breath and excessive salivation (we have used this for strep)
Phosphorus--dizziness with headache
Pulsatilla--colds with thick, yellow nasal discharge  (good general cold remedy)
Rumex crispus--dry cough worsened by breathing cold air
Ruta graveolens--eye strain due to computer use or artificial light
Silicea--fatigue and irritability due to overwork
Spongia tosta--croupy cough (absolutely needed for parents of young children)
Sulphur--skin rash worsened by heat and water (usually eczema)
Sulphur iodatum--nasal discharge during cold and flu convalescence
Tabacum--motion sickness with cold sweat and improved by fresh air


These are just a few and I don't have all of these.  We were addressing a broken bone a while back and so we have a couple for bone trauma and bone healing.  I do keep pulsatilla, spongia tosta,
sulphur, some of the nausea ones for food poisoning, mercurius,  belladonna, and a few others that are specific for needs we have had.  Again, get a few basic ones to keep on hand.  They are easy, expensive, and very very effective. I know this was long but thanks for hanging in there. 

A Redo

Last year when I wrote that I was redoing the blog, I asked for ideas from readers telling me what they'd like to see.  I got many answers (thank you), and will address all of them, and one was suggesting redos, remodels, restoring, etc.  So here we go....


When my grandmother built her dream house in 1950, she purchased a dining room set from
Tell City Chair Company.  That company first began in 1859.  It was well known for building furniture that would last "forever".  In 1962 when Jacqueline Kennedy was redecorating the White House, she commissioned the company to make 425 chairs after seeing a Tell City chair in Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City.

All of our family's holiday dinners were celebrated around that drop-leaf table that, when the
leaves were put in, was several feet long.

I now possess that table and chairs.  The table is in storage until it can be repaired but the chairs
are still strong and sturdy.  Last year, I just cleaned one up with Dawn dish soap, water, and white vinegar.  That mixture along with elbow grease removed 60+ years of furniture polish.  The chairs are beautiful.  I recovered the seat and here it is.

Isn't it beautiful?  The style is Duncan-Phyfe Roseback Mahogany.

Last week, I decided to tackle another chair.  I wanted to paint one, and yet I couldn't
bring myself to paint it.  I would decided to paint, then change my mind.  Back and forth.
The chair was sturdy, but not in the condition of the chair above.  The stain was rubbing off in places and if I redo the table and use it someday as dining room furniture, all the chairs will be stripped and redone to the original stain.  So paint I did.

I cleaned it up and spray painted.  I am very happy with the results. Now for the recovering.

I kept the original padding because it is in great shape.  When I was 7 or 8, I helped my grandmother recover these chairs.  She changed them to a cranberry velvet to match a cranberry chandelier she had

bought to put over the table in her dining room. That was 52 years ago!

I kept the original thumb tacks we used.  They held for 50 years so I figure they are good for a few more.  Besides, I am sentimental.  Funny to think, this package of tacks probably cost around $0.49 back in 1963.

I trimmed off a piece of the cranberry velvet and tacked it onto the underside of the seat.  I wanted to preserve good memories.  

I even reused all the hardware.  These nails are long and sturdy.  I don't think I would have found any this size and strength today.

Thanks for walking down memory lane with me.  I hope you have family pieces that you are using.

It is so important to preserve the past.  I know all these things are just earthly possessions and have no eternal value, but if we make our homes places where we point our families to the Lord, maybe some of our things will someday be just a small part of a Godly legacy we leave with them.

2 Corinthians 5:9 says, "Therefore, we make it our aim (purpose)...to be well-pleasing to Him."

Let's "purposefully" make our homes a place where those we love get a glimpse of the divine. 

Water Sources

Water repost from September so I can categorize it.

Okay--I am sure all of you are ready to wrap this up. I think I have overloaded you all with info. All you probably wanted to know was how much water to drink and what kind is best. You probably weren't looking for the specifics. I forget that not everyone is a nerdy health nut like me. So let's finish with some info on the best water sources.
I was surprised to learn that spring water and distilled water are the purest water we can drink. For many years I have filtered our water for drinking via carbon filters either on a pitcher or through the filter on our fridge. I did not buy water in plastic bottles or jugs because of the concerns with plastic. After the course on water and some further research, I realized that spring and distilled water are the most pure. If your bottled water says enhanced with minerals, don't drink. Those 'minerals' are actually inorganic minerals laboratory made. Your tap water is polluted with fluoride, chlorine, and floculants. The fluoride added to municipal water is a byproduct of aluminum manufacturing. Your carbon filter only filters taste and a few things like nickel. After study, I have chosen Ozarka spring water. I researched and found that their 20 ounce bottles and their gallon jugs are in BPA free plastic and soon all their sizes will be. Sam's Club has a pack of 6 gallons for $5.88 so now Sam's pickup has my business. They will load it for you and you don't have to carry gallons of water. I am sure they have pure distilled water, also. Oh, and the expensive alkaline water bottles? Save your money. No where on earth does God supply alkaline water. And think about it--if the ph level in our stomachs is 2-3 due to being highly acidic to digest food, alkaline water drunk with your meal will neutralize stomach acid. Just pure water in its purest form is best. So, all this to say--1/2 your body weight in the purest water form will produce a well hydrated body. One step closer to optimum health.

Water 101

Another repost so I can categorize it.


Water 101
Session #3
The well hydrated body:
Teeth will be 10% water
Muscle tissue will be 75% water
Blood 90.7% water
Lymph 94%
Brain 80.5%
This is not all but just a few.
Some thoughts--our lymphatic system transports throughout our body and carries away wastes. You can see how much of it should be water to function optimally. Most of us fall below normal. We have 15 billion brain cells. I really really need all I can possibly have and I need them to be hydrated, don't you? Our kidneys receive and filter then return back to the body our entire blood supply 15 times PER HOUR. They obviously need proper hydration. And remember from lesson one that we cannot recreate healthy cells when dehydrated. And creating unhealthy cells are trouble.

Some hydration facts:
With just 4% water depletion, our muscle endurance suffers and we begin to suffer dizziness.
At 5%, headaches begin along with drowsiness, along with a compromise in concentration.
Our heart begins to race at 6% water depletion.
7% water depletion brings the risk of collapse.
This ran a little long so next post we'll talk about the healthiest kinds of water. Thanks again for reading.

Water repost

Here we go on H2O!
We cannot create new healthy cells if our existing cells are dehydrated.
Functions of water in the body:
(Not a complete list)
Gives equilibrium--anybody ever dizzy?
Regulates our temperature.
Lubricates our tissues, joints, bones, and muscles-are you ever achy?
The obvious ones--cleanses, moisturizes our skin--dry skin anyone?, flushes wastes and toxins.
Last fact of this post--we need one half of our body's weight in water every day (in ounces of course). So if we all had our dream body and weighed 135 lbs then we would need 67 ounces of water. For years I heard this but now I know the importance and hopefully, when our Water 101 class is done, you will, too.
Know this for our test 😊.
ONLY WATER IS WATER. ONLY WATER IS WATER. ONLY WATER IS WATER. And more on that later. Thanks for reading.nother repost from earlier on water.  Posting so I can categorize it.

This is a repost I am putting here so I can categorize it.  It will be under 'natural health basics' and 'water'.  It is from September, I believe.

Water 101 second session.
ONLY ____ IS ______?
Very good. Only water is water.
Your Starbucks Pumpkin Spice isn't water.
My coffee with salted caramel syrup and half and half for my early morning Bible study isn't water.
Everyone's Sonic happy hour isn't water.
Only what we drink in water counts as our water. (See previous post).
Here's more sadness for you:
If we drink our 12 ounce coffee or 12 ounce tea with supper, or our medium Dr. Pepper at Sonic--those are caffeinated and caffeine acts as a diuretic. So.... if/when we drink those, we have to drink that much in water to MAKE UP FOR what we just consumed. And we can't count that as water intake. That just gets us back to even 😪.
Anybody ready to drop the class? For those who stay, it only gets better or worse depending on how you look at it. Here's a happy note to end this post on. It is a scientific fact that water flushes viruses and bacteria from our body. So water is a good defense for fighting all the germs we will encounter this winter. Next post we'll look at how much water should be in the different organs in a well hydrated body. And we'll also talk about the best source for water. Thanks for reading.

Frequency and Homeopathy

Welcome to the blog.  A few years ago when we had the store, I has two decorating blogs to showcase some of the products.  One is named Divinely Designed, which is where you are now.  I changed it from decor to natural health but kept the name partly so I wouldn't have to design a new blog but also because the name fits.  See the sidebar for the purpose of this blog.

Now, back to health.  We talked about frequency and basically all we need to know without getting a physics degree, is that it is important to maintain healthy frequency in our bodies.  But life happens and we get out of frequency.  Think radio waves--if you tune it to the right frequency, you pick up the station you want.  If you go just below or just above the frequency, you can no longer pick up the station.  Much the same with us.

The purpose of homepathy is to utilize homepathic remedies to get our bodies back into frequency.  Remember that everything has a frequency.  Homeopathy is a science that uses plants, minerals, etc., to realign our body's frequency by matching remedy to disease and frequency (of the remedy) to frequency (of the body).

If you research 'homeopathy' you will probably get articles that say it is useless, a pseudoscience (ouch!), total quackery, a sham--you get the idea.  So---don't research.   In Europe, it is considered an important science and a method of treatment.  The royal family of England has a homeopathy practitioner that stays wherever the Queen is.  He carries his little black bag of remedies and administers them as needed.  Her mother, the Queen Mother, who lived to be 101 was a major financial supporter of British homeopathic hospitals.  Her father, George VI, I believe, credited it for saving his life from pneumonia.

Just a bit more and then tonight or tomorrow I will put up some homeopathic remedies and what they address so you can add them to your arsenal.  In 1918 when the flu was responsible for millions of deaths worldwide, the mortality rate in America for flu patients in hospitals was 30%.  At the time, the United States still had homeopathic hospitals.  In those hospitals the mortality of patients was 1.05% and one American hospital had 0 patient deaths from the flu.  How about that? 

Okay, tomorrow, we'll get serious.  Until then, stay warm and well.